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I have been thinking of doing this for few months and with my wish and hope to open an on-line shop, my DH finally set up a WordPress blog for me.I can now be found at www.myjourneyintoart.comPlease forgive the slihtly bare appearance, I am still getting used to WP and I still have to move all my links over. I'm hoping that won't take too long. I hope to see you in my new home!Oh, BTW this one

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Happy World Card Making Day!!!!!!Hope you all have a chance to participate. I can't as I have to work onight. I will try to do something in honour of it tomorrow.Happy Day!

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Gothic Arches has an open theme this week and for some reason I can't get out of the Hallowe'en mode yet. So this is my arch for this week.I picked up a set of Inque Boutique stamps last week and I just love the lace border and I guess not all witches have to be ugly, gnarly, ill-kempt and stinky, mine is fairly well heeled and well dressed!! LOL Had to use that lace border!!!

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of my little 2 year anniversary blog giveaway are, according to a Random Number generator ...CaseyJodiJoanneBut in my house no one goes away without something!! Everyone else who wrote me sweet comments on my anniversary will be receiving a little something fom me!Thanks to everyone, I really appreciate your support! I will try to get ahold of everyone today for their mail info, but if you don't

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I was to have announced the winners of my anniversary giveaway today but I'm having major issues with my wireless right now and have for most of the day. I promise that I will do this tomorrow! I am very sorry!

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is the theme at G.A. this week brought to us by the talented Kristin Long.I had such a hard time with this one, as I have a ton of favourite movies, most of them the golden oldies, and especially musicals. This is a tribute to 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, one movie I could watch, and have, for hours on end. I love Howard Keel, his voice is incredible, the music just grabs me and I'm a sucker for the

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You Belong in 1950You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!What Year Do You Belong In?You'll have to highlight above the picture. I was born in '56.

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with all the Halloween art I'm seeing lately, I had to do something too. It's like an itch you just have to scratch!! I had a lot of fun doing these tags bt I wonder why my creative juices always start running more freely on the last day of my weekend? LOL

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This week the wonderful Katrin returns to issue a new challenge to us. Katrin has chosen “famous people”, so there is no limit to who you can chose or what you can do. I’m looking forward to seeing how some of you interpret this theme. Quite a few of last week’s submissions would have suited this week equally as well! Have fun with this one!These are pages I did in a round robin deco a couple

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Sept 19th is my 2nd anniversary in blogland, I totally forgot my 1st, and I have 3 pieces of art to give away to celebrate. If you'd like a chance to claim the time flies piece, the nature tin or a tag book I haven't finished yet (oops), please let me know by leaving a comment on this post and I'll draw names on Sept 28. Please leave me your email or another way to get ahold of you in case you

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is the theme at Gothic arches this week brought to us by the very talented Dawn Bryson.Whenever I here a theme of time I tend to think of the quote in the arch and the White Rabbit as he stares at his fob watch. I remember the quote too as I used to say it as a child whenever I was late getting home from being outside playing. Funny, that just popped into my head. But, I have never read the book!

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We had the driest month on record, I swear last month, then yesterday, the remnants of an unknown hurricane off the west coast of Mexico made it up to our neck of the woods and dropped 75mm of rain on us. That's 3" in 1 day. Now the remnants of Ike is moving in and we're supposed to get another 35 - 45mm of rain. I think that almost our annual rain fall, in 2 days. I'd better break out the

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is the theme on G.A. this week and thank you to Susan Hart, the hostess this week. I don't think I have much luck with pink, although 2 of my favourite colour combos are pink and mint green and pink and dark brown, weird but I think both are striking their own way.I have a stack of 8x8 srapbook paper with the theme of family and friends with pink, brown and green, imagine that!!!! LOL So my arch

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I forgot to mention that the glove in the post below is paper, with a very fine texture to it. After I had used the distress inks on it and it had dried, it now feel a lot like suede. So neat!!Thank you all for your wonderful comments! I so appreciate them all!!!!

