Welcome Fall

I want to welcome all of you that have stopped by to read

my post with a welcome of Fall flowers.

In my header picture is a floral arrangement that I put

together just kind of going through my stash of crafting items.

My picture is not very straight but a lot is going on around here.

My boxer dog is now having seizures. She loves to go upstairs

with me to my craft room and just lay around while I do my

thing but she is having trouble going up the stairs and gets very

winded so I try and do all my crafting downstairs and go

upstairs to the craft room to do things that only take short periods

to accomplish. She seems a little lost when I am home and not

close by.

The next picture is a wall hanging that I made with an embroidery

hoop using more of the stash of sunflower that I have. Still have

not really made a dent in the stash of sunflowers I have. LOL.

So back to the subject of my boxer. We will keep her as comfortable

as we can until things really start to go south. She is starting to have

 some hind leg issues Not looking forward to what is coming but

we will do the right thing when we see that she is suffering. Not an

easy thing to do. I ask you for prayers because I really need them,

Thank you once again for stopping in. Sorry for being such a

downer.

Hope you all are having a wonderful day.



Dracula in the house

Hello fellow crafters!!!!!

Here I am once again. I know it has been some time.

Life just keeps taking up so much of my time. Last

September I decided to go back to work. I went to

work at Hobby Lobby not my most brightest idea. I

just wanted a part-time job well it was full time since

the store was being set up to open. I ended up working

through the winter and finally in February it finally

became part-time. In those months that I worked full

time I lost twenty plus pounds not that it is a bad thing

I was carrying extra weight. LOL   The Job became

such a roller coaster ride that I decided to work smarter

not harder and went back to the medical field

.

Before I keep going on about my job here are a couple

of Halloween box cards that I made. Below is my devil

box card.

 

 

The next one is my Dracula box card that is also in the

header picture. Just kind of playing these days in my craft

room. I do take them to the shop here in town where I have

a lot of my creations at.

Hope you like my creations.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program. LOL.

I started in one medical office in June but I just could not stay

there. Don't like being micro-managed. In September I moved

on to another office. I am working only three days a week there,

so in all reality I got what I was really looking for and that is a

part-time job but in the medical field. The only reason that I

could change offices like I did is because I went through a medical

registry office. Kind of like a temp agency but all they deal with

is medical offices and medical personnel. I hope that I can stay

in this office until I am ready to retire.(15 years).

Thank you all for dropping by.

 I am hoping that I can get back here a little more often than

I have been .

Until the next time.

Have a great evening.

Flowers and Succulents

Hello everyone!!!!!

Here we are into the month July. Many crafters are

doing Christmas in July. I will be sharing some of the

things that I have been making for Christmas too in

my posts off and on. 

In my header picture is a bucket that I found in a thrift

shop and decided to do an arrangement with the types

of flowers that most of us would find in our gardens

about now.

The photo below is another bucket I found at the same

thrift store.

 

As most of you know I like to recycle,or revamp.

Well I got on the succulent kick like everyone else

and used the bucket to make the succulent

arrangement. The bucket was sitting in my craft

for a few months. I am so glad that it isn't going

to be sitting around collecting dust.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great Sunday!

A Little Farmhouse

Hello everyone!!!

Hope you are all having a good summer so far.

Many of you who know me know that I do a little bit

of everything craft wise.

I have taken my vinyl to another level and am heat

pressing vinyl on canvas and framing it. Header picture.

Before I get into the other vinyl picture let me tell you

about the month of June in my life. With our Boxer

depressed we were looking to find another dog so that

she would have a buddy. In all reality I was not ready

for that especially since I would be the one responsible

to train it. My husband put the word out that we were

looking for something smaller than a pitbull. He decided

we needed something like a Jack Russell or a rat terrier.

My sister-in-law found a Manchester Terrier at the animal

shelter she volunteers at. So now we have this seven month

old pup who loves to test me and I really don't think that

our Boxer cares to have it here. I will get a picture of him

downloaded soon.

