Goody Box

Here's the newest item!  I had a friend ask me to help her with a Xmas idea.  She has two nieces and wanted to give them a gift that she hopes would be very special to them.   She wanted them to be able to write down their accomplishments, joys and dreams, and when times get them down to be able to reflect back on the good times.  So....from this thought came the Goody Box.  I used a little cardstock and some metal.  I created a metal pocket for the top of the box holding note cards they can write their thoughts down.  Kelli was overwhelmed with what I came up with...she can't wait to give them each their box...made me happy.  This is really what this holiday season is all about...til next time more projects coming up! 

Artistic Journey 2010

We are back from Dallas and our Artistic Journey weekend.  It was so much fun and met some great people.  The pics shown are the projects we made over the three day retreat and and a  pic of our wonderful instructors and hostesses.  We learned so much and can not wait to bring this new information back to the Panhandle.  Prissy & I both fell in love with all the Maya Road products.  We placed an order with them yesterday and can't wait to show it off to all the crafters in our area.  Everyday I seem to realize that I feel this is where God is leading me.  I can't seem to get on my hands on enough knowledge and product..LOL!  Can I at some point really make a living at this?...I hope so!  Would be a dream come true.  Prissy thank you so much for another fabulous week and half at Conrad Cottage.  You are such a wonderful friend and will always have a special place in my heart that no one else will every understand.  Your the BEST!!  Now we get to show our BFF that completes our circle, Tammy, all that we learned.  Can't wait for you to show off your skills Tammy...your talent is the ability to visualize a beautiful finished product.  Could not have started this journey without you...and we are not done yet! We are starting to work on some holiday crafts so keep watching the blog for lots of info and gift ideas!!

Learning

Hello to all!! Sorry it has been so long since my last post, but exciting things have been happening and I have been really busy!!  I am currently in Dallas with Prissy and we just finished up a weekend retreat called the Artistic Journey.  It was a blast and we met some great people and made some great projects.  Pictures to come when I get back into town.  Another exciting thing to happen is I got to show my birdhouse to Cheryl from Ten Seconds Studio..she loved it so much she included it on her blog and the response has been overwhelming...I have got a lot of positive feedback.  We are staying in Dallas the remaining of this week to attend another class.  I never get tired of learning new crafting skills.  Please keep flowing the blog to watch the great new items coming out for the holidays!

And the winner is.......

I'm so excited..I decided to enter a few of my items into the fair.  I had never done this before so I thought why not take a chance.  I was really happy to see that my birdhouse won first place.  Just made my trip to the fair even better with the help of a corndog, curly tators, and a candy apple..LOL! My two other items also placed..I took my cross and altered canvas..they each won second.   I'm very pleased.   If you head out to the fair go by and take a took at all the exhibits.  Some amazing talent in our area...til next time

Altered Canvas

I have been wondering about this for awhile.  I tell you I can't get away from the metal.  I took a piece of canvas and using the Ten Seconds metal embossed it including a quote.  I think this would make great gifts!!  Let me know what you all think..til next time.

Birdhouse

Wow!!  What a project.  This took me five hours to complete but I did have alot of fun. Again...obessed with my metal.  I saw birdhouse at a giftshop yesterday and I thought..I bet I can make that.  Tammy and I went to Hobby Lobby and she got me a bird house.  I'm really excited about how it came out.  Its amazing what you can do with metal...my ideas are endless.  Tammy bought me another project so stay tuned...

Metal Cross

Working with more metal from Ten Seconds..I can't seem to get enough of this stuff.  I havw been wanting to try this for awhile.  I took different color metals, embossed and distressed each piece.  I'm not one to keep scraps but for this particular project I have been keeping my metal scraps..and boy am I happy I did..I really, really like the way it came out.  This is a perfect gift for any occasion. Let's see what else I can do with this metal...I still have scraps...LOL!