I can’t begin to sing the praises of the cutest blog on the block and Becky for transferring everything to the new dot com location. I’ve been waiting for the transformation to happen for a while. Between my schedule conflicts (and dare I admit it) incorrect information it delayed the process by a little bit.
Youtube, Etsy, Ebay all those links still work. There are at current two (lonely) items on Ebay for sale however, more will be coming.
Below is a tag that I created for the Creating the Crafty life website. It is a one on one swap and it was really fun to work with the garden theme. It kinda shows on video, but this is one big tag!
Your comments and questions are always welcome and I look forward to bringing you even more fun and great crafts right here on http://wwwLorerttaRodger.com!
Here is the video of the card I made for my birth mother, Dorthy.
I do get several comments, emails (etc.) regarding my relationship with her. Dorothy is a nice enough person and she isn’t that old, only 65 years old. She was 14 when I was born. Even though she was married to my biological father at the time I was born, my entrance into the world was the result of statutory rape. The estimations I’ve received has he (James Bone, no more information on him) was between 35 and 40 years old at the time of my conception.
I was told all of my life that my parents had died in a car accident. I didn’t know the truth until I was nearly 47 years old. Talk about a story for another day…
Back to Dorthy. She only has a 4th grade education. Even though she can read and write, her cognition and understanding of things is stuck in the position of a 10 year old or maybe even a really young teen age girl. I try to be kind and will call her on mother’s day.
A long story short I was literally taken from her arms. I was 9 months old and was so small I was under 10 pounds. There is much more detail than I really am comfortable with sharing, but I was neglected and abused. My sister was two months old when my parents took her to the ER for “stomach” flu, she was found to be emaciated sick and week. She was taken by the state on Feb. 14, 1966.
The hard cold fact was I was so malnourished and abused that I was admitted in what is now a PICU at a local hospital for more than 2 weeks until I was strong and well enough to be placed in a foster home. I was with my foster parents until I was 3 or 4 … no I don’t remember them. That woman saved my life. She had me sitting, and crawling and eating and walking within a few months of my arrival.
My life would be a long ass “Dr. Phil” episode. One day, as I have told my husband (who said he would help) I’m going to write a book “You won’t believe this shit”….
You will be making Four sets of Five embellishments for Pocket letter’s. These can be no bigger than 2 1/4 X 3 1/2″ finished. In other words, you will be making 20 embellishments or cards in total.
They need to be Red ,White and Blue themed. You can make a finished card or the embellishments to put on top of a finished card. However you would like to interpret the theme is fine. Please make sure the packaging of your swaps is nice.
Each package should have your name and contact information inside the package. It needs to be readable even if the package is sealed. This avoids confusion when it is time for these to be sorted and sent back out.
Sign ups from April 22, 2015 until May 1, 2015. The swaps are due in my hands no later than June 5. Giving everyone more than a month to complete the swaps. International swappers are welcome. Please allow two additional weeks for them to arrive to me and two weeks after the swaps go postal to return. Please provide adequate return postage. A self-addressed stamped envelope with the same amount of postage you used to send me the package with one extra stamp. If the extra stamp is not needed it will be returned. The other option is that you can Paypal me postage. I prefer to use a flat rate envelope for return and those are $5.05 US.
Please note, the group you start off in, may not be the group you are in when the swap closes. Why?People drop out and all that jazz. Final swap groups will be listed when the swap closes.
Please email me at Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com with any questions put “embellishment” swap in the subject line.
Mail your swap to: Loretta Rodger PO Box 37081 Laurel, MD 20709
First of all here are some pictures of the storage container and the pouches I am using to store my stamps and dies from Your Next Stamp.
You can order the binder pockets from Staples and have them delivered to your home, or if you have a local store you can have them sent there with no shipping costs. Here is the link for the binder pockets.
To label each binder pocket, I used my label maker. I suggest searching google for label makers and supplies. Often you can find a much better price than what is available at your local retail store.
Each of these binder pockets are labeled by categories such Spring, Christmas and Monsters. Please enjoy the video over viewing in more detail how I have these stored. This is a great way to store the stamp and die coordinating sets. If a small die comes free from the magnetic sheets it will simply fall to the bottom of the pouch.
I used Magnetic duct covers and cut them down to the sizes I need to fit the stamps and dies. These can be easily purchased from your big box home improvement stores.
Here is the video:
Please let me know how you store and organize your stamps and dies. I would also like to know if you found this blog post and video helpful. Thank you so much for watching my videos and subscribing to my blog and YouTube channel. Stamp Happy and be a blessing.
Today I am going to catch you up on some video’s that I have been working on. Most of these are of pocket letters I have made or sent over the last two weeks. I hope you will enjoy all of them.
One of my favorite things to do is to stamp. These pocket letters offer a great opportunity to do just that. There are so many great companies and many of them have wonderful stamps with matching dies. Perfect for this application.
I will be offering small pocket letter kits in my etsy store soon. There will also be things like fuzzy socks, hand sanitizer and other small things (post it holders, etc.,) that will be appropriate to use as gifts for friends, family and those of you who are Chemo or Senior Angels, these make wonderful gifts for these folks too.
I am going to be accepting approximately 5 more incoming pocket letters. Please watch for announcements on this here on the blog. You may send me mail at