On to my next project.

In the picture above I used 651 vinyl on painted wooden

blocks. I have so many other ideas as to use my vinyl on,

so stay tuned.

Thank you for stopping by. Until next time stay safe and

create on.

Not sew paper

Hello everyone! Hope that you all have been crafting

away. Wish I could say that I have been doing the same.

April brought a job change for my husband and it also

changed pay day. We went from being paid twice a month

to getting paid every week so I had to get my act together

and figure out how to pay all the bills. So as not to think

to much I went back to my old of making floral arrangements.

The pictures that you see are a couple of arrangements that

I made using the wooden embroidery hoops.

The one in the header picture and the second picture are

about a eight inch hoop. The last picture is and

arrangement done on a sixteen inch hoop.

I got lost in the month of May we had a family member

that was ill and passed away. Not really expected because

he was doing pretty well after bypass surgery.

A couple of weeks later I had to put my pitbull down. We

had him in our lives for nine years. That was a little hard

for me since Diesel was there for me when I had my close

call with death when my gallbladder had burst. He was

there for me when my appendix got a tare and another

emergency surgery for me.

After Diesel was gone our Boxer went into a depression

and she had to be taken to the vets so I had to nurse her

back to health. I was so glad when May ended hoping

the June would bring better things.

I will tell you about my month of June in my next post.

I have to sit here and laugh because I have always said

if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

I know that I had promised that I would be blogging

but no more promises because it looks like life just

doesn't allow me to keep my promises.

Have a great evening. Hope to have more for you

soon. Thank you for stopping by.

I like to ride my bicycle

Hello everyone!!!!

Today I have a little something different that I tried.

In my header picture is a child shirt that I made

using glitter heat transfer vinyl. Yes so far it doesn't

sound to different I know but I did not use a cutting

machine (Scan N Cut, Cricut, etc.) to cut the bicycle

out. Can any of you guess how I cut out the bicycle?

Well if you haven't figured out let me tell you. I used

a die and ran it through my Big Shot. The die is a

Crafters Companion die that I bought at Tuesday

Morning.

You know us crafty people we always have these

crazy ideas and well this was one of them for me.

I wanted to see if I could actually get a die to cut

through heat transfer glitter vinyl. As many of you

know glitter vinyl is a bit thicker then regular vinyl.

Low and behold it worked. I did have to run it

through about four times to get it to cut clean

through. In some areas it did cut through the

carrier sheet. I had to be real careful when I weeded

it. In one case I did lose the carrier sheet on one

of the bicycles. Thankfully HTV glitter vinyl is

a little sturdier and I just made sure that I used

my Teflon sheet to protect it from damage when

heat pressing it.

It really is true we can learn something new every

now and then.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!!!!

A Shirt for MOMs

Hello Everyone!!!!

Wow can you believe another post from me. Totally

amazing isn't it. Hahaha.

In the header picture is a t-shirt that my crafting

partner created.

Some time back I had let all of you know that I was

headed on a new venture of creating SVG cut files with

my crafting friend Sally. Here is one of those other life

changes that is happening in my life.

(Below is the shirt made in a different color)

I can't blame anyone but myself for this change. Last

year I wasn't really motivated to create like I normally

do. If I really would have paid attention I would have

realized that something physically was wrong with me.

To make a long story short I ended up having an emergency

appendectomy. It has taken me a little bit of time to get

back to normal which is what happens when we get older.

Sally is headed on a new venture so I do not know

if she will have the time to devote to our creating business

so I may be on this on my own. Time will only tell.

She has had to make decisions that are best for her

family and I totally understand. Hopefully in the next

couple of weeks I will be able to let you know more

about that.

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a great day!!!!

This little Piggy stayed home

Hello Everyone!!!

If you know me I have my hands in just about every

type of craft there is. Here are a couple of cards that

I created. In the header picture is my little pig card

that I made trying to stay in the Farmhouse style that

is the in thing right now. The pig stamp is from a

Stampendous set called On The Farm.

