Graduation for my Nephew

Matt my Nephew Graduated from College last Saturday. I couldn't make it over to Michigan because of this move we are doing . I soooo wanted to go. anywho I stole this picture off of his facebook.

This will be his last picture of his baby book I have to send to my Sister.

I was going to send it the other day but ah duh I packed it!! Good thing because now I have this LO to add to it. See there is a method to my madness. ROFL

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It's Grungy Monday!!

It's Grungy Monday and today we are doing a technique from Timmy created a faux wood appearance. It's done with Paint Dabbers and Distress Ink. The picture is so bad you can't hardly see it but it looks pretty cool..

The flowers were created using Perfect Pearls, you can't even see them shimmer in the photo

booo on the camera person! ohhhh that's me!!

Head on over to Studio L3 and see what the other Fabulous Artists have created!!

Utee and Me

My first time working with Utee was today and I'm not sure about it. The jury is still out! In my melting pot I had no luck at all. I then used it to create this frame with and that was a success after the third try. I used embossing ink then covered it with Utee and embossed then covered it again after getting it hot again and embossed. Then got it hot again and with a stamp using Stazon Brown ink I stamped it and pressed hard. Then I had gold rub and buff and buffed it. The I put the brown ink on my finger and rubbed a very little bit. It came out looking really cool for someone not knowing what they were doing! LOL The frame was cardboard to begin with. LOL

I'm entering it in a challenge over at Soartful

another Beeswax canvas

I played today with Beeswax again. The picture does it no justice. It's just glimmering with the perfect pearls and some Glimmer Mist in the background. Using glimmer mist with canvas I found tricky. I tried to get away without Gesso and found I needed it for the glimmer mist to look okay. I need to finish off the sides but some of the crackle accents are still drying. thats the shine you see in the lower left corner.

at the last moment I added the trim. LOL My Hubby says I can't stop once I start

No white space for me!! LOL

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Some Layouts I've Done

I did these Layouts and just haven't put them in Albums as yet. I'm not scrapping as much as I used to but need to finish off an album for my sister and one for my Nephew of his wedding.

Here are a few I have finished ..

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A Bookmark for my Mother In Law

I created this Bookmark for my MIL for Mother Day.. There is a story behind me creating a bookmark for her. She is going blind and used to love to read. We used to trade books regularly. The past two years she couldn't read a thing. Then recently she went to this doctor that did some tests on her eyes. He decided he can operate and she will regain back some of her sight.. with the help of magnifying she will be able to read again!! I am so happy for her I thought she would like a bookmark to mark the beginning of her being able to read again. Maybe now we can start trading books again.

our New/Old House

The gals over at OWSE want to see pictures of the New/Old House I am moving into come June 3rd. This house was built in 1865. It looks like an old school house. All Brick but the back end which is an add on. That is going to be my Studio when we are finished with it. We have to side it or paint it. Next spring probably.

Well here are the pictures. Voila!

The first is the back end of the house with the horrible decks. they are going and we

will build a nice deck.

This is a picture of the Canning House. We are going to preserve this.

We will put a new roof on it and fix the brick on the structure.

I might get back into Ceramics and get a kiln.

But that's down the road. way down! LOL

Here is the front view. See the Chimney.. it's going to be replace.

We need a roof like soon!!

I plan to sit on this porch alot!

It needs a good scrubbing down.

I have a glider swing that will go perfect here. Sit and glide , sit and glide.

Sounds so nice!

View of the backyard. It's 3 acres and leads to our new pond.

Dah Hubby is going to clean the pond, put some sand in so we can swim in it.

Probably next summer.

Side View

Side Porch - yes another part of the roof needs done and we sure do need

central air.

And the Driveway.. I love how big it is!

It's rough I know and needs so much work. but hey what else do we have

to do?

oh yeah crafting. Once my Studio is done I will spend loads of time in there..

Thanks for looking at my New/Old House