Deciding

Welcome, it's been awhile.  Caught up in the midst of staying home, being careful. Not always the easiest to post when good vibes are not there.  I've Halloween put away, left up some fall foliage and a few turkey's for the Thanksgiving holiday, but the urge to start with Christmas decor is about to happen.  

I have been working with the canvas I posted below...maybe a journal, a wall hanging,  hand stitching, just not sure yet.  

We had some heavy ice a few weeks ago, I gathered up a few fallen branches that I thought might good for leaving natural, or painting white, to use as décor to hang seasonal ornaments etc.

Seems quite big, I've small areas but it has lots of possibilities with so many small branches

Would be great on a porch. 

Actually these 2 could be cut for vase like use... 

Kind of think this one will work for slimness, and cutting off a small amount at the bottom.   Find a container to maybe fill with larger stones to keep it upright.    I think my DH  is wondering about me. 

Maybe I'll just store until spring.  A bit cold out there today and temps dropping all the days forward.

Any of your ideas or suggestions could help me.    Stay Safe   Enjoy the weekend

PERFECT FIND

Welcome:

I was in disbelief when I took a walk to see what my DH was doing in his shop.

Well it's 70 some degrees the past few days and he was outside working on organizing some disguarded metals.   He had an old cot and was cutting the fabric from the metal form.

I arrived just in time to gather up all the light weight canvas and have him tell me "you are totally out of your mind" !! !  And only you who  "create" Mixed Media paper/fabric designs would understand. 

I was in AWE...no dying necessary, It was weather worn. His cutting it up had ragged edges! TRULY a PLUS in my book.  

I brought it in and washed it up. Let it air dry and this is what I ended up with.

I taped it to an old wooden ironing board for display.  And my plans will be to use it in a fabric journal.

It even has stitching !!!!   I'd say it was my LUCKY DAY.  He's still shaking his head !!!

Thanks for stopping by,

OCTOBER CHALLENGE

Welcome, I completed my October challenge at  Birds Nest Books and Junk Journals a private group on Facebook. If interested you can join, The Admin and Hostess LeAnn makes it fun and there is a lot of inspiration from this group. Keeps me enjoying using my stash. The challenge  was to make the use of  the letters  O C T O B E R.

I started this way back Oct 3rd and just couldn't come up with the right process.  Lost my MoJo, on call for DH doing crops, special company from Wisconsin visiting and a few precious people dying.  So I

made  this tag:

"O "range flower, "C" chair, "T"twine/tag, "O" val necklace, "B"rown, "E"yes, #8, "R"ounded edges

But I wasn't happy with this and I wanted to make the Pumpkin shaped journal.....Ideas came, so here it is

First process was to cut the pumpkin from cardboard and paint orange and green for the stem

The Cover set up to show OCTOBER   and  "O" for orange

"C" for Cat/Crows and room for notes

"T" for Two Tags 

"O" for Owl room for notes    "B" for  Beautiful Butterfly. The Brown Button up in the right hand corner is covering a mistake.  I punched the wrong side for the circle binder

"E" for Envelope and a stamp that has the Earth on it... The last letter "R" red leaf I gathered and the Robin. 

THE END.     Thanks LeAnn, it was a fun process, once things started to click.  And "Thanks" for visiting and those precious comments.  Stay Safe and enjoy this last week of OCTOBER 

WOYWW #592

Welcome, well I guess, I'm better late than never.  Totally forgot it was already Wednesday. 

I just finished up putting 2 cars back together. On Monday I took EVERYTHING out of these vehicles  and wiped them down inside and vacuumed them.  I had 3 large boxes to sort. It is totally unbelievable what has made the car their home.  Then Tuesday my DH took mine to have it's oil changed  at 7 AM and I never got it back until 9 PM that night.  After a few phone calls  it made no difference I wasn't going anywhere but would have liked to have finished the job.   SO very early today I had sorted things out, disposed of most and replaced minimal items back inside.  We are now equipped for WINTER driving and trips here there and hopefully everywhere. 

And HOORAY !!   he is on the last field of corn crops.  Has been exceptionally dry and beautiful harvest weather.  He will clean up equipment, store away for winter and then start with ripping/disking stocks and preparing harvested fields for winter. Will be lots of black ground.  

