Breast Cancer Awareness Wristlets

Apparently... some don't realize I posted NEW stuff below the Breast Cancer Awareness Post so I'll leave this LITTLE blurb for all to see and you can click HERE if you are interested in purchasing a Wristlet. Just let me know! I'd be happy to put the order thru and send them out as soon as they are made! Thanks so much!

Bobbie *Ü*

October Almost Over?

Can you believe it? I remember like it was just yesterday I was volunteering at Riley Days! Wowsers. Okay, so here are a couple of pics of the cards I made for Riley Days, really quick cards I might add!

The cat on the left was done w/watercoloring and the cat on the right was done w/colored pencils and gamsol. I liked the watercolored one beter. It was a little less time consuming too. The cat stamp is from the retired cat set from last year (or it could have been the year before!).

This dog image is an old SU image too. Oooh, I forgot to add my watermark.

Everyone have a good weekend? Well, last week was a bit hard, we had to put down Lucy, our great dane, on Friday. She was no longer putting weight on her leg and was falling at least once a day if not more. Sigh... I sure miss having a big dog around. Not to mention it gives you a false sense of security! We will be getting another one eventually, but we'll take our time. THought of trying to take a vacation but I doubt that will happen!

I will have 3 craft shows this month, so I will be running around like a chicken w/my head cut off trying to get things made for those. This first is this weekend. Wish me luck!

GREAT Update from Stampin' Up!

I wanted to let you guys know that Stampin' Up! has changed their Angel Policy... FINALLY!!

Stampin' Up! has announced that beginning Nov. 15th, we can sell our stamped items online and at retail stores. I can't wait! My hairdresser said I could sell card sets at her store and I am SO excited! I can't wait to give it a whirl. I might even try some Name Frames. I will have one or two there for a display and then let people call me to custom order them.

Woo hoo... I'm so excited... and I just can't hide it!

Thankful Garland

Here's a picture of the Thankful Garland I am making in a workshop. I used the same paper order as the Holiday Mini, but added my own stuff to some of the letters. Gotta put some bling in there! hehehe

The workshop will be at 7pm on Wednesday, November 7th. It's $25 and includes a package of the chipboard (a $16 value) w/your purchase. I will also have a follow up class in December to make a Noel Garland.

I think Stampin' Up's November special is a GREAT one! Buy THREE packages of Designer Paper and get ONE FREE. You can't beat that! Works GREAT for scrappers too, as well as card makers. If you see some Fall/Winter papers you LOVE, better order them now because word is they won't make it into the next catalog. Here's to hoping they will be replaced by some more GREAT paper! woo hoo!

Okay, I'm off to make calendar coasters for my craft fairs. Have a good week everyone!

Germanfest

was tonight! My daughter's preschool has one fundraiser, it's a Germanfest every year. They also have a silent auction too. There were a TON of stuff auctioned off. It's amazing. I won a trip to Boondock's (a local pumpkin patch in GRAND farm) and a GC to a local meat market which is AMAZING! I can't believe no one actually bid on it.

I decided to auction off a Tile Coaster Workshop. That way whomever won could make their own favorite coasters. Well, my MIL kept bidding on it and won it. And she isn't even going to be making a set!! lol She's going to invite some gals from work, but it has to be all 'hush hush' and on the 'down low' as one of the gals recently became an SU demo. SO I understand completely. I told her she should have them JELLO WRESTLE to see who gets the 4 spots! hehehe Now wouldn't that be a sight?!

Here's the Thanksgiving Garland I made similar to the one in the Holiday Mini. I did the same order of papers, but added a bit to a couple of them. I had to add some bling bling! LOVE my bling baby!

I'll be offering this class in the first week of November. HOpe to get some people over to make this and such. We'll see. I need to get cracking on the email w/the link to this picture! hehe Okay, I"m off to clean the kitchen. Nighty-night all!

Other Three Coasters

Okay, here are the other 3 coasters. All stamps are Stampin' Up! stamps. I colored with markers and used a blender pen to blend. I also used the Sakura Gel pen (LOVE THAT THANG!!) on the dragonflies, butterflies, whipped foam on the coffee cups and bee on the botanicals.

I baked all of them for 20 min at 200 degrees. Boy do they hold their heat well! hehe I put 3 light coats of acrylic sealer on them. And finally, I put some felt feet on them and one in the middle in case they slide. I also measured and made a box for them to sit in. **pats herself on the back** I will cut a piece of acetate to lay inside the box on top, and I just might make a belly band too.

I made one other set using the Wild Rose one, but for some odd reason, that was the ONLY set that bled. I was MAJORLY bummed as I specifically borrowed this set from my upline.

