tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28377141907491050132024-03-06T01:07:07.904-06:00Kathleen's Personal TouchHi, My name is Kathleen Miller and have been using Stampin Up products since 2002. I love to create and stampin helps feed that void.
I have three daughters Stephanie mother to Mariah,and Alex; Sarah; and Stacey mother to Isaac, Evan and new baby sister Emma.Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-82985275454558960922016-08-27T19:51:00.004-05:002016-08-27T19:59:08.091-05:00My Garden Chair TranformationBecause of my back pain when I work in the garden I set in a chair to weed. This helps with the stress on my back. When I first started working in the garden in 2012 I used the lawn chair that went with the set that management furnished for the garden. They had two chairs and a double chair. here is a picture of them.<br />
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In 2013 I noticed that the straps were starting to break and asked management if they were to throw them out that my sister knew how to fix them and if I could have them. So they said that I could have them to just put my name on them. I did this and moved them over to where my garden area was.<br />
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As you can see some of the straps are starting to come off on the front chair. This is the chair that I set in. I got the two umbrellas at a garage sale one that goes in the ground and the other attaches to the back of the chair. Well this worked for another year and I got slothful and got the pattern from my sister to re due them but kept putting it off to re due them. Well in 2015 I had a fall out with management and they changed their mine of what they told me. They said they only gave me one chair and took the other chair and threw it away and the double chair put it back for everyone in the garden to use. I had no proof to what they previously told me so what could I do. I really liked these chairs because they have a strong metal base to them and hold a lot of weight and do not sink into the ground when weeding in the garden. I was very upset to loose the other two. So I decides I better refinish the one chair before they change their mine on this one so here is what I did with it.</div>
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A good friend of mine Greg Grieves had a man at his shop fix a break and put some new flat feet on the bottom of the legs to help it to stay on top of the ground. Before I started I cleaned and repainted the metal on the chair with white paint. I choose a dark maroon background yarn for the base then weaved white from side to side connecting it with a crochet stitch at the start and end of each row.<br />
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Starting to weave a row along the top of the chair<br />
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working my way down the back of chair.<br />
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All done. It looks like a brand new chair right from the factory now. It cost me $20 for the yarn and a weeks worth of time and lots and lots of frustration. I almost gave up. I will never want to do another one so this one better LAST FOREVER! If I have to do another one I have my sisters (Pam's) phone number and will be speed dialing it in a flash. So let me know what do you think of my project?<br />
<br />Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-57915914589334633652016-08-17T23:51:00.000-05:002016-08-24T18:49:26.811-05:00Birdhouse Project 3014This is a super cool project I did when my sister Pam came over for a few days for a visit.We made birdhouses from discarded styrofoam coolers. This is the one that my sister Pam made.<br />
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This is my birdhouse. It started with a small rectangle styrofoam cooler that someone here had their meds delivered in. The size of the container was around 6 x 10. The final finished size of my birdhouse was 11inches sides x 14 inches front x 19 inches tall. We inserted two poles on top of container at center front and back with a notch to hold a pole along the width (looked like a goal post sideways). This gave us the top pitch to our roof to lean our sticks on. We went around our yards and collected things to use such as small twigs, acorns, pine cones, bark, bark with moss on it, and stones, We also purchased from the store some fake leaves, moss and some dried stasis. We painted the white styrofoam cooler black and made a few holes on the side to vent for air and glued the top shut. Also made a small hole for the door. I choose to use an old metal fork for my perch at the door. Then we just went wild and created whatever we wanted.<br />
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One side view.<br />
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back view<br />
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other side view<br />
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Later my friend Jan came over and this is the one that she made. See how they were all different but all so special. I have not put mine out side yet but before I do I am going to coat it with a sealer. I had several extra containers and Pam took them home to use for her "Crafty Thursday" craft day with her group of girlfriends. Pam told me that her daughter Caly made one and put it out in the garden and one day during a storm it blew over. I am not sure but I think it broke. So her suggestion was that before you put it together take and screw it to a heavy wooden base that can be secured down to eliminate this problem. So this just gives you and outside the box thinking of what to do with someone else's trash. So for all of you that come to my house and say that I am a hoarder stop it because it all has a special purpose in its special time.<br />
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So another fun thing that I do with my extra time. I love to create and this was a very fun project but even more fun when it was shared with two special people in my life. Let me know what you think.<br />
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<br />Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-27418704688138884952016-08-13T23:52:00.001-05:002016-08-17T21:48:12.859-05:002015 Garden and FlowersSo now here we are in 2015 and time for a new garden. Below you well see all that I planted this year and all the new flowers that I added to my flower beds.<br />
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Black Raspberries in the spring.<br />
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Later the same black raspberries in mid-summer before I weeded. I never got any berries this year because I was clipping them at the wrong time. My friend in the garden Russell told me just leave them alone for a few years and you will get some berries. So we will see what happens next year.<br />
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Here is my "Dino Egg" again! I just love it. It is a focal point in my garden and so many people stop and comment on it. Great conversation starter.<br />
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Here is a better view of my rock in comparison in size to my chair and wheelbarrow.<br />
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My marigolds are growing so big that my zoo animals almost disappear. I collect the seed from the flowers and save it to plant my flowers for the next year.<br />
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My new metal art for the season. I purchased this at our Saranac "Ladies Night Out" craft sale. They block off the main street and venders set up craft booths. The stores have discounts and craft booths inside them and all along the streets. We are just a very small town and main street is just a few blocks long but they pack a lot of crafts into it. You get a card in the beginning and when you go to the different booth to get it punched. Then when it is full you turn it in for a drawing. I won a $75 Pamper Chef stoneware pot. I always look forward to it every year. This metal work was purchased from a local man for $35. I think it is a fly. It is made out of different discarded metal objects.<br />
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Here it is in my garden.<br />
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Could not resist this shot of a bee doing its job on a marigold plant. We sure do need those bees in the garden and we had plenty of them this year.<br />
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This is a new addition this year it is called a butterfly plant. It will get long tiny purple cluster flowers that grow in a long stick like a hotdog. If you look really close you can see one at the top of the plant. Very pretty and suppose to attract butterflies.<br />
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My "Garden Lady" had a baby. This is a smaller metal peacock with jewel beads (about two feet tall ) to go along with the larger on that I got last year. It is setting alongside the miniature glads.<br />
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Here is a clearer picture of my angle cow statue.<br />
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I did not plant these Hydrangea plants they were there already before I made the flower bed but come up every year. One part is white and the other half is pink. The petal on the flower is huge.<br />