Last Geranium Bloom was the biggest.   And the kohlrabi below is all that is left in the garden It will be picked and stored before a hard freeze.  Special kind (lasts forever !!!)

Have not spent any time at a crafty desk.  This was 2 piece set  25cent curtain toppers I picked up at a thrift shop.   I cut off the lace from the bottom 

And will use it in  my crafting, and will use the fabric for making a slow stitch project later.

We have visitors from Wisconsin coming for a couple of days, so I must do a once over of the house and prepare a pumpkin desert, maybe make some soups or a crockpot meal  

Want to be involved with WOYWW visits or sharing What's On Your Workspace Wednesday....you can do so by going  HERE    Have a beautiful week, Thanks for stopping by  

WOYWW #591

Welcome, it's already Wednesday, the day we share our workspace.  Ms Julia has all the info on her blog HERE  You can play along, visit others thru Mr. Linky,  and share what's been keeping you busy.  It was a really busy week, last week with him working on the bean crop. But thankful as the weather was perfect, 70's and no wind.  

My desk:

Yesterday I making a few faux postage stamps, but got interrupted.   

Time to move equipment to another field south of town...3 trips to move 

Truck and big wagon, tractor and 2 big wagons, and the combine...he's taking a crop of soy beans from the fields.  Should be done and begin corn in a day or two.  Has had 2 breakdowns Saturday evening a huge belt broke, had to wait until Sunday to pick it up at the store. and have a friend come to help install it. Then Tuesday a huge tire on the combine above started to bulge. Good he spotted it as traveling down roads with a heavy load is very dangerous.  So a tire company came to replace it . Need less to say it is very spendy.  

I   picked up some unusual leaves while going for a walk,  most are drying in a book 

Placed this one in a cellophane holder with a backing of tea dyed paper and an unusual twig,  the little narrow strip has a purple weed. Plan to put it in a journal as a page 

Just below is a post on 2 fall birthday cards I made.   And the post below that is a big more detailed journal I made for my sister  similar to the one I shared for a cousin.   Thanks for all the kind comments last week on that journal.  

Stay Safe and  Happy WOYWW 

Fall Birthday Cards

Welcome,  enjoying this chilly day with a big cup of white chocolate. Have had some great time to catch up on crafty projects.  DH has been taking out fields of Soy Beans. packs a lunch and calls me when he has to move equipment. Usally involves 3 trips of combine, tractor and 2 wagons, and the truck and a wagon. Do that once a day depending on size of field. Weather last week was perfect. 70's and no wind.

Here are a couple of Fall Birthday cards.

Quite simple 12x12 cardstock, cut to mailing size, fold in 3rds, added Washi tape and little inspiration cards.  I embossed the envelope with Fall leaves and colored with Distress Ink (olive, gold)

Thank for stopping by. Stay Safe and Enjoy these "Fall" days.  A little chill in the air and some beautiful colors 

Mom's Family (Journal)

Welcome,

Wanted to share the Journal's I made using some of Mom's family photos and papers from the Echo dying I did from her funeral flowers/leaves.  I shared that earlier. 

The cover has a pink doily that her mother Sylvia made (my name sake) and a very old clothespin from a favorite Aunt of hers.  

Paper from the funeral flowers I Echo dyed

Grandpa with uncle Richard, Grandma Sylvia, and 3 children.  

This photo is upside down and the NEW BLOG I don't know how to delete or turn it proper way.

Mother with school photos

Beehive hair do's Washi Tape and Forget Me Not flower packets

More Echo dyed leaves

Mom and Dad's Wedding photo in front of her parents farm home. 

Fabric from her favorite kitchen curtains She did a LOT of sewing.Our Clothes and Crafty Items

Center Page of Journal is Palm Leaf dyed from her funeral spray. I do not have any photos of  the Roses

My sister played the Clarinet and so did my Uncle below.

Mother's brother who was killed in a car accident at age 19 going back to college

Newsprint of Mom and Dad's Wedding  1945

Some of their favorite entertainment other then being with family, was Bus trips to Casino's and Bingo. She loved cracking gum.

Her 1 year older sister and her husband below

Family photo time at their home.  

Echo dyed tracing paper

A snippet from a favorite blouse,  a favorite for sure was HOT Coffee, even to age 91

And the backside.  

I enjoy making 3 of these Journals.  I have yet to finish mine, so what the same order but I will be adding more pages for my own personal items we shared together.