I may post it as most people who have seen it thinks it looks good blurry, but not MOI! I might make one of each design and have them out for people to order if I sell out. It wouldn't hurt now would it?! HOpe you guys like them! *Ü*

Busy as a Beaver...

that's what I've been! I had my last Christmas Card Club meet on Monday evening and then I've got a new lady (HI! Cindy!) coming over tonight to play catch up with the Christmas Cards. I know, I need to post #3 and #4. I will, I promise! hhhee

For now, you will just have to be HAPPY with what I was working on all weekend. I hope you guys like the coasters. I am making them to sell at some craft shows in November. Here are 3 of the designs, I'll post 3 more tomorrow!

Well, apparently blogger is having uploading issues so I guess you won't get to see them at all! Bummer. I FINALLY have a 'plethura' (I know, it's spelled wrong) of pics to upload. Wouldn't cha know?! hehhee
Bobbie :)

ETA: Blogger is letting me upload! I will upload the other 3 right now in a different post... it's almost tomorrow! hehe

Top O' the Morning

to Ya! Heehehee This is the FIRST Saturday in a long time that we have not had a thing planned, so we are going to try and hit the gym that we recently signed up for. SHould be interesting trying to get Gman acclimated and not screaming his brains out. We'll see how bad it gets.

I will leave you with one of my FAVORITE non SU stamps, though everything else is SU I believe. I've got a THING for poppies. I love, love, LOVE those things! Every time I see them in someone's yard, I want to go (asking first) uproot a couple to see if I can get them to grow in my yard. Sigh...

I was also going to try the shattered glass technique, but didn't want to stay up until who knows when to add 3 more layers to it! So this was only one layer and I guess it could be called the 'watery' technique lol.

Went to the Vet

and he confirmed that Lucy's lump is cancer. Sigh.... and all I keep hearing from people is, 'That's what happens when you have a big dog.' Versus what? Dieing (I can't even remember how to spell that... how pitiful is that?!) from old age? So, my 5lb Yorkie won't get cancer but will lose his eye sight, sense of smell, ability to hold his bladder and lose his hearing? Jeez, I don't know which is the lesser of two evils.

Anywho, Lucy is on pain killers for a while, hubby couldn't put her down just yet. Me, I wanted to get it over and done with as I have to see her and every day and watch her fall and/or stumble and help her into her bed. I think it's much harder on me.

Can you guys say Brrr??? It has turned cold here in 2 days... can you believe we had 91 degrees on Sunday and today's high was 62? Is that crazy or what? lol

I had my last Stamp Club meeting last night. We had a banana split par-tay and the girls were able to go thru my scraps and punch until they got carpal tunnel! I meant to take a picture, even thought I did, but alas I didn't.

I've also been stamping coasters. I will have to take pictures of those. I turned a set in to Lgirl's preschool for a fundraiser. Forgot a pic of that too... where's my head gone? lol

Okay, I'm off to bed, but first to finish my Halloween goodies for my halloween swap.

Sweet Dreams!

Gman's First Stamping...

experience, if you could call it that! I was having a GREAT day, Laurel (my friend from Kokomo) was still here and she was showing me how to stamp on coasters. I was looking for my RED stazon because I wanted to test it out and see what color it was when I got distracted by my Dane, Lucy. She's got a major lump on her leg and has been favoring it all weekend.

Why is it that whenever MY kids or pets get sick/have something wrong, it's always on a Friday evening after everything's closed for the weekend? Then I've got to worry about it all weekend and waste what few brain cells I have left agonizing over whether I should take them to the doc/vet or wait until Monday? I HATE that... and this weekend is NO different! Must be all the 3 day weekends. (It happened Memorial Weekend AND Labor Day Weekend). So, I'm calling the vet at 8:01am tomorrow morning as I think it is going to be BAD news and be cancer. It's just really hard and popped up overnight.

Anyways, I digress... I was searching for the Blaze Red (thinking I'm going crazy AGAIN) when Gman comes in from the living room with it in his hands putting on the lid. My heart skips a beat and I run over and take it from him. I head into the living room dreading what I might see... and VOILA, my son has decided to run the pad like a car around my footstool. Can you believe it? There were a couple of finger prints on the arm of the recliner, but I was able to get it out with the cleaner. I decided to save my cleaner since the footstool is old.

Gman's hands were all red (appropriate for Halloween lol) and I promptly took him into the bathroom to get most of it washed off. His tips were still red as you can see in the picture. Now doesn't he look a little too smug in the pics?

So I'm thinking about either buying some ultra clean (though the smell just KILLS me!) or making a cover for the footstool. And, of course, Lgirl comes up to me and says rather cautiously, "Mom *slight pause* if I put my foot on the stool will it TURN RED?" lol.

I hope everyone's weekend wasn't as eventful as mine lol.