Stardust

Adam and I watched Stardust over the weekend. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it! It's an "adult's fairy tale" - and we just LOVED LOVED LOVED Stardust!

Peace & Blessings!



PS - We also watched The Last Mimzy - also excellent!

Faux Soldering?

I felt like a mad scientist in my stamping room with this project.

I had seen "Faux Soldering" done with a melting pot. As I do NOT have a melting pot, I had to improvise.



Famous last words.

Adam, nor I, throws away an Altoids tin. Sooooooo, I was scrounging around my stamping room trying to decide what would make a good melting pot for my little project. ALTOIDS TIN! ROCK ON!

I took a clean altoids tin, and poured in UTEE and black embossing powder. Then I set it on my space heater. As my tin was warming on my space heater, I worked on cutting the paper, stamping it up, and so on.

Then came the experiment. Using a hot pad, I got the now hot altoids tin off the space heater. Using a toothpick, I swirled through what looked like un-melted UTEE and black embossing powder. But, wait, no, the bottom was melted, it just hadn't melted ALL the way yet.

That's what I get for my impatience.

So, I hit it with my heat tool (of course, this whole time, I'm implementing the use of my craft sheet, additional heat protection, etc.!)

I melted all the powder. YAY! Then, I dipped my sandwich of microscope slides, paper, and wire into the stew of melted powders.

Not too bad. Although, this is where having an ACTUAL melting pot would have come in handy - I needed to warm up some of the drips, and the edges of a melting pot would have done nicely. Instead, I had to use the heat tool and tweezers so I didn't burn my fingers off!

I repeated on all 4 sides, and I think it really has an interesting look. Definitely something new and different - for me anyway!





Peace & Blessings

I'm such a Mainah

You are 98% Mainah!

BORN RAISED AND LOVIN IT!!!! You are all Mainah and wouldn't have it any other way. You are the rare breed of Mainer that would never leave (even if you won them them megabucks!)

I just took a quiz on how Mainah I am.... I'm still a Maine girl, even though I've been living in New York for almost 6 years! Yessa!

Embossed Thank You Card

This is taking embossing to the extreme:

The The butterflies are embossed.... "Thank You!" is embossed.... even the brads are embossed!

Yep, you read that right: The brads ARE embossed. I didn't have any white brads, but I had white embossing powder!

Peace & Blessings

Finally, Christmas Thank You Cards

I've been hemming and hawing over getting thank you cards for Christmas and Adam's birthday done. I've finally accomplished that task. Here's some of them:


Peace & Blessings!

Lemons

I love lemons! And I've been hounding my One Stroke Painting Instructor to do a class on lemons... I'm thinking Lemonade pitchers for people?



Peace & Blessings!

Birthday Card

I made this birthday card for my One Stroke Painting Instructor, Annette, WEEKS AGO! I haven't been able to post it until I finally gave it to her - last night.


Peace & Blessings!

Yummy Yarn

I laid my eyes on this and just about freaked out!

Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?!!!!???


I can't decide what I want to make with this - because it's soooooooooo beautiful, I need to make something special out of it.

Any ideas?

Peace & Blessings!

Power Tools in my Stamping Room?

I've been drooling over altered dominoes for some time now.

When I told Adam what I wanted to do, the nuclear engineer in him kicked into full gear.

He HOOKED ME UP with a drill press - IN MY STAMPING ROOM - so I could drill holes in dominoes!
I only drilled 6 to start:




And I made some rear view mirror bling for my car:

In case you haven't noticed, I value appreciation - keeps me in alignment.

Peace & Blessings!

Happy Birthday Adam!

Today is
Adam's birthday.


Today is a day to celebrate Adam!















And so, time to do a Rampage of Appreciation for Adam:


I love how brilliant you are, and that this has been acknowledged by your membership to Mensa.
I love that you make me laugh until I can't breathe.
I love how focused you get when you want to learn something new.
I love that you talked me up the Emotional Scale when I was sick.
I love that you introduced me to a book (as this has never happened - ever).
I love that there are Rubik's cubes, and twisty puzzles all over our house.
I love your playful nature.

I appreciate the little things you do for me:
Brushing my hair
Making the bed
Taking out the trash
Mowing the lawn
Brushing off my car

I love that you cook for me.
I love that you take care of yourself (you know what I mean, even if others won't).
I love that you "secure the perimeter" every night.
I love that I can "never underestimate the level of your snooglieness".

I love that we've been married for 7.5 years, and life with you truly gets better and better.
I love that we are fast approaching the 10 year anniversary of when we first met!

I love you "more and more and stuff"!

I love you!

PYREX ROCKS!

I e-mailed Pyrex to inform them about my baking pan shattering.

They're sending me a new one!

FREE!

PYREX ROCKS!!!!!

Peace & Blessings!

Chicken A La Ka-Boom!

I had a serious craving for roasted chicken tonight.

After work, I ran to the grocery store, and purchased my chicken.

I came home, did the usual prep, popped it into my Pyrex Glass Rectangular Baking Dish, and popped it into the oven.

I set the timer, and walked away.

Aaaahhhhh, roasted chicken.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Or, so I thought....

About 45 minutes into baking, I heard a screaming loud KA-BOOM with what sounded like shattering glass.

What in the world?

I went to the kitchen, opened the oven, and my baking pan had literally SHATTERED inside the oven. There was shattered glass, and chicken juice EVERYWHERE! My chicken was also sitting on the bare oven rack.

My yummy smelling chicken - had shards of glass in it's butt.

*sniff*

It took me over an hour to clean up.

Please believe me when I tell you -

YOU NEVER WANT TO HAVE TO CLEAN UP
SHATTERED GLASS IN AN OVEN!

Seriously, take my word for it.

Alas, no roasted chicken for me, tonight.

Canned soup anyone?

Peace & Blessings!


PS - I scooped most of the pieces into a pie plate.

See what I mean - it seriously SHATTERED!