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Last year a dear friend of mine whose blog I don't get to often enough, had a giveaway for these plain white 'gloves' to alter. I was lucky enough to win one. When I got it, I had no idea what to do with it so I put it in a safe place til inspiration struck.Fast forward to this past weekend when I found it in it's 'safe place'. With Autumn coming and the leaves are already falling here, probably

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is the theme this week at Mixed Media Mondays. This is fast becoming a favourite challenge of mine, It makes me think beyond the box that I put myself in and I'm realy enjoying the challengeThis week I altered a gum tin that I've been waiting for an excuse to use, and I also used a piece of twig that I picked up off the ground after one of our storms earlier this season. Bird's have become a

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is the wonderful theme over at G.A. this week chosen by Nancy Dooren, the talented hostess of the week.The end of summer for me means the beginning of fall, relief from the sometimes oppressive heat and humidity we have at this time of year, leaves turning colours, although we don't get a lot of colour here, mostly yellow and brown, and kids back to school!LOLI walked to a friends house today to

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I like to shake things up every once in a while and that's what I was trying to do this morning but discovered I'm missing an element in my layout. I hope to get this resolved soon. But in the mean time, please forgive my 'in construction' look!! LOLNow, I don't often speak about my home life as I don't enjoy putting my private life out there for all to see but I need some advise on how to deal

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and pleased to have recieved another award. This time from a very dear friend and fantastic artist, Rob from Australia.This is a total cop out but there are truly so many wonderful artist who have gorgeous blogs that I absolutely love, I wouldn't be able to pick 7. So, if you're reading this and you have someone who you'd like to give this award to, be my guest.Here are a few of my favourite

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is the theme at G.A. this weekend. A wonderful theme chosen by hostess Chrissie Rollins. It gave me a bit of trouble as most of my images are in colour or sepia coloured but not many are black and white and i think I only have the one with red. I'm so glad I found it!! LOLThe background of the arch is a picture I took of one of the trees that are outside our windows. When they bloom in the spring

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is the theme at mixed media mondays this week.I had made this pendant for a very dear friend of mine using an old Scrabble tile, the back has her initial, some embroidery floss left over from my cross stitching days and wired beads and feathers. luckily my friend loved it and allowed me to upload the pic to my blog. This is my entry for MMM this week.I want to thank all the wonderful artists who

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View my page on Can-eh? Can-Artistry

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it's my 1st time doing this challenge but I really wanted to do something asmy friend Heather is the guest hostess this week! LOLit deals with numbers, which I love along with letters and for which I have a great stamp that I don't use oftenand I have been itching to try to do some kind of canvas, this is actually canvas board, with acrylics and other stuff I have laying around.I had fun doing

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is the theme at G.A. this week chosen by the hostess Tami, whose art is just gorgeous. I was a bit of an over achiever with this theme as I want to do something specifically with these arches and more if I get them made. LOLI used more of that gorgeous paper from DCWV and clipart images from Dover and Above The Mark web site. The flourishes are form Martha Stewart! A neat little pack of 17 clear

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I liked my bird arch so much, I kept it and framed it in a shadow box frame I had hanging around for just such a use. You can't tell from the picture but I used pieces of a thick foam tape to make the arch stand off the back of the box.

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on one of my groups we do a monthly alphabet mingle in a 4.5x4" format, using any letter of the alphabet but designing it so the elements of the piece are reflective of the 3" high, at least, letter we choose.My letter for August is R with the words Royalty, Regal, Romanov, reality, romance, romantic, and my list ended there. I swear I go brain dead sometimes, I know there a lot more.This piece

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is the theme that Kris Dickinson picked for this weeks G.A. I have always had a fascination for royalty and when I was a kid, I wanted to be a princess desperately. A wonderful daydream for me!!!This is my take on Royalty/Crowns for the week. The paper is from the pack I picked up last month from DCVW Once Upon a Time. It' already got glittered crowns on it so i just placed my little prince under

