Mini Challange--Mini Journal

Excited to share another "Mini Challenge Journal"  over at  Mini Album Makers Challenge

I was inspired by Anne @ Redanne  who created a vintage looking domino album,  just the cutest of a "MINI" I've seen in a while.  Please do pop over and visit her, I'm sure you will enjoy it. And she lists all the info on the giveaway and September challenge at the Mini Album Makers blog.  

My "Mini" measures 1 1/4"W x 1 3/4"L .  I have had the image stamp shape photo for a long time and sorry to say no idea where it came from.  I added a little wooden bird in the corner. 

 I then cut an oval shape paper accordion giving me 10 mini oval pages. I distressed the pages with Tim Holtz distress ink, Vintage photo

The next challenge was finding mini images. I found some tiny bird like stamps on card stock I had in a folder of images. And some tiny stick on flowers, I placed in a few corners 

I then found some tea dyed scrap ribbon for the closure.           

I had so much fun making this. Not realizing how hard it would be to find "MINI" images. Ideally hand lettering, or free had drawing would be ideal.  Not any of those talents within my fingers. But the challenge was a fun one and I thank Anne for her blog post for this challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you enjoyed your visit.

WOYWW #484

Welcome to our Wednesday sharing of the work spaces.  Ms Julia at the STAMPING GROUND is our hostess and she has all info to partake or peep about others from all over the world.

I am trying something with Bold print and one larger font. I have been having trouble seeing some of the blogs I visit and thought this might be easier.  What are your thoughts?  

Sorry for not many visits, we've had stress, some fun visits and many days away. Prayers are appreciated for our young friends who have an early little girl, who is in special care only weighing in at 1 lb 2 oz. Ellie Grace. Thankfully,  Her mother Ivy is improving with the help of the very best doctors in Iowa City to get her thru this traumatic event. My facebook page has some photos.

Also for a neighbor gal who was air lifted to Mayo for critical issues following an ATV accident. A belt broke on the 4 wheeler, flipping on top of her. 

My desk:

 Tiny little feathers I picked up while we attended the Spencer fair.  They came from parakeets, which were caged and by paying $3 to go in a large wire cage and you could feed them from a stick with birdseed attached.  Lots of colors and lots of birds.   I thought it a bit out of the ordinary, but if I was a bird in a normal cage this would be an adventure, but could result in being too heavy from eating so much. !!  I did not take my phone so missed some good photos. But we walked from 11 am to 5:30 pm looking and looking.  My legs are wore out.  We did take in a few musical tributes, good fair food and wonderful sunshine and cool weather.

Here are a few left overs from my 1st journal  a "Hinged Journal," now completed and shown on the post just below this one you will find photos of the inside.

  Also the red cap by the little plastic container is from Celery Salt spices. I take the red cap off and soak the container to take off the label.  With the 3 different size holes, you can use this for glitter, water, etc.  I started doing this last winter. I soaked cotton balls with Essential oils and used it for helping me clear my sinuses.  Some oils were so strong they melted this plastic.

Have a wonderful week,  THANK YOU to all who commented last week. I will be around this week, I have one day to be here, as the calendar is full.  He's anticipating field work in 2/3 weeks so we cram in short trips before the work begins!

September Challange with Mini Album Makers

Welcome, I am so happy to have had some time to create again.  I've been making bits and pieces of Journals, but just never got the groupings organized enough to finish one. Well, a challange over at
Mini Album Makers Blog really gave me some great motivation with their fun blog hop inspiration.

This was my first attempt of a journal...using paper, cardboard, bits of lace and using the binding technique. Several years ago I made a small fabric album for my sisters wedding anniversary. I used the sewing machine, which I had to replace and the new one being computerized I've not yet got real creative with it.

I started with an old pair of rusty door hinges  3 1/2" L  x  2 1/4" W   Finished Size

Binded together with brown jute

 Cut the thin cardstock  3" L x 3 3/4" W and corrugated cover 4 " W x 3 1/2" L, then applied Gesso

Arranged and Rearranged the pages, found bits and pieces  and small rubber stamps to use

The front corrugated cover has a bit of tea dyed lace and a real feather 

Inside pages

 Old note paper and book pages

 A tea bag has space for a tag

The back cover is adorned with a paper die cut feather. 

The book binding uses more of the jute

 Some stripped leather makes up the closure and another real feather adorns the top  I've tried to do a research of the type of bird, but with no luck so far. We have a LOT migrate through so at this point I am unsure.

 I am entering this in the Mini Album Makers Challenge HERE and  

                           Sharing with Mini Album Makers Challenge on Facebook  and
                           Junk Journal Junkies on Facebook


If you are interested in linking up for this fun blog hop, this goes thru September 30th. Stop by for some really great displays by the Design Team and enjoy the inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by. Wishing you all a wonderful week.

WOYWW #483

Welcome to another WOYWW, hosted by Ms Julia at her STAMPING GROUND blog.  I am a little late in posting, but thankful for working electronics. Some wild storms last night, ending in mostly heavy rains, not sure about our area, but a few miles north 4 inches. Lack of sunshine for several days has put us in a really slow moving mode. Forecast is same for rest of the week. Joy, Joy.
Thankful that my son missed tornado action by a few blocks over our holiday weekend.

I have enjoyed having time in the crafty space, working on a few projects for a challenge, so can maybe post on them by next week.