Below is another card that I made.

I created this card using an In'spire die from Spellbinders

called Howling that I bought at Tuesday Morning. Just so

that everyone knows the die is one piece so what you see

in my card is the yellow moon I did some creative die

cutting and piecing together to get it to look that way.

If you just cut the die out it would just cut the wolf with

the outline of the moon.

So because I have the Brother ScanNCut and I can design

anything I want I have been working on creating some

svg files that will help me downsize the amount of dies

that I own. I have been creating my own labels that I can

use with my stamps. I will be doing a destash video soon

so keep an eye out for that.

Thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy your day!!!!

Full days with Heat Transfer Vinyl

Hello everyone!

Well glad to be back. So many things are changing

in my life. My daughter and son-in-law will be having

a child in October. I will find myself with a full life

of creating and sewing. My daughter has a mile long

list of what this grandmother needs to make. LOL.

Well with being a crafting grandma here I had to make

my granddaughter Hazel her special Easter Bunny. I

went to my cutting machine and cut out her name and

heat pressed it to the bunny in the header picture.

Since I was playing with heat transfer vinyl and I

had a craft show that I did last weekend I went ahead

and created a few t-shirts to sell. I worked at creating

a unicorn was not real happy with the unicorns horn

so I will work on it a little bit more.

As I said life has brought some changes and one of the

changes is that my husband did a job change. It was a

very difficult decision because my husband really likes

his old boss but the work was just not there. My husband

was putting in about twenty- seven to thirty hours every

now and then some weeks he sat at home. It made it

very hard for us financially.

With our kids and grandkids not living so close to us we

decided that we had to make changes if we want to be

able to see them often. So here we go on another roller

coaster ride. Getting use to a different work schedule

and a different pay day schedule.

I to am making some changes to my Etsy shop and also

my YouTube channel.I will tell you a little more about

that in my next post.

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Thank you for stopping by.

Wedding Gifts

Hello everyone!

Here are a couple of things that I have been doing with

vinyl. In the header picture I worked with heat transfer

vinyl and heat pressed it onto footies. I made these

to sell at the shop in town. As the weather gets warmer

weddings become a big thing so I am hoping that some

of these things will generate revenue in the shop.

Below is a split letter monogram that I made for my

son and daughter-in-law.

This picture frame split letter monogram was made with

651 vinyl and put on a picture frame. I still have not given

this to the kids because I am using it in the shop as a

example hoping to get some special orders. Hahaha.

I will make another one soon to have at the shop and I

will give this one to the kids. At least I hope to.

Thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy your day.

A Glittered Thank You

Hello everyone!

Hope to find everyone in the craft world doing well.

I have been busy organizing my craft and I almost

have it where I want it. I hope to share my craft room with

everyone soon. In the mean time here is a Thank you card

I made using some glitter cardstock which I picked up

at a yard sale last year. I made it a shaker card and used a

Hampton Art rubber stamp that I bought from Big Lots

a few years back. The picture for some reason does not do

it justice. Looks a lot better in real life. Maybe I need a

new camera.

I am trying to use some of my stash. I also have been doing

some de-stashing. I have been listing some of the cardstock that

I am getting rid of on my Etsy shop. Most of it is Graphic 45

cardstock.

I have also been working with heat transfer vinyl and

because I am new to this I have made a few mistakes

like forgetting to mirror so the words are not backwards.

Hopefully putting a reminder on my machine will help.

If this reminder doesn't help I don't know what else will

Hahaha. Oh Lord help me.

Thank you everyone for stopping by. Hope you all

have a great day.

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!

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.

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! 

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!!!!!!  

 

Bigger Things are ahead

Hello everyone!!!!

Glad to be able to share again.

In April my son and daughter-in-law had a baby girl

named Hazel. We took a trip to Portland to see our

granddaughter. In May I ended catching the flu

which I was down for almost three weeks. Once I got

better my friend Sally (my business partner also) got

down to business. We worked and worked to get this

jewelry box SVG file ready for our Lime and Bean Etsy

shop.