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is the theme on G.A. this week set by the wonderful artist Hermine Koster. Even tho this is one of my favourite themes, I had a really difficult time with it and although I tried not to I still managed to get a bit of colour in it. I scanned it 1st, then because the texture in the embossed paper didn't show, I took a picure of it. very plain, very simple but i'm happy with it!Thank you Hermine

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I was so surprised when Faye gave me this wonderful award.Here are the rules.1. Only 5 people are allowed to receive this award.2. Four dedicated followers of your blog.3. One has to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.I would like to pass this honor on to the following five persons, whose blogs I enjoy.They are:

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a bit on the serious side for the moment, I am a huge 'supporter' of Breast Cancer research, having lost my mother to it 24 yrs ago and now getting to about the same age she was when it was discovered, and I wish I could do more to help.On one of the Yahoo groups I belong to there is also a lovely lady by the name of Patty Jones who owns a fantastic site called Lisa's Altered Art. She makes up

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that's what I was when my dear friend Heather awarded me this tag. I love being thought of as a wild woman and am amazed that I inspire her, incredible artist that she is!! Thank you so much Heather!!! I am so happy to be considered a 'Wylde Woman'Here are the rules of this award: 1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their

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Nancy asked me to hostess Gothic Arches again, thrilled me to death, and the theme I chose was .... For the Birds. Any interpretation of the theme as long as it has birds. Thanks to a dear friend of mine, my interest in nature and birds has been sparked! Going home from work one morning after a huge thunderstorm yielded all kinds of interesting twigs which I gathered up and brought home with me.

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I didn't realize it had been so long since I'd posted anything. But I'm back, for today anyway. I was hosting this wonderful danglie swap and it truly wouldn't let me concentrate on anything else to it was all together and gone. Happily, it is and is landing in the homes of the members. And from what I've been hearing, they love them!! Yea, a successful swap, just what I like!!Anywho, I have

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apologies to my American friends and relativesHappy July 4thI hope it was a good day for all and have a festive weekend!

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I'm taking all kinds of pics on my journeys around the town right now and I made my new banner out of one of them. To think this tub of lilies is just outside our back door and I never paid much attention to them til now. I was lucky enough to get the pic before the flowers started to fade.

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Jeez, do you believe the year is half gone already? I hope everybody has a safe and festive holiday week!I think I have to share this, maybe someone reading, if there's anyone left after my absences, can get something out of it. I mentioned in a previous post that I am hosting a swap. It is due to me today. I received a message on Saturday that one lady will not be taking part in the swap after

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At the behest of a dear friend of mine who was unable to host it, I'm hosting a swap on one of my Yahoo groups, Byhand artists, for danglies. This is what I came up with. I'm really happy with the way they turned out but they were a little more labour intensive than I thought they would be. As usual I bit off more than I could chew! Enjoy.

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I haven't been too productive lately, too many things needing to be done , too tired from work, not enough hours in my day, 36 would be good, too many commitments and ideas galore for a new adventure percolating in my head - all this plus thinking that my baby is done high school and off to the grand adventure of university, is really making my head spin. I haven't participated in my 2 favourite

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is the topic for dans ma maison this week and I had so much fun trying to think what my fairie tale would be. Well of course faeries, and a house but what else would make my life a faerie tale?, living in a 'house' with Gothic arches, being able to do what I want when I want, making a living doing what I love......... all kinds of things, but here's my 'house' for this week. Hope you like itCan't

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I have been tagged by Nancy Maxwell James who has a gorgeous blog with fantastic art, and her own stamp line with which I wish her much successIf you have been tagged by me, here are the rules:1. Link back to the person that tagged you... (moi)2. Post these rules on your blog.3. Share six unimportant things about yourself.4. Tag six people at the end of your entry.Hmm 6 unimportant thingsI am the

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Lisa Vollrath has a new countdown, starting todayfather's day countdown

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that's the wonderful theme that Martine (Filetta as I've known her) has chosen for Gothic Arches this week. Spain is another location that I would love to visit but until then I'll fantasize about what it might be like. This is my attempt at Spain. BTW, the micro beads scanned as multi coloured but IRL they are copper and I wanted them to mimic the waves of sand .

