My NEWEST hobby....

I'm making a quilted table runner. I am having SO much FUN with this!! A few girls I know were going to start these. I told them I was interested...next I know, I'm sewing again!! LOVE IT!!!! So I went to pick out fabric....I wasn't sure if I would make a tablerunner or quilt for my guest room......well, I found fabric for my Guest Room quilt BUT found this other fabric on sale for $5/bundle down from $8. I HAD to get it! HOW could I turn it down?!?!?! I'm only PART through but it's been SO long since I've used my rotary cutter, though I SWEAR I just saw the darned thing the other day, I can't find it. Sooooo...I'm going to buy a new one and a new mat tomorrow so I can get going and finish my top.

This is just a sneak peak at SOME of my finished squares before being cut.......

Then.......Look at this!!!!

These two beauties were right outside the house, down on the river today.

Samuel first noticed her:

She was munchin' on a fish. Kinda hard to see I know.....Thank heavens for my zoom but even still.....

Then her buddy came along....

I wished I could have gotten a better picture. (I just LOVE Eagles.) I took this one from a window in the daylight basement that faces the North end . Then I went upstairs, out on the deck but by the time I got up there........

....she had decided it was time to leave. UGH!

They'll probably be hanging around for another day or two. I'll have to see if I can get a better pic or two. I keep hoping for the 'perfect' Eagle pic.

I'll have to post a pic of my EASY Tabletopper c/o Erin tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm such a LUCKY/BLESSED girl!!!!

My SWEET, SWEET friend Erin, sweetie that she IS, sent me THIS stamp set. It arrived TODAY in the mail!!! I just LOVE getting packages in the mail, don't you?!?!?! :)

I LOVE this set!!! It is from Skipping Stones Design. Is this NOT one of the CUTEST sets you have EVER seen?!?!?!

I was only just introduced to Skipping Stones Design stamps earlier this month...(or last???) by Erin and I just LOVE them. Erin is on the Design Team for SSD. Every Tuesday they do a challenge. If you have a minute and are feeling creative.....jump on over and see what they have goin' on over there.........NOT TO MENTION the AWESOME stamp sets!!! :)

Not ONLY did Erin send me this INCREDIBLE set....but she ALSO sent me THIS:

HOW TOTALLY SWEET is THIS?!?!?!

It's a pedicure set and some peppermint lipgloss wrapped up in that ADORABLE wrap courtesy of Erin and all her creativity!!!!!

I LOVE it!!!

Erin, you are AWESOME and I am SO THANKFUL and BLESSED to be able to call you my FRIEND!!!

I'm SO excited to see you next month We are going to have SO MUCH FUN!!! :)

(Erin and I are going to Creative University together the end of February!!!!!)

SOOOOOOOOOOOO, OF COURSE I HAD to play with my NEW set tonight. I used scraps.....well, I had this set of scraps in mind from the get go........WILD thing!! :)

Only thing is.......The, "Bra's are like Friends" didn't show up as well as I'd envisioned it would in my mind. Back to the drawing board on that one I guess but it's alright. I'll figure something else out. BUT, I'm LOVIN' the (black) lacey looking piece there AND the stickeles!!!! You KNOW I'm a STICKLER for stickles!! Teeheeheeheehee.....

I LOVE me some stickles!!! :)

So YES, "Bra's are like FRIENDS......", ".....THE GOOD ONES NEVER LEAVE YOU HANGIN'"

Thank you again Erin!!!!

I {heart} you!!!!

:)

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time.........

-S

My 'filler charm'

This is my filler charm for CU.

Simple.

But I like it!

I do believe I am now addicted to making charms and earrings.

Ay yi yi!

This is the FIRST filler charm I did.

I decided it was just too long.

I'll bring it along just in case...........

I'll have to take pictures this weekend of the earrings I've made.

JUST because they're FUN!

:)

Off to make a card for our nephew's birthday in a few days.

Whoooooooo

Joe and I made a 'run' to Wenatchee yesterday so OF COURSE I made a stop at CW!!!

