A quick update...

Thanks for your support!!... {insert Victorian corset image here} snicker snicker... OK so, it look's like a go so far. I'm going to keep making things from the templates this weekend to take to the "meeting" on Tuesday. evidently its a when they hash out the schedule meeting between all the people who teach there... the lss store owner was really excited about the embossed things i showed her that i have made and then i informed her that the stuff comes in way more colors and uses than her "teacher" knows... lol oops... so DH thinks thats funny that i know more than the owner and the teachers... He thinks it will be something fun to try two or three times to decide if its not a waste or time or money. the way she runs her store is I buy everything for the class kits, if i need to buy something for the kits i can buy them from her store at a discount. then i get to keep the money from the class and the average for her store is about $15.00 per person. and a card class lasts about 1 1/2 hours... and i need them to make about 3 cards, maybe one more elaborate than the other two... and decide on the "level" of skill that a person needs to understand/enjoy my class... Newbies maybe totally lost by some of the things i do and showed her... So that's where things are at now... I have a throbing wrist and a whirling brain... and it looks like Spanish Rice and Stuffed bell peppers are calling my name. (we skipped the food part at chat tonight hee hee) :)

File Folder Thanks

this is a prototype of the card i am currently considering taking to the "meeting" Tuesday. Its not done but, my wrist is killing me so, i am going to spend some time on line looking for Thank-You sayings that i could type for one of the inside covers... this is what i have done so far...

All of the parts that look white in the digital cover photo are actually a cream color...Its hard to see but there is ink distressing on all edges of all the papers also.The large heart on the cover is the one from the couzzle starter kit and then the files are part of another template.all the stamps are hero arts except the letters on the top are Rummage from MM.

whatcha think??

I have been asked to teach... {in person} YIKES!

hee hee... I am feeling flattered and giddy and a little overwhelemed... (OH YEAH,Note to self, next time you decide to take an Right this minute photo maybe you should put your face on first! ;) WOW hmmm??? Ok so yesterday a lady who owns a lss where i lived asked me to start teaching classes in her store... told me i could teach what ever i wanted... ( she did this without ever holding anything i made in her hands...) ( which is like say what? haha) but, she is in the same S.U. monthly club i am in and i think that my MIL and my BF have been bragging about me. So, today I dragged DH in to the store with some of my cards and pages and altered items and ( she loves everything ~ she says) the first thing she wants me to do is a card class... so, i am supposed to go to the store next Tuesday night and be part of a meeting with all the other people who teach in her store and her. ( to find out details) My husband asked lots of questions today but, i had to take him to a meeting right after that so i have not had a chance to make him write down what he thinks... but, the faces he was making are favorable... ( oh I am mostly deaf, know a little sign and can read lips) my BF volunteered her self to be my ears (mainly to spend time with me) so, what i am wondering is what should i ask? when i go to this meeting? Like I have no idea how the structure works, if i buy every thing or if she does or anything at all, but to take my mind off of it i think i am going to go make some cards for the class she wants me to do... She says she's willing to order anything i need to teach the classes i want to teach... I told her If i have my way I'd turn her store into a rubber stamp art store... hee hee so she showed me her hero arts catty shes working on an order for the store and i pointed out all the ones i already own... lol ( so i know they would sell) What is a good thing to know if you already do this? what kinds of things should i ask? Its OK to email me too if you like and don't want to post here. So i of course have more cards and photos to share and may do that in a little while... :)

New Cards

Found these foam letters that i believe are made to decorate walls with in the craft dept at wally world and pulled all the staples and bump things off the back and used the back sides of them as "huge monogram stamps!" .97 cents... can't beat that, the wood mounted ones are closer to 17.00 (plus shipping) this was done with delta cream coat paint, then when it was dry the paisley was stamped and heat embossed in clear on it. The silk flowers got a little crumpled in the scanner but, you get the idea... So far i have bought the S,A,T,L,J & M and I'm thinking of other words that start with those letters for cards... I know its obvious about T being thanks and the L being Love... but, if you have other ideas feel free to email :) This one was just for fun, I know it could have been masked better around the central image, but, i have also learned how to "wax" my truck with a big guy power tool deal. (ha couldn't raise my arm the other day) Truck is not completely waxed yet either and it has since started sprinkling again. (of course when I am at work and parked in the open parking lot) haha This one is for Becca's wedding (which is next weekend June 10th) Tomorrow I am taking her mom garage sailing in the morning. (haven't done that in years) who knows maybe the rain will keep some of the crowds at home... assuming people go ahead and hold them... Don't need a thing, but its always fun to look. I need to come up with a graduation card {which will be late Sarah} because, my mind is completely blank on the subject... (feel free to email thoughts about that one too) haha. Oh yeah and on that subscribe to the blog thing i posted a while back... it doesn't work for me so either you guys are not doing anything with your blogs or its broken for me... just occurred to me a little bit ago i have not read anyones blog in ages... so, thats why, i have not gone and looked because i kept expecting to get an email saying so and so has been very chatty today lol.. got a big pot of spaghetti going and hoping to head upstairs and play next. Thursdays have become a day that DH comes home late...

just playing with the camera again~

this was shot with the camera resting on the table. some really cool metal baskets. (holding paints and tags and such) oh this was fun, found these clear paint cans at the lss on nsbd (what 10 days ago now i guess) so yesterday i dumped all the primas from the milk bottles onto my table and tossed them like a salad and put all the paper petals into these cans then stuck the old looking garden stickers on the side of the cans... ( I always end up dumping the bottles anyways to get the one i want and its alot easier to get your hand into one of these cans then poke a finger down the neck of the bottle... not sure yet what i am going to do with them all but thinking to wash off the lables and maybe use them as gift containers?? this one i shot in an answer to what do you do with all those clear blocks for your unmounted stamps? and mine are in that bottom drawer in front of the oversized ink pads... oh And i have been meaning to post this and keep forgetting but I got this link from Tess and its a site that keeps track of the blogs that you like to read for you and lets you know when one you read has a new post... which may be a good thing if you like to read ones like mine where the posts are not consistantly every day... http://www.bloglines.com/

This last few days...

ahhh. This is probably not as dramatic to you to see as to us to see... This was shot standing in the East most South corner of our property. the House is closest to me and the street followed by the garage and then over the bridge to the barn. oh Yummm! Do you see what i See??? ( those are Asparagus for the unknowing) The Veggie Garden has grown by 800 SQ. Feet this year... so DH says to me "I don't want to work as hard in the yard this year as last year" lol {so speaks the man who canned 55 jars of Salsa alone...} This is shot standing on the center of the yard foot bridge looking East at the south side of the front yard.