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I cannot believe it's the 1st of June already. Where I live, we had a very promising start to spring but within days it had deteriorated to cold rainy dark days. We have just managed to get our sun and warmth back, I do hope it's here to stay!!Metal is the theme on dans ma maison il y a .... and this is my contribution. The flowers are metal, the brads are metal and the little dragonfly beads are

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my favourite challenge, Gothic Arches is on vacation this week, I hope you get some rest in all the busi-ness Nancy, but I did manage to get 2 houses done for my next favourite challenge, dans ma maison ... il y a. This week the theme was green.For the Alice house, I was wracking my brain for something to do and I thought of some stamps I have that have never been inked. I had a wonderful tree

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I found a new challenge site a couple of weeks ago but haven't been able to take part in the challenges til this week and even so, I'm a little late getting in this week. It's dans ma maison ... il y a and it's very successful already. Ever since I saw the house shape being used on another group I was on last year, I have been fascinated by this shape and all you can do with it. And then my

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is the theme on Gothic Arches this week hosted by the very talented Kelly Burton, the link to whose blog is in my sidebar, 'Artsy Visions'. You should check out her stuff if you haven't already.This is my contribution this week. I used a gorgeous Basic Grey paper, aren't they all gorgeous, that already had flourishes in the design then stamped one of my favourite flourishes over that in

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I was out and about last week and I spotted some gorgeous flowering trees in my neighbourhood and I just had to take pics of them. So I ran home, scooped up my camera and ran back. Now I really wasn't thinking until I got back to take the pics that it was a really windy day and how on earth was I going to get any decent pics with the branches blowing all over. I think my camera did a really great

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is the theme on Gothic arches this week. I have never been to France and it's a life long dream to go but I know that unless we win the lottery, that will never happen! LOL So I thought I'd go with what I'm most familiar with, advertising! To me, France is famous for fashion, champagne, theater, chocolate? hmmm maybe not so much but it was a cute ad, and certainly not last or least , the

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Lisa V.'s countdown for Mother's Day

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is the theme on Gothic Arches this week. This was a fun challenge for me in that I have the perfect image and story to go with this challenge but I'm not sure how much you wonderful readers want to hear about me. I know I enjoy reading about other peeps and their lives but moi??? LOLOh well here goes, I work midnights and when I come home in the mornings, sometimes it's very difficult to stay

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is the theme on Gothic Arches this week. I was so happy to see this! I decided to challenge myself to do an arch with only stamping, as I feel I may have been over using collage images lately, and I have 2 sets of fairy stamps from CTMH that I love and don't use very muc, definitely not as much as I like.I did the b/g by stamping gesso on white card, dabbing Distress inks on for grass and sky and

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is the theme of Gothic Arches this week. I struggled a bit with this one as I couldn't find any decent images in my stash til I ran across this one. That and it was DH's B'day on Sunday and I had a meeting for work that day is why I'm a bit late for this one.When I was a kid, my parents divorced and my mom remarried, taking me with her when she did. I had a very hard time with this and to escape

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Paris is the theme this week at Gothic Arches and the 1 st thing that came to my mind was Springtime in Paris. I had a definite picture in my head for this arch, this isn't it!! Somehow I really had a hard time interpreting this one the way I wanted. But I still like how it came out. I used cloud scissors to cut out the arch cuz I wanted to relay nice big fluffy clouds in the sky, and I used a

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I'm having fun with these. Having a hard time getting going on the pages, I seem to need a srk to start but once I hav it, look out! LOL The theme for this artist book is Vintage Children.

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seems to be what I'm doing today!I saw my 1st robin of the season today, wish I had thought to run for my camera! Now I know it's spring but after a few nice warm days, we've gone dark, dreary and cold again. Audrey, right now I envy you! Beach and heat, yum!! LOLI haven't done much blogging lately. As I said in my previous post, there's just not enough time in the day to do everything I want!

