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Giveaway From

Lolly from Lolly Chops

she has graciously offered us a freebie

thru my blog

check out her

ETSY Shoppe Here

she offers to us this one

Blending Buddy

in Leafy Leaf Green

( I call is Shamrock Green for this Giveaway)

hehehe!

 but I am giving it away

as a special  St. Patricks Day gift

from Lolly and I to one of my lovely followers

check out all the colors they come in

 here is Lolly's favorite color

Teal

 

Please leave your comment here on this post telling Lolly and I

what you will make using her

Blending Buddy

if you are the lucky winner

and please be a follower of our blogs so

you don't miss out on what we are doing with them

I will be drawing for a winner

the last day of March

I have so much fun at

The Little Blue House

when I get to attend

please check it out

via the link above

or if you local, stop and say

Hi Y'all

Happy Scrap Stashin Day

and good luck to you on winning

Lolly's special gift for one of you

DeeDee

Glass Jewel Box

We have done these before but I so love them...

I was excited to make another one...

good deal to...

I had forgotten how to do the hinge..!!

important part right..

here is the  Link  to my first jewel box

made at the

Merry Go Round Glass Shop

and here is my second try

and some side details..

 the embellishments

are not attached yet

I took the little flower center and had Vicki

fuse it so it rounded out nicely

then had to glue all the fun parts on

I cannot make one without legs for some reason..

Don't you love the teal colors

so soft and pure

my freind Sandy found this fun little gem

in one of the scrap boxes

at the shop

I Love her color choices too

then one of the other guests pulled this beauty out

she found it at Hobby Lobby

won't this look so lovely on the

rounded front of this box

I had to get me one too

don't ya know.

I need to make a few more of these

just for the fun of it..

Have a great day

DeeDee

My Birthday Part #2

Pretty good I have a part two uh.... hehehe!

yes it was that great that I do.

I also got some lovely gifts and had dinner

with another freind named Charlie as well as Sandy..

our birthdays are all close together...

so we all celebrated this way together..

Charlie and I

Sandy and I

Dinner at Texas Road House

I got flowers from Becky

Flowers From Prima

A Tile Picture from Gayle

she knows my style

Brownies with a new pan from Karen

A shaukra Bracelet from Sandy

I love this clasp

she also got me a pencil sharpner

I liked and borrowed from her

Some candy and a card

along with a special pincushion and box

from Suella

I know I got more but didn't take

picutres... these came to me through

out the month so I felt special the whole

way thru, I love my friends

and they love me too....hehehe!

this has been the best birthday

I have had in a very long time

thanks to all of them

I got a special birthday song sang to me

by two small grand kids and their  momma

that made me cry.

I am feeling so loved..

DeeDee

My Birthday.... celebrated my way...

My freinds and I spent the day in
Dallas for my birthday....

shopping.

I know those who know me might think this weird,

 as I am not that big of a shopper..

but we were shopping for fabric,
beads, buttons and charms..

lace and trims off all kinds...

I can shop with this stuff around...
can't you?

and boy was it around...

every single corner ..

take a look and see what we seen....

and ultimately bought...lol.

my first view in the first store

Red Scarf

A while back I crochet a scarf for my friend Sandy for her birthday all in

 Purple and Green 

then I had a order for a red and black one...

 I didn't really want to sell them but hey ... why not.

So here is what I created for her

With a fun big flower too

Well she never did come back to pick this lovely up

I know it is about out of season and is for a few of us it is

but if you are interested this will appear in my 

ETSY Shoppe

 I am be selling it for $12.50 plus shipping

if you are interested please contact me

1st come 1st to get

I don't crochet much

because of my neck issues

so this is one of a kind

in this color

thanks for looking

DeeDee

Scrap Stashers February

I know I told you I am behind on my posting...

way behind...

I will catch up I am sure....

but here is a fun Valentines altered tin we made at

The Little Blue House

for thier class called Scrap Stashers

you bring a list of things from

your stash and make an awesome fun craft from it

I love this idea don't you???

anyways, here is my cute little

Valentines Box

look at that cutest little girl inside

and some very fun details

and the inside is cute too

with a cute little note to my granddaughter

and hand made pretties

to finsih it off.. a beautiful backside too

with a few ribbons on top

this is a pile of stash now made so pretty

how can you use your stash to

make something fun and useful

just like this box?

try it out

and check out

The Little Blue House

for even more fun ideas

Happy Crafting

DeeDee

Weekend Soldering

My Friend Gayle and I got together to do a bit of soldering...

I wanted to get some projects finished up..

it has been some time since I soldered so this was funtime for me...

check out the things I made.

A little Angel

Some Holly Leaves

been needing to be done since before Christmas

And a little heart sun catcher

so cute

I am hoping to soon take a Decorative solder

class to take my work to the next

level... I just love some of the work

with it...these all would be lots

better too..

felt so good to solder again...

