Oct14

Domestic Goddess II

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Well of course I will do more than one domestic goddess collage! This was pretty easy as I had this gorgeous scrapbook paper with 4 different vintage style ladies and chose the lady with the blue ribbon. I gave her a crown and surrounded her with some dictionary definitions and called it a day.
Next was the remembrance ATC for a Facebook group I am in. ‘The Day of the Dead’ is celebrated in mainly Mexico and by many Latin Americans. I had a difficult time picking someone! I almost did Ben Franklin, but he’s been a subject of mine many times. I chose John Kennedy, Jr. as he was a bit younger than me and a week older than my brother. We sort of grew up together with Caroline-same hairstyles and clothes. When he passed at age 38, I had a hard time digesting that and still find it hard to believe he’s been gone over 11 yrs. He would have been 50 in November.
Remembrance ATC card for FB group-JFK, Jr.
Then I found some sweet matted frames that my ATCs fit into. Only $1! I hope they get more in at the store.
Found frames for ATCs!
Yes, went out on a terrible rainy day to ship off packages. One was for eBay (have sold some stuff of Sean’s that he didn’t need) and an autumn exchange for a pal. I will show you what I made her when she tells me she got it. It cost more to ship than to make!
Tomorrow will be made up of howling wind. One reason I shipped things off today.

Oct13

More Halloween fun and no more drip, drip, drip

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Brian actually picked up the ‘Black Hat Society’ clipping yesterday from a pile that I found in a catalog and I used it today. Someone sent me the admit one tickets and the red sparkly embellishments are new.
Today, I went to wash clothes and a pipe from the kitchen sink was really leaking a lot into the basin under it. The thing is, it’s been leaking for months and months. We called a local company, they were here within an hour and it’s fixed, though my purse hurts, but it’s about time. We have another leak at times, the pipe from the toidy and that was $500 more,so me passed. They don’t just patch it, they replace the entire piece. The new stuff has a 2 year guarantee which is good. We’ve been gradually getting new pipes. We meant to ask him why the hot water pipe in the bathroom vibrates sometimes.
Of course the BIG NEWs was watching the Chilean miners getting rescued. What a joyous time. I didn’t know they had cots, etc. way down 1/2 mile under the ground. They really had it rough for days and the one fellow who is only 19 was so hungry, he dreamt of his mom bringing him food and cried. Heartbreaking.

Oct12

Halloween fun!

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I started to cut the square for this card from last night’s card and I took a double take. My cards were getting much larger than 4″ x 4″. I don’t know when that happened, but if I could cut off 1/2″ or less to get back to 4″ on a few of the ones I made in the last few weeks.
I try to do at least one duo with pointed hats each year for Halloween. I will probably do another few Halloween ones-remember I have 365 collages to do-minus about 45 now.
Then I made this postcard for a little girl with a brain tumor from Ohio. Reagyn is unselfishly running an effort to collect soda tabs that will help Ronald McDonald come to a big town’s hospital near her. I have her address (which is the school’s address) if you’d like to send her a postcard from where you live and tell her a little about your area. That’s all she asked for.
A homemade postcard for Reagyn
Today I made an item for a friend, it’s autumnal and I want to send it off before sharing it. It turned out so cute. Brian thinks I should be making lots of stuff like this to sell.
My mom went to the doctor and has a terrible allergy which she say she has seen a lot of lately. Mom’s blood pressure was a little bit high which concerned the doctor, but it may have been because of where she was or is stress related. She tends to jump to conclusions. It was like 156/73. Mom will be in the next town over to get her hearing aides adjusted but didn’t act like she would come over here. I hope she changes her mind.

Oct12

Thee and Thou went to the PARen Faire!

