Warnig!!!!! Warning!!!!!!

Some of the pictures you are about to see may be disturbing to some, so if you are a neat freak you might want to look away. You have been warned!!!!!!

Now for a little class, people have been asking how I get the effect of spots on my inking, well it's very sinple really.

1. Start with a clean desk or working surface.

2. Protect your surface from the ink with an unused piece of paper.

3. Under that piece of paper make sure you have a nice smooth clean surface to work on, ok this part is NOT true, for a good inking effect you want a rough surface, notice the worn look of my mat protecting my desk. And be sure that you are prepared for that piece of paper not to always protect your surface.

4. Rip linen cover off the dye base ink pad of your choice, I use Ranger Distressing Pads all colors. Once you have ripped the cover off they are now no longer good for stamping only inking, but inking goes so much fast and I have mulitipuls of the colors I use for both.

5. Put the ink pad directly on the paper you want to ink with it lying on your desk top and rub away, start with the lighter color first, you can always add color but if you make it too dark you can not take the color away.

6. Just look at the wonderful marks left on the paper. For blogging purposes I'm showing the white paper under the printed, if you want more mark try leaving some string or tiny bits of paper under it, just play around until you get the effect you want.

7. Now look at the finished project, this is a card that will be in this months card class I think on the 18th. I will post the others later.

Now after seeing my desk, I had to laugh the other day when someone came into the store and asked how I organized my room????? I laughed and said my organizing skills consist of trying not to knock over a pile while stepping over it to get to the desk.

This concludes my first ever how to post, now you were warned so please do not hold it against me.

What happened to February??????

I know it's a short month but man did it fly by! Hopefully this means that spring is actually around the corner. But March does mean another vintage page class, the date is March 7th and there are a few spots left, in this class you will learn to make those wonderful flowers out of grunge board that you see Wendy Vecchi from ranger make. You will find out that it is a fun product to play with. Here are the samples.

Yes these classes are geared so even beginners can do them, but I do not expect to see any M&M's as flower centers (Linda) or do I want to explain the you what an ink pen is (Judy). Neither of you are beginners, and should know better, but thanks for the laugh in class the other night.

Now if you want a class not for begiiners you should take a look at Helen's Garden book it is beautiful with a capital "B" and is filling fast.

Now if you are just in the mood for some new stuff man o man is it flowing in the store, faster than we can put it out at the moment. Come in and see it all and let the creativity flow.

Update on "damit dog" aka Dexter, he still has not stopped from the day we got him, his energy is amazing, he eats like a growing boy but seems so skinny, but strong as can be, he plays tug of war with Rascal my 130 pound dog and holds his own. I have picture from the other day. And sad to say I will not be using stencil paste in my projects in the near future, I came home from work to see Dexter ("damit dog") eating it, I don't know how he got it to begin with but he also unscrewed the lid, didn't chew a hole in it it was unscrewed, yup I chased him around the house saying a few choice words, never a dull moment with him.

Well have a great night.

Ok let's try this again......

Blogger hates me it just hates me!!!!! This is the third time I'm typing this, the first time I went to hit post and it just all went bye bye the other day, somewhere in blogger land, and now I just was typing about my trip to see my brother and his family and it just all went blank right in the middle of typing, so now I think I'm going to say I had a great time, laughed until I almost wet myself. The girls Kaitlynn and Missy just love their Uncle Jon, but he is weird. I wish I could see them more often, they are a hoot to be around, my brother is doing a great job raising them (who knew). Here are some photo's of the girls. I would tell you more details but blogger hates me.

this concludes my third try at posting.

Stuff has been coming into the store by the truck loads so I'll post more about that later.

What the heck?!?!?!?!

I have lived in this house for 10 years now with no accidents. Yes I am at the end of a street, with no stop sign. But this weekend I must say I'm glad that there are trees in my front yard, and I wish DPW worked on weekends, now since there have been budget cuts, nothing gets plowed or salted on the weekends and even though it only snowed a few inches my tree has stopped 2 cars the hard way, better the tree than my front porch. And yes sorry Katie's car parked out front stopped one. Two people stopped to let us know, ofcourse the one that hit the car did let us know, I saw him anyway, and the third just drove off, but the tree does have car parts in it, I'm not sure he really got too far.

