Category Archives: craftiness

Mar11

Sweetness

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Some new Easter finds

Bunny egg cup and Sparkle house from Cmas Tree shop. Love house by me.

Sean and I went out yesterday to see ‘Avatar’. When we got to the movies, a fire engine was out front. The place had been evacuated! There was a faulty hand dryer that set off the alarm. We decided to go to ‘The Christmas*Tree Shop’. Ever been to one? It’s like a Big*Lots and Dollar*General rolled into one-the prices are great! This isn’t a photo of what I bought, but I will share. This is a Snowbaby but as a Bunny baby with a tutu and a photo of my Grandmom Ruth when she was about 6, so about 1909. Miss her-it’s been almost 10 yrs since she passed away at age 96 1/2!
Dreary, wet weather is coming here. I can surely find plenty to do! Tomorrow I go to sign the papers for a gyn procedure that will hopefully make me feel so much better. I’m nervous, but the procedure is only 90 seconds!
We are going to Washington, DC next month around our 26th anniversary. Sean has a Geologist conference there. We still haven’t made hotel arrangements, but have to soon. We will miss the Cherry Blossom festival by a few days. Doesn’t mean they won’t be blooming when we are there. Photo opts!
Have a great Thursday and TGIF!

Feb18

Thursday-still snow and icicles!

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Similarities Skinny Card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I do play with my paper crafts now and then. Here is one with my maternal great grandmom Caroline and the ladies that resembled her a bit. The paper was a Christmas gift and is so pretty.
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To Julia-I mailed off your package today parcel post as it’s a bit on the heavy side. I hope you get in within a week or so. We have fairly good mail service around here.
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Brian really suffered from bringing the large trash bin around front tonight. Two weeks ago, before we had 40″ of snow on the ground, he had an easier opportunity to get in around front(he had several reminders-I should have done it). He had to pull it on it’s side and trudge through the snow. He had a coughing wheezy attack for a few hours off and on. He’s good now. (I think Rolaids helped too)
I made us a steak dinner tonight. That’s what we ordered at the restaurant on Valentine’s Day that was so tough. Mine was very good-and easy to cut! I made mushroom gravy, broccoli perogies and asparagus too.
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Fighting a cold that Sean brought home from somewhere. I can feel it in my throat tonight. We have Zi*cam, so if I feel any worse, I will take some. I got caught in the wind when I went out to get some groceries earlier-my hair was all over the place!

My title above-I swore I saw Brian taking photos of icicles, but when I uploaded photos, I didn’t see any! I’ll have to take some photos.

Feb17

Interesting Tuesday

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I went to the dentist Monday afternoon and had my teeth fixed, plus a part of a filling that may have been trouble down the road. Guess who pointed out the later issue? Yes-me! Didn’t the dentist see ‘the almost problem’ when he examined my teeth a few weeks ago? I asked him to check my crown as I felt it was a bit loose. He tapped on it, but he went crazy with the dental floss telling me to toughen up my gums around it. To make a long story, short…I went to floss my teeth on Tuesday, stuck the floss in there and ‘pop goes the crown’ in the sink! Just wonderful. Why didn’t he listen? So I called the office and Brian went with me to the 6 pm appt. I had to scramble around here to get dinner made-soft food-meatloaf and mashed potatoes. So I waited and waited…

(even had time to play with my phone camera)
I was numb here and waiting on the dentist to put a pin with a nail head in my gum. It was a nasty smell (on of the reasons I went was that when I used the water pic it smelled when I got to that tooth! Get a water pic!) My tooth under the crown had broken (I remember biting something hard in early December that must have done the dirty deed-I didn’t tell the dentist-but I think the pin should have been put in over a year ago).
So I have my smile back!
I’ve won 3 prizes from the One World, One Heart blog event. Look what Tammy is treating me with:

So beautiful!
I need to find my other wins and post. One is a gorgeous assortment of paper and one is a lampwork necklace.
Hoping for a better, more productive Wednesday.

Jan25

My little Rembrandt

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Thought you’d enjoy seeing some of Sean’s artwork from when he was a wee lad of only 3. Why am I showing these to you? As you may know, he is cleaning out a finished room in the basement that was just loaded with a bunch of his things. He ran across his paintings and they were getting brittle from age. The best thing I thought to do with them before I recycled them was to photograph them. So I did!
Sean's paintings
Love the colors!
Sean's painting
And here is my dear painting. This was in my keychain 20 yrs ago and I just left it there!
Sean painting age 3

Jan25

One World, One Heart

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Thanks to Lisa for hosting this exciting and creative event for the 4th year in a row (2007). I think this is the 3rd time I’ve been involved. All you have to do is leave a ‘hello, please include me’ comment on this post only. At midnight on the 15th of February, I’ll randomly pick a winner.
One World One Heart Giveaway items
I made three of the above items! I made the Valentine with the vintage couple. The wording is-‘he loved her wild gypsy heart’. I also made the cover for the chunky note book. They are hard to find and I’ve given away a few and the recipients loved them. My mom shrunk up a pretty red wool sweater, so I brought it home and made this trio of hearts for a garland out of it. It’s about 17″ long and has some hooks on the ends. You can add your own goodies to the garland. The other things are from one of my favorite artists, Mary Engelbreit-a chair ornament with a heart pillow and a magnet with a few kitchen conversions. Also included is a box of Conversation hearts and some say ‘Tweet Me’ on them.
Please enter only once! Good luck, I would love to send these heart goodies to you!
Gypsy Heart Valentine
Mary Engelbreit Magnet
Mary Engelbreit Chair Ornament
Handcrafted Felted Heart-part of garland
Trio of handcrafted felted hearts

Dec10

Oh look at what I won!

