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!!!!