My 2nd set of Coasters!

On this set I took a 1 inch strip and ironed it in half and then hand ruffled it-a very tight little ruffle :} And hot glued it around the edge-I really like these-but boy is that ruffling hard on the hands!!!!

The sides are about 1/2 inch high.  I need to figure out how to use the ruffle attachment that came with my sewing machine! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

The View Out My front Door AKA Snowstorm 12/31/2010

  

There was NO snow here when we parked my truck(1987 F150 XL) at around 3 pm yesterday. This photo was taken 24 hours later-almost to the moment in this picture.  And it's snowing again :{

On a high point I have the ice cream freezer outside and we are gonna make blueberry ice cream!!!!

My Take On Those Cute Coasters!

A couple days ago I posted a link to a 12 year old girl who did a tutorial on making some cute ruffled coasters! So before I went home last night i made a stop-yes I know we should have gone right home (See post I HATE Snow :} but I wanted to get some stuff to craft with so I would have thing to occupy myself when I was snowed in.  SCORE! Got the ceramic tiles on sale for 9cents a piece! Got 3 feet of cork for 5ish-everything else I had at home.

So last evening i Modge Podged the fabric onto the tiles and commenced to make me a ruffle~~~ yah RIGHT! How the heck do yah make a ruffle-ok ok I know how but I didn't want the thread to show and boy did it take forever to get it the way I like it and enough to go around 1 coaster!!!

So I thought to myself "Self what do you have a lot of that would look cute on those coasters" BUTTONS :}

So here are my coasters  ~I have done 8 sets of 4 this is the first one finished and may be the only one I do with buttons but I had to do something!

Spinning and drinking good wine

I hauled out my old Ashford wheel and sat down with an awesome bottle of organic wine-Makulu-Moscato-semi sweet semi dry-lovely :} to spin some super soft extra long staple Lesiter Longwool wool from My friends at Marsh Creek Crossing  Marsh Creek Crossing.  This fiber is extra soft and luscious! I cant wait to get it spun and plyed -then I think I will try my hand at hand painting it-Any suggestions on colors? come give me your ideas!! Pretty pretty please!!!!!
Bee well Bee Warm and Bee safe

I HATE Snow!!!!!

Today was awful!!!  30 MPH winds-gusts up to 45 MPH -the drive home was almost frightening thank goodness we got home before the winds really picked up!  We are expecting 12 to 24 inches of SNOW! It started today about 10 am and will continue through tomorrow.If that happens I may be snowed in for a week-yup a week-the local towns road dept burned up in a fire and I am pretty sure the plows for our township will clear out the main roads for that town instead of the 3 miles of gravel road I need cleared to get out! Thanks goodness by buddy Mike's sweet dad Chuck fixed our snow blower and we picked it up yesterday-and all he want for payment is sweets! So I am going to make him ice cream!
Wish me luck gang! Thank goodness I just got lots of fiber, I have tons of fabric and patterns and thread and projects to keep me going-not sure how hubby will handle being stuck with me in the house for that many days-
gosh I just realized how incredibly hard it is going to be to get into the barn to take care of the animals!!!!  egads--I wanna move to Texas!!!!!!!

My first Patterns~ Ute Vasina

This Ute Vasina's site  Enchanting Delights  Ute was the first dollmaker I purchased patterns from-Every pattern I received from and made--yah I still have a few i haven't made :}-turned out spectacular! Her Patterns are full of detailed instruction that are clear and easy to understand-And to top it off~If you have ? she is right on it :} She turned me onto the tiny finger turners after i was in tears with aching hand trying to tun fingers the first time! Her trolls are adorable--check her out~~ she's a sweetheart!!!

A Cute Little Pin Keeper :}

I was going through my bookmarks today looking for projects for the weekend. I had forgot all about this one!
It's a bright cheery little pin cushion!  I love pin cushion myself-a little trick I learned from a quilter~~ use sand blasting sand as a filler! It keeps your cushion weighted and sharpens the pins and needles!!!  Go here Cheery Little Pin Cushion for the tutorial. Have fun Honeys!!!!