I could have stayed in there a LOT longer than the 2 hours Joe SAYS I was in there BUT Joe was with me. After he finished his 'errands' he was back and although I must admit he is pretty patient when it comes to my CW time, after a while.....he was HUNGRY and ready to GO. I must admit......I was hungry too....so off to Mai Lee Thai (our FAVORITE place to eat in East Wenatchee)....yellow curry with chicken, #3 please, for ME! Heavenly I tell you........just heavenly!!!

Anyways..........I digress..

I picked up only a few stamps....I just bought a few sets online the other day, and a few more a few days before that,.........(CAN'T WAIT to get them!!!!) so I really didn't feel like I could justify too many!! :) Trust me when I say I could have easily talked myself into some more though....teeheehee.

This is one of the stamps I got.....Stampendous, cling rubber (I LOVE these!!! I have a few others and I REALLY do like them!) Owl Friends.

I FOUGHT with the original layout I was going to use for this image a good part of last night and for a little while this morning before I decided to just GO SIMPLE! I like it a LOT better. :)

Those little owls are just SO sweet to me. I'm thinking Father's Day card..........Whoooooooo's the best Dad?!?! You are!!! ..................Owls remind me of my Grandmother. She LOVED owls.

I colored the images in with my colored pencils and used OMS and a blender pen. I 'ruffed' up the edges of the image paper a little........just because.

I also used some of my new 'SMOOCH spritz', (Clearsnap Holding Inc.), but you can't REALLY tell so much in the photo. New product for me....kinda cool! Picked up some SMOOCH, Pearlized Accent Ink too. LOVE the bottle. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors!!!! DELISH! and FUN!
I'm BIG into Monsters for some reason lately. I just LOVE them. So I picked up a monster set by Hero Arts. I don't have anything done yet with them so you'll just have to wait! :)

And............

THIS is my latest project.........I am LUCKY enough to be going to Creative University this year!! I am SO excited! charm I joined the charm swap.....colors are pink, green, white and silver. We are to make 15 sets of two charms......one creative, one filler........ These would be my creative charms.

So the question is..............

white eggs or green???

I already have one vote for green....

These are really quite fun to make and I'm thinking they'd make cute little Mother's Day pendants or charms for friends!

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time........

Scrapbook for Liliana Rochele

My friend Sandra has a beautiful daughter named Danielle......and Danielle is getting ready to have her FIRST baby!! A baby GIRL!!We've already done the shower thing BUT I wanted to make her up a book to get her started with recording memories of sweet 'lil Liliana as SOON as she gets here.
The book wasn't QUITE ready at shower time, actually I didn't even HAVE the RIGHT book at shower time.......just the pages.... AND although I THOUGHT I'd add more embellishments............I decided not to. Weird huh?

This is the FIRST page

For whatever reason I've been having serious issues uploading pictures and getting them where I WANT them. So, after this one.....it's anyone's guess WHERE in the book these pages are really located BUT the nice thing is that she can rearrange the pages HOW EVER she likes anyways. They are ALL, except for the first and last, two page layouts.

As you can see they are VERY SIMPLE pages.

This is the LAST page.

Now to get it mailed off to her!

Thanks for looking!

Tryin for some CANDY!!!!!!!!! (Blog Candy that is!!!)

I'm tryin' to win some Blog Candy!!! :)
A CUPCAKE Stamp Set by Skipping Stone Designs as a matter of fact.
It's TRUE, I DO have another cupcake stamp set BUT I LOVE that set and I LOVE CUPCAKES!!!

You can enter for a chance to win TOO if you go to Erin's Blog and check out the deets!!!

I am TRYING to get back into the creative swing of things so this opportunity came at JUST THE RIGHT TIME!!!

The Challenge is to come up with a card using one of 4 card sketches (that can be found at Erin's Blog), post it, link back, yada, yada......

SO....THIS would be the card sketch I'm using:

Now, you WILL notice I changed things up a bit. I'm HOPING this is okay. I guess we'll see. The sketches are a 'starting point' right??? All the 'components' are there just.......kinda........flipped. It just worked better for me that way.........for some reason..

Soooooooooooo........................

here is my creation........

TADA!!!!

This stamp set is also from

Skipping Stone Designs.

