Finally a 'Real' Website!

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see you there!

Paper Giveaway!!!

The Paper Place is giving awaythe an ultimate Chiyogami sample pack, an 8.5x11” sheet of every Chiyogami paper they offer in their online store– 637 patterns in total (retail value $1911.00). All you have to do is comment on their page for a chance to win. Deadline is December 31st at midnight. Visit their website for more details and of course a chance to WIN!

Recycle and Save this Christmas. project 1

Christmas Card Gift Tags -- great for all ages but little kids will need some help. Fun to do with family and share stories!

Supplies:
-Front of old Christmas Cards (make sure the back is blank)
-Scissors- fancy and/or regular
-Ribbon
-Hole puncher
-Pen
-Optional: Glitter and Glue

*Cut around desired image on the card. ex: star, snowman, writing
*Punch hole near any corner.
*Cut ribbon about 4 or 5 inches long and tie through the hole with loose ends. Later tie on a bow or ribbon on a wrapped package or on the handle of a bag.
*Write a message on the back and be sure to write who the gift is for and who it is from!!
*Add glitter if you wish, if not on the front then on the back.
*Most of all HAVE FUN!

Dresser Dressing

Before: green walls, purple trim, and silver dresser with blue/silver fabric over the drawers.













After: pale blue walls, cream trim, and white canvas covered dresser.















Supplies: spray adhesive, un-primed canvas (drop cloth will work), primer, polyurethane, scissors, and paint brush.

How to:
spray the surface with adhesive and the back of strips of canvas-- small portions at a time. Adhere the canvas to the dresser. Once the dresser is covered prime the canvas. After everything is dry coat the dresser with polyurethane and maybe two coats on top. I used a liquid but you can also use a spray and the color may not be quite as yellow.

Cost: $0 for me but very low if you don't already have all of the supplies.

2009

I just bought my 2009 calendar... well one of the 2009 calendars. I tend to have more than one. It was featured in an email I got from Paper Source today. I instantly fell in love with the beautiful letterpressed designs. Seems a little early to be buying calendars for next year especially since time seems to go by so fast anyway there isn't much of a need to speed it up, but I couldn't wait until December. I might break a rule and glance at each image before next year but then save them after that for their specific month. Enjoy.

Apples

Some of you may know about my love (obsession) for apples, well, I just bit in to my first apple of the fall. And it was FABULOUS! I actually can't remember the last time I ate and apple which is about to upset me, but since they are in season again I won't worry about it too much. I don't know exactly where my love of apples came from.. it could have been picking them in the orchards in Michigan when I was little, the apple pies and apple butter that came afterwards, the sticky mess of caramel apples at the fair, the stories my grandfather told about being dropped off at college with a basket of apples to make friends, or my own stories of making friends because of apples. Most of all the flavor is probably what I love most but the memories of everything else makes them so much better. My favorite time to eat an apple would have to be on a cool crisp day with the warmth from the sun beaming down through the colorful fall leaves while walking down the sidewalk through the crunchy leaves that have already fallen. Perfect.

Website

It has been a while since I have actually 'done' something to post considering the blog is called 'what I do'. Anyway, I couldn't sleep last night (or apparently tonight either) and I made a new website. This one will do for the mean time since I am still waiting for the one from Italy to be completed. Hope you enjoy... (click the image to take you there)

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