All I can say I I hope this weekend ends soon, and this week brings much better things.

Not much to say......

Yeah right, when do I not have much to say. Well I just don't have a lot of time. I will try to get pictures of my Sister's book on the blog tomorrow when the light is good. And yes Iris I am working hard on the paper doll book. Now here is what you really want to know, new stuff is already in the store, Maya Road is in the computer and on the floor get it while you can it won't last long. Were working on We are Memory Keepers and Basic Grey should be in anyday now. More Silihouettes arrived today and the Feb Sweet Treats are ready to be picked up, so if you are on the list come and get it you won't be disappointed, and we have 5 extra this month if you want on get it fast they don't hang around for long.

Ok back to work for me.
Y'all have a good night

Yup, I'm back...

And back to work, and just so you know if you are signed up for Sweet Treats they are almost ready to be picked up. I have to say we have 17 items in this months kit and 16 of them are vintage.

Stuff from the show is already starting to ship so you should see it on the shelves begining next week, and while I was working in the Maya Road booth and don't know everything Cass and Kate ordered I know you won't want to miss a thing when it comes in.

I also have been putting more stuff on our etsy site, just follow the link to the right that says Paper Tales online and keep checking back I'll be putting more stuff up the next couple of days. And yes we do ship international please ask about it, we try to do actual postage for international.

Well back at it, more later.

I'm back......

Well back from sunny California and into the snow, yup no sun no warmth and lots of the white stuff. Here's a picture taken from my front porch today.

Well CHA was a blast, I had a great time with the girls from Maya Road. Caroline and David are great to work for and Jessica, Lisa, Katie, Aubrey and we can't forget Matt.

Here are some projects I did for there booth, and if you have a LSS run don't walk for your own MR goodies they are wonderful and if your store doesn't carry them then you need to ask for them.

Well since I got home at 3 am I think I might go to bed now.

Damit dog......

Yup that's what Dexter thinks his name is now, yes my new table has teeth marks on it, and while the nights are reaching 10-15 below here my nice toasty warm electric blanket is now just a blanket, he loves to open the garbage closet, I swear I could put a baby lock on it and he would figure it out. He eats MY shoes, yes only mine. He gets magazines out of the rack and eats them, I'm sorry just shreds them. He loves to play on the internet when I'm working on the computer. But he loves his mommy, he is my shadow, and I've never had a pet so happy to see me when I get home, he sleeps at my feet and is alway with me, he plays so much with his toys and provides hours of laughter and entertainment, will let you give him a bath and will alway roll over for a belly rub.....so Damit dog you have really gotten into my heart.

Chicken Little.......

The sky is falling, ok so the roof is falling not the sky. If you were by the store Sunday or Monday you would see a lot going on at the store well a lot of ladders and cleaning that is. Also if you've been waiting more Silihouettes have come in at the $149.00 price you can't beat it, also we have a bunch of new Big Kicks in and dies.

I also just listed more stuff on our Etsy site http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5405843

If you love vintage flowers you'll love our site.

As far as the home front, my Mom is doing fine even came home today all seems to be fine.

Dexter seems to be in the terrible two stage, and everything is "his"

What a week...

I don't even know where to begin, my baby, yes my baby turned 16, man I'm old.
We are dealing with all the pre-show crap, by crap I mean looking a new stuff trying to make room and figure out how much we can spend.

Let's not forget it's also time to do inventory, do you know how many sheets of paper are in your store?????? I do they've been counted.

Let's not also forget on the home front my Mother went in for a completion of a back surgery she had 18 months ago and well now she is in the cardiac care unit with a pace maker after her heart stopeed beating many time through out the night. She seems to be in good spirits and her back seems to be doing better, and the heart problem seems to be doing well on the pacemaker.

Needless to say my brain (what little there is) is fried and I have not been able to do my paperdoll book so that class will be postpone until after CHA sometime. Speaking of CHA there are some really cool things coming out.

Well tomorrow is a new week so let's see what it brings, beside another candle on the cake for me.

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Nope I'm not going to make any resolutions, I never keep them, so I don't try to set them anymore. But I do wish your new year is filled with everything you desire.