DeeDee

Art Group March 2011

I went to the Art Group over at

The Little Blue House 

this month and we were making ATC cards...

I got to work with embossed metals and other textures I

 haven't got to try yet

  here is everyones cards

lots of different styles and themes

and all kinds of textures and colors

Over at

Treasure Barn 

I am in a ATC swap to do the theme Shamrock

Could this be more perfect ..kill two birds with one stone so to speak

so you guessed it..I worked on my all green Shamrock card

look at the layers and details

and I love this stamp back..I should have been smart

and stamped one so I could scan it in

so I could use it more

can you do that?

I have never seen a stamp I liked so much

I would love to have one of my own

and did you see it!!!... I decorated the back side too..

Yehaw! I did it for once...

lol... silly girl

I love the ones I get

with the backs decorated

but I never seem to do it

myself

anyways..happy swapping and I look forward to

Art Group Next Month too

DeeDee

Recessed Lighting

I have decided to have some recessed lighting 

added to the outer edges of my craft room.. 

I have been working on my studio this year..

as part of my goal to get it organized and decorated..

it is the one room that I haven't done much to

since moving her 7 years ago.

I want to get my dressers all painted and maybe do

some decoupage on the drawers,,,

paint my desk top make curtains and little table skirts...

I have so much planned I so wish I had the time..

I think I am gonna stop some of the swapping that I am doing and work on my own things for a while...

I have got burned in a few so a break may be just what I need anyways.  Check out this one wall in my studio

and here is one of the dressers I need to redo

I got lots to work on to keep me busy

all thru the hot summer here..

no garden for me this year

so I can work on other things.

Give me some ideas

for lighting and decorating that wall

DeeDee

Blissful ATC Swap- March

I once again joined the ATC swap at

 Blissful ATC Swap Blog 

with Wendy as our Hostess...

this month Wendy choose a very challenging graphic for us to use.

But I am up for a challenge,

those who know me...

know I love them
 here is the graphic we had to use...

can be the whole thing.. part of it...

what ever we wanted to use from it.

what might you do with this?

Theme: Graphic Chose by Wendy

here  is what I did with it..

textures and layers everywhere.

sad...still not decorating the backs..

why do I not remember to do this...?

My Partner is

Cindy at Cindy Roses Garden

she has so many fun ATC cards you

have to check out her blog

Crazy Pin Cushion Sew A Bit Swap

I joined in a

International  Crazy Pin Cushion Sew A Bit Swap

with

bubzrugz 

and her freinds... she provided the base directions from   

 Karen at The Painted Quilt 

 and if you are a member of Flickr you can see all the bases

Here...

there are so many options to do these...

we will be passig ours around the globe for the next person to add thier touch to it and send it on...

I wish I could go with mine to all the great places she will see... 

I sent my base to

 Val at Val Spiers Sews Blog

and here is what I am sending her to work on

A upclose look at the fun fabrics

I added this fun pattern for you to try out

if you want to play along as well

enlarge it to paper size , add 1/4 inch seam allowance if

you use fabrics that will ravel

have fun with it

I cannot wait to see the fun things that are done to my pin cushion

Happy Sewing my freinds

DeeDee

Glass Hearts

I am so sorry that my bloggin has run behind..

some health issues have kept me from posting many things..

I will work on this over the next few days..

so somethings are not in correct time line....

but still fun to share...

like this fun project we made over at

The Merry Go Round Glass Shop

My Freind Sandy made a beautiful pink heart

I asked to trade but she wouldn't let me..

Pink is my color you know.

hers is so loverly

I made two hearts, the first one all in reds

Don't you love my funky hair doo..

I was so hot this day I could hardly stand it

but that didn't inhibit my production

check this out

then I wanted to make one to send my Son-in-law

stationed in Afganistan

so ofcourse it had to have the same fun hairdo

and Red, White and Blue

and a few fun frilles too

I am getting where I actually like most of

my projects that I make

and building a bit of confidence with my work to

soon I will learn some decorative solder

and move this show to the next level

I cannot wait.

DeeDee

LBH Organizing- Week #6

I have been working my tail off getting my studio in tip top shape... this weeks challenge to organize from

The Little Blue House

this weeks challenge is

Stamps and Inks

I don't have many of these either

so I store them all in these fun drawers

and I have easy access to them

for those of you that have many..

please check out

this link

to help you get all your stamps and inks in a row...

Happy Organizing

DeeDee

LBH Organizing- Week #5

Well here we are a litel over  1/2 way thru and we have our next Organizing Challenge from one of my favorite places to hang out

The Little Blue House

this weeks challenge is to organize our

Lotions and Potions

Well I don't have many Lotions and Potions...

so my glues and all fit in this one draw mostly

and my stickles and stuff all fit in this lovely pink box

and I found this fun thing to store my daubers

But please check out all the great examples sty the

 The Little Blue House

stayed tuned for more organizing in my studio

DeeDee