Vintage Wallpaper

One of the blogs that I enjoy reading is Karla's Cottage(karlacottage.typepad.com). She loves vintage just as much as I do, and has wonderful assortments of vintage wallpaper that she sells in her boutique. Last week I ordered two small packets of small and scrap pieces, and they arrived today, nicely packaged with a pink ribbon, white millinery flower and a tag made from the wallpaper.

I have ordered quite a few things from Karla and have never been disappointed. If you like vintage you will like reading her blog.

The above are collaged bird ATCs that I made for a swap on the yahoo group I belong to. I really enjoyed making these cards. I love birds, that is to look at, but not flying around me. When I first married we used to play cards with my parents every Friday night. My mom had found a baby cardinal that had been injured and she was raising it in their house. It was free to fly around. One night playing cards I clucked at the bird, and it came flying at me. The next thing I knew I was screaming and under the table. LOL That's when I realized I only like to look at birds. My OR daughter still reminds me of the time her nursery school went to a farm. When we got to the chicken coop I let her walk in by herself, hoping she wouldn't be afraid of the chickens. All I can say is she didn't like it one bit.

WTA ATC

This is the ATC that I made for the winner of the January Winner Take All from the yahoo group The Sum of All ATC's. I was fortunate to win in November which was great. I never knew what to expect at the mail box. Most people know that I LOVE mail, be it junk, letters or even bills. When I was a little girl I used to send away for free things all the time. My girlhood friend Carol introduced me to the "pocketbook" that listed things that you could get free. (Companies were more generous in the fifties.) I remember that she called me on the phone about this great pocketbook, and for the life of me I couldn't understand what it was. Low and behold it was a paperback book. I guess we called them pocketbooks "in those days."

Inuit Divination Card

The above is the picture of the Inuit Divination Card that I made for the Ancient Wisdom and Magic Swap that I am in from the Yahoo Group The Sum of All ATCs, owned by the talented Valerie. This swap is hosted by another talented lady, Ali, from the United Kingdom. It took a long time to come up with the idea that I used due to the amount of information we were to include. There are 16 fortune telling objects that we were to use, including what each stood for. This is the front of my card which shows a drum that I used. I made two drums and cut one down and then glued to the first one to make a pocket, which holds a set of 16 cards that I made. One for each object. The fortune teller deals the cards out face down and then the person wanting his fortune told, picks a card and reads his fortune from the card. Below is the back of the card, which gives some information about the Inuit people .

Below are the 16 cards that I made, well actually 17, as one card has the instructions on it. The back of each card is the picture of the Inuit village. I was pleased with the way the project turned out.

A very Happy New Year to everyone who reads my blog. I thank you for that and know that I like reading your blogs also.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone! We had a very quiet Christmas, as we are going to wait until OR daughter and Juliet arrive to celebrate. They will be arriving on the 27th, so the morning of the 28th we will open gifts from Santa. Christmas Eve we had a family dinner at MI daughter's home. We have a small family so there were only six of us plus Sarah. I remember the days when we had my parents, Fred's parents, a "black sheep" uncle and my only sibling Steve. Now all six of them are dead, so we remember them especially at this time. Have a very Merry Christmas and Holiday season.

I'm back to blogging

This is an ATC Christmas Ornament that I made for a swap on The Sum of ATCs yahoo group.

My computer was giving me so much trouble that I had stopped blogging and reading my favorite blogs. One day two weeks ago I finally had had enough and I called Comcast to see if there was a problem with my modem. The technician then referred me to McAfee, who in turn said that I was out of memory, and told me to contact Dell. Dell check my computer out and told me that I had only one memory card with 256 MHz and that my computer would speed up dramatically if I bought and inserted 2 cards of 512 MB memory. So I ordered them and they came this week. Then I called Dell again and they told me how to insert the cards. Thank goodness the man that helped had a lot of patience! I couldn't figure out how to open the tower even with his instructions. Luckily my husband was home (too cold here in MI to golf) and he was able to help me. My problem was that the technician's top and bottom were not what I thought was top and bottom. But the great news is that my computer is running like new again

Fred and I went to visit OR daughter in October for a long weekend. Juliet was so excited to see her "Papa" since he didn't go in September when MI daughter, Sarah and I went. The top picture is of her making crepes on Sunday morning with her Daddy. It was so sweet watching him letting her make the batter. (I know the picture is out of order, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to move it. Can anyone Help?

Sarah is 11 months tomorrow

I can't believe that Sarah is going to be eleven months old tomorrow. She has grown so much and is a happy little girl. She is walking now, about 15 steps at a time. Her favorite toys are books, cat in the hat stuffed toy, stuffed dog, and paper. She especially likes to play with newspaper, and Grandpa is to blame for that. She doesn't seem to enjoy baby food anymore except for her bottle. Her bottom two incisors popped through just yesterday. Last night she had her first sleep over at our house as her momma had her 20th class reunion-gosh that makes me feel old. She was good as gold and we had lots of fun with her.

A few weeks back MI daughter, Sarah, and I went to Portland to visit the OR family. I will write about that soon, but now I must get to work on my Cheshire cat tag for a swap. The tags were due to be sent out last Monday, so I am behind.