I used to haunt flea markets, estate sales, and yard sales /tag sales/garage sales until my great deals started running me out of my home. I bought art supplies, kitchen supplies, vintage linens and books, anything that I just couldn’t bear to leave behind. My hubby was just as bad, but his fetishes were old acoustic instruments and antique tools. Read on…
Quick and Easy
December 10th, 2010
I finally got my wireless internet installed last night by my good friend Jacob Stone after three weeks of Larry and me trying to do it. I thought I had it right, but we could never get a signal. Turns out that we had one wire in the wrong port (You’d think the only yellow cord would go into the only yellow port, now, wouldn’t you?) and our modem was about three years past its shelf life. Once I traded that out, it was smooth sailing and also an explanation of why I’ve had spotty internet service for the last couple of weeks. Read on…
Christmas Cheer
December 8th, 2010
Well, we survived the candy-making marathon of 2010, but my internet didn’t apparently. I have been having spotty coverage since Sunday, which is why there was no post Monday. Hopefully, that is behind me now.
I am starting on my Christmas cards, and this will be one of them. I usually send out around 100 and make the first design until I get sick of repeating it and start another. This one should be fairly easy. It’s just inking and stamping. The hardest part is lining up the Joyeux Noel stamp (from Artistic Outpost) to get it straight. Read on…
Company-coming, candy-making, all-around-fun weekend!
November 30th, 2010
We met a wonderful couple, Scott and Nancy Mirly, at the Hemman Winery in Missouri when Sorghum Hill, the Bluegrass band my hubby plays with, played there this past spring.
Let me back up a little. The band went to a festival in Columbus, Missouri a couple of years ago, and Scott and Nancy were there, but they didn’t meet them. Flash forward a year or so when the band played the winery for the first time, and Nancy and Scott had driven from St. Louis to hear them. Read on…
One thing I love about stamping…
November 28th, 2010
…no mistakes!
No matter what you do, you can always turn it over and work on the other side, cover it all up with dark ink and emboss it with light powder, tear the whole thing up and use it for collage elements or, take a tip from me and just glue something over it. That’s what I did with this little Christmas tag. Read on…
Winter is here…well, almost.
November 26th, 2010
We have been having crazy weather here in Tennessee: 70-80° days, 50° nights, all the rain we needed in August finally came in October and last night we had ice. Of course the ground was still warm from the last week of warm weather, so no bad road conditions for all those Black Friday shoppers. (I have to admit that I plan to stay home for the next 24 hours. Not because of ice. Because of traffic!) Read on…
I think I might have fallen down the rabbit hole…..
November 21st, 2010
I have to apologize for not posting last week. The flu virus came calling here at Windham Acres and knocked Larry and me for a loop. Aching joints, nausea, no appetite…the works. But that’s not what you want to hear about. Read on…
Memory Overload
November 12th, 2010
A few years ago, by hubby and I took a fabulous vacation that began in Rocky Mountain National Park, then meandered around through 17 states and 9 National Parks and covered 9,000 miles. That was one doozie of a trip. I was so glad to have my digital camera because I would have had more in film and developing costs than we spent for diesel, and that was the first time I every paid more than $4 for a gallon! Talk about sticker shock! Anyway, the photos required seven CDs, so that trip would have required several volumes of scrapbooks had I printed and journaled all I wanted. Read on…
Good things come in small packages….
November 10th, 2010
I learned a long time ago that sometimes the smaller the package, the more exciting the gift. My first watch, which I just HAD to have at age 11, was tucked in the tiniest box under the tree, and I didn’t even know it was there until Christmas morning.
My good friend Barbara Rankin taught a cool class several months ago where we used a magnetic base with an acrylic topper for custom paperweights. We used scrapbook paper and stamps for that one, but yesterday I was looking around for something made of glass to try out my newest Viva Glass Effect Gel pens and ran across this paperweight that was an extra from the class. Read on…
I Love, Love Love My New Toy!
November 8th, 2010
I have been waiting since summer to receive my new toy. I know you have probably heard a lot about it on Facebook and Twitter. It is the FlipPal portable scanner, and I’m here to tell you it works like a dream! It’s lightweight and runs on four AA batteries. There is a cover on the bed for scanning loose photos, but the cover is easily removed for scanning from albums. Plus, it’s very easy to use. You can set up and learn to use the FlipPal in less than 10 minutes. It’s affordable (around $150) and does things I’ve always wanted to be able to do with my desktop scanner. Read on…