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I do not know the name of this flower I had it at one time but lost it. I added a lot of new flowers to my beds this year thanks to a neighbor friend Cheryl who gave me tons of new flowers. I tried to keep up with the names but got them mixed up. So if any of you know what they are called please let me know so I can give them their proper title. I just love the beautiful purple color.<br />
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I always loved fern plants and finals got some. I just love the beautiful shape of them.<br />
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I looked and looked for just the right birdbath and I think I found it. It was a little pricey but I love it. It is made of glass with a separate metal base that folds up.<br />
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These are two different yellow flowers. I do not know the name of either do you?<br />
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This is a new bush I think it is called "Boxfire" but not sure have to check it out. I got it from our Lady's Club Garden sale. I will have to check with them to get the name.<br />
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Tiger Lily<br />
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White and light purple lilies<br />
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My new pink and maroon lilies. These are my favorite of all the lilies because they are two of my favorite colors. It took a couple of years for them to bloom but they were worth the wait.<br />
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I think the yellow flowers on the left are Black Eye Susan's but not sure what the pink flowers are can you name them for me?<br />
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This was a really pretty group of flowers. Again I do not know what they were called but they lasted all summer and were a variety of colors.<br />
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Morning Glories<br />
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There are several different flowers here but the only one that I can remember is the center one (orange and yellow) they are called Indian Blankets and behind it is a Rose Bush. Then on the far right is a orange Mum.<br />
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Purple and White Glad<br />
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This is a new flower pot that I added to the garden next to my grape arbor. Someone had discarded it in the trash and I recycled it for my garden since I cannot have plants inside because my cat Henry would eat them. I have Geraniums planted in them.<br />
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This is a picture of the front flower bed before I added all the new flowers to it.<br />
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Side flower bed. A Peony bush bottom center then next to it is a rose bush and in the middle of the picture are some Tiger Lilies. That is my garden spot on the other side of the fence, another flowerbed and herb garden.<br />
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Inside front flower bed with nice shot of the Hydrangea's and in the center is a Rose bush. At the top is the gate where you go into the garden there is another gate over by my side of the garden. The whole garden is surrounded by fence and all the gardeners have a key to get in. We have a shared little shed to keep garden tools in. I think the total size of the fenced in area is 100 x 140 feet.<br />
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Outside front flower bed after planting all the new flowers. There are Daisy's along the bottom followed by various other flowers and my new plastic flamingo's. Along with the new fencing that I put up all along the outside of both sides. The front side is 70 feet and the outside left side flowerbed is another 70 feet. I also have flower beds on the inside 70 foot along the front and 30 foot on the side and 40 feet of herbs, grape harbor and rhubarb patch.The reason I am showing you all of these flowers is that later in the year our manager of our apartment building had a tiff with me and to get even told me that I had to remove all of the outside flowerbeds. This is what she would rather see in their place.<br />
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Here is what the outside of the en-fenced garden spot looked like on a regular basis, full of weeds. I told her what was wrong with the flowers they only improved the look of the place. Her reply was that if they let me do it then everyone else would want to do it. I said so what. I have at least four people a day stop by and tell me how beautiful my flowers are and how they enjoy looking at them. She had no answer to that just told me I had to remove them.<br />
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Which would you choose? After removing them the following year I lost over 2/3 of them and they did not come back up. I was so mad. Oh well I guess I have to look on the bright side at least I got to keep the flowers on the inside and was still able to keep gardening! Sometimes people can be so hard to work with that is why I enjoy working in the garden you get to get away from all the hassle.<br />
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Finally lets get to the veggies. On the right are a long two rows of white onions over 500. In the center are leaks and bunching onions around 300. Then on the far left are my row of regular tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. I had a 40 x 70 foot garden this year.<br />
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Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato. They are the sweetest and best tomatoes I would never plant another kind.<br />
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Glamour Tomato Plant. I really like these tomatoes because the grow so round and have no blemishes on them. They are so perfect not to dry inside and not to much juice.<br />
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My row of mixed tomatoes. I planted some Heritage purple tomatoes (which I did not like and would not plant again and were hard to tell when ripe), Roma, Glamour and Sweet 100 cherry. I had a total of 24 plants.<br />
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Fall Harvest. Nothing like fresh veggies.tomatoes, muskmelon and white onions.<br />
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This is a fall shot of my hallapino peppers in the front left of picture. I only had four plants but had a very good yield this year. To the left of them behind the fencing is my chives and oregano herb garden. At the top left is my grape arbor and some marigolds along the back.<br />
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My grapes. They did not do too good this year but at least I got some. I got <b><u>5 whole bunches </u></b>but they dried up before they turned, bummer.<br />
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Finally could not end without a picture of my rock and zoo animals and all the pretty marigolds I planted around it. Sorry this took so long but could not decide which pictures to weed out (no pun intended) believe me I had a ton more. So help me out with names on the flowers I could not name and let me know what you think of my garden fun. Have a good one and get ready for 2016.<br />
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<br />Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-42853951179016153102016-07-25T04:27:00.003-05:002016-08-11T17:45:32.521-05:002014 garden Fun Well here is some pictures of all the fun I had in 2014 working in my garden.<br />
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This is my spot before I got started. My spot is in the top left hand corner to just past where you see my grape arbor. It is 70 feet deep by 40 feet long coming this way to where you see the rusty pole just where the shade tree starts in the center left front of the picture. So 40 x70 ft space.<br />
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This is my other garden spot my 20 x30 ft berry patch. right now it is just four rows of strawberries and flowers planted around the tree.<br />
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This is the new spot for my black raspberries on the fence I put up for them<br />
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This is the red raspberries that I put in on the other side of the strawberries and the fence for them.<br />
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SURPRISE! Look what I found just below the ground while I was smoothing out the dirt. This is a huge rock. I call it my Dino egg. That is my hat beside it to help show the size. Maintenance said they did not have the equipment to move it so I decided to work with it. Here is what I have decided to do with it.<br />
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As my friends know I like to collect cows in my house so now I am starting to add them to my garden. I call this my zoo animals. You can just make out my rock in the middle. It had just rained and I had not cleared out much of the dirt around it.<br />