Cute -n-Easy Gift Idea!

Or just make them for yourself!!!! The girl who designed these is 12 years old! She is a very special crafter! Check out her Tut here Ruffled Coasters Make sure you comment on it OK? We need to give her lots of love for sharing this!


Bee Beeautiful :}

COllio Organizing idea Gang!!

So if you read my Top 10 Goals for 2011 you will recall that I talked about creating a space for all those brushes pens and pencils ect-Debbie hooked me up with this post that is super cute with less work than Modge Podging cans!!!  Lazy Susan Organizer!!!   This is super duper cool and colorful!! Thanks Debbie! I owe yah one :}

An After The Holidays Giveawy!!!

Lillie Mae's Craft is having a giveaway and all you have to do is shoot her an email!! She is giving away a new pattern and the doll made from the pattern! I have blogged about her before as she has tons of FREE patterns and e books and tutorial on her website Lillie Mae's Crafts  this is where you can find the giveaway information well!  Good Luck!!!

My Top 10 Goals For 2011

1~ I will limit computer time to be able to create more
2~ I will try more of my old patterns instead of buying new ones!
3~ I will continue to try new techniques without waiting weeks to "be ready" I will just dive right in!
4~ I will use the supplies I have~ for the most part~instead of buying more and more!
5~I will make more "sellable"items
6~I will tidy up after creating-instead of leaving it til next time and then not sitting down casue I don't want to deal with the mess
7~I will make my Art Table less cluttered and make the items I use most more accessible-<I saw a post somewhere where they took the bottom of a hat box-the round ones-and put it on a lazy Susan-they put pvs pipe pieces in it to hold brushes and pens and pencils! Cool idea right!!!! I think It was on the Modge Podge site>
8~ I will organize my supplies better with plastic drawer storage instead of tossing it in assorted bins
9~I will jot down ideas instead of thinking I will remember them!
10~ I will buy a decent printer instead of buying used ones that wear out after 1 ream of paper!

Now if I can only remember where I put this list~~~~~~~
tee hee hee
Bee Well Bee Beeautiful Bee Creative Honeys!!!!!

Great Fabric Giveaway!!!

http://www.dawnsquiltcorner.com/2010/12/happy-new-year-fabric-giveaway.html
7 yards!! Yes you heard that right !!7 yards of fabric-All Kaufman ~~all Dr Suess!!! How much fun would that be to win!! Check it out at the link above-her entire website is a fun way to spend 30 minutes or so!!
be well my friends!!

My "Feather"Trees!

Theses are the "feather" trees I made this last Tuesday when I was snowed in at home! They are made from Fun Fur!  Pat Gill o Cr8tors Touch did a tutorial on these on The Hive! If you haven't already I suggest you check it out :}

Neat Stuff I got last week :}

I got this wonderful little Santa from Hermonie Goodwitch and Carlin Davis! I LOVE him!!!!!!  Carlin I want to try to make that face!!!!! Your work is amazing and I love you girl!!!!!

This wonderful doll is Jack Frost-My hubby bought him for me and he was made by Patrick James Gill of Cr8tors Touch! I love his hands!! Jacks-and I suppose Pats too :}

This is just a portion of the wonderful thing I received from my friend Mike's Granny!! tons and tons of embellishments!!!!!

This is some amazing glitter and glue and embossing powder I won from The Hive's 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! This awesome pack came from Barb Bruder of Sprinkle & Sparkle! If you like glitter-and don't we all :} I suggest you check them out!!!!
Have a wonderful holiday season my friends and stay warm!

My Hubby & I Exchanged Gifts this Evening!

