Because I can't post my creations... a Quiz

You Are a Phoenix

Driven and ambitious, you tend to acquire material success easily. You have grand schemes - both for your own life and for changing the whole world. You are a great leader, and you have no problem taking the reigns. However, you aren't all business. You also have great talents for performing and visual arts.

What Mythological Creature Are You?

I've been trying.....

I've been trying to post to my blog this week, but my home computer has been a bit wonky; and for a reason unknown to Adam and myself - I cannot upload photos of my creations! ACK!

Sooooooooooooooooooooo.... once we get the situation figured out; I'll be posting like a crazy woman!

Stay Tuned....

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The Boys at the Computer

Luckily I had the digital camera on the table, so when I walked into the dining room I was able to snap a quick photo:

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Looky Looky.... I'm so proud of myself!

I KNIT A MITTEN!

I KNIT A MITTEN!!!!

I KNIT A MITTEN!!!!!!!!!



And I know I have 2 hands... you can stop with the smart alecky comments now.

Are you done?

Ok.

The yarn I used is the most luscious, soft, yummy yarn EVER!!!! LOVE IT!

My grandmother used to knit me mittens, and I LOVED THEM. I'm actually kinda bummed out that I don't have a pair (although my Mom may still have that famous pink pair). So, I'm beside myself that I can knit mittens now! I love mittens - you make the BEST snowballs with mittens.....

aaannnnnnnnndddd, as Sheila pointed out, you can do Dr. Seuss hands when you are wearing mittens.... (maybe you had to be there)

Oh, and........

I knit it on my knitting LOOMS!!!!!!

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Working From Home

Have you ever checked out MYPC.com?

I was able to work from home today (and not drive in the ice storm) because of My PC. It's AMAZING!

And, now that I've worked from home in my PJ's and drinking hot chocolate, I think I could get used to this.

Do you work from home? If so, how do you like it?

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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!

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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!





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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!

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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:


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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?



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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.


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