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Around 4 or so on Saturday we kind of wound up in Manheim at the Penna. Renaissance Faire. Years ago, not sure if it was right after we were married, but I think so, Brian and I went and it was nothing like it is now. It’s almost like a Disney theme park! And let’s not get into the costumed people. I think many were visitors. Brian reminisced about the 1960s for some reason. : )
We saw a sword swallower, a juggler (with fire too) and his partner who did a routine on silks (not sure of the proper term). We were tempted to get food, but Sean had visions of The Olive Garden, so we only got lemonade and iced tea.
Here are some photos:
Sean and me at the entrance to the fair
Pretty garden area near the mansion and entrance
Tribal Circus featuring Shelly
Tribal Circus featuring Shelli. She has a toddler-look at the tummy!
The Abbey
“The Abbey” sold books and paper things. You know I bought a few things.
In goes the sword
A Sword Swallower!
Of course there had to be a place selling cheesesteaks!
When in Pennsylvania-you have to have a place that sells cheesesteaks!
Sean and Brian in front of the Pirate ship
Brian and Sean in front of the Pirate ship
You could get an elephant ride
You could get an elephant ride-we all would break his back. ; (
Human chess board
We didn’t get to see the human chess game
The Dungeon
I was taunted by the dungeon guard! No thanks buddy, not into seeing how people were tortured-plus not for $2 either!
And finally-
Dianne posing with cute mushroom set
A cute set I wouldn’t have minded having, but I got to pose with it
We got stuck in weekend traffic in Lancaster and saw at least 50 people waiting to eat outside of the Olive Garden. We turned toward Strasberg and ended up at Hershey’s Farm and had a buffet dinner around 8:15. Not as planned, but good food.

Oct12

Whirlwind Saturday

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I promised a post about our almost 12 hour daytrip through almost central Pennsylvania. It’s a little late, so I may start it and finish it off in a few hours.
The first part of the trip was to York, PA. which is about 1.5 hours away (known as the ‘factory tour capital of the world’-Harley Davidson has one during the week). I wanted to attend a rubber stamping/paper crafts show. Here are a few photos from a great vendor and artist-Stampland. The man sitting over on the right took a shine to me and said he’d vote for my ATCs in the contest. Alas, I don’t think I won as I didn’t get any email. One of the other vendors said it’s better to come on Sunday as you have a better chance of winning, but they were all put in a binder, so I hope mine would have stood out. The theme was ‘O Christmas Tree’. I don’t even know if I’m getting them back
Ladies at the York Show busy trying some stamps
Here’s some of the wonderful stamps and techniques from Stampland:
Some examples of Rubber stamped pieces of art
I had been dropped off for a few hours. I gave Sean the address as Brian and him don’t know their way around York. I did quite a bit of shopping too:
My purchases from the stamp show
I was of course looking for unusual stamps. They are quite pricey. I like detailed ones the best and can’t wait to use this one:
One of my gorgeous new stamps
I traded three original ATCs and got some ‘cookie cutter’ ones’-they made all of the same ones to trade.
I did an ATC trade and got these
We got to see lots of pretty farms like this:
(taken out of the car window)
A PA farm in autumn
I have wanted to see Bube’s Brewery in Mount Joy since I read about it on the web. It has catacombs. We arrived too early to eat and Sean didn’t want to go back after our next stop. We went down these steep steps, very hard on the feet and knees:
Steps to Catacombs and candle light restaurant
This is about 30 feet underground!
I thought of Zoey and how she would like to eat in the catacombs with just candlelight. A friend had been here and told me on Facebook that the food is delivered by pulleys as the kitchen is far away. Maybe someday we’ll venture back
there as the menu looked good!
Tables in Catacombs with huge wine barrels
So I was disappointed we didn’t stay at Bube’s longer (which is pronounced-well someone told me boo-bees). I had helped myself to a flyer about the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and we saw it was 12 miles going closer to home, so we went. I think I will post about that in a few hours.

Oct11

Smile through a near mess

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Smile 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

This was almost a disaster! I had gotten some of that neat ink you spray and unscrewed the top from the bottle when I was trying to get the plastic off. Ink was everywhere-I even have it on a few toes. I went to spray my paper here and it was a bit heavier than I would have liked, but I don’t like to toss things I think I can fix. I added the peacock stamp (new) and embossed it.
The rest are stickers. It’s one of my favorite found images and I have done her on an ATC also.

