A "CHILLY" Weekend

The weekend just flew by. Cold, rainy and quite busy.  I found a receipe for "CHILLY"  Always good on a cold gloomy day.
It was in  our new library cookbook.. A fund raiser and quite enjoyable.


"CHILLY"

No Pants    No Socks   No Hat
No Shirt     No Coat     No Gloves

Exit home on a crisp winter day. Use front or back door. (Optional)
Walk, don't run  (Running will warm you and ruin your chill)

 presented by:     Ruby Dayle

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your week.

IT'S #151 at WOYWW

Oh the lovely changes of blogger once again. I wonder how long it will be for me to get use to the "New" ways once again. Like I have lots of time to locate this and locate that.  There are words but I want to be nice.  If I were to offer some improvements it would be to speed up the downloading of pictures.

It's simple with Julia at the STAMPING GROUND  the post is on Wednesday's of your Workspace, visit her blog for details and enjoy the fun.

 Right work area is a mess, working on tooooooooo many projects. Accomplishing nothing

Left work area is just drying glam on some tags. The little fish!!!!! Truthfully I think I donated this long ago and now found it on a shelf at another shop and bought it back.  My only conclusion is before my hair turned  platinum grey it was blonde.  Da..

Thanks to all of you who left such wonderful comments last week. I love your encouragement and fun comments.  It was a trying day..again today with 2 medical appts 50 miles away with my parents and some simple shopping for them. But the weather was super and we had some great Asian food.  Time with them is priceless, but I'd rather take them fishing!!

I am so excited about Julia's ATC's...these are great fun.
I have some ATC's in Feb  http://littletreasures-sylvia.blogspot.com/2012/02/sharing-valentine-atcs.html  and April  http://littletreasures-sylvia.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrate-spring-atc-swap.html   posts, if you are new to doing these,  as I do a swap every once in a while. I love working with these, the ideas are endless.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week.

Some Crafty Time Available

It's been a while since I've joined a Challenge but I so much loved this little image and  Debbi at
 All In My Cottage offered a 2012 Spring Art Challenge using her image.

I distressed the kraft card edges, used some soft green card stock (also distressed), topped with silver tulle, layered the pink flowery paper and the adorable little girl  BONNE ANNEE  image.She just radiates love,  with that pretty little dress and the fun bow in her hair.
 I used some scrunched seam binding for the pink bow. Added some white lace, pearls and rolled up a pink flower  I cut with my Sizzix die and a green leaf.
This was such feminine fun to create. The challenge runs until June 1st so stop over and find out the details.
I'll bet she is going to give that little bouquet to her special mother.
Thanks for stopping by, wishing you a wonderful week.

WOYWW #150

It's #150 ...a Milestone at  Ms. Julia's  STAMPING GROUND. The peeping about of workspaces and other sharable projects. Hop on over to Julia's blogspot and see what we are all excited about.

Variety is what I'd call it...white dominoes, flexible wire creation (makes many designs), Strawberry Shortcake Doll, black heart holder, steel dice and jax, paper scraps,  metal heart cookie cutters. Many ideas running thru my head and HIGH HOPES to get some creative juices flowing once again.

My "Floor"...a bag full of odds and ends for 50 cents at a great "THRIFT SHOP" my son took me too on base.  He then left me there for an hour while he went to Walmart... I had a ball...sooooooooo many quarter items, and great little treasures to stow away... He knows how I love a bargain. And when he loaded my 5 bags full .. he said 'I'm sure glad you don't have to go thru customs!!"

I had a most Wonderful Weekend visiting  in Kansas despite all the storms. Baptism of little Summer Rose (above in her little dress) and 2nd birthday of  Sky Lynn.(below)

 My military son's 2 daughters.  Their mother was non stop in cooking wonderful food for the BIG celebration. Unfortunately, my pictures did not turn out, so will have to copy and paste from some of the friends visiting. I was so disappointed. Haven't figured out the problem yet...my flash and batteries were always working. But modern tech baffles me..
Thanks to all you left such great encouraging comments last week, it was a stressful week and you made my day a little brighter.
Thanks for stopping by, hope to visit most of you this time around. Happy WOYWW and enjoy your week.

IT'S #149 at WOYWW

Late Tuesday night here, but it 's WOYWW at Julia's STAMPING GROUND.  So many peeps, visiting and snooping about others workarea's..hop on over she's got all the details for you to join in the fun.