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This is my garden after it was planted.</div>
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My little resting area at the side of the garden. The chair in the front with the umbrella attached to it is the chair I set on and weed the garden. Because of the pain in my back I set on the chair to weed. The umbrella sure does help keep the heat down.<br />
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A friend who decided to spend some time with me one morning while I was weeding. He was just a foot away from me and just sat their for the longest time. I was told the are called ground squirrels.<br />
There were two of them and I nicknamed them Chip and Dale. They made a bunch of tunnels in the garden but did not do too much damage. They maybe ate a few green beans and a tomato here and there but oh so cute to watch.<br />
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Could not resist the beautiful shot. That is a moth on the zinnia.<br />
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This is a new flowerI added miniature glades that I got from my bingo friend Doris.<br />
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I planted sunflowers on two sides of my garden this year and they grew so tall. They were aver 7 foot tall and everyone enjoyed them.<br />
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My end of the season garden discount gem. I call her my garden lady. Isn't she pretty? Her green jewel beads shine in the sun. She is about four feet hight. I just love her.<br />
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I planted gourds in the garden this year but they did not turn out right. But I bought these unfinished at the fruit market and painted them. I ended up having birds build nests in them later.<br />
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Well I told you I liked cows. My friend Jan got me this at a garage sale. It is a bird feeder on the top and bird house on the bottom. I did not get any nests this year.<br />
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This is the acorn squash patch. It did pretty good.<br />
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Finally! I waited two years for these lilies to bloom. They kept growing but would not bud and bloom. I was just about to pull them up. I am so glad I did not are they not beautiful? I just love the color.<br />
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Along the left side and top are the sunflowers. In the center is a row of dill. On right are sugar snap peas. They are the kind that you use for stir fry. They are so sweet and good.<br />
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My zoo animals in the fall of the season. And adding to the zoo my newest addition my cow angel in the front. Well that is my year in the garden I hope you enjoyed my year as much as I did let me know what you think.<br />
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<br />Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-29617124005977611372016-07-25T04:27:00.002-05:002016-07-25T04:34:11.430-05:00`Finally ready to start posting againFinally after being away for several years I have my computer fixed and am ready to start posting again. I had a very good friend of mine by the name of Rebecah fix my machine and she did a very good job of it. She had to just about rebuild the hole system but it works like a dream now. Thanks ever so much Rebecah your a charm. Boy do I have a lot of catching up to do. So I will start off with where I left off and catch you up on the last few years of my garden work. Here are some pictures of my garden from 2014<br />
<br />Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-35306949940893042672013-11-09T00:59:00.000-06:002013-11-09T21:49:57.418-06:00Summer Garden 2013This is what kept me busy all summer long on my 30X70 foot main garden and 20X30 strawberry patch.<br />
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Notice the hawk in the sky. My spot is in the center of this picture where all the stakes are.</div>
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Left side of garden. Front row across green sweet pepper plants. One plant started out with over 20 peppers in the spring and then before frost it still had over 25 new peppers growing. It was a very good year for peppers. Next going back row of onions, row of garlic, row of dill. My onions did OK but not that good but the garlic did not produce at all so will not grow them again. But had a super crop of dill. Next set of rows starting on the left regular peas, basil, snap peas, behind them more regular peas, radishes, and another row of radishes. Back row zucchini and zinnia flowers. In the far back along the fence is my herb garden. On the right of this picture is cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash and in the far back my grape arbor and rhubarb.</div>
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These were the best tomatoes even though I got them by mistake. They were labeled grape cherry tomatoes but this is what they grew to be. Later I found a tag-Champagne Tomatoes. They were the most perfect tomato with no blemishes. I will be trying these next year for sure good quantity also just wish I did not have to put up with the black spot fungus this year. That was something else hope it does not come back next year.</div>
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Zucchini/Summer plant new hybrid. It was funny half of the plant the squash grew like this and on the other side it grew just as summer squash. But I think it all tasted like summer squash. It was good and hardy until the bugs killed the plants. Try dish soap and water to keep the bugs away in a spray bottle and spray on the leaves and stems early and keep it up. I started in the beginning then lacked off then got hit with the bugs and they killed my plants.</div>
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Wind chime and stepping stone my garden friend Jan got for me. Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes in background the best ever cherry tomatoes will never buy anything else, ever so so sweet and good.</div>
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My $70 grape arbor and yes I did it all myself. Well I did have some help pounding in the stakes. As you can see I did not get them very straight. I used chicken wire for the sided and top so hopefully I will have a nice arbor before long. Housing would not let us use their fence so I had to build my own arbor. That is their fence along the back. It runs the entire outside of the garden and us who garden have keys to get in. I have red seedless grapes in the back and the label said just red for the front ones. Behind the arbor at top of picture are my rhubarb plants. In front left of picture where stones are is part of my herb garden. Oh yea all the stones you see here are stones I collected while I was hoeing this summer can't beat free landscaping.</div>
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Metal Humming Bird Garden Ordainment got at Ladies Night Out made with silverware, nuts and bolts, nail and washer. Totally Awesome</div>
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One of my three rose bushes. If you enlarge the picture you can see the black spots on the leaves. That is the fungus that hit the garden big time this year. It hit the tomatoes, strawberries and roses. I treated the tomatoes but just took the infected leaves off the strawberries and and roses. We are hoping it does not come back next year. It cost me $8 a bottle for five different treatments. so was kind of costly this year.</div>
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Herb garden. Back left of tree oregano and chives. Right of tree asparagus, along fence top of row of rocks sage, going down row English Thyme and up front Rosemary. Left row of rocks I started a new patch of chives. This was a new kind called garlic/onion. since it was new I did not pick any but tasted a few and it was delicious cannot wait till next year. In the middle of rocks on left lemon balm and on right lemon thyme. I like my spices!</div>
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Flower bed outside fence.Rose bush, Lilies, Lilies of the Valley, Peony Bush, and Sweet William.</div>
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New flower bed by gate mini glads inside garden . Marigolds on outside fence from seed from last year.</div>
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Another new flower bed along inside garden this is some kind of ground cover with a little purple flower. Top right corner rose bush plus later planted some hens and chicks. </div>
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Lastly my strawberry patch. I started this last year with 600 plants. I got about 20-30 strawberries or so every few days during June this year. A little trouble with black spot toward the end of the season but think I did pretty good for the first year. It was so nice to go out every morning and start the day off with some fresh fruit every day before I got started. Along the fence between the two center rows I planted my blackberry plants. They did not produce this year but hopefully next year. The open plowed area is where I enlarged my area this fall to get it ready for next spring to plant some raspberries.</div>
