heart Atc

the heart Atc I've made for the local swap.



Finished another ATC for the local scrappers swap. I delivered my family & friends one & forgot 2 take a pic of it.

snow album and atc

Hi, I have been pretty slack, four weeks since my last post, I lead such an exciting life go nowhere exciting, unless you call two trips up to Khancoban in the truck & trailer with a load of logs exciting, I took the camera the 1st trip & took some nice pics of Mt Kosiosco & Tooma valley shrouded in mist, from the top of Tooma Hill, from the window of the moving truck as grumblebum wouldn't stop for something as frivolous as taking photos. lol. The second trip I forgot the camera & missed another photo opportunity as we left town, the sun was just coming up amongst the clouds, the colours were spectacular.

Krystal and Bec at Alpine Ash..



mum dad and gramdma Bowmen




the old blitz that has sat out at Storm Lookout for years & years, since I took that pic last winter someone has removed it, must be going to restore it.

Here I am again with another set of ATC's completed, thanks Vic for your help and the use of your stamps and inks, only had white lace, but a little bit of parisienne essence and vinegar in boiling water made vintage lace, not sure about the orange flowers, so stampesd them with basic brown to tone them down, happy with the result.

Bit sad at the moment, some b...... run over Misty, the mostly white cat in the pics in the last post I found her dead on the road. MOTH wanted to know why I didn't start the excavator and dig the hole in the pet graveyard down the back and bury her, we don't do things in a small way around here, that's what he did when he got home, well one things for sure the next door neighbours dog is not going to dig it up and take it home and leave it on the doorstep like Dudley & Michelles dog did years ago, with one of the dogs that we buried after about three weeks in the ground, it was nice and ripe. LOL

I have finished another one, not sure I got it right this time. I googled woodland animals 1st,then tried forest animal images and there were pages of them and they all seemed to be English animals, so then I started on possums & quolls etc,till I found a cute possum that I could use for a paper tole technique, then I went driving out the bush and took a heap of photos of the scrub, found a perfect one for the background. after going to all that trouble ,I'm not happy with the result.I will put in a couple of pics. Then trying to take the pics was another drama, the flash reflected on the glossy photo, so took it outside to try in the natural light and the damn cats harassed me trying to help, they are a pair of characters.




One helpful feline





with a little help from his friend



Sorry about the long post I seem to be rambling a bit today. I am going to the friendship patchwork day I went to last month and I was a month early, so I landed there with my plate of goodies & show & tell, it was block of the month day. so made sure before I turn up with everything and make a idiot of myself again

Roses

Hi it hasn't been a month since I last blogged so I will surprise everyone and show you how I have been wasting time, like I had nothing to do and all day to do it in. The 1st pic is a rose made from satin ribbon, it would have turned out better if I had double sided satin ribbon, but I am happy with the result anyway, the 3rd one is made with double sided ribbon, but I won't go into production with those because they are too fiddly & time consuming, as you can see by the rough thumbnail that is holding the paper up to the window for the pic, the flower is very small. The 2nd pic is flowers made with cardstock, from a tutorial Vic & I found somewhere on the net, once you get the hang of it they don't take long at all.







Better sign off now and go put put a stew on, it's wet and miserable out there, good night for it, I like those one pot dinners saves on the washing up,Luv to all til next time :)

Here I am after 4 weeks & I don't have much to show for all that time. Vic you said you wanted to see some cards, well all I have managed to do is 2 new ones & my ATC's for June F&F swap, I want to thank you girls for getting me hooked, had to boot up first thing this morning & redo an important document that I attached to an email yesterday, as they couldn't open it for some reason. Of course I can't sit at the computer, without checking on what you girls have been doing on your blogs, and I have been blog hopping for 2 hrs, and not doing my my housework, someone is sure to come visiting and I will be so embarrassed, because the floors need cleaning, the beds not made, I'll just have to point to the little sign Jen sent me,"I cleaned my house last week sorry you missed it", she knows me so well, eh!

Not much to write about as I lead such a dull life & don't go anywhere much. I went out yesterday to the CWA International Day, Sue I got a couple of pic's of your Mum dressed up as an Egyptian but I wont embarrass her by posting them. I was a wuss & refused to dress up, someone might look at me. I told them I might have to go in a hurry if my phone went, so I put it on vibrate & put it in my pocket so it's next to my skin & I'd feel it, LOL pulled it out to tell someone the time & there was a missed call, the one that I had been waiting on, maybe I am dead from the waist down,


a simple card


and another


my ATC, simple, a clipart picture, seahorse cut outs from Vic & a bit of bling

May # 2

Three times in one day, Lol I wanted my pictures under the writing, might get it worked out by next month, had a couple more pics but I give up on them, this AAADD (Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder) is a real worry, I cooked my pumpkin soup for an hour yesterday, took it off the hotplate to puree it and it wasn't even cooked, the hotplate behind it was very hot with an empty camp oven sitting on it.

My ATC

May update

I am way overdue for another update, so here goes, haven't been doing anything exciting, went to netball last Saturday with Karen, her team won their game.

Went to craft on Tuesday for a couple of hours, Tumut on Thursday for a hydraulic hose for the excavator,while they were making up the hose went and had fish & chips by the Tumut river, and brought a new TV with his Ruddy money, as old faithful died after ten years without a hiccup, it will be delivered on Tuesday, hooray I will get control of my own remote again, and get my TV back.

I missed a beaut photo opportunity on Wednesday night, we went out to stoke up the bonfire, the apple trees the other half pulled out and heaped up and burned.

Haven't much craft for show & tell took a couple of pictures of my ATC's, cards, my patchwork block for block swap at the group meet on Tuesday, I eventually finished the Quilt I made with the set I won about three years ago, I will include a pic of that too.

Better stop rambling on now and upload a few pics, so til next time, be good if you can't be good be careful.

Sorry no pics forgot how, instead of a picture, there was a heap of gobble de gook LOL have to get Vic to show me again.

I'm back

Hi I'm back, Hope you all had a great Easter break. Thought I would have plenty of time to play around and learn how to do this while I'm on light duties. LOL there are still not enough hours in a day. thought I would share a giggle with you, after having surgery was told not to hang washing on the line, Ms Independence has been doing the washing and putting it straight into the drier beside the machine, didn't want to tumble the work clothes so asked the MOTH to peg them out for me. Looked out the window and just had to grab the camera. In future I will try update more often than I have been. Bye for now

birthday pressie

I made this gift bag for my sisters 70th birthday..

Christmas Bear

I made this bear and thought she would make a great angel for the christmas tree.