Been so long!

Wow! I didn't think it had been so long since I had been here! This has been one busy year! My new art love is doodling. I just can't stop! :-) I have to scan the ones I have done in the last few days and add them here. I have also been quilting again. I'll post some photos of what I have finished, here as well. I have been working on my art journals as well. I have been getting the pages ready. I think I like doing that more then writing in them.

More later!!

Cabinet Cards

Here are the cabinet cards I altered for a swap I am in. I don't think of it as destroying the card I think of it as bringing it back to life! They sit in Antique shops in dirty old boxes gathering dust when they could be altered and made beautiful again! :-) I don't think I have ever seen one where the person is smiling. I wonder why?

Cayman Islands

If I ever won the lottery I would build a little house here. I just love it here. We go in the summer during their off season and there are no crowds. The water is about 82, sunny with clear water.

Here I am in the Cayman's. I will add some new photos now that I know how to do it.

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a year since I have posted to my blog. I really need to get busy and use this thang!! :-)

We are on vacation right now in the Cayman Islands. 2 more dives and I will have 100!! WOOHOO! I never thought in a million years I would be scuba diving. I will put some photos up of some of our dives. I hope the weather clears up. It's cloudy again today. I would be so nice a afford a place here but there is no way unless I won the lottery! I think I could get a place on one of the smaller islands though. Grand Cayman is getting so built up.

New Swaps!

These are the ATC's for 2 swaps I am in called Distressing Times and Angel's among us. For some reason I had a hard time with the Angel ones. Could not think of anything. They came along slowly.

This Week

I don't think I am going to be getting very much done this week. It's carnival time! The heat Monday and Tuesday was SO bad, but we did have a storm come through and it did cool things down a little. It went from 98 to 68 in about 1/2 hour last night. I joined 2 more ATC swaps Angels Among Us and Distressing Times. I am really liking this new group I joined. They have a lot of swaps going on all the time it seems. So there is a lot to choose from!

On a Roll!!!

Okay so here are a few more ATC's. A few are for Mona Lisa swap I am in. I just love Mona and her smile.

More ATC's

Well one of the groups I am in just decided to close which makes me sad. I hope to be able to keep in touch with all the great people I have met and traded with on there. SO I am going to add more of my ATC's here. They are all for trade EXCEPT for the Pennies Coin tags. I am thinking about sending it to Somerset. Who knows they make like it!!!

More ATC's

Well I have joined yet another ATC Group. Bev suggested it to me. It looks like there is a lot of activity going on there and I joined a Mona swap already! Now to get busy!!!

More ATC's

I am finally back from vacation! It's always so good to be back home. I must say I am getting better at the flying part of the trip. I guess the older I get the less I worry about it.

So I will be getting back to work on my ATC's and my Quilting. I have really let my quilting go for the last 6 months. I really need to get to work on some things for our quilt show!

Cabinet Cards

I am so happy I saw the artical in Somerset this month on Cabinet Cards. It was tough to do the first real cabinet card. But since it was no one in my family AND I was not "messing up" the photo too much I have found that altering the cards is really bringing them back to life! These cards were just sitting in a box at the antique mall and I doubt anyone will buy them for the photos. Why would they??

Well since I had to have gallbladder surgery I have not been in the mood to update my blog. But I am feeling much better now. The surgery was not too bad, they did the 4 hole thing and just suck it out somehow. So I have been working on some ATC's and APC's for some swaps I am in. I also found a new art, well it's new to me anyway. Cabinet Cards. I never knew what one was till I saw one the someone had altered. Then there was an artical in Somerset about them, sooo I had to find out what they were. I checked on the web and found tons of photos, and in fact that is what a cabinet card is, a vintage photo that is done and made into a card that is about 4 1/2x6 1/2. I looked on e-bay and for the most part they are on the pricey side. So I decied to try to make my own. I call them fake cabinet cards. I stopped by our local antique mall and found some real cabinet cards for $2-$4 each. So I had to have a few. I have altered 2 so far and they have really turned out nice. I may just have to go back and get some more. Here is what they look like.

Iris folding

These are Iris Folding APC's I made for a swap I am in.

More APC's

I have one more set to make for a swap I am in. These are the In My Garden theme. The last ones I am working on are Romance.

Art Dolls

I just love the way these truned out. They are made from clay and are on an APC for a swap I am in.

Art Dolls!! Here is one of the art dolls I have made. It's just paper, water color paper really. I would love to be able to make them out of matt board but that is too hard for me to cut. I wonder if someone or a company makes this type of paper doll?

APC

Here is the second group of APC's I made for a swap I am in. I really enjoyed making these as well. I like the larger format.