Tonight Hubby and I exchanged out Xmas gifts  as I will not be at home till next Wednesday-no big deal we do it this way every year :}
I got him a new BB gun :} and cast iron dutch oven-2 cast iron fry pans, a cast iron pot and also a stove top popcorn popper! He's the cook in the family!!!
He got me my favorite perfume-Shania, an Painted Pony Ornament Jingle Bells and ~~~ are you ready my doll making friends??? My dear sweet husband created for me a sort of a book of the month club!!!! Because I buy all the doll books I can find he found 3 that haven't been published yet!!!
The first book I should get next week-it is Wee Wonderfuls by Hillary Lang! I didn't know this one existed!! I am excited to see it!!
The next book I will get in February-a book I wanted so badly too!! Introduction to Cloth Doll Making by Jan Horrox!!!!!  Oh My he is GOOD!!!!!!!! I wanted this the moment I saw the cover!!!!!
The final book I will be getting in March-this a book by one of my favorites-I have all her books and I so want to take a class with her someday!! It's Creative Cloth Doll Collection By no other but PATTI MEDARIS CULEA!!!!  whoot whoot whoott--i love my hubby Todd! So sweetie if you read this I LOVE YOU!!!

Snow Day!

Yippee!! A Snow Day!! Now don"t get me wrong~~~I detest snow! but when I keeps me from a day of work ie my job-YIPEE!!! I am getting a lot done today I am making Patrick Gill's Feather trees! http://creatingthehive.com/group/Cre8orsCraftClubhouse/posts/35187/class-4-Christmas-vintage-styled-feather-tree
Check them out here!
Super fun and easy and so very pretty!!
And If you haven"t already~ come and join The Hive!!!
You can meet all types of wondrous creative people who share  and share and share! Lots of fun giveaways and games too!!
Bee Warm-Make something Beeautiful Today!

Oh~~Sorry No Pictures~my camera broke :{

I wanted to take pictures of all the goodies I got today but my camera broke-I have a new one one the way so ya'all will have to wait~~ I am SORRY :}

This Morning was Terrible but this afternoon & Evening was a WHOLE Different Stiory!

This morning started out terrible-8 inches of snow made it very hard to get to work and I was 10 minutes late-we have a 38 miles drive to town-none of the roads had been plowed most of the way there-then We were super busy-had 3 truck to unload and 2 people didn't show up for work!  ARRGGHH!

My lunch was an hour and a half late when I sat down to check my email-by email I mean check my Hive notifications :}
To my wondrous surprise I had won the glitter I wanted from the 10th Day of Christmas Giveaway!OK my day just got a little better~~ then my buddy Mike-whose Grandma gave me the giant table for my craft room and whose mom is an INCREDIBLE quilt maker and designer-brought me 3 bags of goodies from his grandma~ bead and paint and beading wire and tons of embellishments along with 15 pieces of old bone china animals figurines! Ok day was good :}
 At $ o'clock Mike was leaving for home and his mom Betty came in with a large clear plastic box full of more embellishments!!! ok day was great and One more hour til I could go home!
are you bored yet :}
So at 5 o'clock hubby picks me up and he says a package came for me!! It was my Jack Frost form Pat at Cr*tors Touch!! Pat even sent chocolate :}  Jack is so perfect-he sparkles and has the most elegant hands!!
So we pull up to the driveway and I get out to get the mail-There's a package in there!!!!!! From my good Friend Hermonie Goodwitch & Carlin Davis!!! Honestly I though Hermonie was going to send me some tea~imagine my surprise when I opened the card and there was a beautiful portrait of Hermonie!!! Then I opened the bag inside the box~~~~ It was one of Carlin's ADORABLE Santa puppets!! He is so cute and has the sweetest expression-and he jingles when I pop him up and down!! I set him in my tree where he is sitting there in a branch grinning at me!!!!
Thanks You The Hive, Granny Markee, Pat, Herminie and Carlin for making this awful days 10fold better!!!

GRRRR Blow outs!

