How-To Roundup

The Wee Wonderfuls Freebies


Scarf Tutorial

Pin Cushions

Storage Cubes

Artful Organization
Maya*Made
Molly Chicken
Kate Cannon

cool video pattern

This is so funny

I had to share this I really think that it is so funny. A friend of mine showed this video over the weekend and I think that it is too funny.

Road Trip Day 2

We have really covered alot of ground today. Our day started out in Steven City, Virgina, and we are now in upstate New York. We have been through West Virgina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and finally New York. We are in the Adirondacks right now and I have very spotty service on both my phone and air card, so I am unable to post pictures right now because I know I will lose signal in the middle of an upload. It has rained on us off and on ever since Albany, and we are still at least 45 min until Plattsburgh, NY. I will be glad when we get there. we will stay the night there and then take the ferry over the Vermont in the morning. The girls are very excited about going in the truck on a boat. They do not understand how we are going to get the truck on the boat. I have tried to explain it but I still do not think that they really understand.



On the crafting side of things, I have made a couple of beaded crocheted chains and a cape for Shae's Barbie doll. She kept asking me to make her something and I figured that I could make her something that she could play with.



We will be going to Vermont, New Hampshire , Conneticut and New York City tomorrow. I really want to take the girls to see the city and I think we might try to go to Ground Zero, I really think we should make the effort to visit the this if we can. I really want to go to Purl Soho and pick up some new yarns.



Oh My goodness the views are wonderful up here but the light is so bad that my pictures won't turn out good. I really wish that is was clear so that I could show off these beautiful scenes.

Road Trip and no Cell signal

I am on the first day of a few day road trip and I do not have any pictures yet, :-( so sorry. I really need to get back to my old blogging self. I have no cell phone service here in VA but I am able to use my air card for my laptop, I know it doesn't make sense. They say that it is something about the type of towers that they have here is messes up out of state cellphone. ARGHH....
Well I may have no pictures but I do have a couple of links to recommend. So here they are in no particular order.

This one is an Etsy crafter that I found through her ad in Ready Made and my girls really think that her creatures are cute. She is Debbi von Zyl, and she makes one-of-a-kind hand-knitted toys/creatures. Here link is here.

The next one for today is a really good food magazine called, Clean Eating. I just discovered this one and after only one issue I am hooked. The recipes are great and are very healthy and the way they are presented even a picky eater will try it. Here is the link.

Let me know what you think about these 2 and I will try to post more soon. I am going to take a few pictures of the beautiful views of the Virgina countryside and post them in the hotel tonight.

My Newest Obsession

. . . Ribbon Covered Clothespins. Here are a few pictures of the ones that I made yesterday.

These are covered with vintage ribbons that I have collected over the years. I seend to have gotten so carried away making them that I have so many now I put a few in my etsy shop.

New Finished Objects

I thought that I should post a few FOs, that I have made lately. Please let me know what you think. I have also posted these in my Etsy shop.

This a pair of dangle earrings that I made. Each bead is one its own headpin and then placed on a one inch long chain. The mount is a lever back for added security.

This pair of earrings are made on a antiqued silver headpin with brown and pink Swarovski Crystals.

My Etsy Shop

What I have been up to for the past few weeks.

I think that a couple pictures with captions will explain it all. Both of my girls have had the stomach bug that has been going around, and each of them have visited the hospital because of it, Anastasia only was borderline dehydrated and so they gave her meds and it really helped her along with 2 days of rest at home, but Shae on the other hand had to have IV fluids and meds to get her symptoms to stop. She also had to have 2 days rest per the doctor and it seems to be helping, but she is still very tired. We are at home today for her last day of rest before she can go back to school. Before this she had never missed a day of school this year and she was very upset that she would not get to go to school. She really loves going and getting to be with her friends. By the way in the first picture you can see a new finished object that I made for Anastasia. I made it with Lilly's Sugar n' Cream. The pattern is a improvised shell blanket.

