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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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