I meet a Blogger Friend

 I got to meet Shirley C and her husband Clay

They come to the Dallas airport to pick up family

And we got to have a lovely Olive Garden dinner

It was so nice to meet her in person as

We have so many things in common

What started out with us owning Pommies

Ended up we both love to sew and embroidery

I am on the left and Shirley is on the right

She brought me these lovely gifts

How did she know I love angels

Her embriodery is so lovely

All packed in this lovely jeweled bag

The glass angel now adorns

My window letting the sun shine thru

Shirley I had the best time

Meeting and talking with you and Clay

And so hope when you travel thru again

We can meet for dinner too

Hugs my blogland friend

DeeDee

Nap Time! in Kindergaten

My granddaughter is a new Kindergarten student this year..

So I got to make her a nice sheet and blanket set

For her mat to use at nap time..

I love making my grandkids stuff,

but rarely have and occasion to do so.

So this was a real treat for me.

The set is a little girly

Ruffles and all

Since she lives up north I made hers from

Fleece and added a pocket

To the back side for her little feet to go in

Toasty she will be

I made two blankets so when

One is home to be washed

she still has another for school

All in coordinating colors

I bought another matt

And made another sheet

Because soon Brother will

Be off to Kindergarten too

And I will have what I  need to make

Him a set all his own

I cannot wait!!

Happy School year to my little

Kindergarten Girl

Grandma DeeDee

Altered Art Pages

I went and had a full body message...

Man was I feeling great...

(I really needed that)

I come home to relax and

Next thing ya know I am dabbling..

I started with a little card board and

Moved to bigger card boards.. 

In Art Group this month we are going

To be doing transfers and needed some base pages..

I must say I loved what I come up with...

Check them out

I started with ATC sized

And used a pretty napkin I had

This is the back side

I will use gesso on this to tone it down and apply

A graphic over the top

Then I moved to bigger cards board

I used paints, and tape, a pen

Distressed it alot

this one also has a white napkin

In the center to overlay a graphic on it.

The back side I left plain to play with in class

Then I did this music sheet page

I will also layer a graphic on this one

And the backside plain for playing more

My favorite page using my pretty napkin

The teacher Susan had this fun stamp set

And she let me borrow it

I love them all

And the backside all pretty too

My second favorite one is this journal page

I will overlay a graphic in the lower right corner

This next one is especially made for my graphic overlay

Thats what out next class will teach

The transfer of graphics

Please visit Susan at Artful Musings and see her wonderful work

I will be tearing up my Victorian Trading magazine

To adorn these pages.

I hope some of you are still following along on my garbage disposal book

With me.. these will go in there when done

Those visiting for the first time check it out

Garbage Disposal Journal Here

I certainly had a fun relaxing evening doing these pages

I have a few others in the works and will show you them

With August Art Group post coming soon

See ya then

Happy Creative Crafting

DeeDee

Dress Form

I love all the altered dress forms I see

Awhile back my freind and I decided to try one

I had no idea what I wanted to do with mine

So I just started to play

I haven't done anything

With book pages, but so love the look

So on it went

She has a vintage lace scrarf with a

A vintage earring brooch

Layers of trim to the bottom of her dress

My friend made me this teeny tiny

Mona Lisa necklace for my form

Her heart is a altered piece of the same

Book page

And yes I planned the letters to be upside down

I had this swirly pearls in my stash

So on it went

I loved it!!

So Fancy Schmancy!!

Then I was gonna play with some stamps

I did this Eiffel tower stamp

And every one laughed like I did a funny

But, I put it on the only flat spot she had

What is so funny?

It looks like a rear end at a distance..

They say

Hahaha!

 I couldn't have planned that!!

I mounted her on a crystal vase and added

A glass door knob to the top

She needs a red bow on the

Back below the buttons

And I think she will be done

And ready to display in

My Studio

I am glad my friend

Asked me to do this

I really liked playing with the

New stuff and getting my

Stash onto something so fun

She is so my style!!

Happy Crafting

DeeDee

Doodle Tangles

Dangle your Tangles

Part two of our Zentangles class

We got to go back and make

A solder project with out Tangles

You will love this

Here are my Tangles

And here is my designs

Both are for my Studio

I didn' get them finished in class

So will have to show you them again later

Here is our instructor's

Bobbie Holiday

She said it reminds her of the

Patio Railings

The metal ones ya know..