I cut 5 pretty little prim dolls from a Pattern from Sweet Meadow farms http://sweetmeadowsfarm.blogspot.com/.  I cut them out of osnaburg  fabric as other prim doll maker use this ad I liked the feel and look of it. It cut nice-sewed nice-and them I went to turn the pieces~~ blow outs EVERYWHERE!!! so i turned em back and sewed the blow outs up again-figured I got too close. turned em again~ guess what? BLOW OUTS!! so I glued em up!!! I know I know -but theses were for me :} So the glue held nicely and I went to stuff and I have BLOW OUTS all over again!!! GRRRRRRRRRR  Ok ladies and Gents ~~Is there a trick to sewing turning and stuffing this stuff? I use freezer paper for my patterns and a small, close stitch on my machine. Any tips will be appreciated as I bought 10 yards of it! It was on sale and I had a 60% off coupon on clearance items :}

Old Fashioned Doll Swap

Cindy at Thimbleprims Studios http://thimbleprimsstudio.blogspot.com has organized an Old Fashioned Doll Swap and she is kindly letting me participate!! And luck me~~ My partner in this swap is Shelly Harris of Cloud 9 Kreations www.cloud9kreations.com and Sherry From The Hive!! I am so very excited about this and have an interesting idea for her doll already!!!!

Bee Warm ~Bee Creative ~Bee Only As Buzy As You Need To Bee!!!!

The View Out My fron Door

This a huge Cottonwood Tree--It was much prettier in the summer :}

My Christmas tree 2010

This is my tree~~ I splurged on a Balsam Fir. It is simply decorated with LED lights green and pink glass balls and my Santa ornaments. It smells divine :}

Busy Busy Busy

I have so many things running around in my head I cant get anything finished! My pretty pink craft room is full of the stuff we took out of the LR we gutted and it feels so very crowded i cant stand it-it will be so nice to get the LR back in sorts.
I do have 4 sewn doll bodies to stuff-prims this time instead of my usual elven type dolls-but I have the Xmas Holiday off so I will be working on something a bit different-I am gonna try a goth elf-or maybe just a goth -with people ears :}  I hope to get a lot accomplished with a whole 3 days off in a row!!!
The Hive inspires me to get things done-looking at what all others accomplish!!!If you haven't checked it out fly over there and Bee impressed!
But this cold weather makes these things not happen ~~you see my room sits facing North and the wind is gusting up to 37 MPH-when there is no wind it is really nice-with wind FREEZING!!!
Bee Well and Bee Creative~~ May You Always Finish Every Project In Time :}

Super Cute Santa Ornament Giveaway!

Go to Cyndi's blog to sign up!!!!!! Is'nt he adorable!!!!!

I Got Something Wonderful in the Mail Today!!

Today my hubby received a gift he purchased for me{-i told him what I wanted!!!}  It is Esther Verschoor"s new book Vanessie!!!! I love this artists work! you can check it out here Vanessie or at her website Vanessie~ Art Dolls I wold take a pic but as you will see on the first link the cover is very dark. The pictures inside however are bright but dark :} If you are a fan of her work at all I think you will enjoy this picture book or coffee table book very much !!!! Thanks Esther for making this wonderful book for our fans!!!!!

To Everyone~~~ Never Stop Creating!!!!

Great Ornament Giveaway!!!!!

PFFAT Ornament Giveaway!

NEWS RELEASE!! Pretty Kittie Likes My Santa Ornaments Too!!

Hee Hee Hee This work of Art was made by Nellie's Hooman Barb!!

Is that the cutest thing EVER??????

New Stuff :}

Here Are Some Cute Santa Ornaments I Made! More on the way too!

if interested you can Purchase them on my Web Site!! http://wyndsweptacres.webs.com/  In Fact just go check it out ok? you'll like it~~~~~I Hope :}

I finished this little cutie yesterday!

He is from a pattern from Sweet Meadow Farm-Her patterns are full of instructions easy to make and fun to read!

WIP

This is a doll I am making for a friend :}

Doll recieved from Rabbit Hollow Prims

Finally I have a pic to post-sorry about my dirty stove!!!!!!!!! HUbby cook so good but makes such a mess and I was in a hurry to get a picture.

This is Autum-the doll I sent her

http://creatingthehive.com/blog-post/23378/autum-death-of-summer-is-done
sorry couldnt upload the photo!! You will have to check her out on my Hive Blog!!  hugs all-now I have to get to work!