I have been spending the day today updating my Etsy shop and I have alot of new items in the shop and I have taken so many pictures of items that I hope to get uploaded today. I have really not been keeping my shop up and I feel like I need to have a good showing this time around. I have books (with multiple copies) , yarn, knitting needles and handmade items that I really enjoyed making.

I Won I won

I won, I won. Blog candy from Splashes of Watercolors. I won a $10 rubbernecker stamps gift certificate. I will have to look a little more, I had wanted Tim Holtz's clear embelishment tiles, but I might just have to get one of the Tim Holtz's stamps.

Who is yout Celebrity Soulmate

. . . . . mine is

Take the Quiz
Take this quiz and post it on your blog, then place a link to my blog in your post and leave me a comment with a link to your blog post and I will enter you in my blog candy contest. If you leave a comment I will enter you once, if you take the quiz and then post a link to my blog, and leave me a link to your blog I will enter you 3 times. I will post a picture of the prize later tonight. You have until Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 at midnight to enter. I can't wait to take a trip around the blogs to see who is your celebrity soulmate. As seen here.

Featured Site

I would like to start featuring sites once per week. The first featured site is The Shabby Princess.

This site has all you need to get started Digital Scrapbooking, with great how-to's and freebies. The Dinner Party kit is one of the great freebies that are avaliable on this site.

The shoppe is filled with beautiful papers, embelishments, fonts, and kits.

You can also find great premade blog headers and buttons. All you have to do is add your blog title, and you have a great header.

Even if the digital scrapbook medium is not for you this is great for digital collage and other types of art because you can print these images out with your home printer and use them for any traditional crafting.

A Cool How-To

I really love this how to at this site and all the other ones that are on there also. This picture from there also. I just thought I would give a little inspiration for today.

Paper Crafting Blogs

This picture makes me feel cold just looking at it. I took this last evening in my back yard.

Here are a few paper crafting blogs that I found today, so I thought that I would share a few links that I thought some of you might like to check out. Let them know that I sent you.

I hope that you all have a good evening.

{Letters from Lizzie}
The Scrappy Chick
Stampin' Spots & Other Crafty Thoughts
Stampin and More with Crystal
pine is here.
No Time To Stamp?

NGT
Musings of an Addict
little treasures
Listen to this...
Just Give Me Stamps...

Inky Paws
imagine. dream. create.

erika designs
card creme

Inspirations of the Day

I love this idea. printable wrapping paper. I found this on Blueprint magazine's website. I thought I would share this very unique find. I really have gotten inspired lately to do more paper crafting. Here is a very cool blog by Tim Holtz, he is a mixed media, stamping artist. I used my weekly Michael's coupon for the Making Memories Distressing Kit. I love how it works but I think I might have to practice a little bit more before I show off anything. The bone folder that came with the kit is great I like hw crisp my folds look. I am working on a new scrapbook layout for Anastasia's scrapbook. I hope to have it done tonight. I

had to stop to watch my favorite show, NCIS. It was supposed to be a brand new one but, it is a rerun. I guess that I will get more done on my scrapbook than I thought.

I really am loving being out of school this week. I really needed the break, an essay each week has been a little hard in the sleep department. Going to bed at 12am and getting up at 6am to take the girls to school and hope that I would get to work that day (I am a substitute teacher at their school) then not getting home until 3 in the afternoon. When I got home I would have to cook dinner, do laundry and get the kids in bed by 7:30, and then start my school day over again.

I also got to watch Carol Duvall's Holiday Workshop today, and I loved the idea of the folded paper tree. Here is the link for this I hope that you find it as interesting and easy as I have.

School Is Over For The Year

I finished my classes on Saturday and the girls on Friday. I have been going crazy this weekend making a few things and letting the girls make collages. I bought myself a new cabinet to store my craft stuff that we use in the house so I don't have to carry things back and forth from the studio. It is a Making Memories Embelishment Cabinet, Michael's had then on sale for 30% off and I just had to have it. It has been great. I have things for paper crafting, stamping, scrapbooking, and beading all in one cabinet. It has made keeping things organized and easy to get to. Look at all the storage space. I love the ribbon rods, I thought I had more ribbon than this, I will have to look through a few more drawers. I have the jars filled with floss, buttons, beads, paper scaps, paint daubers.