I colored her in my color pencils and blended with OMS, this time using a 'coloring tool' (fantastix by Tsukineko) which I think I like. I usually use the little sticks...can't think of the name off the top my head)...anyways these 'coloring tools' worked pretty well....

Paper is just from a Designer Mat Pad, Berry Sweet, by K&Company. The yellow and green pieces were just pieces I found in my colored paper scrap bin(s).

The photo clips are CTMH...OLD.

And YES, I used stickles on parts of the 'flutterby' and on the photo clips as well. I just like a little sparkley! :)

Just added this pic to show how she's not flat. I like her like this......like she's fluttering.... :)

Happy Creating!!!!!

**Don't FORGET! Go here for a chance to WIN!!! Only a few days left!!!****

I know, I know........'WHO are YOU again???'

I've been 'gone' for sometime now......

gone meaning........away from crafting and creating.

But.......I'm trying to come back. And TODAY is the first day.....

So here's some of what I worked on today:

I'm going the whole Secret Santa/Sister thing at work. I thought it would be FUN!!! I still think it will be!!! AND it's going to HELP me to get back into 'creating'!

This is gift #1 for my Secret Sister.

It's just a bag of Limited Edition Dark Peppermint Truffles. Just a little something.......

I have my first 3 days planned......possibly 4....it's that 5th day that's giving me a hard time!!! LOL

Blogger is really giving me a hard time today. Perhaps it's because I haven't used it in so long?!?!

So--I apologize for the disorganization of this post. Hopefully, the next picture you see is of some cute little Mistletoe Pixies (Stampendous!) I got them last year, I think, and decided today to play with them.......they're not made into a card yet......just stamped, colored in and blended with OMS and stickles...planning to add some 'fuzz' to his pom pom and boots. First I've gotta find the 'fuzz'!! :)

This candle is just a WalMart candle. I hot glued some cinnamon sticks to it, added some ribbon, WILL add some greens and IT will be my Secret Sister's #3 gift!! Gift #2 is just going to be a CUTE Christmas mug with some peppermint hot cocoa and a mini holiday cake. Mmmmmm.

This is just a little card I made today....$1 stamps from Craft Warehouse I'm SURE!!

That's all I have for today!

But......it's SOMETHING!!! :)

Oh!! ALMOST forgot to mention........I received my FIRST Skipping Stones Deesign stamps yesterday! I CAN'T WAIT to play with them!! HOPEFULLY tomorrow!

I'll post!!

Ciao!

Witches Brew, spiders, bats and.........

My dear, sweet friend Erin suggested I post these pictures on my blog. WHAT AN IDEA!!

Honestly......I think half the time I FORGET I even HAVE a blog anymore!!! It's been SO long since I posted.....Feb or April....NO WONDER I don't remember!!!

Well, shame on me and a BIG THANK YOU to Erin for reminding me........... :)
October 31 is Brandi Louise's birthday.

Her REAL name is NOT Brandi Louise but it's what I call her. :)

And she's NOT EVEN one of my kids.......though I like to call her my own..

AND here, at this house, we LOVE US some Brandi Louise!!!! :)

This weekend is OUR birthday weekend with her and I can't wait for it to get here. What are we going to do?? Not 100% sure YET but you CAN be sure that if she's involved it WILL be FUN!!!! :)

I'd seen those cute little books at the $1 Spot in Target and KNEW I had to get one...or two.....I mean come on! For a BUCK?!?!?! :)

Originally I thought I'd SOMEHOW make up a birthday card for

Miss. Brandi-Louise using the book.....it just wasn't workin' for me. SO.....I decided to go with a little scrap book. They're just SIMPLE pages, what I'm ALL about these days, and she can fill it from pics from whatever she likes. I'm not sure if they're going to get dressed up or go "Trick or Treating" this year or not.........

Anyways............

This is the front of the book:

Page ONE

Pages TWO and THREE

FOUR and FIVE

See....SiMPLE!!!

SIX and SEVEN

EIGHT and NINE....and so on and so forth............

And THIS is a card my sweet, sweet friend Lainey Lou sent me. I hadn't been feeling well and she sent me card to help make me feel better. That was SO nice of you Laines!!!!

I LOVE YOU GIRL!!