Our Big Wedding ~~ Only Three Weeks Away

Today I wanted to share a sweet start to my boys journey with Kristen. It was of course included in the welcome basket. As the story goes…Kristen had her tonsils out a week after their first date. Curtis called her to say he had made carrot soup for her and was bringing some over. He ended up delivering the soup in blizzard conditions that night but didn’t stay as he had to drive his brother to work who was waiting in the car. The funny part is that she hates carrots but she ended up liking the soup and apparently him too. We’re glad she gave both a chance and so now you too have a carrot soup recipe. Enjoy! Tatsu’s Carrot Soup …revised by Curtis 1lb. carrots ( I use 1 ¼ lb) I medium yellow onion 4 cups chicken stock 4 TLBS sugar ¼ white rice to thicken ( I don’t use) ½ stick of butter Place carrots, stock, sugar, and rice in soup pot and bring to medium heat but do not boil. Cook until carrots are tender Fill blender half full and blend and then return to soup pot and bring to boil adding butter and whisking well. Recipe says garnish with cream but I just add it to the soup pot. So as the wedding nears and I am working away being busy making guest baskets, I wanted to share the sweet story of one of the firsts in Curt and Kristen's relationship. I hope you will forgive the poor grammar and format in this post. I struggle with this blogger layout. It's very much it's own animal in placing and never goes into the correct paragraph line up.URRG! Have a great week my friends and thanks for checking in. Iley

Another Creative Avenue

I have recently been back into a long time hobby of mine which I started about twenty five years ago. This would be the old art of rug hooking. This is not latch hooking but the kind of hooking that was done by our grandmothers. Well, maybe some of our our grandmothers anyway.They are hooked with primitive died wool of many colors and yummy textures. I took a break from hooking on Mondays where I was enrolled in an on going class about three years ago (when I started my scrapping addiction)but missed it.It was when I recently found a sampler pattern in my closet one day when I was cleaning it out that I felt that familiar tug at my heart .

She was sitting there feeling rejected so I decided it was time to get going and start back to rug hooking. She was designed and titled Floral Sampler by an amazing artist who has a wonderful website so if you want more information send me an email. I have taken a picture of this floral wonder in it's beginning stages as well as some completed rugs that I have scattered in my home.I hope you enjoy the share. Have a wonderful week.

Sunday Share Challenge

Hello my blogger friends... what a week. We have been busy in the yard planting flowers and doing yard clean up as I'm sure many of your are as well. We are putting up with unseasonable heat but did get a much need rain which cooled things down a bit. I did manage to get some crafting done in my cave however so wanted to share. I haven't made a tag in some time and wanted to use some of my fabulous trims I recently purchased from Linda's Funckie Junckie boutique.I'm in love with the vintage Pion paperline as you can see.

I embossed an 8 inch tag and used a few glimmer mist to make a yummy blue green background.I love that look. I then tore some of the Pion paper and weathered the edges with Tim's tea dye. After adhering the paper and photo which was layered on chipboard, the fun embellishing began.I twisted the gold mesh trim and glued on the left,adding the crochet flower and Linda's heart which was misted with Lindy's.A metal flourish on left corner was added with Recollections bling and a floral crochet heart.

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Garden Pocket Card

Hi Everyone,
Today I wanted to share a Garden themed pocket that I created for another swap I am going be hosting on Your Paper Pantry. I had so much fun putting it together. I started with a manila file folder that I cut down to 4 3/4 size and then folded it up and over. After adhering the paper I then sewed the edges and from then it was all about the embellishing and making cute tags to go in it. I am still in love with the K&Company Brenda Walton paper line that came out last year. Joanne's still carries the product so they must like it too. Of course I had to go back and get more at 40% off this week.I also went back to my burlap and crochet trim that I got from Linda on her Funkie Junkie Boutique Zibet Store.I added a seed packet of Cosmos just to make it even a little more special.
Enjoy the pictures and leave a comment.

I love hearing what you think.

Stampendous Dress Form Card challenge and I WON!

This is a card that I did for another card challenge for Frilly and Funkie's Sunday share and I WON. It's one of those stamps that jumped out to me and I knew I had to have it. I walked in Archiver's one day and there she was just beckoning me on to buy her. I couldn't resist and when I went to make her into something worthy of her beauty it was not hard. I again used the lovely Pion paper line and lovely crochet trim from Linda's Funkie Junkie Boutique Zibbet store. The two just went hand in hand.I stamped the image on old book text and fussy cut it to adhere to the spellbinders die. I used Tim's crackle on the flower and used a lovely blue glitter on the heart. I love how it turned out and hope you do too.

Card Share

Hi to everyone and I hope this finds you enjoying some beautiful Spring days. We had a much needed weekend getaway to Kristen's home town where I got to attend a bridal shower on Saturday and then a wonderful Easter Sunday with her huge family. It was a great time.
Today I wanted to share a card I created with that wonderful new Pion paper I purchased a few weeks ago on Linda's http://www.zibbet.com/TheFunkieJunkie .I used a little bit of Tim Holtz distress to color the cheeks, my Copic for the flowers and used Glossy Accents to make the flowers stand out a bit. I used a spellbinders die for the layout which is a favorite and adhered little flower appliques and crochet trim which are also found in her zibbet store. The flower was created with Tim's small tattered flower die. I put the little flower applique in the middle and tied a double twine string around it. I love how it turned out.

This next card was stamped with one of my very favorite Hero Arts stamp.I joined my first challenge on Frilly and Funkie and used some of the wonderful screen purchased on her website. I also used my copics to color in the petals and then used DS Fairy Dust to make it sparkle. I used TH distress inks for the back ground to warm it up a bit. The sentiment was backed on Linda's cool screening which I mentioned that made it just pop. How did she come up with screen? I just love her ideas. The seam binding was sprayed with Lindy's and a pin and bead were then added for an accent.

FLEETING FLEA ...Vintage Spectacular

Just a short blog today with Vintage goodness coming your way.
I was driving home Friday afternoon wondering what to do now when I saw the sign that read Vintage Sale ahead. Nows that's the type of sign that makes my wheels screech. My day was complete ladies.

Just wanted to share the goodness. Enjoy.