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Rolodex Swap — lots of pictures

Hello Friends!

It is just the most beautiful weather here in Southern Maryland. It was also a sad day of sorts.

My husband planted a nice garden this year and I have enjoyed every delicious bite. Today was sad, I am starting to pull out the dead and dying tomato and pepper plants. Soon the entire garden will be finished.

Chad and I will be composting most of the vegetation, so our next planting season will have fertilizer made from this year’s crops.

There is so much still to do in our garden to get it ready for fall, but I know that the effort put into the soil now will pay big benefits in the future.

Today I made these really adorable Rolodex cards. I used my sizzix telephone and address clear die to cut the card stock. The patterned paper is from BoBunny and is called “apple cider collection”.

The theme for this swap is fall, but not Halloween. I chose to go with pumpkins (both stamped on card stock and shrink plastic) I used a sizzix bat on the moon. The moon was cut from glittery card stock with my Spellbinder’s Nestability dies.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts. I hope you will give a project like this one a try. These are super fun to make and really unleashed my creativity.

Stamp Happy and be a blessing!

Loretta Rodger

Flower swap

Just a quick post to show all of my crafty friends what I have been working on the last few days, besides doing some serious shopping for fall clothing.

If you are a follower on face book you know that my weight is now down 47 pounds. I still have a way to go and with the ongoing neck and shoulder issues that is getting more difficult.

I also visited a stamp store about an hours drive from here, the pictures of some of their projects can be found in a previous post.

This is kinda (maybe not) a funny story about the flowers. I had them for the most part completed, I had placed them in a small cigar box so I could look up the details for mailing.

So, the pretty flowers have since sat in that box for a week. Yes, a week. I couldn’t remember which online-group I had participated in a flower swap this month. This is yet another reason I tell people who swap with me FOLLOW all swap threads in which you are involved with.

Lucky for me yesterday some one bumped the thread and I received an email. I was so grateful. I did some more finishing touches on my flowers and got the display ready. So now it is onto packaging and making a hostess gift.

Have a great day, stamp happy — be a blessing.

Art Journal

Oh I am so loving this, I have been enjoying many very talented artists work on You tube for some time now.

My local craft store had the Strathmore visual journal’s on sale, so since I am just beginning this process, I decided to purchase the smaller one.

If you don’t care for Christian music, please mute your computer speakers.

In the slide show below you’ll see the pages I’ve done so far. I plan to put the month and day on each page as I go along my journey. I am looking forward to the freedom to not have to be completely precise and enjoy just the playfulness this type of journal provides.

I couldn’t get the pictures to upload in order and honestly I became tired of trying. I finally left them “as is”. I hope you enjoy the pictures of my atrociously messy desk. I hope to have every thing put away before I go to bed this evening.

I am at the end of my third round of steroids, however I won’t be able to take any more for a while. I have developed a terrible reaction to them and have become excessively itchy. The unseasonable weather is not helping.

My favorite Stamp Store — video slide show!

Hello and Happy Sunday!

What a wonderfully fun day! I had Chad drive and we went to a wonderful Sushi place on the same plaza as Photo Scraps. It is about 32 miles from our home to the store.

The store is always gracious about allowing you to take as many photo graphs as you would like. I could taken even more pictures than the 24 that I did.

Here is the video slide show. If you don’t like the music, please just mute it! I really have a mojo “high” right now. Now if I can convince the Snicker pup its OK not to stay in my lap the rest of the afternoon. This poor puppy has had some major abandonment issues sine we had to put Lexie down.

My neck and shoulder are getting much better, I will be seeing a neurologist next week to get to the root cause of this pain. Thank you for your continued prayers.

Here is the slide show, enjoy!

Altered Ticket swap

Hello my crafty Friends!

The weather here in Southern Maryland is beginning to cool off. The leaves are starting to change and my garden is still producing wonderful vegetables.

Our home has been a buzz of activity the last few days. With the steroids I am taking finally giving me some relief from pain, I have been able to finish up a few swaps.

Today I finished off these adorable altered tickets for an on-line swap. They are not due until the end of October, but I couldn’t help myself, I had an idea in my head and just got to creating.

I have now officially ran out of steam for the day. I will be calling it a night shortly.

If you have not given this small miniature project a try, I highly suggest you do. It can be quiet addicting to make these small works of art.

I hope you all have a great weekend, Happy Columbus Day! Please, stamp happy and be a blessing!

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