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Of course Henry just had to get in the picture also! </div>
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It fits the top of my queen size bed with just a little overhang on three sides. They had over 50 quilts donated and next spring they are going to raffle them off to support their children's reading program. They give a free book to a child every month and the money from the quilts supports this. I created the quilt squares and then machine sewed them together. I added embroidery stitches and hand quilted the layers together.<br />
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This is before I quilted and put it together.<br />
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This is the first page of the book. All the pages in the book are bordered in bright yellow.<br />
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This square shows three of the different embroidery stitches I used.<br />
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This square was used throughout the quilt using a portion of the Dresden Plate template. I think it reminds me of the tail feathers on the duck. I also embroidered the edges using the blanket stitch.<br />
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Another square showing more embroidery.<br />
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Center row using embroidery chain stitch<br />
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So I hope you forgive me for not posting for the year but have been very busy with this. Next time I will show you pictures of my garden that I planted this summer. That is a second reason why I have been so busy. So add some comments and let me know what you think. It was very very hard to give this up once I got this done especially since I just had a new granddaughter born on 100613. Emma Rachel Turek, more about her later also.</div>
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Have been busy trying some new projects. First I will tell you about something that happened this Christmas. While at my daughters Stephanie's house for Christmas I was using my granddaughter Mariah's favorite cup that she got as a present a while back. We both collect black and white cow stuff and it was a black and white cow drinking cup. Long story short I was drinking out of it on Christmas and it got broken. I felt so bad but I told her to let me take it home and I had this wonderfull stuff (crystal effects) that could fix it. It had only broken into four large pieces. No problem right. So I took it home fixed it and sat it on my table overnight to dry. Next morning I get up and here it lays on the floor in a million pieces. Henry my cat decided it looked better there! So after a few minutes of panice I start over. I tell you crystal effects can fix ANYTHING. There is no waist with this stamper!!! So after getting it together I think well she certainly cannot drink out of this anymore so I will make a flower arrangement out of it. So here is my finished project.</div>
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Cow Flower Arrangement with cow lollies 2013</div>
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The center of the large lollies (rosettes) and the small daisy flowers are cow print material cut out of the scallop and five petal dies. If you enlarge the picture you might be able to see that some of the branches of flowers are black beads. These were silver but I painted them with black acylic paint. I folded the leaves over the edge of the cup and hot glued them to the side to cover most of the large cracks so you could not see them. From a distance you could hardly tell it was broken.</div>
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Granddaughter Mariah Elizabeth Smith 2013</div>
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Now on to the project that I have been working on for the last few weeks. My upline Ronda Wade started a nonprofit group using stampin up cards and prayer request . She has a blog that you can go to and request prayers or join and pray and send cards. It is called Project Hope ( Project H.O.P.E. helping other people experience God's love).<br />
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I decided to make a binder for all the prayer request that I have received so far so that I can go to at a glance when I want to pray for them. Here is some pictures of the binder.</div>
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Project Hope Binder Outside 2013</div>
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PAPER: Core Dimentions Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive CS, Regal Rose CS, Blushing Bride CS</div>
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STAMPS: Garden Silhouettes, Bliss, Thinking of Father, Live Your Dream, Office Ephemeria, Define Your Life, Defining Alphabet, The Open Sea, Small Alpha set non SU</div>
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PUNCHES: Large border Lace Ribbon, Framelits Apothecary Accents, Framelets Labels Collection, hand held large 3 hole binder hole punch</div>
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PAPER: Whisper White CS, Melon Mambo CS, Pretty In Pink CS, Attic Boutique DSP</div>
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STAMPS: Gods Way, Cancer Ribbon, Special Blessings for Blocks</div>
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PUNCHES & DIES: Punch Blossoms, Borders Scallop Trim</div>
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021913 All Cancer Card Lavender Ribbon</div>
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STAMPS: Bloomin Marvelous, Words of Wisdom, Kindness Matters and Ribbon of Hope</div>
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Where did the last 11 months go too? Sorry about not posting but I have been busy and have lots of pictures to share with you. I was busy all last summer planting a garden. This was the first time for me and boy it sure does take up a lot of your time.Here in our apartment building management has a fenced in area that they plow out for us to use for garden space. I had two spaces one space 45 by 75 feet and the other 45 by 15 feet or something like that.</div>
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Now this is my garden. Continueing right into the garden starting with the pepper plants on the front left corner. (This picture was taken a little later because you can see that the beans are up now top left corner.) Going to the back at the end of the peppers are some acorn squash, where the wood slats are (used for shade) we planted leaf lettuces, spinach, and radishes. Behind them are butternut squash, then the sunflowers going the opposite direction. To the right of the hose is more acorn squash then going back are our 48 tomato plants, 12 cherry tomato and the rest Roma's tomatoes. Behind them is a patch of cantaloupe. I ended up getting over a thousand ripe Roma's tomatoes to can. We had 7 picking on our beans and I finally stopped because I could not find anyone else to give them to. I canned over 15 dozen quarts and pints of different things from my garden and loved every minute of it. <br />
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This is where our second plot. It is next to my friend Gwen (on the far right) and the smaller of the two plots. Where you see the chair we had a row of wild daisies but they never came up. In the right front where you see the wet spot are our cucumber plants. We planted them late and only had three hills. Going to the left are a row of Zinnia's, then Basil on half the row and Cilantro on the other half. Last row onions and next to that mixed leaf lettus and a patch of wild flowers behind them.</div>
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You can see things are producing rather nicely. To the left are the rows of beans in bloom, center front are five different variety of pepper plants, behind them you can see the squash in bloom. On the right are the tomato plants. We put mirical grow on the plants and the tomatoes got so large that we had to strip the leaves off so the sun could ripen the fruit. The plants grew over six feet tall. Here the hose is giving them a good sprinkle.<br />
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Believe it or not this is my bean rows BEFORE I weeded them. They got a little ahead of me. My partner in the garden was suppose to do the weeding and I was suppose to do the planting but I intended up doing all of it, or I might not of planted so much. But Everyone said I had the best garden of everyone.</div>
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This is me setting in the chair weeding the garden. Do these beans look better? Everyone teased me about my floppy hat but it did the trick. After wearing shorts one day and burning my legs and ankles I did not wear them any more.</div>
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This was our prize sunflower it was over 14 feet tall. That is my friend Sharon who was suppose to be doing the garden with me.</div>