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I have missed doing the Gothic arch challenge for 2 weeks and I really missed it!!Therefore, for this weeks challenge by Nellie, By The Sea, I have created 2 arches. One in an oriental theme using one of my favourite images, I just love the feel of it. And a humorous one, I must have a sick sense of humour, cuz that's where my brain goes whenever something's not working out the way I had planned.

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keep your eyes peeled!

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between house, kids, job and too little sleep, I have been able to get almost NO art done. I am on vacation this week so along with spring cleaning, I'm going to try to get caught up on old commitments and new stuff.This is a fair start, April's Yalpha mingle on ByhandartistsThe peel-off saying 'friends' is a new product not even on the market yet but the designer was kind enough to share her

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came to me and a few other artists about participating in an altered book RR. I have never altered a book but I was intrigued and because it was Heather, I said Sure why not! Well I have never had such a sense of hopelessness in conjunction with a project as I have had with this one. I even joined a new Yahoo group , started by another friend just for altered books so I could learn to do this.It

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so busy, I haven't been able to get to my favourite challenge site yet. But I have finished my spread in my last music deco. I did Jeff Healey I guess as a tribute but I never really listened to his music, just not really my 'style'And I finished a couple of other commitments which I'll share later! no more time right now!

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to those of you who celebrate!I hope this doesn't offend, but I thought it was cute!

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what the heck!!! ......... 2nd day of Spring and it's snowing here! Sorry to whine but I'm at a point where I'm so tired of being cold all I want is warm weather .... no snow!!!On another note, it's been a wonderful week on Gothic Arches where I was guest host this week. If you haven't already, you should check out all the wonderful art that's being made for 'All Things Celtic'. And I must add

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, one day early. LOLI was thrilled when Nancy asked me if I'd hostess the Gothic Arch challenge one week, I said sure but then wondered what I would do. After very little thought, I chose All Things Celtic in honour of St. Patrick's Day and my heritage. I'm so proud of it that my screen name for almost everywhere is acelticangel.I hope everyone has a blast with this theme

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for the monthly swap on Byhand. But the hostess had changed it from monthly happenings, events, birthdays, etc ... to the alphabet. Each month we do a different letter with images pertaining to that letter!For March, I did 'I', anyone hazard a guess why? LOL

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this week is with the theme Transitions such as season to season, night to day, young to old etc. I checked some of the challenge art out yesterday, didn't really want to as I was afraid the posted art would affect my ideas, you know. Well, I'm glad I did because, I saw some gorgeous art and so many different interpretations, I was stunned. And when I saw what Karen Owen the hostess did, I was

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for St. Patrick's Day!Lisa Vollrath's which starts on the 7th and artist how to which has already started.enjoy!

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that's the theme on Gothic Arches this week. I used a piece of paper that I had stashed away and would never have found again if I hadn't been looking for the stapler. I pulled it out of the bottom of my paper storage thingy and loved it. But truth be told I would have trashed it if it hadn't have been for this challenge!I think it's rather simple but I hope it's on the elegant side too. I

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from the bottom of my heart to 2 wonderful ladies who happen to like my work. LOLHeather and Jillain both awarded me with the You Make My Day award and I can't tell you it means to me that these 2 incredible artists should do this for me !!! K, enough gushing, sincere tho it is, and on to naming my 10 artist who inspire me:Kristy CLinda CSandee HJodiNancy M-JTeresa CSuzanne CCaryl HJudy and last

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I wanted to get this done on Sunday but problems with my printer and the fact that it has taken almost a week to get my computer straightened out has put me slightly behind in everything art! When your computer guru, no matter who it is, tells you that he wants you to get the newest upgrade for your OS, don't let him do it til he knows what's going to be affected!!! LOLAnyways, all is

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a friend on one of my groups took a spill on some black ice last week and broke her arm. It was suggested that we'd like to sign her cast but it's made of a resin that doesn't take ink well and is actually covered in a sock, for now. Another friend came up with the idea to cyber sign her cast. BRILLIANT!OMG I just realized that this sounded like I thought it was fun that my friend broke her wrist

