Happy September!!!

Yay...It's September!

And it is my daughter's first day of 12th grade

She is a senior!!

I always take a first day of school pic....this is the last time

boo hoo.

I am sure she will have lots of stories to tell me when she gets home.

I have a million projects in the works...and now I will have some serious time to actually

WORK!

In the meantime...

I thought I would share some books I have gotten recently.

Think happy be happy ...is a cute thick lil book filled with inspiration and art. 

See....so cool.

I love looking at it when I feel upset...

It calms me right down. 

I love collecting old school books! 

Especially when it has elements of Halloween in it! 

This is old and so useful 

I know my pic is blurry...but there is all kinds of phrases...which I could use on tons of projects.

This book I got at Hallmark.

The sweetest Halloween book ever! 

The graphics are great....colors are bright and cheerful! 

The story is cute and I am really inspired by this...so I had to have it. 

Owls!!

Coloring is soooo popular....gotta get my crayons out. 

Old vintage coloring books are great too!

I have a huge collection now.

I do love the school teacher owl on the cover.

I promise to show you what I have been working on soon...

I have patterns to write, pictures to take...a long list of to-do's...

Plus my daughters birthday is Saturday....panic!!!

I guess I will take things one step at a time!

Happy September to you!

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Ticket flower hair clip tutorial...FREEBIE!

Today I am very happy to announce that my daughter, Selina, has made a cute FREE ticket flower tutorial...

She shows how to make these cute flowers above...that are so cute with a barrette or hair clip glued to the back.

Come watch and we would love it if you share the video.

Here she is wearing one.

These are some of her amazing photo's....they are in her Peacock Gumdrop Etsy shop.

I love our Bleeding heart...I planted it near my favorite kitty who passed away a few years back.  Her name was Sally.

This barn she took while driving to Leavenworth....a German style city.

This photo was printed in a magazine......she was very thrilled about that!

Alot of these have won blue ribbons at our state fair.

This is Selina last year.....she is also very good at sports.

She loves duck tape....these are rings....she has made backpacks, pens, wallets...and more.

She made collages from her photography too.

It gives a nice idea of what she likes to take.

She has made many duck tape dresses

She paints alot....this is Katy Perry on brown paper.

Her paper dress won lots of awards at the state fair.

Selina holding a frame....I am extremely proud of my lil lady!

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My sweet lil girl

Recently my sweet lil baby girl turned 17!

I can't believe it!

Seems like yesterday we were strolling her around.

She had a wonderful birthday and had lots of fun. 

We went to the fair on Saturday...and she won a Special grand award for her paper dress made from vintage dictionary pages.

It fits her as well.  She is very artistic and talented.

She also won awards for her photography.

Here are some of the photos she won blue ribbons for...

a digitally enhanced starry night -church

 

Her very popular barn

 

The pink cone flower (my fav!)

Her black and white flower

 

Lucky the cat....

Multnomah falls too

All her photos are in her Etsy shop!

 

I entered 4 paintings and won 4 blues...I am a happy camper too!

The theme of the fair this year was the Wizard of oz.

I wanted to share a wrist pincushion I made featuring the wizard of oz fabric.

Sweet isn't it!

Any favorite fabric can be used in this pincushion pattern

Like this cute lil girl fabric.

I gotta pick up our goodies at the fair now...my daughter is going to help me.

Try to enter something in your local fair next year...it is fun and believe me...people want to see your creations!!

 

So many ideas....come get them!

You probably know that I am part of the Deflecto design team by now....so excited about it!

Deflecto is a great company that  provides all your solutions to stay organized so you can concentrate on your projects not your clutter.

I want to share my final frame projects with you.

The above picture is my Jewelry display....great for your bedroom to hang your necklaces on or to display necklaces in a craft booth.

For this sweet Jewelry holder..I used the big 12" x 12" frame. I added my favorite scrapbooking paper. Then clipped my old clothespins to the top. The necklace hangs on the clothespins...by a loose knot in the chain.

I used the magnetic frame as a message board of inspiration. The barn photo is my daughter's photography and I added some wheat.

This is a business card holder made from two frames....3" x 4" and the very tiny 1 1/2" x 2". I taped them together at the bottom. I added an atc card I made that says "Bloom". The small frame has a bit of pink paper where I stamped "Take a card".

Another angle of the business card holder made from two Deflecto frames.

I used the Pink 8 1/2"x 11" frame and added my digital art sign. The saying comes from Les Miserables. I added vintage ribbon flowers.

I love using little bits and pieces that I have been hoarding for projects like these.

I have shown you this before and the following, but I just wanted you to see the whole group of them together.

This one is my raggedy Ann watercolor painting in the green 5" x 7". I added a little scrap of fabric to the lower corner with an even tinier scrap of muslin with the word "Cutie" stamped on it. The scraps are sewn together and then glued on (I taped so I could use the frame in another project).

So simple! 

I love frames because a lot of what I do involves frames....like my digital signs I make and sell on Etsy.   This is my "Home of the free because of the brave" sign in the stand alone frame. 

 I added some tulle rosettes and a small paper banner to the bottom.

Here is a Halloween watercolor of a scarecrow. This is in the purple 5" x 7" frame. I added my flash card (I design flash cards too) that says "Scarecrow" and also added fall leaves. So easy.

Another very simple project.

I really love the large pink frame! Here I put a watercolor print of mine in the frame....and added a paper streamer rosette...with a vintage paper punch circle and a decorated bottle cap.

The bottle cap has a floral image and pink glitter. I added the words "Be Kind" to the rosette. This would be so sweet in a little girls room.

This is my mom (she's has been gone almost 17 years now) and I thought she would look great in the black 5" x 7" frame.....sort of retro. Her pic was taken back in the 50's. I punched out some scalloped circles, stamped the letters for mom on them and then glued them onto a pennant shape made from pretty paper. I glued them onto ribbon and then attached to the frame.

I love going through my papers to see what fits best. 

Here I took one of my drawings on brown craft paper and just added layers of black stringy yarn to the bottom with a vintage button.

The magnetic frame is so nice for the fridge....nice strong magnets! I just put one of my calendar pages inside....so very easy.

The 3" x 4" frame is great for artist trading cards....I put one of mine in and added a little tea dyed muslin banner. The banner is stamped with stazon ink (pad)...I used the word "Cutie" and then added a line a glue around the banner and sprinkled with glitter. After it was dry I just tucked the banner in the side of the frame. 

Here is my daughter Selina's Photography ....a beautiful Sunflower.
We put this in the 8 1/2" x 11" frame with pink border.....love Pink! I added raffia around the frame and a sweet tag saying "This is the life!"

I love raffia...especially with fall coming.

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