Thank you so much Martha for the really great and neat award! It is an honor!
I hope everyone is enjoying their day. Chad’s braces came off today! Yipee! His mouth is a bit sore and irritated, but he teeth look fantastic!
Here are some pictures for you. First off the picture to the far left is my early Birthday present. It is a beautiful Seiko watch Mike picked up for me at the local jewelry store. I am thrilled.
The next photos are pictures of the ornaments I made yesterday. All together I have made 36 total. With a tragic incident three of them were broken. All that work, at least I saved the stamped portion and can easily remake the ones that were lost.
I took eight of these ornaments with me to the orthodontist office today, the girls and Dr. Heller really enjoyed them. The receiptionist couldn’t believe that these where not ‘store’ bought. They really enjoyed receiving them.
Trying to get the last minute arrangements together for Turkey day. We are so excited to have Mike’s two kids join us for lunch along with a family friend. I will try and take alot of pictures and post to the blog on Friday. Blog candy will be added too on Friday as well, so please keep those great comments and the encouragement up. I need all I can get.
For those who are asking about Melissa (my niece) there is still no word from Georgia. Just continue to pray for our family!
Here is a picture of the goodies I received from this round of secret sisters on Splitcoaststampers. How much fun are these!
One of these days I’m gonna take a html class and figure out for myself exactly how to get my text and pictuers to be and do what I want.
At least I figured out how to fix my screen size on the laptop. Darn thing was like trying to look through a peep hole at the drive in movie.
Ok, I promiced ‘finished’ projects for today’s post. As you can see above I did a small sleigh in hughes of blue and paisley. I still need to do some re-touching on the paint, but over all it came out nicely.
Three new images for this years ornaments, the cow is penny black, the mouses are house mice and the small snowman is from stampeded.
I have a few new penny black and other stamps I plan on tryin gto use for the ornaments.
COPIC TIP!
Ok, you’re not going to believe this, I didn’t until I tried it and it worked.
A quick tutorial for the ornaments.
1. Cut out 2 1/4″ circles from acetate
2. Stamp image onto acetate using staz on ink quickly heat set
3. Turn acetate over
4. Color the acetate on the opposite side that you stamped on with the copic markers. Darker colors work well. Allow to dry and assemble the ornament.
5. Poke a small hole toward the top of the acetate and thread in a length of about 5″ strech cord.
6. Put the cord through the small opening, roll the acetate together and insert into the ornament (I put glitter and fake snow in first), put acetate into ornament and straighten out with a piercing tool or paint brush handle. Tie cord tightly into a knot and finish off with a legnth of ribbon.
I just couldn’t wait to get into my stamp room this morning.
Chad finally has clear eyes, but will need to finish up his eye drops until next Saturday. It is a good thing he is off from school for Thanksgiving break this week! He is enjoying some much deserved “gamecube” game time!
I coulnd’t bear to do another card, but forced myself to finish off the last six cards from yesterday.
Today’s projects are straight forward. I plan to do eight of the sleigh’s all together. The picture of them above they are sitting out drying. They still need a coat of glittery decopauge.
The small mail box was already red, so a little sanding and some decorative paper made easy work of this altering business! I just love to alter stuff!
One of these days I swear I’m going to do a craft show. I’ve seen alot of folks do very well by diving into this venture, it just sounds like fun.
Hey you computer geeks out there, what the heck have I done to make my screen long and narrow? It is driving me nuts. Please tell me how the heck to fix it!
I am hosting a stamp afternoon in my home on December 7th. I have been teasing the girls that will be attending that if they don’t have a project to complete, I’ll gladly turn them into Loretta’s Christmas sweat shop helpers!
Today I spent most of my day cutting and assembling Christmas cards. When I turn out the light on my stamp table tonight I will have completed 16 of these cards! I did them old fashioned ‘assembly’ line style.
When i first started these cards, I thought I’d be ‘cute’ and do spinners. Then I thought about that and disregarded that quickly. Then I thought word window punch for the Merry Christmas saying. Well, that was ok and you can see some of the pictures I did this. Finally, to save time in the production line, I cut a strip of paper to 1″ x 2 1/4″ for the sentiment. Much easier and faster and it still looks great.
As I have run out of materials (mostly embellishments) I have substituted dew drops for snow flakes. They are all relatively the same with subtle differences.
I also picked up two beautiful turkey’s today. A 16.5 pounder that I will roast and a 13.4 pounder that I will have Mike put in our smoker. Oh man, turkey from the smoker is so good. I take the left overs and freeze them in smaller portions. Take them out of the freezer and turn it into smoked turkey soup. Let me tell you that is good eats!
I’ll do most of my prep cutting on Wednesday which makes Thanksgiving day much more relaxing.
I should take a picture of my very messy desk to make those of you who feel like your craft area’s are a mess can see my “Christmas” mess.
I wish you all a great evening. New blog candy will be put on the blog this week!
I have to admitt tomorrow I need to stamp something that is not a card! I need to alter something (or more than one somethings) I will probally do at least 12 more Christmas ornaments. I will also do a few outlines Christmas ornaments. I only do a few a year for very special friends as they are very time consuming and the attention to detail is extremely important.
For those of you who have comment about Chad and the pink eye — unfortunately his eyes are still red and cloudy today. If they are still red in the morning I have to take him back to the clinic. I know the kid is tired of hearing ‘wash your hands’, ‘keep things away from your face’ and ‘don’t touch anything’.
And — I love the new vacuum. Darn thing could suck ticks off a dog at 30 paces! It picks up great. It has a washable heppa and regular filters and the dirt cup is also washable. Which means things stay cleaner and dust mites go down the drain! The vaccum is not very heavy and it is easy to carry up and down the stairs. It also has a nice long cord and is green, which is one of my two very favorite colors!
This is yet another snow sled image I colored with my copic markers. I just adore the way they are coming out!
I started my Christmas gift wrapping today!
I am using the small area in my laundry room as my wrapping head quarters.
After some discussion with my husband, we decided to buy Chad (my youngest son) a Wii for Christmas. I also bought him one game.
I went ahead and bought one today. I just didn’t want to chance them not being available for me.
This year the older “children” (Ok they are all grown but they are still our kids) will be receiving good ol fashioned Benjamin’s. In any launguage kids love money!
I have purchased a few ‘stocking stuffers’ mostly for my step daughter who knits, does jewelry making and stamps. I will be doing some for my step son’s girlfriend Julie. She stamps !
I broke down today and bought a spare vaccum. It was under $130 and is really neat, it is a hoover with a built in hose (upright vacuum) and was extremely easy to put together. It is really easy to dump the bin as well. No bags!