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for the Gothic arch challenge this week. The theme picked was for old school. My memories of school are not the greatest and I wasn't the best student. My clearest memories are of wearing the wrong clothes in September when we went back to school. Inevitably you'd go to school in 60 degree weather and came home in 80, but you had dressed for the 60! LOL The wonderful morning light walking to

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please forgive the bad pics. My DH changed me over to a laptop and upgraded my Linux os but it's not letting us install my scanner or my colour printer. I hope we, read he, LOL gets this resolved soo, I have so many things I want to print off ... I made these last weekend. I find I really like doing skinny's!

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this week is Valentines and last week Nancy set the challenge for purple. So I thought I'd kill 2 bird with 1stone, I really regretted missing it last week.Here's my entry for this weeks challenge.

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for my celebrating 5000 hits, this is my 199th post, never thought I'd get there!!!, is everyone who left me a comment!!!There were 7 lovely ladies who helped me celebrate and I'd love to make something for all of you!!!Please use my email in my profile and leave me your full name and address and I'll get your prizes out to as soon as possible.Once again, thank you so very much for being the

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I have a new tool to play with, wish it were to do with art!! LOLScribefire for firefox, funPowered by ScribeFire.

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for the Gothic arches challenge this week. I soooo was not happy with the 1st one but I was in a hurry to finally get one done and up, I didn't really think or plan it well. I really like this one!Check the post below while you're here!!! (if you'd like LOL)

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I was to announce my blog candy for hitting 5000 yesterday and I ended up sick instead. However here it is! I will pick 3 names and send each of those 3 a piece of personal art (and some goodies) that I'll make just for you. Tell me what size is your favourite and what you do with the art you make for challenges. If you do arches, do you make a book, 4x4's etc and if you want throw in a favourite

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is a Dog theme. Something I'm not too familiar with as I only ever had 1 dog in my life! And as it turns out I don't have very many images of them either! But I saw this one and couldn't resist and of course I had to add some hearts for Valentines day coming up!Hope you enjoy it!

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WOW This is amazing!!!! I've hit 5000 exactly on the counter at the bottom of the blog. Thank you all ever so much for making this possible and stay tuned, I'll post some blog candy later today to help celebrate! I'll keep it up for the week so spread the word. I also hope to have some new eye candy today too! LOL

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my very dear Heather nominated me for this award, thank you so much. Not I in turn have to nominate 10 blogs that inspire me. This will be a toughie as I have so many that do inspire.GillianLisaRobSuzanTaniaKeronJodiJeriAudreyHermineThere are many other people who's blogs inspire me, Heather, R, Nancy M-J, Jillian, Karen O. etc, .... etc., ..... I wish I had more time to look at all my favourites

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I think when we started this RR we had hoped to get all the decos done and home by Christmas '07. Well that didn't happen. We ended up with backlogs and people with not enough time to work on them for whatever reason, like me who needs to think about the spread for at least a week, but it's fun and we are coming to an end. This is my contribution to a music deco with the theme of

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starting Feb. 1stValentine Countdown

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3 arches I created for a mingle on one of the Yahoo groups I'm on. Has the theme of Romance. Pardon the light splashes in the scan, the sun is gloriously shining in the window right into the scanner!I'm actually getting some art done today! I love it!!! LOL

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book the day after Christmas with my new Bind it All and I love it. I may change the end papers b/c I wasn't very accurate on the corner cuts and you can see the canvas board I used for the covers. Also, the rings didn't come out round, 1st time and all, but I tied ribbon around them to hide that. I was going to do that anyways!! LOL

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check out the site starting February 1st.countdown.tentwostudios.comP.S. I am making art but not as much as I'd like! I do have 3 gothic arches to finish this weekend and a couple more decos that landed in my lap last week that I really want to get done and out, I know the owners are anxious to get them home. And I so want to do some challenges.My dear friend Heather nominated me for the You make

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my counter at the bottom of the page is now at 4797. When it hit 5000, 203 hits away, I'll be offering up some blog candy! I'm not sure what yet but I need to have something to celebrate all the wonderful people I have met through mine and others' blogs. You people are just freakin'AWESOME!!!!! Thank you!