Day 8

So Sorry I have missed 2 days-works was so hectic and I was a bit under the weather-i pretty much crashed after taking care of the animals.  I did receive a couple packages in the mail though! Carlin from PolyWog designs sent me her Topsy Turvey pattern and I finally got to sit down and take a look at it today. It is a great pattern with pages and pages of detailed information so your doll turns out perfect! I was hoping to get started on it today but there was much to do as the day was nice and we are still getting ready for winter! I also received my swap doll from Rabbit Hollow Prims -A Prim angel :} as soon as I figure how to add pics here I will add a pic! I sent her Autumn ~Death of Spring.  Be well my friends. Go ahead and learn something new today!

day 6

Today in the mail I received a pattern from a very dear Friend! I cannot wait to make her Topsy turvy dolls!! Carlin Davis has the cutest patterns!!!
Again I a m beat tonight-you ladies know how it is the the first day of that time of the month? It just KILLS me-tired, depressed, no energy-although getting Carlin's pattern cheered me u!!!p--discovering that the bulb went out in my brooder and all but a couple of my sweet chicks were gone sent my into near hysterics :{ I so NEED to work at home so I can take care of theses things as they happen-I do like my job-correction -i like my customers and most of the people I work with but so much to take care of here on the farm-was soo not a good day-thank you my sweet Carlin for the package!

day5

Not much to talk about today-i am so very very tired after running all day at work-gonna have some rice and go to bed-on a high note however-I got a package in the mail today!!! A dear friend sent me her baby sizzex!! I cannot wait to play with it--it is so very very cute!!! I did have to google how to use it :}  be well my friends-please see the beautiful things and ignore the ugly, the dark-the terrible things humans do to each other.See only the light-make something wonderful!!!!!

Day 4

Hello all!!  So last night I sculpted a head~~ now I haven't worked with clay for a very long time so i was surprised that this head turned out quite well~~ It was a new clay that I used-new to me called LaDoll.  What great stuff! like paper clay-kinda but so very much easier to work with! I did try to take a pic of this head but none of  the pics worked and couldn't for the life of me remember how to turn the flash off on my digi! He will be a wood sprite the end --i think-this is what I want him to be but we shall see what he wants to be!! Thanks so very much to my followers! You guys rock!!!!!!

My Favorite Doll I've Made

I made this doll about a year ago and it was the first doll I sold. I loved her long pink hair and snappy attitude!!

Day 3

I am really looking forward to tonight! I get off work at 4-I don't have to work tomorrow-so I can stay up late and sew!!!!! I have a doll to finish for my friend Carlin and then I want to make some Raggedys but I also have a commissioned piece to start-this one is gonna be a bit hard though!! She want a 50's Diva Elf!!!!  we shall see how this turns out!!!!

Day 2 -Doll made For a Swap

This is a doll I made for a swap-this is mt 2nd favorite doll I have made :} I hope her new mom likes her!! I love doing swaps! So much fun to get things in the mail from others! Things they have put their time and creative energy in!!!  You can feel it when you take it from the box don't you think?    Learn Something New today So the Day is Not Wasted!
Introducing Autumn~ Death of Summer

Day !

So this is my first entry as I sit here munching on homemade bread and Mushroom Stroganoff made by my DH Todd. On Tues November 2nd we will have been married 19 years.  We have come a long ways from the tiny attic apartment we started in to the 10 acre farm we know own. We have egg laying chickens and 5 geese. A small herd of 10 dairy goat does and 4 bucks and of course the ponies.
As we come upon another Minnesota winter there is still an enormous list of things to complete. Firewood and snow fencing and window plastic are all at the top-and we still have to purchase and install a new wood stove.  There are not enough hours in the week after working and driving to complete what we need to do and now daylight is less and less everyday.

On the bright side,winter allows me to "play" more-to work on my doll making skills, to read and also to learn.  I firmly believe that a day that goes by without learning one new thing is a day wasted. So on that note please go out and learn something new after reading this-huh~~~ like I think someone is gonna read this.                           Be Well Be Proud & Be Beautiful Everyday My Friends