Oct10

It’s 10-10-10!

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Alice 4" x 4" Collage Card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I bet a gazillion blogs have started off with a title like that. : ) It’s pretty neat you have to admit.
I’ve been playing catch up on my collages. I made it a little easier on myself as the one half here was an ATC I made up in York, PA at the rubber stamp/craft show on Saturday. I was happy to get a chance to make something, though this was a cuppa tea for me. The lady whose booth this was must have been tired or something as she was a bit sarcastic. I think she was impressed by how I used the tall Alice here. I put the tag behind her head. I do like what I added to the side-the ‘Red Queen’ and the teapot and animals.
I made this next collage to represent the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire that we attended as well! It was really a spur of the moment thing to go. We had gone to Bube’s Brewery as a side trip as the guys left me off at the show for a few hours. They were told not to eat much, but got hoagies which spoiled their appetites to eat at Bube’s in Mount Joy. Rats. So we ventured down the road to the Faire and went in! Brian and I had been there in about 1984 or earlier and that’s the last time, so Sean got a treat as well. I will do a full post about it next. The stained glass is a embellishment piece. The fairy is a new stamp that’s been embossed. The background is the map to the faire grounds.
PA RenFaire 4" x 4" Collage Card

Oct8

Between the Moon and NYC

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Had a very busy afternoon and early evening as I decided it was too perfect of a day to clean, so I went to Longwood Gardens to walk and take photos. Great exercise, but I am zonked. I am hoping to go to a rubber stamp show in York, about 1.5 hours or so from here, about 28 miles above Lancaster. I’ve never been to a show like that-and they have paper goodness galore. I’m not sure who all is going, but if both guys go, they can go check out ‘the first Capital of the USA’. This evening I finished up a few ATCs and hope to enter them in a contest at the show. I also pulled a few to trade.
So back to my collage-my tribute to NYC! I thought it would be funny to have an airborne taxi. Bri thought the taxi needed wings! The white stars glow in the dark too. The NYC in front is a sticker as is the taxi. The lighter color buildings are little cut-outs. And the moon is a rubber stamp.
Off to bed real soon-but I know you want to see an almost 800 pound pumpkin first!
770 pound pumpkin!

Oct7

Bushes have Roses

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Brian and I were both amazed that this was a Lincoln quote, but I like it because it sure makes sense-like taking the good with the bad….like at the dentist today….
I had a chipped tooth fixed and some desensitizing stuff put on some areas in my mouth. I guess I may have had a balance. I get out to the front desk and was practically demanded to pay for half-almost $300 on the spot. Now my measly $500 insurance was gone in February. I remembered that the oil bill came and said we didn’t have to pay anything as they have almost $900 of our money in their kitty. How ‘nice’ of them to let use skip a month. So I was thinking I would have used $200 anyway…but the main lady at the front desk was gone…seems she got told they didn’t like her telling people they could pay what they could. I know she was there for 15 years or so. I started to complain and the younger lady pulled me aside and said it wasn’t her doing and maybe when they hook up with another insurance company things will get better. I can not see why it’s not considered for patients like myself who have gone to this office for 24 years (give or take a few years because they didn’t accept our insurance at one time or another) pay so much a month! I really like 2 of the 3 dentists, but I am thinking it’s time to see if anyone else will not have a problem taking monthly payments. I may start looking for January.
So Sean had off and we went to California Tortilla and I got my usual, a fish taco (they give you two) and he got his usual a Beef Burrito. We headed to Target and it’s fun to look around there and I actually got Bri a small Christmas gift. We then went over to Pier One-fun store. For Zoey-if you still like roosters, they had an awesome red, white and blue patriotic one in tin (metal) for $2.98 which was $30 in the summer. Great for inside and out!
I’m deciding if I want to take a walk around Longwood Gardens tomorrow or clean. Then the next day I want to go up and over to York (above Lancaster) for a stamp and paper show. Think that is up my alley or what? I’m trying to get Sean interested in going and said we could stop at the outlets or Olive Garden for dinner. ; )