Cross Town #3

Hiya everyone!

I know I said that I would be blogging more but I have a problem all the things that I am working on right now I have to keep a secret LOL. I am in 2 swaps, 1 secret project that I don't want to jinx, acts for a meet up later in the year and some journal pages that would get me baned or kicked from blogger if I post them. The only thing that I could show is the jewelry box that I want to make but that is just in the planing stage.

BUT at lest I have the Cross town challenge to post about. Challenge 3 was to make a file folder mini and this is what I came up with. Yes it's a Halloween one but that was the paper pack that I find 1st. I do have some paper but not like many out there and a good bit is Halloween. What can I say I LOVE Halloween.

I used
Graphic 45 paper
file folder (duh)
Craft paint
Lindy's  Spray

I need to still add the ribbon to close it but I couldnt find it LOL.

Cross Town Challenge

Hiya everyone.

I am taking part in a challenge that was put on by Felicia. It's a weekly challenge that she and a friend are doing and said anyone can join. For the info on the challenge click here.

I missed week one on purpose!!! Fel was trying to kill me with card making. I am not really a card maker but I am getting the hang of it but that's not the reason I skipped it. The reason was lest then a month ago I had to make a 100 that's right you read 100 Christmas cards SOOOOOO I needed a break from cards. LOL I will come back to do that on tho.

For week 2 Tracy was MUCH nicer ( I still love ya Fel ) and posted Put a 2013 on it. It could be anything you wanted but you just had to have 2013 on it .

So this is what I made. Its the cover for my 2013 art jouranl. I am using a binder that has a clear front pocket and that slips right into it.

Can't wait to see next weeks challenge and I hope you will join us!!

New Year is here

Happy New Year Everyone!!!




As the New Year has started resolutions come into play. I really tried to think of some this year and all that I could come up with is the usual lose weight, stop smoking and organize. The only problem is that those just don’t mean much I have made them all before and they just don’t stick. Then I watch a friend’s TTMT and she said something that really hit me. She was talking about her resolutions and said the word BALANCE and that’s what I truly need.

I NEED to find that happy balance of family, work, life and crafting. So many things have happened in 2012 the biggest was my surgery and that a lone has made me look at things differently. I don’t want to get all sappy or really heavy on this post so I will not go into detail.

Any way back to 2013 this is some of the things I will be working on.

*I need to manage my online life. I have so many accounts everywhere and I really need to stream line them. I don’t know which ones I will be getting rid of but I will let people know as I do. By the same token I will be using some again. There are some groups that I would really like to get back to as well.

*As far as crafting will that’s in a few parts.

1 is kicking myself in the butt to do more

2 really chip away at the poor forgotten projects

3 post them

*I want to get back to reading blog post again and keeping in touch more.
I know that this will not be a quick thing but I am ready for the quest of Balance and I am looking forward to less stress that it will bring. Hey who know those old resolutions mite finally work out if everything falls into place.

See ya soon

B-Day Doll

Well I told ya that I will be Updating soon so here we go !!

I am very lucky to know an awesome artist by the name of artedar and I am super blessed to be able to call her my friend. Well her birthday was last month I was going to meet up with her and wanted to make something special for her. Any one that knows Dar knows her weakness ..... hand made DOLLS!!!!! So I set out to make a very special doll base off a converstion we once had and this is what I came up with.

her card:

inside of card:

A dear friend once asked me “Does it make you cry when you make dark art?” and I asked “Does it make you smile to do happy art?”  A person is made up of all there experiences in life, the GOOD and the BAD and that effects everything we do. The true answer is that it is all about BALANCE. With all the craziness in life it is hard sometimes hard to find just the right spot to be. We ether fall in a bad state of sadness and never move forward or we live in a state of happy denial that we never fix what’s wrong. This does not mean that we are a bad person just means we need a helping hand.

With that I present to you …..

THE GODDESS OF BALANCE

She will be there for you whenever you find that life is tilting and need a hand to Balance out.

and it was all UIU to boot !! More to come .......

Hiya

Hiya everyone!!

I want to let you know that I will be posting soon some arty updates. I have been doing some crafting while I have been gone. So keep an eye out for some post. I hope to be back on track on doing weekly post and the UIU again. I can't wait I miss yall so much.

Till next time

Hiya everyone,

I know that I have missed the last two weeks but one was due to Easter and the other was due to Tooth problems. I am still on track with UIU haven’t bought anything new.

I am writing this post with a bit of heavy heart, Due to some personal things going on in life I will not be online much in the next few months. So I will not be blogging, making any YT vids or streaming. If I do happen to make anything I will upload them to my Flickr as I take the pics with my phone anyway it will be easy to up load them.

I am truly sorry.

I hope that you all will keep the UIU going strong and keep supporting one another. Look how far we have come in just 4 months!!!!

I love ya all! GO UIU !!!!!!!!

UIU Week 12 !!!

Bet you thought I forgot again didnt you ! LOL Nope I have just been doing the great clean up of 2012!!!!! I have posted before that I had to move back in with my folks and so my craft room is also my bed room. Well it has gotten out of hand to the point that I hated craftting. I didnt want ot do anything at all!! I cant have that because art and crafting is like air to me and i was dying with out it!!

So this week there was no UIU crafts but no spending on craft stuff. I did have to get a bookcase but that will not count because I had to replace the one I had. The one I had in storage broke some how :(

SO HERE WE GO ( the pics are crappy but you will get the idea)

Before:

AFTER !!!!

 I am soooooooooo Happy !!! Now I can find things and I dont have to dig like a Mad woman !!! I cant wait to Play in my new space!!! OH and did you see that BIG BOX under the printer !! YUP thats my PAZZLE!!!!! I can NOW open it!! I told myself that I was not going to open and play with it untill I was done cleaning WOOOT!! Bad thing is I am stuck at work right now ((( shhhhh dont tell me boss))))

Hope everyone is having a awesome week and thank you for keeping UIU going !!!

P.s I took off the capcha stuff for the comments now. Some poeple were having a hard time with it so they will be off from now on.