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This is the spot where the watermelon were at. I transplanted over 600 strawberry plants in the fall to start a new patch for next year. Well there this is what I did this summer. What do you think? <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is it not just the cutiest thing? She got the idea from someone else but they did not have the directions so she made up her own and figured it all out. She is so good at that and then put them down on her blog and made it so easy to follow. I cannot wait to show my girls in class this one. Here are some more close up pictures.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is where you can find Sandi's directions on her blog: <a href="http://anotherchancetostamp.blogspot.com/">http://anotherchancetostamp.blogspot.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Then I have been a little late in getting my grandsons birthday card to him this year so I came up with this late birthday card for him. I do not have too many late birthday cards so I guess I was due for some just in case some of my customers needed some. Do you think I can use that as an excuse?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is my first time using the textured impression stripes and testured designer frames on a card so I learned something new. And I really needed some more manly cards so I am sure this one will go over big. I also kept it simple, simple, simple, Sandi, RIGHT! <br />
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ACCESSORIES: Big Shot, Textures Impressions Stripes, Textures Impressions Designer Frames, Wide Oval Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Extra Large Decorate Label<br />
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So what do you think of my latest bug itch? Did it get your sparks a flowing?</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-58396524870920279532012-02-11T11:00:00.000-06:002012-02-11T11:00:00.053-06:00Card Class January 28, 2012Well had my second card class and it was a success. It was a cold snowy day but my girls still showed all but one. They all did a great job and worked as a team and we were all much faster this time. We are both learning this so I am sure each time we will get faster. I am so lucky each time to have the whole community room and we had lots of space to spread out, quiet, and no interruption.<br />
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I did three cards (two of each) and one 3D object (box) for a $15 class.<br />
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Here is my first card:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This card I could not make up my mind either to use the red or white glitter paper on the background or red or white doily. So I gave them both choices. Which do you like the best? I cannot decide. For the heart in the center I first sponged Marina Mist on a Wisper White square. Leaving lots of white space. Then I stamped the bird stamp followed by coloring in the flowers with Pale Plum marker. I cut the heart out then snailed it to Marina Mist card stock and cut a small boarder. I applied it on top of the doily with dimensions. Then stamped and cut the banner out and applied that also with dimensionals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">SUPPLIES:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">PAPER: Whisper White, Marine Mist, Red or White Glitter Paper, Real Red card stock</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">STAMPS: Take It To Heart, You Are Loved</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">INK: Basic Black, Marina Mist, Pale Plum, Pale Plum marker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">PUNCHES or DIES: Small corner punch, Sizzlits large paper doily</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">ACCESSORIES: Big Shot, Snail, Sponge, Dimensionals, Needle piercer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though our theme of the day was Valentines I wanted to give the girls other options for the day. So I gave them this birthday card to work with. The idea originally came when I was visiting my sister Sandi Dailey at her home and she helped me come up with the idea. I changed the colors and the stamp set when I got home but Sandi gave me the layout. I used the new jewel pack from SU and had a hard time getting the jewels to stay stuck. So after class when I made some cards for myself I used crystal effects to keep the jewels in place. I would recommend this, it only takes just a small drop. That way you know for sure it will not come off.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">SUPPLIES:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PAPER: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake</div><div style="text-align: justify;">STAMPS: Swirls & Curls Verses, Fresh Vintage, Cause to Celebrate, Bring on the Cake</div><div style="text-align: justify;">INK: Melon Mambo, Basic Black</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PUNCHES or DIES: Scallop Punch, 1 1/4 circle punch, 1 3/8 circle punch</div><div style="text-align: justify;">ACCESSORIES: Ribbon, pearl Jewels, demensionals, snail, crystal effects for qlueing on jewels.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This card we had many options for. I choice Sweet Friend but some of the other choices were, Happy Valentines Day, Happy Birthday, Thank You, Friend to Friend, Thinking of You, Happy Anniversary, Hello Baby, Love You. Most of these came from the stamp set Tiny Tiny Wishes because I wanted them to fit inside the Word Window punch. The original idea started with my upline Rhonda Wade. Then I went to my sister Sandi Dailey's house for a day of stampin and we did this together. I did not have the cherib stamp so I stamped some for my class. Then used different stamps for the rest of my card but the basic layout I have to give credit to the other two girls, thanks girls.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">SUPPLIES:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PAPER: Real Red, Pink Pirquette, Whisper White</div><div style="text-align: justify;">INK: Real Red</div><div style="text-align: justify;">STAMPS: You Are Loved, Happy Heart Day, Tiny Tiny Wishes, PS I Love You</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PUNCHES or DIES: Scallop Circle, Word Window, Modern Label, Heart to Heart punch</div><div style="text-align: justify;">ACCESSORIES: Real red ribbon, sponge, snail, dimensionals, big shot</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the 3D project we did for the day. I had ordered the Kraft gift boxes from the mini but I only had four not enough for class and not enough time to order more. So I cut the box apart and used it as a template and made my own boxes for class. Of course it would be much easier to order them but I used the cardboard from the back of the designer series paper packs, traced around the template, added score lines, cut and had my boxes. If you lay it out just right you can get one box on the 12 X 12 cardboard. I also added DSP to the bottom and inside bottom of the box. This box is just the right size for a cupcake or maybe three or four cookies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">SUPPLIES:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PAPER: Everyday Enchantment DSP, Early Expresso, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, First Edition DSP</div><div style="text-align: justify;">STAMPS: Yummy, Holiday Best</div><div style="text-align: justify;">INK: Early Expresso</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PUNCHES: Heart Punch, Heart to Heart Punch</div><div style="text-align: justify;">ACCESSORIES: Gift Boxes, Dimensionals, Tombo Glue, Pearl Jewels, Crystal Effects</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well my girls were really excited and enjoyed their choices and filled my head with lots of commplements. So I am riding kind of high right now, love those good thoughts. So let me know what you think.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-75952234888693134162012-01-15T21:49:00.002-06:002012-01-16T08:23:10.312-06:00Winter is finally here...got some SNOW<div style="text-align: justify;">Well thought for a while there Winter had passed us by this is our second dump this winter but only about four inches. This has been a very weird winter I would say. But still wish it was spring. And to top it off got my first wonderful cold from my wonderful kind sister Pam who spend a few days with me. Which ended up giving her fresh cold to both me and to my other sister Sandi, such sisterly love can't be beat wouldn't you say? I am on day four and finally feeling a little human again. Have not been doing much stamping lately but did go to a family get together and spent the day before at my sister Sandi Dailey's house doing stampin. We did some awesome valentine cards. I cannot show them to you at this time because I might use them in my upcoming class at the end of the month but will post them then. I did put ten sets of stamps together yesterday and am excited to get started.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some pictures of some wooden cars that I bought and painted and had up for sale at my last craft sale. They are only about 1 1/2 X 3 maybe in size.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Since I do not have any new stampin stuff to show off I guess I will show you my next most favorite thing. Yep, if you guess Henry my kitty you were right here are some of his latest photos. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-88577778455573414972012-01-01T14:33:00.002-06:002012-01-02T00:13:57.622-06:00Where Did The Time GoSorry, guess I let the time get away from me in updating my blog. My sister kept telling me to post but I had other things to do and I did not know it had been so long since my last entry. So I guess I have a lot of catching up to do. Well my sister has been waiting to see my Christmas cards I did at my card class so I guess I will post them first.<br />