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My big box of goodies came from Christine Clemmensen yesterday I was one of the winners of her November contest! I won her and Elsebeth Gynther’s book ‘Scraps’, a lovely white shadowbox with a wonderful elephant themed piece of art, a bag of paper goodies-many vintage and some postcards. This is so up my alley and I was thrilled. It was like Christmas came early for me!

Oct28

Family Ties-part 2

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I’ve had this project put aside for a few months with the papers selected, many of which were given to me. The ‘canvas’ was a piece of wall art I found at Big*Lots for $2.00. It use to have sketchy looking toiletries on it. This was taken in the summer of 1967 as my younger brother was an infant. It was one of those Polaroids that was deteriorating and my face had a lot of damage. I used a photo effect to soften it and it doesn’t look bad. I am #2 in the line-up and only girl.

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I made this one a few days ago. I was looking through a gardening catalog and ran across the peas.
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Now the waiting game begins. I use to think after a few days I was fine, but I learned differently a few years ago. I give myself a week now. The ultrasound took a while. I had drank too much water and was asked to go to the bathroom in the middle of it too. If the doctor thinks I can have the embolization, I will probably go for it and hopefully feel better, do more and lose weight. Crossing fingers.

Sep29

Waving

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I noticed I haven’t posted since Saturday. Sorry about that. I’ve been a little under the weather and yesterday was the pits. I finally wised up and ate soup and jello for dinner and took a bit of Maalox (only in desperate measures) and my tummy seems better today-wasn’t sure if I was going to have to go to the doctor or not. Bri and Sean have had issues, but not having a gallbladder seems to make mine twice as worse. I made dinner last night and didn’t eat it. I sampled a bit of the meatloaf for lunch today-crossing fingers. I am hopefully going to the food store and Sean is coming along.
I’ve been doing some crafting in preparation for a Church bazaar. I have just under two months now. I plan to have a ‘White Elephant’ section too. Also still sorting mostly my paper items which is a lot to go through. Doing this also inspires me to do more! I will find a paper or embellishment I like and it turns the wheels in my brain.
Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!
Sample of the memo book covers I am making-have 48 to do-have done 10.
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Sep17

Thursdays can be thunky

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1. My daughter (aka Demon #1) (the lady who wrote the questions) informed me the other day that her hugs were worth a million dollars. Would you give up hugs – giving and receiving – for the rest of your life, for a million dollars? How is that really possible and who will know whether you are hugging someone or not? I just think your silly daughter was playing with your emotions. : )

2.Have you ever been bitten by a member of the canine family? Probably as a kid I may have gotten nipped by the family pet, but I was usually careful around dogs.

3. What is your favorite color of jeans? Not too dark, but not to worn looking-somewhere in between.

4. What is something that has changed in public schools that you wish was the norm when you were in school?
Zero tolerance for certain acts like name calling or bigotry. I went to grade school in the 60s-70s and it was more one color than the other if you get my drift. Kids can be mean.

5. What is your news source?
Mainly the local news, the internet and radio.

6. What sort of people do you think read your blog?
Ha-I would say mostly other women. Contacts through my hobbies and facebook too.

7. If I told you that I had a headache, you would say……….???
Take a Tylenol-that would depend on how long you had it too. Sometimes if you are hungry, you get a headache. My son and I get nasty when we are hungry and food perks us right up!

8. You go to a buffet style restaurant, what is the first food you put on your plate? Starch maybe? Don’t they start you off where the rolls are and then to salad?

9. If you were stranded on a desert island…. no, we aren’t asking that again. Lets put a twist into this. Would you volunteer to be dropped off on a desert island, to be picked up in a month? And you don’t get to bring those 3 items, either. Am I by myself? I would say ‘no way Jose’.

10. When the sun sets, what are you usually doing? I’m cleaning up dinner dishes or working on my paper projects.
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I have a cross stitch finish! I bought a little kitty kit from the store in Cape May and ran out of 3 of the colors and emailed the owner. Had to wait a week to get them, but finally finished last night.
I was asked to join a stitch-along tomorrow night at the Chadds*Ford Society building with a local XS shop. I know at least one pal will be there. I may ‘drop in’ (hope that’s allowed) as they are having pizza and I really don’t want any. We’ll see.

Sep11

Show and Tell/Remembering 9-11

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Morning Glory Tag-out, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I wanted to show you a cute project. I got a package of ‘thank you’ tags from Big*Lots last week. The one part where the little girl is only had tiny ‘thank yous’ near the top-so I thought these would be fun to alter. I also am working on a bird one I’m not quite finished with. I will share the Halloween artist trading cards I’ve been working on too.
Morning Glory tag-in

This is ‘Patriot Day’ according to my calendar. It’s a fitting day to remember the life altering events of 8 years ago.