Plays with Paper

May 18, 2013

Mac Attack Mother's Day

For Mother's Day my hubby surprised me with a Mac computer.
Grateful , and excited yes. But, I have no idea how to work this darn thing of course. And, am "clinging on for life " to my old dinosaur as he puts it.

"Cold Turkey is the only way to go he says. "unplug the dinosaur" !
I can't do it.
I need baby steps .
What if I can't find something? ...I know where everything is on the dinosaur .
What if I don't know how to do a simple task, and I need it done fast?....I know how to accomplish it on the dinosaur , (unless it is having a bad day ,and acting up which is very common lately).

Mom just do everything exactly backwards and you'll be fine my son says. WHAAAA? Who the heck thought of that brilliant idea?

Sooo, they are side by side on my desk for now. The dinosaur , and the sleek pretty stallion.

What did I write this post on?
I loaded the pics with the dinosaur , and typed it out on the pretty stallion :)))

baby steps......

Two brand new patterns will be up this weekend!

Celtic

and tribal swirl

Also on Mother's day I decided I would like to have a play date with my children.

Of course my idea of a fun play date with mom ,

included fire , chemicals , soldering irons,

and a big creative fun mess.

We made small wall hangings, or can go on door as well.

I showed them the basic idea of what we were doing , and

how to do it. But, then let them come up with their own

spin on how they wanted to design it.

Reagan does very well with the soldering iron. We don't let

her use the torch just yet.

I took these before the pictures

were inside the bezels. I wanted them to pour the ice resin at home so they

could let it set and dry without getting in the car with them. This one

was my daughter in laws. She had never done anything like that before!

Beautiful, I Loved it!

Reagan's wall hanging. For 11 years old I was amazed .

I had nothing to do with this , it was all her. Accept

a tiny bit of torching that her brother helped with.

She is looking

for the right picture for this one , (but I think it may be for me :)))

My son Jeffrey's.

He always amazes me . He loves to weld things , and is an engineering major ,

so Mom's torches and irons are small potatoes lol. I loved his design though.

I made my hanging for my Mother in Law.

Wish she could have been creating with us too, but she is

in California.

We had a lot of fun creating and experimenting, visiting, and sharing.

Blessings to you,

May 10, 2013

A Wonderful Crazy Weekend

It all started here...

In a little town in Michigan called Dimondale. In a charming
little store called SmittenDust!

With these three lovely ladies.
Dusty Dehaven, (owner of Smitten Dust) ,
Kari McKnight Holbrook , and Jen Crossley.
They invited Reagan and I to come up for some fun , and set up a little of our shop for the
weekend at Smitten Dust.

I wasn't at all sure I could get ahead of myself here work wise, but I put it in 4 th gear (that is fast right?).
Sometimes I don't know what to do if I am not working constantly. Maybe because I
work predominantly from home, I don't possess an off switch. I am sure a lot, or most women
probably feel that too. But, mine is too the point where I can't really even go leisurely shopping ,but rarely.
It's a sickness maybe :)

So to my husbands shock and surprise ,2 days before I announced,

" We're going to do it! "
ROAD TRIP!

And, off we went .

Mother and daughter weekend with friends.

We had the best time with a whole bunch of wonderful ladies that came for the weekend.

It was very nice meeting these wonderful ladies ,

especially Jane and Susan front left.

Jane and I shared some jumping jump rings Sunday :)

We did Kari's totally awesome
"Delectable Doodles and Fantastic Fonts", and "Tempted by Tape workshops".
and by the way Kari has a brand new dvd out called "Backrounds to Bindings"!
Reagan has been practicing her
journaling alphabets ever since we got home.
She worked very hard in class.
I felt like a slacker!

We did Jen's awesomely wonderful " Little Bag" workshop on Sunday.

It was a such a super fun workshop!

Dusty's Husband fixed absolutely delightful lunches
for all of the ladies every day!

Oh my gosh,
Once again I was the slacker in Jen's class too!
No, really!

Here is teacher's pet.

Apparently I was a little tired ,

and caused some trouble with flying jump rings among other

things!

Ugh

So sorry Jen .

Reagan and I had a truly magical time .

I am so glad we were able to go and visit.

Blessings to you,

May 1, 2013

Winners of All 4 Giveaways! Workshop Happenings

I am in what I call my "plucking" mode.

It starts usually around early

March and progresses steadily until mid June. This is when I have huge "to do " lists in front of me and I "pluck " away at them every day . But instead of getting shorter, and having a nice tidy satisfied feeling of completion, they have a tendency to grow longer, a lot longer.

I am sure many of you have these as well.

So instead of being happy because my list is completed , or shorter, or any light at the end of said tunnel , I must be content to be excited about with how much I was able to "pluck" that day !

The question today was ,

what pretty pictures am I going to show you ,as I have not had time to make any new goodies?

Well , not very pretty, but the ugly truth!

My steady diet for the last two weeks.

Absolutely horrible for me, but necessary .

I feel like I want to go for a run, and to bed, at the same time.

Reagan actually asked me yesterday, what would happen if I ran out?

Oh honey ,we can't even go there ....

And, on a much funner note, what are we doing in the

Fly Handmade Journal Exploration online workshop this week?

We are etching beautiful pieces of metal,

adding patinas,

and creating awesome faux leather covers for our journals!

And, guess what we will be doing next week?

Making the molds, and Casting these beautiful pewter heart bezels!!!

Sign ups for the "Fly Journal Exploration Workshop will be open for

the fist 10 days of the workshop. We just got started yesterday, so there is

plenty of time if you would like to come and play with us.

Oh, and don't forget if you are a newsletter subscriber, or sign up ,there is a coupon code for $5.00 off of the workshop price in my Etsy store.

Just let me know you are a subscriber ,

or just singed up, and I will send you the code.

Ok , these are kind of new.

Giveaway Winners!!!

Alrighty ,by random # generator this time, here are the winners of the giveaways.

We will start with the bag of vintage goodies to play with .

The winner is ...

Nancy

Next up the winner of the vintage primer necklace is ....

Donna D

The winner of the $25.00 gift certificate for Primology my Etsy store is.....

Catherine

And, first of all I just want to say thank you so much

to everyone that did the research for my fun little history game, and participated !

I like to have a little fun with games like that , and I am so glad you did too.

Also , I just saw that there is a show on the history channel about the history of the camera if anyone is interested in photographic history .

Ok , ok ,ok

The winner of the free spot for the "Fly Handmade Journal Exploration Workshop " is.........

Jodi

Yay!!!!!!!!

to everyone thanks so much for playing:))))

I haven't checked yet, but please , please, if you are one of the winners make sure I can get to your email address somehow . Sometimes people don't realize they don't have them on their blogger profile and it makes it hard to find you :)

Blessings to all of you , and have a wonderful week. Is it already Wednesday?