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</div><div align="justify">A new friend saw this stamp set in the big book, ordered it and wanted me to do a card class using the layout in the big book on page 102. I cased it but changed it just a little at the bottom since Ann did not want the ribbon or the hardware.</div><div align="justify"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ann had a special preference for trees and snowmen so I dug out this old stamp set, still one of my favorate sets. I used the masking tape method and dazzling diamonds with the window punch on the front of the card. Top of the picture is of the front of the card and bottom picture is of the inside of the card. I also used masking to create the snow mounds. I had four ladies in class and none of them had ever stamped before so all of this was new to them. I tried to keep it as simple as possible but class still took three hours and the last person to leave took five hours. Maybe next time they will be more comfortable and used to stamping.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6VmzPHYiEKaMkMNKsyU5IudCdoOsQQHmxD90TfFe0F5I54zLwRJkOSGV11pvmqr6-AuKIESrkNs0h4thikV9epPB7TbqYSXtwqdeYdlXdroxLuWR6J6iqE90E1kJigw62EYvRlBEAw4/s1600/027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6VmzPHYiEKaMkMNKsyU5IudCdoOsQQHmxD90TfFe0F5I54zLwRJkOSGV11pvmqr6-AuKIESrkNs0h4thikV9epPB7TbqYSXtwqdeYdlXdroxLuWR6J6iqE90E1kJigw62EYvRlBEAw4/s400/027.JPG" width="376" /></a></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">110711</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now this card I thought would be the easiest card of the three to complete since I had all the piece's punched out and in a bag for each of the girls. But it took the longest of each of the cards because of all the small pieces. Each person got to make four cards of the three different styles for a total of twelve cards for $10.00. I gave them a discount because it was their first time coming. But some of them did extra cards and I charged them $2.00 per extra card they made. I ended up with $58 for the day and we decided to have regularly classes every other month from now on. Super for my first try I thought. I only had two cancel from this class so I guess the odds were in my favor this time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now just after this class I had a craft show here and this is one of the things I made for it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is my pride and joy. Is it not a cutie? I just love, love, love, it. I just have to tell you the story behind it. I seen it in the book and knew I just had to make it sometime so I sat it aside in my never ending pile of things to make. I did not have the right spindle for it but had a small vase that could do in a pinch but not sure I wanted to use it. Then one day I was taking my trash to the dumpster and some one was throwing away a perfectly good solid oak chair. So who cares if part of one leg was broken...does that make it trash...NO. Man I scarfed that baby up in a wink and knew just what it was meant for in its new life. Those spindles were just perfect for what I needed them for. Then a few days later someone else in the building was throwing another chair just like it away but this time the legs were just loose. So now I had plenty of supplies. I ended up making three of these and sold one before I even had it finished. I told her $12 but she said it was worth $15 so that is what she gave me. You cannot see the new Mica Flakes I added all over but they give it that winter look. The head is a Styrofoam ball with Newsprint DSP mod podged on. My spindle did not have a wide enough base for the snowman to stand on so I went to the store and the only things I could find was a small glass votive cup for the base. I glued the wooden spindle and the glass votive together then base coated them in gesso white, then lightly sponged cherry cobbler. The very bottom I added two sizes of scalloped circles at the based. At the top of the spindle is also another medium scallop circle pushed through the spindle then glued crinkled felted small punched scallopes in cherry cobbler and white punched scallopes cut into old fashioned snowflakes (only because I did not have the snowflake punch) around the base giving it lots of height. Saving some to add to the brim of the hat. It is hard to see but the spindle does have notches and groves in it for dimention.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I guess that is enough for now I will save the rest for later. So let me know what you think, would love to hear from you, Happy New Year. Oh Ya I still have the top part of both chairs so if anyone has any ideas for them I am open, you know I just have to save them to use SOMEDAY.....</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-33008701412106531182011-11-05T06:04:00.007-05:002011-11-05T06:42:28.149-05:00Now Down To Business<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So do you think it is about time for some stampin up business? I think so. I think I am so far caught up on this summers business and can post some more current stuff. I am getting busy for a craft sale in December so have been making a few small things to add to my many old things laying around. The following project is a case from the big book on page 21 bottom left hand corner. When I looked at it I thought it was made out of Popsicle sticks. I looked and looked and thought I was right but my sister thinks it was done with paper, what else would stampin up use? But I already had these done and liked them so continued making them this way. So you choose which way you want to do them. Here is my samples.....</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">These three are done with the small Popsicle sticks (30) total, the larger ones use (50) sticks. The purple one on the left has a lolly flower on it. It is my first attempt to make a lolly but I did not have my score pal yet so I just folded it. Not to bad for a first try I think. There are two cross panels at the base of each to give them more strength.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I ended up putting potpourri in the inside of each. I sold three already not shown here, a red/black, light green, and blue/dark pink. I sold them for $4.50 filled but at the show I think I will sell them for $5 filled.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is a very quick and easy project to make and just the right last minute give away gift. They hold two emery boards. I used the crimper on the bottom so they would not fall out. Enlarge to see all the details that I put into them. I have sold a few for seventy five cents but at the craft sale I think I will sell them for a dollar because of all the bling that I added. What do you think? Let me know.</div></div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-30003406523641529602011-10-25T13:32:00.000-05:002011-10-25T13:32:16.711-05:00Two new boys in my life<div style="text-align: justify;">I have been lucky these past two months and now have two very special new boys in my life. First I will tell you about my beautiful new grandson born on September 19, 2011. His name is Evan Lee and he weighted in at eight pounds two ounces and twenty one inches long. This was my daughter Stacey's second and second boy. She was in labor for twenty four hours so it was quite tiring for her. But for all that hard hard work she had a most beautiful baby. Here are some pictures that his Aunt Sarah took of him. I think she did a wonderful job.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Well that is my first little guy to sing praises for now here is my second little guy that I can love up whenever I want. His name is Henry and I just added him to my family. Here is his picture....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is Henry's just before he attacks or pouches on you. I call it his attack cat, he loves to stand on his back two legs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry's second favorite place to sleep other than with me is the bottom of the fake tree that I have in the living room. He just fits it now but I do not know what he will do in a couple of months. I sure hope he does not try to climb it because as you can see the base is only a few inches around. It would hold him now but not for long. Of course he had to find my stash of sacks of sewing supplies I was hiding in the corner but so far he has left them alone..... I hope it stays that way because I do not have very much room to hide things in this tiny apartment. He is having so much fun with all my craft supplies. I think he might be my next recruit...does that count Sandi and Ronda? He really likes Stampin UP ribbon and paper and the UPS boxes............................................