I can see it

Here is another really creative one

It has two parts

The bottom up close

Don't you love the falmingo?

Fabulous work

And a tangled necklace too

This one is awesome

All the fun little details

So here is a project you can do with

Your Tangles

Try it out

for more info,go to

www.zentangles.com

And

Doodle Dangles

Dangle your Tangles

Happy Tangling everyone

DeeDee

Learning Zentangles

I was so happy when my local glass shop

Merry Go Round Glass

Had a 2 part class to learn Zentangles

In one class you did your Tangles..

In the next you made a project with your Tangles 

So here we go

  

This is everyones first Tangle

And me having a good hair day

(its so hot in Texas)

Displaying my first Tangle

Our fun and fabulous instructor

Bobbie Florida

And here are some examplers of next weeks project

Fun ideas uh

Cannot wait to see what everyone creates

I had a great time

I look forward to creating

A fun Solder project

With my Tangles

I love Zentangles!!

So relaxing, So creative

And never wrong

Try it out

Find more info at

www.zentangles.com

Happy Tangling

DeeDee

I WON!

I won a great giveaway over at

Pat Winters Gathering

I was so shocked

And I just love my litte dragonfly

Isn't she precious?

I wanted to say a HUG!

Thank You Pat

I just love her!!

Please my freinds

Go visit Pat's Blog

You will be in awe of her fabulous work

See ya when you get back

DeeDee

A Dramatic Death

I know it feels like maybe this could be a halloween post..

Or really something serious uh.

But it is actually the changes in life that happen

When you don't want them too.

My little car,

My first brand new car that had

26 miles on it when I drove it off the lot. 

Has gone to car heaven

Look at all her miles

I had mixed feelings having my last picture with her

I will surely miss her, as our story is long

She is a bit over 11 years old

I have had many hatch backs as

I think back upon all my cars

And her hatchback allowed me to haul

Dressers, Mulch and stepping stones,

And a ceramic kiln all the way from Iowa!!

She has moved so much stuff on her travels

She was my little truck

This Scratch is from picking up my daughter where

I had to pull between two trees.

It didn't turn out so well on the backing up

She has many little dents and dings

It all adds to her personality

They tell her life story

She was one day old when she got her first

Little mar spot.

Remember that my daughter?  hehehe!

Her timing chain locked up on a busy street

And knocked the tranmission out, sending a pool

Of red fluids flowing down the street

It looked like all her lifes blood had run out

I was devestated

I didn't know what to do,

Poor tow truck driver heard it all..

He was great with me.

I let her meet and talk to her replacement car

A new girl, in a new color

Black is a color I have never owned

She is a 2012 with 286 miles on her

She had to come to me from Texarkana, TX

A fancy new dash design, a working stereo,

Jacks for my Ipod..

Cruise control for the first time in my life

She has all the new upgrades

And yes she is a hatch back too

Only this time a 4 door hatch back

She is a bit longer in length

But I bet I am going to love the back doors

My grandkids and friends can ride in this one

She will be my new addition

And her first mar come before she

Even left the lot, from me this time

Hehehe!

I am ready for a road trip with her

See how she rides, see how much she can

HAUL!

She is my new little truck

I will miss

My 2000 Hyundai Accent

But look forward to

My 2012 Hyundai Accent

Lots!!

Please join in me in my farewell

To my very first NEW car

I acutally cried when I left her behind

Happy Travels My freinds

DeeDee

Stitchin Fingers Round Robin- Rengin #2

I got Rengin's block all ready to mail off to Rachel

Here is the block before I started to work on it

I added a wee little dragon fly to the corner

Smelling the prettiest little rose from the garden

Then I added my most favorite border stitch

The cute little button flowers

And then added a trellis with beautiful

Hand made roses..and a fluttering buttery fly too

There you have it, my part complete

I think three more people

get to work on this before

It finds its way home

This is Rengins little book that travels with her block

Cat started a small photo of what she did

She is quite the artist

I tried to follow suit

I am not such an artist thou

Hehehe!

But you get the just of it

I loved this Idea Cat

You can find more pics of Rengins block

With Cat's work up close

On my July 30th post

Happy Stitichin my Friends

DeeDee