Sunday, February 25, 2018

My Wild Side of crafting

Hello fellow crafters!!!
Before I show you the t-shirt that I designed you must get
to know my granddaughter Marion.
Pictured above is Marion she has a couple health
issues and just a few years ago she had to have rods
placed in her back. She is the most positive and go getter
that I have ever met she does not let her disabilities
slow her down.
Below is a picture of Marion along side her parents, my
husband , our son and myself.

Marion has a very complex sense of humor. Her gramps
(my husband) and Marion have this contest of name
calling and try and come up with some weird names for
each other. I really don't get it. They also try and outdo
each other in come backs. 
I know she can be strange sometimes just look at the
next picture.

Well Marion turned 16 last year and because of her disabilities
will never be able to drive. So my husband wanted me
to make a shirt for Marion to lift up her spirits and so
the verse he had seen on some web sight not sure where
 and well I just used shapes from the Sure Cuts A lot program
to make it look like a person in a wheel chair and my husband
wanted me to add flames which I did. Later I did find
something similar is already created. Any way my
 interpretation of what my husband wanted is pictured
below. It is not meant to offend anyone. Marion loves her
shirt and her mom and I have come to the conclusion that
we may have to operate to get it off of her. Hahaha.

I know that my post was a little long I am sorry.
Thank you for stopping by and reading a little about
my crazy family, Have a great day!



Saturday, February 24, 2018

Husband in the house

Hello fellow crafters!
Well I missed a week of blogging. I have been organizing
my craft room and so I decided I needed to destash some
craft items. I have been spending time uploading things to
my Etsy shop.
Well this week that I thought I would have time to get some
real crafting done my husband was at home most of the week
because of the bad weather. He wanted me to make some hats
for him so that is what you see in the first picture.
Well in order to use the hat press first I needed to make some
of the heat press pillows. So off I went to get the materials to
do that. Below in the picture is the heat press pillows that I
made. Yes I do know how to sew. Hahaha
Once the pillows were done then I had to change out the
flat heat plates for the hat press which is pictured below.
Well I am not the bit impressed with the heat press but
I did get three hats done for my husband.
 
I don't know if any of you who own heat presses have done
anything with the hat attachment but I found that it does not
sit square with each other that is the plates and even using
the heat pillows I had to rotate the hats side to side to get all
the letters pressed on. I would like to hear from others if
they have tried their hat presses and any tips they may have.
I also got a shirt done and I will share that in my next post.
I have been a little apprehensive about sharing it. Not that it
is rated R but that someone might take it the wrong way.
Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.


Friday, February 9, 2018

I love my Pitbull

Good morning fellow crafters!!!!
Looks like maybe just one new post for this week.
Not because I have not been crafting but because the
weather has been unseasonably warm here in Southern
Oregon.
Last September I ended up in the hospital for an
emergency appendectomy that I couldn't do certain
things like work out in the yard so with the weather
being so nice I am taking advantage of it by getting
out in the yard and catching up on the things that
didn't get done.

In the header picture is some small treat boxes
that I made. The small one holds one Hershey kiss
the bigger one will hold two.
The picture of the Pitbull is an svg file that I created
it will be for sale in my Etsy shop this weekend.
I am working on creating svg, cut files that can
be used on just about anything glass to fabric and
everything in between.
I hope that this inspires you to try new things.
Anything is possible!!!
Thank you for stopping by. Enjoy your day! 

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Welcome 2018

Hello my fellow crafters!!!!!!
I know it has been better than six months since my
last post not because I made a choice to stop blogging
just things in my life got hectic.
Life brings changes kids grow up, get married, have
kids of their own etc. Before I go into more detail of
my life the pictures are of a new venture I am on.
A cutting machine and vinyl.
(dish towel and HTV)
Last year I became a grandmother. To be honest I
wasn't real excited about it not sure why but I really
wasn't feeling happy or excited about anything. In August
I took a class to learn more about my new cutting machine
the Brother ScanNCut and the Sure Cuts A Lot program.
The infamous and knowledgeable Jen Blausey came to
Medford Oregon to teach a group of us. If you have the SNC
machine Jen has a facebook page and a YouTube channel
under Brother ScanNCut,
Even after learning from the best it seemed more like a
chore then being fun.

(Pot Holder)
In September I ended up in the hospital for an
emergency appendectomy. Looking back I believe
that this was a lot of the problem as to me just not
excited or joyous in life. I wasn't finding joy or
happiness in crafting, gardening or anything else.
As I recouped then my daughter got married the
first part of November then the holidays snuck up
on me .

(Pot Holder 2)
I took all of January getting all my tax things in
order and also organizing and rearranging my craft
room since I have also added a heat press to my
crafting tools. I don't plan on giving up the paper
crafting I am just branching out. Hahaha.
I will gradually get back into blogging again 
along with getting more merchandise into my
Etsy shop.
I hope for now to blog maybe a couple of times
a week so stay tuned.
Thank you to those that e-mailed me concerned
as to what has been going on and to make sure that
I am ok. 
Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog.
Enjoy your day!!!!!!