</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-59948762299091287622011-10-20T04:32:00.001-05:002011-10-20T04:41:54.357-05:00Nice to be back in the grove of thingsIt is so nice to finally have my computer back to working order. You do not know how much you are attached to it until it breaks down. Then after you get it fixed you wonder why did you wait so long to get something so easy done. But I am just thankful it is done. Well like I said I have lots of old pictures to get caught up with so here are some pictures of some summer projects.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is my granddaughter Mariah who turned fifteen this past June. Took the picture a little too soon just before she smiled. She is holding a prayer journal book that I made for her. I first made one of these at one of Ronda Wades classes and I have made many since and given them away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This card is a little different than the norm. The front is created using a letter plate given to me and ran it through the bigshot. It was a little thick for the bigshot but I got the effect I wanted. How can you resist that face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This summer was a time to get into my stash of inventory and clean out. This was another set of cards and envelopes that I had set aside to make and never got to them. Since the front of the card was precut I decided to place another flower inside the card to cover up the backside of the front of the card.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now I will close with my best card for my sister Pam's 59th birthday. I just had to get this sewing stamp set just to do this card for Pam and she loved her card. So if you are a reader of my blog you know that Pam is a avid sewer and loves Orange which made this card very easy to make.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The pattern pieces I stamper on tissue paper to give it the real pattern piece look. And the tape measure I heat embossed silver ink at the tip to make it look like a real tape measure. I had lots of fun making this special for Pam. Well that is some of my summer projects let me know what you think of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-19894787807561411182011-10-14T18:00:00.000-05:002011-10-14T18:00:09.724-05:00FINALLY BACK TO NORMAL<div style="text-align: justify;">Well I hope I am past the computer problem. I had a friend come down and work on my computer and hope we have taken care of my problems and maybe I can do some blogging now. So here are some new but old pictures that I have been saving to post.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My first picture is of a table top that I did for my daughter Stephanie.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I was suppose to make this for Stephanie six years ago and got the material but never got the time to make it. Well I just had to set myself down and do it finally. The top is all done in piece work on the sewing machine in individual rows. After layering the pieces together I hand quilted through the layers. The fishes were added with fusible webbing and then blanket stitched with black embroidery floss.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Stephanie really liked it but thought it was too nice for her table. I was glad she liked it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> This is the pillow case set that I made for my friend Clara Smith's 90th birthday party this year. Now the Lord created the earth in seven days but it took me eight hard extra long days, two broken needle threaders, untieing many knots and now I think I must be going blind. But I made it time for her birthday. Why do I always wait till the last minute to think of a project to do? Do any of you have that problem?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Well that is it for today hope you enjoyed let me know what you think and hope to post in a couple of days since I have lots of pictures stacked up in back order from the past few months.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-48071808238469363802011-06-02T09:48:00.001-05:002011-06-02T10:00:54.389-05:00Busy, Busy, having fun making cardsHere are some more of my latest creations I have been working on lately. With each one I got more and more excited and liked it better then the last one. Hard to make up my mind which one I like the best.<br />
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<div align="center">Cupcake Birthday Card 052011</div><div align="center">Card on left is front of card, card on right is inside of card</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I just got my new cupcake punch and had fun making this card. I used a tooth brush to splatter paint the front of the card to make the multi colors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Crumb Cake, Real Red, Apricot Appeal, Dusty Durango, Close to Coco Card Stock</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Close to Coco, Apricot Apeal, Close to Coco, Real Red</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Upsy Daisy, Bring On The Cake, Whimsical Words, Well Scripted</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES: </span><span style="color: black;">Ex Large Build A Cup Cake Punch</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Tombo </span><span style="color: black;">Glue, Black Journaler, Sponge, Tooth Brush, Bone Folder, Ink Refills in Color of your Choice to Splatter top page of card.</span></div><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I really like these new spinner accessories. It gives you something new and exciting to add to a card. And of course the new flower punch and stamp set help get me over the winter blues. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Very Vanilla Card Stock, Springtime Vintage DSP</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Not Quite Navy, Rose Red, Pear Pazazz, Always Artichoke</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Take A Spin, Build A Blossom, Bring On The Cake, Eastern Blooms</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES: </span><span style="color: black;">Extra Large Decorative Label, Blossom Petal Punch, Corner Scallop Trim</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Dimensional, Sponge, Game Spinners</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wish I could take full credit for this card because I think it is so beautiful but about 50% of it I cased from Maria Vanderform from LNS. After I seen her card I just had to recreate one because I just fell in love with it. Am I giving my age away by saying I am a flower girl and love flower power? What do you think don't you just love it?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Pale Plum, Blush Blossom, Regal Rose, Lovely Lilac, Taken With Teal Card Stock, Flowers For You DSP</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Rose Red, Lovely Lilac, Basic Black, Black Journaler, White Gel Pen</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Because I Care, Very Versatile, Upsy Daisy, Punch Potpourri</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES & DIES: </span><span style="color: black;">1 3/8" Circle Punch, Photo Corners Punch, Corner Scallop Trim, 2 1/2" Circle Ex Large Punch, Ex Large Decorative Label Punch, Punch 2 Step Bird, Large Oval, Heart to Heart Punch, Boho Blossoms, Big L Fun Flowers Sizzix Die, Big Island Floral Sizzix Die, Scallop Circle Punch.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Tombo Glue, Big Shot, Bone Folder, Sponge, Standard Cutting Plates</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div align="justify">Another keeper as far as I am concerned. I like doing these half cards they give you so much more room to create. I really like the color combination in this one plus another use for a great flower and tag. The birdcage on the card and envelope are both heat embossed.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Brocade Blue, Whisper White Card Stock, Botanical Gazette DSP</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Early Espresso, Brocade Blue, Cherry Cobbler</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Nature Walk, Friend to Friend</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES & DIES: </span><span style="color: black;">1 3/8" Circle Punch, 3/16" Corner Rounder Punch, Sizzix Tag Combo Die, Sizzix Big L, Fun Flower Die</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Sizzix Pattern #2 Pattern Plate, Big Shot, Ruby Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Versa Mark, Dimensional, Tombo Glue, Blender Pen, Sponge, Close to Coco 1/4" Polytwill Ribbon, 1/2" Pearl from Pretties Kit, Multipurpose Platform</span></div><br />
