It's finished...

 I just love the way it turned out!  I will be interested to see if anyone signs up for this class? and if no one does, I love it still!   I sprayed the trees with glimmermist, it gives them a little more of a vintage feel.  There are lots and lots of layers to this project.  I am teaching it on Sunday, Nov 10.  It is gonna be an all day class.

 I wanted to show a close up of the floor.  I stamped a brick pattern like the chimney.  I have the door propped open so you can see the inside looking in.  It does stay like that..inviting, wouldn't you say. heehee.

 Taking a little look inside.  It was definitely a challenge, and I hope others feel the magical feeling of Christmas.

 This is the start of my Nov layout class.  Gena suggested that I do a Halloween  theme, so I did.  It already has more detail from when I took these photos yesterday but you will have to wait until its finished.  This is my Beans as a witch from last year and the other side is Scooby as a cow.  So much fun, and I hope to finish this up and deliver it to the store by thurs...yes it is only Sunday, but am spring cleaning also this week.   I wiped all the cabinets down in the kitchen and washed the floor and filled up the green trash with pine needles and shrub and did 3 loads of laundry today.

Monday I am off to my Teta's (great aunt in slave) to make homemade apple sauce.  She is gonna be 93 Dec. 10.  I am trying to learn as much as I can while she is still wanting to teach.   My Teta, I love her so! Happy Sunday.

Christmas house class

I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted!  I have been playing..really!  I am so excited to share what I have been doing..well, tomorrow is my first class at Cool Scrapbook Stuff in Poway.  It is a cute (I think) layout with Teresa Collins Memorabilia line.  I have been inspired by my 'Pumpkins' for most of my layouts and "hangers."
I did just return from visiting my sister up north.  This sister has 2 of my 4 pumpkins. I call them Beans and Scooby.  Scooby's nickname is soon to be changed to Sunshine.  She is just so sweet. That is a story for another post!

I am teaching this little house project in Nov. at Cool.  I just think they are magical!  I am showing you pictures of the before.  I did have some close-ups of the trees, as yesterday I sprayed them with Glimmermist and sprinkled them with glitter.  They transformed. My camera is a big terd, so they didn't turn out so good close up, but here I just grouped them with the house.  I still have a lot of work to do today on them.   I hope to be posting by tomorrow a Halloween layout, also a project I will be teaching in Nov.   Off to play.....after some coffee!

My Halloween Goodies

I have been a busy girl!  I love doing little houses..and here they are inside and out.  I always cut a little hole in the back corner because I like to add a string of lights to my "village".  I don't think 3-4 houses and some other little decorated items is really a village but it's what I call it and when I decorate, I will post a photo!  

 The photos loaded out of order, so scroll down and look at the big house and a photo of both houses together so you can see the difference in size.  I love them.  Lots of fun for me...now I just need a venue to sell them, as my etsy shop and my FB page are slow going to set up!

I also love to do "hangers" as I call them.  They are 4x6 and 5x8 in sizes approximately.  But again, fun projects for me.  I will be having projects  like these offered at COOL SCRAPBOOK STUFF in Poway as classes.  The same idea but different of course by season and my findings.  Most of the ones I would love to do but can't do as classes because I stumble over some of the goodies and only buy one..it makes them one of a kind.  Plus always buying with the thought "oh this might be a class" it not cost effective for someone who does not have a job.

My camera is poo!  I really need a better one, my projects are definitely better in person.  You can not see the details.

So this is about as good of a close up as I could get. You get the idea though.  Halloween is such a great time of the year, the air is getting crisp now and that means in just a few days I get to decorate.  I love the changing of the seasons,( I didn't say it was a big change!) but this it is for decorating seasons. Christmas is my fave but Halloween and Easter are right up there! I have houses and hangers for all three...but there is always room for more.  Happy Creating.

Home Sweet Home

Ta-Da!  So happy with how this turned out!  I love these found treasures.  I am a collector of art supplies.  I was up, northern California, visiting my sister and whenever I go to visit we MUST go into Berkeley.  On fourth street there are wonderful stores, Castle in the Air, Scrapbook Territory, and a wonderful Toy store too!  The toy store carries all of the OLD toys, wooden and vintage, it's great.  Castle in the Air carries fantastic goodies.  The german foil stuff, thick and fibrant crape paper, stringed puppets, mosses and mushrooms, just lovely!  The Home Sweet Home is one of the My Minds Eye cards to embellish projects with that I found at Scrapbook Territory 2 years ago and have finally "tacked" it down.  It hangs in my entry. The colors just make me so happy, every time I see it, it makes me smile and isn't it what it's all about!  Happy Sunday!

Summer's almost over....

After having the house closed up and the air running last few weeks, it was really nice to be able to have the house open all day!  The warm breeze coming through, I can smell the herbs from our garden, 80;s music playing in the back ground, it truly is a wonderful day to be working up in the studio!  I am working on some layouts for my classes coming up at Cool Scrapbook Stuff in Poway.  Working with, Teresa Collins Memorbilia line and Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells line.  Love them both.  I have not been scraping layouts, I don't know why. I get sidetracked with "other" projects, (my studio is lined with projects in progress!) so I am very excited to get back to them.  I have PLENTY of inspiration from my pumpkins.  My pumpkins are my nieces and nephew.  I don't call them by their birth names and they don't seem to mind..yet.  They call me Teta, which is aunt in "slave".  Again, you will see them soon enough in my projects.

Speaking of projects, this one was inspired when I was reading a bedtime story to my Beans.  It was a take on Twinkle, Twinkle if I can remember correctly. When I read this line for the first time, I got a little meepy.  I have a great love for the ocean, it is magical, just like the night sky at 2:00 a.m.  I get up often at 2 and go see what waits for me out my window...its like a breath of fresh air.  So, mind you I have had this sand dollar for about 15 years.  I had to buy the starfish and it took me 3 years to find the perfect piece of driftwood.  I bring this piece out as a centerpiece to decorate my coffee table for summer. And if my Halloween decorations weren't so cute it would stay out until Christmas!

Luka with a C!

 How cute is this!  Well, I think so! My cousin, Gina, wanted to name her little boy after the town that my Nani and Teta were from. They spell it Luka, which I spelled incorrectly on a previous post but my cousin wasn't sure how she wanted to spell his name yet at the time of the shower. All of her other children names they decided go to with a "C" instead of using a "K".  After the shower I changed out the "K" and made her a wall banner. This was her diaper cake and card. Off to work in the garden...

mmmmm..it smells yummy!

 I woke up feeling the need to bake..a family recipe that I tweaked just a bit, to make them just how I like them, a BISCOTTI that is not hard as a brick with that yummy anise flavor!  I grew up eating these goodies, when we would go visit her at the "ranch".  My Nani loved to bake and make other things with the goodness that she grew. Which leads to the next photo of her sauce pot with sauce I made from the goodness from my home garden. Yummmm..can you smell it?

 I will have to show you a picture of what I canned this last week  It is the base to the spag. sauce or can use as is with any veggie or protein. so good!

My Pumpkin, (Jonathan, my nephew) as this obsession with buttons, so of course, I made my this for his 7th birthday and I wish you could have seen the look on his face!  I used over 200 buttons.  It is the newest request for a gift from my nieces, but of course in pink, purple, and lots of SPARKLE!!!!  pictures to follow!