Casa de Meiners July 27, 2008

When you move to a coastal city you get visitors.  So not a complaint!

When we lived in Indianapolis we were 2 hours from home and the visitors were not that frequent.  Now that we are on the ocean we have had visitors 3/7 weeks we have been here.  I was in Chicago for a week during that time too.  My mother is coming next week, then Carla and the kids and Heidi is supposed to come before she goes back to teaching.  This past week Scott, Emy and Ben were here.  I think it was the first time we have ever done anything with just them.  Other family members have always been present. Well let me say we laughed  until bedtime!  Maxx and Ben wore themselves out playing.  Maxx enjoyed his cousin Ben so much he wanted him to sleep in his bed and not in the trundle.  Luckily Ben was open to sharing with him.  Could they look any cuter?  No, I don’t think so.

 Now for a piece of craft work.  Finally had time to take a few pictures of more recent work.  This was a Unity Stamp Co set that was released last month.  I believe this was my umpteenth (yes it IS a word) try at using flocking.  The oven mit felt like it needed to by fuzzy.  It was calling out for flocking.  Not to pleased with how it turned out.  For reasons unkown the ability to use flocking evades me. I can paint a mural yet I cannot use flocking.  Uhhhggg! 

The paper collection is from Kaiser.  I cannot seem to get enough of their stuff.  The variety of collections they have is fantastic.  Love, love, love the new materials that I saw at CHA.  Their wood products are as varied as their paper.  Melissa totally rocks and is a joy to watch.  They are an Australian company.  Thus, the employees Ozzies too.  Well I could listen to them talk all day.  What is it about accents? Not only was her demo at CHA educational it was fun too.

“With enough butter, anything is good.” Julia Child July 24, 2008

 

 

I found the quote on Margot Potters blog this morning via a twitter comment.  I think it describes me pretty well. I belong to twitter and it has turned out to be very interesting following other creative souls throughout their days.  It is like a tiny insight to their lives.  Some I have met and others I have not.  It also made me think of this card.  I created it for the Clearsnap booth for CHA.  Clearsnap is also know as the fabulous makers of Fluid chalk ink – Colorbox.  I love their colors and the quality of pigments.  Stamps are all Unity and the paper is Prism.  I love the orange peel texture. I used my pazzles for the scalloped shapes.

Day two February 24, 2008

 

I can’t say I will always post daily.  There are many times that life will get in the way.  But I can try to post once or twice a week. 

Part of what has propelled starting a blog was the move and also at CHA I felt like I was the only one who did not.  Keeping my life private to me has always been important.  I do not mind sharing work and fun tid bits or recipes.  But my family is off limit. I am a very protective Momma bird.

I will slowly add links to my blog of those who have work I am fond of and other who I find inspirational.  I will also try to link to companies whose products or services I like.  I will try my best to not sound like I am promoting a single company as that is not my aim.  I have favorites and I am not afraid to admit it.  

I gave a few mentions yesterday.  There is a photo of my September project for Pazzles.  I can honestly not say enough about the people and products they put out.  I have been working with Pazzles for almost 3 years now and they have never dissapointed me.  At CHA winter they made me very happy.  They came out with a new Machine called the Inspiration.  It will cut a 12 x12 sheet of paper plus a few other materials.  Check out the website www.Pazzles.com and you can see all of the wonderful features.  The new software is awesome and I cannot wait to get my hands one one.  I think I am going to upgrade from my Mini to the Inspiration.  They are available soon so I think once we are settled in I will make the upgrade.

We leave the first week in March to go to Wilmington.  I might do some house shopping then.  I know one thing will be important in our new house and that is a creative space for me.  I also want to have an area where my son can create along side.  He loves to paint in both water colours and fingerpaint.  I think creative expression is a very important part of childhood.