Desk shows a few stamps and tiny things. That little 'tiny' book from last week is pretty small to fit most things in. I have no talent with lettering, or free hand drawing so that rules the easiest idea out.

I did pick up a few tips on stamping ink, and the color I want in the brand that don't bleed will have to be ordered on line or make a 40 mile trip to purchase. Sometimes I miss living in the city. But I have plenty of things to keep me busy.   One being "Fall Decor". 

Enjoy a fun week, thanks for all the lovely comments last week. Have a Happy WOYWW kind of day. 

WOYWW #482

Oh it's a fly by Wednesday....the day we share our work space. Hosted by Ms Julia at the STAMPING GROUND.   You can hop over and get involved or peep on desks all over this world.

Sharing 2 spots this week, I've had indoor time all of yesterday as we had down pours of rain, some hail and darkness.

The tiny little flower left of the ruler, hopefully will be a tiny little book. I've yet to do the inside and pick a theme. Have to locate "smalls".  Also noticed  the circle ATC's  now and wanted to get the 2 1/2 size ready to make a few. Some pretty gold sparkle leafed  trim I found stashed away with "fall" items, plus a misplaced bunch of tags.

 Here is kind of suppose to be a sewing table for cutting  fabric etc. But it's now full of coffee dyed cloth items for making a few small journals. I've enjoyed so many YouTube videos on this. Sometimes overwhelming and they seem to get them done in a day !!! ???  Wish me luck.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week.

WOYWW #481

Happy Wednesday.  The day we share our desks.  Ms. Julia at the Stamping Ground is our hostess and has all the ways to enjoy a fun visit here, there and everywhere.

I really haven't done much at my desk, but I did drop off some new purchases on our adventure to celebrate our 13th Anniversary.

 We were headed for a bigger town to have Chinese food for lunch, but when arriving it was totally closed up and gone from the area. We did some shopping and  called another place thinking on our way home we could stop. Being Monday we have a lot of things closed. But they were open at 4 pm and we ordered the special a 2 tail  Lobster dinner  !  Shared with a Jumbo Shrimp dinner.  It was a wonderful surprise.

 This is another adventure. WALKING again.  the humidity is gone and cool weather is here for a while.  So out I went.  It's a long lonely road. But nature offered a lot.  I prefer to walk in town, but this is so much quicker. After the second light pole is our lane towards the house.

May you all have a wonderful week,  Thanks for the fun comments last week.  I also made a wedding card, now missing in photos, but I can share next week.

WOYWW #480

Welcome,  it's early, early morning here, couldn't sleep, somehow "heat" overtook a good nights rest.
After a few emails I noticed "Wow" it's Wednesday already. And that means another What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, hosted by Julia at the Stamping Ground.

Our wonderful weekend, celebrating Mother's 90th Birthday. One of her most favorite things is spending time with her grandkids.  All but the one on the left live all over the USA. One is missing, my military son is in the process of moving to the Boston area.  I'll do another post on great grands, siblings etc in a few days. Really....not...we have a wedding, a neighboring church gathering, a tractor show, and about 3 other events to make decisions on. So next week, I'm still behind on the cows venturing around the farm during the night.

 I did make a wedding card yesterday, but again the photos are somewhere hidden...oh the frustration of this automatic labeling One Drive is doing...I really need a day to watch You tube. on it.

 Some little oddities for making a little journal 

Some really old books and a well used catalog from the Charles William Stores New York City. I have yet to find a date on it. But it has to be old, Plaid dresses are $1.49 !!! This came from a little shop we stopped by after taking the grand kids home from their summer visit, before moms birthday.  Another busy time ! The fair, swimming, loving and laughing a lot. 

Enjoy a lovely week, and can you believe we are asking for "Rain"??? Thanks to all who left comments last week. I truly enjoy your visits.

WOYWW #479

Hello dear friends...making an early scheduled post as the rest of the week is all booked up.
Thanks to all who visited, I really appreciate your comments and great support.
It's our Wednesday desk sharing  and HERE at Julia's is the place to be. 

My desk was a busy one  My sister and sister-in-law and hubby's each celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary within a few days.  So I made so similar tags.

The above was for my sister and her husband  The stone was from some of my grandmothers jewlery
I had a wonderful surprise when cutting out the navy papers...the back was a sticky back. Oh yeah so hard to attach those fine letter cut outs.  I only hope these stay together.

The above here was for our sister in law and his brother.. the Celebrate embossing folder broke after this was made.

My desk has a few new little stamps I really wanted to play with and still the crescent wreath I used last week.  But getting ready for family coming for Mom's 90th Birthday Friday.
 Preparing food for our big family picnic on Saturday  And we took the 3 grandkids 1/2 way to meet their parents from their fun visit.  Cancelled out of my luncheon with classmates for Wednesday, a 4 hr road trip and too much for me with this high humidity, my neck, shoulders and arms are a mess.

Thanks for visiting   Have a wonderful week. Will have lots of photos next week.  Facebook friends got to enjoy a wild morning here, with our cattle getting out of their fenced area.  Will make a post here in a few days on that.

WOYWW #478

 Welcome ....it's another quick Wednesday, the day we share our workspaces.  Julia at the Stamping Ground HERE  hosts this fun day..

Moved this stack to free up another table for a project.. I've no clue what's all here and no time to get involved with it.

I've our 3 grand kids here, so today will have pool time, the fair parade,  and fair food !!

Have a great week, thanks for stopping by.