Well after several tweaks here and there we finally

were happy with it. So now here I am sharing with

all of you our very first big project.

Hopefully our next two big projects that we have

in the works doesn't take as long but I have a feeling

that it just might now that her girls are home for

summer break.

I also have been busy trying to get a ScanNCut

boot camp together here in Medford, OR. The

very knowledgeable Jen Blausey will be here in

August to teach us about our machines and how

to use the Sure Cuts Alot program. Jen has been

out teaching so many people and we are very lucky

to have her coming to teach us. This is the only

class that she is giving in the Northwest so I hope

that I am reaching everyone in the surrounding

states and that they don't pass up the chance. We

don't know if she will make it back this way next

year.

Well as you see I get busy and don't make it as 

often to blog as I would like.

Hope you like our jewelry box..

Until next time have a great day!!!!!

Mother's Day box card

Hello !!!!

Well now that I have resolved internet issues, design

issues, keyboard issues I have been able to add a few

more cut files to the Lime and Bean Etsy shop.

Yes I am co-owner in the shop and can use the Lime

and Bean pictures on these posts. So don't report me

I am not stealing from some other crafter or designer

Hahaha.

I know Mother's Day is around the corner and it doesn't

give much time to work on things but these are pretty

fast and easy to put together once you get them cut out.

We would have had them up sooner if not for all the

issues but we are glad that we finally were able to get

them into the shop.

We count our blessings as they do come every day

and this is one of them that we can do this and work

for our selves.

This is what the cards look like thought I would share a

picture that doesn't have the watermark. You can make

either card and we also made it that the mom does not

have to be cut out in the front panel and you can use

the cut file for other occasions. There is also a tutorial

on how to put the box cards together on our Lime and

 Bean YouTube channel.  Thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy the day!!!!

A Grandma

Hello !!!

No more being away for long periods of time.

In April I became a grandmother. My header picture

is a card I made for my granddaughter Hazel for

her very first Easter. She was born in April and of

course that meant a trip to go see her.

Here are a couple of pictures of my husband holding

her and me holding her. Hazel also got to meet her

great grandmother as we were sure to take her with

us on our trip.

I haven't stopped working on that new venture with

my friend Sally. We have added a few new items

to the Lime and Bean shop and there is more to come.

Life gets crazy but we must keep going.

Have a great day.

Father's Day Box cards

Hello everyone!!!!!

I was hoping to have this post up yesterday but got

tied up working with my design partner Sally creating

some new SVG files for our Lime and Bean Etsy

store.

Sally created this box card SVG file (pictured below)

I love all the tools that she created to go with it.

I had a different idea as to how I wanted my box card

to look so I created the one below. I rounded the

corners of the box with my corner punch and I also

cut the front flap off. I cut a few rectangle pieces by

hand, inked the edges to make it look like drawers

of a tool box. I hand cut several strips from some

foil paper which I added to the top of the rectangles.

I cut the tools from the SVG file and used them to

decorate the tool box.

Hope I sparked some creativity. It is so nice to be

able to take an SVG file and be creative with it.

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a great day!!!!!!

Fathers Day SVG card file

Hello everyone!

Glad you could stop by.

Here is a couple of Fathers Day cards that are made

using the same SVG cut file.

In the first picture is my take on the Card file that Sally

Havice created for our Lime and Bean Etsy shop.

I used a foil cardstock to cut out the word DAD and

ran it through my big shot using my Spellbinders

embossing folder to create the diamond plate look.

The cardstock with the motorcycles came from a

cardstock pack that I bought a Tuesday Morning

some time ago. Below is Sally's card. 

The file comes with the picket fence, flower pot, flowers

and stem cuts.

The nice thing is that anyone can take a cut file

and with some creativity make several cards all with

a different look and style.

Hope you like both of the cards.

Good night everyone.