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<div align="justify">This is the last of my group of thank you cards. I wanted to get a variety for people to choose from, what do you think? I like using my big shot and creating all the dimension on my cards. How did we ever get along without our big shots? The pheasants and butterflies on the card and envelope are embossed and heat set.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Apricot Appeal, Gable Green, Glorious Green, Crushed Curry, Creamy Caramel</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Basic Black</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Three Little Words, Curvy Verses</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES & DIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Modern Label Punch, Wrought Iron Punch, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Top Note Die & negative, Embossing Plate Distressed And Square</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Gold Embossing Powder, Ruby Embossing Powder, VersaMark, Heat Gun, Big Shot, Tombo Glue, Black Journaler, Gold Zig Painty, Sponge</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">These two pictures are of the new one inch envelope punch. I had some small erasors so I made one for each of my grand kids as a surprise. The one in the back on the left is for Mariah. Her's had a watermelon slice erasor in it. In the center was one for her brother Alex and his had a socker ball in it. Then the one on the right was for Isaac and his had a basketball inside. This picture is of the front side of them. The next picture is of the back side of each one.</div><br />
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<div align="justify">Well this was a long post but hope you enjoyed my cards. Let me know what you think. I am still having computer problems so will post when I can, have a good one, see ya.</div><br />
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This is a gift bag and card set that I made. The square behind the motor bike is made from a coke can and I ran it through the big shot using a textured plate to get the embossed impression. Then I inked it with black stayson ink to give it that aged look. I think the silver connected the over all look of the chrome to the stamp on the bike and I used the zizzy gold pen to highlight some of the chrome on the bike. I used the silver stretchy cord to tie a bow on the handy to also add to the silver look. I just really love this set for a manly gift. I lost my sheet with the supply directions so I cannot list my supplies for you but pretty basic hope you can figure it out. Let me know what you think.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This card I made for my grandson Alex on his last birthday. He is into all kinds of sports and I thought this would be kind of cute for him, he was ten on his birthday. I liked using all the different textured plated with the colored cardstock on the background and of course I had to use some 3-D on my card by adding the buttons. Very simple and fast to make.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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This challenge went rather quickly for me since I just got a huge order from Stampin up with <strong>"24" </strong>new stamp sets so I was itching to get started. Hope you like my choice here it is.....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Close to Coco card stock, Springtime Vintage DSP</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Close to Coco, using the Aqua Painter water pen and ink from Pear Pizzazz, and Baja Breeze to color, then Real Red Marker on thermometer</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;"> Wellness Wishes, D is for Dog</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES: </span><span style="color: black;">Small Oval, Large Oval, Wide Oval, Border Scallop Trim</span></div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-16930265747933172242011-03-13T22:23:00.001-05:002011-03-15T07:45:03.746-05:00Tuesday Challenge #5Boy the week sure does fly by fast. I am having a hard time keeping up with this weekly challenge. I know sooner get one week done and it seems like I have to post for the next week. So here is my next entry for the Tuesday challenge #5 at <a href="http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/">http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/</a> you can go there to find out what the layout was for this challenge and all the rest of the news.<br />
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</div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Pink Pirquette (base card color), </span><span style="color: black;">Certaily Celerly, Pretty In Pink, Baja Breeze, Melon Mambo, Whisper White</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Easter Blossoms</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES: </span><span style="color: black;">Modern Label Punch, 2 Step Bird Punch, Curly Label Punch, 1 1/4" Square Punch, 1" Square Punch</span></div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-46000095917477229912011-03-12T14:36:00.000-06:002011-03-12T14:36:14.880-06:00Find the Difference<div style="text-align: justify;">Hello everyone time for some fun. On my last entry for the Stampin Tuesday Challenge #4 I submitted card #030711. Well I was kind of rushed for time to submit and after looking at my card for a few days decided to change a few things. Can you tell me the eight (8) things that I changed?</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now compare and let me know if you can find the eight (8) things that I changed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I liked this card so much that I decided to make a matching gift bag to go along with the card. Here are my pictures of the gift bag.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7cI6Cv28DiBc7R1jZFXTFJqyg8Gb-UzOsbWINQswFidjRJ2vajyOQPzibtgTUISBA7DFMC6ypz1vEP8VQU9n7TJQHozr2_KzsMZIkRK4-UVE9MnMpXw8zx0Rv1-qesos7NxhwwObE2o/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7cI6Cv28DiBc7R1jZFXTFJqyg8Gb-UzOsbWINQswFidjRJ2vajyOQPzibtgTUISBA7DFMC6ypz1vEP8VQU9n7TJQHozr2_KzsMZIkRK4-UVE9MnMpXw8zx0Rv1-qesos7NxhwwObE2o/s400/009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Gift Bag front #030711b and matching card #030711</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="text-align: center;">Here is the matching gift bag. Isn't it just to die for, I just love it, some of my most liked color combinations.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bottom right corner is showing what I stamped on the back of the gift bag. I added the birdcage and little birdie from the stamp set <em>"Nature Walk"</em>. I also added some 1/4" Black and 1/4" Bravo Burgundy grosgrain ribbon to handle. This is what I have been busy with the last few days now I have my housework done and time to open my extra large box from Stampin Up. Been a while since my last order so cannot wait to try out some new stuff. I told myself that I could not play until my work was done...but of course no one but God and me knows what was on that list.....Okay Lord I will put the stuff back in the kitchen that I took out when I washed my floors before I start!</div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837714190749105013.post-32247147712042253342011-03-07T00:32:00.000-06:002011-03-07T00:32:15.618-06:00Try Stampin On Tuesday Challenge #4It is that time of week again to post my challenge card for the <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><em>http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><em>,</em> challenge #4. I worked hard on this on trying out some new things. I have been wanting to make some of the new flower cards that have been showing up on stampin up sites but just did not know how to get started. Not only am I blessed with the most wonderful products from stampinup but can say the best part of my day is first thing each morning when I talk to my sister Sandi, whom just happens to be my up-line. Now how much better can a day start than talking to your sister for a hour or so....but most of that hour we are talking stamping!!!!!!! </span><span style="color: #990000;"><em><u>"My best part of the day"</u></em> </span><span style="color: black;">She coaches, pushes, and sometimes bribes me to get my cards done. But today we talked about how to start the crunching up of the flowers with spraying water on the petals and smooching them up like a spit ball. Then carefully unfolding them leaving lots of wrinkles and letting them dry. Well I was not too sure I could do it and had a hard time finding the perfect punches for my design but what do you think?</span><br />
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<div align="center">Challenge #4 Outside of card 030711</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUPPLIES:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PAPER: </span><span style="color: black;">Whisper White, Basic Black, River Rock, Cherry Cobbler, First Edition DSP</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">INK: </span><span style="color: black;">Basic Black, River Rock, Cherry Cobbler</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">STAMPS: </span><span style="color: black;">Build A Blossom, Nature Walk, Fundamental Phrases, Friend to Friend</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">PUNCHES & DIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Extra Large Blossom Petals Punch, 2 Step Bird Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Sizzix Oval Scallop Frame, Scallop Edge Long Punch</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">ACCESSORIES: </span><span style="color: black;">Designer Hardware White Basic Jumbo Grommets, Fresh Favorite II Buttons, Pop-Up Glue Dots, Mini Glue Dots, Snail Adhesive, Big Shot, Sponges, Hammer, Push Pad, 1/4" Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Water Spray Mist Bottle and Water.</span></div>Kathleen Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17378228977051935026noreply@blogger.com6