Here is one of the scrapbook pages that I made last night. This one is Shae's first trip to Stone Mt. in 2003.

Supply list:

Black Dye Ink Pad

Blue Eyelet Snaps

Forest Green Cardstock

Round Journaling Stamp

Flourish Stamp

Tree Stamp

1 inch round paper punch

Green Crinkle print paper

All Night Media Typerwiter Key Letter Stamp Set

Dark Blue Ink Dauber (used to distress the edges of paper)

Anastasia's first year in school.

Supply List:

1 inch round paper punch

Paper Flowers K & Company

Large Brads K & Company

Fabric Stickers

Making Memories Heart Brads

K & Company Chipboard accents

Plum Ink Dauber

Scallop Scissors

Round Journaling Stamp

Striped Pattern paper

Pink Cardstock

Amy Butler Mat Stack

I also got an early christmas present. I bought my self a new camera. It is a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S700. Circuit City had it on sale for $20 lower than wal-mart and they gave a 1G memory stich with purchase. Yipee, my last one fell in the atrium waterfountain at the Georgia Aquarium, this summer.

Here is the list of books and magazines that I have used to get some ideas for my paper crafting.

Vintage Paper Crafts

The Decorated Page

The Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking Tool & Techniques

A Post a Day for November

I am going to try to make a post a day for this month.

The subject of todays post is my dream to go skydiving. I have been dreaming about this for the past couple of years. I have wanted to do it longer than that but I started doing reasearch about 2 years ago and this summer I started visiting Dropzones, (this is what the skydiving centers are called), There are two within driving distance of my home.

The most popular one is almost two hours away, at over 90 miles away, it is called The Farm or Skydive the Farm. I liked the way it was laid out and how open the area is, but the drive adds alot more to the cost of the jumps. If it were closer I would do my jumps there.

The other one is called SkyDive Atlanta, it is only 50 miles away, it is located at an airport, so the only area to land is in the middle of the runway. They are very nice there, but the only drawback is they are about $$ more than The Farm but with the gas savings I guess that I will have to do my first jump there. I really wanted to make the first jump this year but the season is ending here as it is getting cooler. I guess I will have to wait until next spring.

I might have to go to the Thanksgiving Boogie which is a jump all day event and the price is lower for jumps and tandems. I have put some links in this post if anyone is interested checking out the info an skydiving. I also thought I might use these post to share some of the Many Layers of Me. Please let me know what you think. I hope with the daily post I will draw some of the lurkers our of hiding and get a few comments.

What a busy month

October is the busiest month for birthdays in out family. My niece starts the month off on the 5th (she turned 20 this year), then it is me next on the 21st (29 here this year), My cousin's daughter on the 25th (8 this year), My oldest daughter on the 26th ( she turned 7), and my mom and her twin sister today ( I will not mention how old the are here).

I worked all last week at the school and by the time I get off, help the girls with there homework, get dinner on the table, the bathed and ready for bed I barely have time to take a breath. Planning a birthday party for my little girl I felt like I just pulled if off. We had finger food and over 30 people here and oh my. She did have fun though. I got her an MP3 player because she had been wanting my I-Pod and I did not feel like I should let her have it because her little sister would have a fit.



For my birthday my mother gave me money and so I decided that I would buy something that I really needed and that I would remember after the day and so I bought a new bedding set that I have been looking at for sometime now. I purchased it at Linens N Things and they have it on sale now so here is the link.

I hope that I can make more time for making some of the things that are on my christmas gift list.

If you would please pray for me, I am going through somethings that I don't feel that I can go into here but it is very personal and important to me. Thanks in advance for your prayers.

Things that I find Inspiring

I just thought that I would give you a little taste of what has inspired me today.

These are ribbon belts that I found via Martha Stewart.com Photo Jewelry also via Martha Stewart.com Strawberry Pincushions from Martha Stewart.com

and last but not least Yarn Gift Wrapping also from Martha Stewart.com

My New Business

Here is a link to my new business. I now sell Beauti control products. You can click here to go to the shopping page.