Coolscrapdigital Quick Page Contest June 2011 & Freebie

I participated in another CSD QP Contest.  This time, the kit provided was “Devout Memories” by Kaklei Designs: This is a beautiful kit, just perfect for making old vintage style layouts.  I used a photo of my maternal grandmother:  And here is a QP freebie for you to download: Note:  The layout download on my […]

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Bird A Week Challenge: Week 24/52

I love vintage/retro drawings. So, for this weeks challenge, I decided to try my hand at drawing a vintage style bird: I started with a pencil sketch, outlined it in ink, scanned it into my computer, and colored it in photoshop.  It reminds me of drawings in childrens books and greeting cards from when I […]

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Drawing Lab 2011: Student’s Choice #3

This week was another student’s choice.  I did assignment #2 that I missed – drawing a bird: I chose a common house sparrow (hmm… looking at it now, it looks more like a zebra finch).  When I was in college, I took a trip to the old country.  Since I was in travel mode, I […]

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Summer Earrings

Here are some cute summer earrings.  I love making encased beads with rosette decorations: And some refreshingly turquoise blue: They can be found in my Etsy Shop :-).

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Mr. Alpha Chi – Not

My younger son just came home from college for the summer.  He was sporting a tank top – I thought it was funny, and wanted to share:  The Alpha Chi Sorority had a “beauty pageant”.  My son was a contestant representing his ice hockey team – the dubious honor was bestowed on him since he […]

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Zentangle Challenge #26 “String Theory v.III – Spiral Out, Keep Going”

I drew a double spiral to start this week’s zentangle:

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Digital Whisper 100 Themes Challenge #65 Time

Here is my interpretation of the theme time: Clocks: Everyday Mom Ideas, Friendly Scrap, Fall3angel, Elements: Mala Montero, Rian Design, Friendly Scrap Light Ray: Auntie M Designs Background: Wee Fairy Ring 

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Train Ride To The Beach

I took my very first train ride in the States yesterday.  My daughter’s Assisteens group had a field trip down to San Clemente Beach: Fifteen girls and five moms went.  The train ride took about 1 1/2 hours with frequent stops.  It turned out to be a beautiful day.  We had lunch at a wonderful […]

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Show And Tell: Chain Maille Bracelets

I took a couple of chain maille classes at the YVGMS this past year. It is always nice to try different methods of jewelry making: We started off with sterling wire, made jump rings, and went from there.  I can’t recall what the first one was called, but the second one is the Zyzzx box […]

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Bird A Week Challenge: Week 23/52

I came across this nice metal plate and decided to make a magnet for this weeks challenge: I used a very nice vintage bird print and rhinestones, glued them on and voila! A very nice kitchen magnet.  My daughter thinks I should have made it into a necklace.  Maybe next week…

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Drawing Lab 2011: Draw The Line

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – Gilbert K. Chesterton This week, we were given incomplete line drawings to complete: I was not sure to what extent we were to detail our drawings.  I just drew the first things I saw in the lines: Left to right, top to bottom: snowman in […]

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June Garden 2011

So far the weather here has been great. It’s already June, yet we have not had extreme heat – thank goodness! So, this month, I am featuring some “projects” as well as my beautiful passion fruit: I planted Kyoho, and American concord grapes last season.  It grew to the height of the trellis. This season, […]

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