A quick take of the desk....it has been the 1st day in a long while I've been able to sit and play...here I've some things turned over as I am creating "April in Paris" ATC's for a swap.  How I can be so limited in space with the big area I have, can't break the habit of "Piling Up" this and that, and using the floor to boot.

I was gone most of last week, so had very limited visiting, spent a few days with grandkids 3 hrs away for the Easter holiday.  And will be in Kansas for Baptism for Summer Rose and 2nd Birthday for Sky Lynn, this weekend. And adjusting to the idea that they will soon be gone for 3 yrs on assignment to Germany.

Making the 6hr trip alone, as DH has baby calves due and corn to be planted.
Visiting my chiro..taking Advil, and using my rice bag and hot water soaks as I am Trying to nurse back a muscle that took a hit while I had rib out of place before I start my journey, We've had 3 funerals again and in the AM I take my sister to the hospital for her surgery.

Had to pick the Tulips that were out, we are having evening freezes..20 degrees, never even had that when we were having our winters this year.  Now that all the buds, and flowers are blooming and here comes Mr. cold. I've most things covered with old sheets, etc to save their beauty and hoping our Spring comes back.

Hoping to do some WOYWW visiting, then must pack and get the car ready. Our rhubarb, and asparagus are ready to use so will have to work with that before I leave also.
 Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your week.

IT'S #148 at WOYWW

WoW  Wednesdays and Weather..both have surprises.  Some parts of  Iowa were in the 90's over the weekend, and people were at the beach.  But Ms. Julia over at the STAMPING GROUND  has people with new surprises for us each Wednesday. You'll have to bop on over to see all the details.

My sister and a friend took a day and checked out a couple of new Spring Fares and I got some cute little things..The little girls dress, I love...the colors and all the embroidery. I plan to transform it into lots of little boutique items.  The old sprinkling can  well I'll find a home for it   And a dear local designer, had the cutest little owl and Easter egg she created from old cashmere sweaters. (Sara at the Purple Pin Cushion)
My desk was free and clear...I had finished the Frilly  challenge card, on a previous post and also got my ATC's, so mine are posted just before this if you are interested.
Sometimes my desk is a mess, or cleared off, just can't show you what the designs are until they are presented.
Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day, I almost forgot it was Wednesday and I'm hurrying off to get a hair cut.   Enjoy your WOYWW adventures.

CELEBRATE SPRING ATC SWAP

Kimberly at ArtJoyStuff has had some great ATC Swaps. We just finished up "Celebrate Spring"

                                                            These are my creations:

                                                                            Frontside

                                                                           Backside

                                                                         Backside

Frontside                                

  2  PINK, 2 YELLOW, 1 BLUE, 1 PURPLE

I folded tiny doilies on top with a crocheted flower, a brad or button. some tulle, a soft ribbon and a little girl image or an Easter chick.  I finished off the backside with an embossed design, distressed ink and some
type of image.

Then in the mail today, these are the ones I received. Kimberly goes the extra mile to make this fun and she does all the sorting and mailing. She makes the opening of this envelope exciting too. She always has a cute wrap, today was an adorable Postcard she made, and a tag to "Celebrate Spring" attached with bakers twine to the wrap.

            THANK YOU KIMBERLY for the LOVELY TAG and the VERY PRETTY POSTCARD
                     AND FOR ALL THAT YOU DO TO MAKE THIS A  "JOYFUL "  SWAP

We each received six ATC's. It is so exciting to receive each one. They are all very unusual and so pretty.

I want to thank (top) Chris, Oliva, Sherry,  (bottom)  Danielle, Liz, and Donna for the beautiful ATC's and please know that each one has a special place in my heart.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful week.

FAVORITE VINTAGE STYLE CHALLENGE

Linda over at The Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog has created a new Challenge Blog, different things every other week and surprises during the week.  This first week we could pick Our Favorite Vintage Style.

I'd say this would be "Frilly" , I love both the Frilly and the Funkie, I just had more frilly things in front of me this week. I distressed the edges of my papers, added a sparkly dotted tulle, the image of the girl with her "Easter Bonnet" has been a favorite of mine.
 I apologize for not having the name of the site that provided this, the photo that I listed it was used by mistake. I searched 3 or 4 sites to see if I could locate it, but no luck so far.

From her Boutique I added one of  Linda's corrugated hearts, added a sparkle and pearls, and her pretty heart lace. The crocheted flower was topped with a pearl flower button.

Be sure to stop over and see all the fun things she has to offer, from the Boutique, to Challenges and lots of inspirations from the new design team.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day.