Around here all is well. No one can complain, well, it doesn't help so we try not to.

I have got another class sample done, Cass is jumpong for joy. My vintage page class is done, I have three pages done and there will be one other sample waiting on you at class. Here are the ones you will be making.

Yup I love old pictures, and yes these are all related, to me. I did over the holiday season by surprise get a few more old photos of some relatives I really never thought would have their picture taken, what a great gift. I also got more from Jon's side of the family, I just love all that is old.

Well I hope to see you at the Vintage class on the 10th, my dinner just walked in the door, so I'm going to go eat.

I hope

I hope everyone had a nice Holiday, around here it's been busy. The dogs are all getting along now, they all slept in the same room lastnight. I think all of our celebrations are over for now, at least for December. You around here 3 out of 4 of us celebrate birthdays in January, along with 2 of the Grandparents.

I have had a bit of time to do some creating and have finally made the Melissa Frances shadow box for class I think it's Jan. 6th, spaces are very limited so please call the store at 586-773-7911 to save your spot. You will get everything here or something very simular to make this box, plus a few extras, I will even include the vitage photos but you are encouraged to bring your own at wallet size is what I used, and I always use copies of old photos.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

NO....no....no....

That seems to be the word of the week around here, but we also are saying a lot of good boy. Dexter sleeps through the night and even for the most part is house broken. He is VERY playful, the other dogs Lacy 11 and Rascal 9 are not to thrilled with that yet. He loves the tree and yes has brought me a few ornaments from it, but nothing has been eaten yet. Here are some more pictures. Yes it does look like he has a booboo lip.

What cutie....

Meet Dexter, yes we are crazy. But he is so cute how could pass him up. We got him tonight and I guess we will see how much sleep we will be getting from now on.

Just a little info

Here is something I forgot about, if you like vintage clip art and who doesn't you might want to check out this blog for the month of December. Ok you'll want to check it out all year it's a great blog. But she is posting different pictures each day for December. http://scrapologie.blogs.com/scrapologie_creating_art_/ Have fun.

Please let me be done........

I want to be done, I'm not. I'll be headed out to the mall tomorrow to get more shopping done. Who has gone befor me and bought all the girls jeans size 8 slim, my niece needs them, Jon's Grand-mother wants a sweatshirt, ok she's a petite medium, umm someone needs to cough one of those babies up. I don't have my Mother or Mother-in-law done I need to get my brother and sister-in-law stuff, one Aunt and Uncle a few things for Jon and the boys yet. I don't think the shoppers out there realize that I am carrying when I go out shopping, and I am a very good shot so please step away from the petite meduims and the 8 slims and no one will get hurt.

I know I have been tagged and awarded and plan on commetting on that in a later post I'm not sure if I know 17 bloggers right now. Thanks for the knowledge Kelly. Liz there are plenty of things people don't know about me, I'm a complex person.

Ok back to work.

So Sweet.........

This is what I miss about this time of year, the wonder you see in the faces of your children. Baking cookies decorating the tree together. All the stuff we use to do, but now they are too old to even think about doing, no letters to Santa, which ofcourse means I CAN'T say what I want to say so bad today to my youngest, "you know Santa is watching you and you are maybe getting coal" it's just and empty threat, okay it was always an empty threat, but now they know it, come on I need something here and if you are a mother of a teenager you know what I mean.

I must go try not to kill the sweet young one in this picture now.

Wow, looking at this picture no wonder Timothy said I've had that jacket as long as he could remember when I finally got rid of it this fall. LOL!!!

Brrrrrrr it's cold

Ok today really wasn't bad, but yesterday was COLD and the outlook dosen't look warm. I pulled out my turtle necks and ran out and got some warm fuzzy socks. Yes I did go out for what I thought would be a quick trip, but as I hobbled along I soon found out I was going to go no where fast, at one store I was offered a wheel chair! LOL! I was not walking that bad.

Ok here are some of my cards for next weeks class, I'm sorry they are so late but I've been so busy. These are the ones here at home some are already at the store. Please call the store to sign up for the class.

Well I guess I should get back to creating and maybe have some fun.