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to create again!! LOLI'm in a group which is doing a RR of tipins for an altered book with each member doing one set of pages for 1 person a month. This is my contribution for a ladies book who's theme is Ancient Architecture.When I was in high school I was sooooo interested in archaeology, I took Archaeology and Anthropology as one of my subjects in gr 11 I think it was. And my parents gave me a

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It feels like forever since I've posted anything. The last couple of weeks have been rough, creatively speaking with holidays, remembrances, housework, and my little domestic diva (I like goddess better but this time she was indeed a diva) decided to rear her head and I had to get some housework done.But now I have so much to get caught up on, I may post more than once between today and tomorrow!

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2008 is at the door...here Remember, life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Send to all the people that you love and don't want to lose out of your life in 2008, even me I hope. Wishing you and your family and friends much happiness and joy in the New Year.This was sent to me by 3 very

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

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Back in October, I think, a bunch of us on the Byhand Yahoo group, link in the side bar, decided that we wanted to do a 12 days of Christmas fat book. I am so happy that I got into it! I showed my page in an earlier post but in the interest of continuity I included it here. So we got it done and our wonderful hostess had the pages back to us before Christmas. Now I'm going to decide on how to

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This is what I made a very sweet friend of mine for our Christmas exchange. At least this is how it left the house but I don't know if this is how she received it! I'm dying to know what she thought!???

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Thank you to all my friends and acquaintances for visiting and leaving wonderful comments. I so appreciate everything and it's part of what keeps me going when I think I'm doing junk. LOLHave a wonderful, blessed day.I had a wonderful birthday, doing everything I wanted, DH made me a special dinner and I even got some creative time! Had to, I didn't get cards done for some important people! eek!!

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-14215552910542074232007-12-24T22:13:00.000-05:002007-12-24T22:26:13.335-05:00

another countdownhttp://countdown.tentwostudios.com

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-69643963453260684192007-12-24T08:24:00.000-05:002007-12-24T08:27:57.609-05:00

to you. I got word of this through one of the blogs I subscribe to. Thanks Jan at Paper Tango!Go here for free sample of an interesting glue alternative.

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-88892783193538154572007-12-17T10:37:00.000-05:002007-12-17T11:15:46.884-05:00

This is for Gothic Arches this week.I have so many wonderful vintage images of children but the ones I love the most are the angel ones. I thought it was perfect that I had one holding toys!I am not terribly happy with something I did on this arch. I listened to something someone told me a while back that you can attach vellum with a glue stick, no problem. HA, huge problem. I won't be so lazy

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-71982886889089544392007-12-16T12:17:00.000-05:002007-12-16T12:24:14.550-05:00

Living in SW Ontario, we seem to be in a micro climate called the banana belt. Not today! It has been snowing, in earnest here, since about 3 a.m. and this is what it looked like outside about 2 hours ago and it's just about doubled since. You really can't see too much in the pic but it's just so pretty out! LOL I love snow and we just don't get as much as we used to when I was a kid.

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-2294432651922363582007-12-16T10:05:00.000-05:002007-12-16T10:15:28.439-05:00

I made birthday card for a dear friend who's birthday just passed and I used a lovely image that Godelieve had offered up on her blog. I needed to make sure that the card arrived safely before I posted it!

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-18280343156738972322007-12-12T17:34:00.000-05:002007-12-12T17:38:02.488-05:00

It's not too late!!! Some really great images.Christmas countdown

Mary-Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522040994447159438noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34657480.post-92051054451642247022007-12-10T17:25:00.000-05:002007-12-10T17:31:06.614-05:00

well I hope glittered works! LOLThis is for the Gothic Arches challenge this week. A dear friend sent me some punchinella and I had sooo much fun doing the b/g, probably tooo much fun! LOL

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