One of those Daze

Feeling good about getting some projects done....however right in the middle of finishing a quilted bottle holder (photo to come later) I had to cut some material. Now where did I put my rotary cutter? Searching...no luck downstairs, so up into the Crap Room I go. A long time later, still no cutter...but I made two Valentine cards. What can I do to the blue one? It needs something. I used the confetti paper to paint the water color heart. It was hard to blend so next time I'll use water color paper. The other card was made from drawing a heart on aluminum foil. A ruler and black sharpie was used for the straight lines then colored with various sharpie markers. I got this from http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/.

Comments welcomed! Thanks.

2012

Not much to say...Minou crossed the Rainbow bridge on December 21, 2011. We miss her terribly...so of course we adopted a little girl, Reeses. She is very talkative and quickly took over the house.

Paper Crafting Workshop Spring 2011

Today was the third of four paper crafting classes held at the Seekonk Public Library. Children made a small book folding paper in a zig zag fashion and then gluing to cardstock (matted on cardboard) which we cut out using the Big Shot die cut gadget. Some children made journals, others drew pictures or cropped photos for a tiny photo journal.

Last week we made Spring Bunny Favors...so cute!
For the fourth class (4/30) children will create cards, books, and gift boxes. I'm sure Mother's Day cards will be popular!

Don't forget...May 7th is May Madness at the Library...a spring sale of books, plants, and crafts. Support your local library.

Trip to Bead Cache

I don't usually like to spend sunny days indoors, but the wind made it a little too chilly for my taste. So off to the Bead Cache in Mansfield, MA. They are moving by the way. Sometime in May if all goes well. It will be a space improvement as well as new class and service offerings.

I finally finished wrapping a stone that I purchased at Seven Arrows. I really like the copper colored cord they have at Bead Cache. I must have been in round disk mode because I made two pairs of earring using round beads. The orange colored beads are coral with small black accent beads attached to copper chain. The blue/pink beads are made from Sculpey clay, coated with glaze and I added a 3mm Swarovski bicone.

I still haven't gotten the lense needed to take closeups.

Oh Deer ~ February 10, 2011

 I got a phone call from my neighbor Bev early Thursday morning. She sounded excited telling me that there were deer traipsing through our neighborhood. Grabbing my camera, I quickly snapped a few photos...sad that I had to go off to work. I would have liked to watch them for a while...so beautiful!

Three of seven deer peer from the shrubbery in Jim's backyard.

Now where do we go? Doesn't look like anyone will feed us here.

Yay...Greenfield Street is finally passable!

Card Making

I finally set aside some space for paper crafting. I have a place for everything, however it is rare that everything is in its space. I've watched many "how to" videos on my computer. One technique that I like uses crinkled up waxed paper for the background image, (gina k, stamp tv). I used glossy card stock for the wax paper piece (sea creatures), rubbed the card stock with distress ink, then stamped the images. For the other samples I created a background using twinkling H2Os. The one on the right was left as is and the other was rubber stamped with trees.

Seasonal Cards

Wednesday evening at Linda's house...we experimented with a new Cricut Halloween cartridge, the Big Shot diecut machine, and plain old household bleach to change the color of card stock. It was a fun night and I think we should call it the Wild and Wacky Wednesday Nite Card/Crafters.