Tolentreasures

I can't claim this as my own, I am pretty sure it came from Marie at Marie's Country Woodcrafts http://mariescountrywoodcrafts.blogspot.com/ Go check her out, she is a wonderful painter and has the greatest patterns to sell! Pricing and marking things drives me crazy. I would much rather be creating. But, here is a little tip. Print your tags on the computer, regular card stock works great. Leave a blank area on the bottom.  Cut them in strips, Take the thread out of your sewing machine... and sew along the top edge of the blank area. It makes a nice perforated edge on your tag for your price. If the person is buying your item for a gift, they can simply tear off the bottom and leave all of your information on the tag. It not only allows the receiver of the gift to know that it was handmade, but it leaves all of your information for future sales! I know these pics are backwards, not enough coffee co...

You will need: Assorted liner brushes #4 lettering brush or #4 flat brush Assorted Star and Snowflake Stencils Cosmetic Sponge Wedges Decoart Americana Black Khaki Tan Slate Gray Bleached Sand Light Cinnamon Surface of choice, basecoated Black. As always, these are suggestions. Get something close and don't worry if they are not EXACTLY the same colors. I am always perusing the stencil aisle in any craft shop. There are well used stencils hanging all over the bulletin board in my painting room. You can't beat a stencil for adding perfect shaped stars to a project. You can always shade and highlight them to make them look painted, but it sure is a lot easier to stencil them than to try to draw or trace them. There are quite a few snowflake ones hanging there also. Yours don't have to be the same, get creative! I love cosmetic wedges for stenciling. Just a little hint, the ones from Dollar Tree are not quite dense enough. Upgrade to the discount chain ones. Frugal as I am,...

That's what have passed. How can so much happen that quick. Last time I posted, my monitor at work had broken. Since then, our embroidery machine broke and the laptop that I use at home to update my blog... Also broke. It is back now. minus All of My Pictures! Hopefully, I don't make that mistake again in life. Flash Drives, CD's, Wouldn't you think that I would know better? In addition to the "normal" chaos, We have added in VBS and a trip to Ohio to paint the wall behind the baptistry in my Mom's church. Remember the fish? 500 or so later, they were on the walls of our church. Along with a backdrop painted for VBS. The view of the baptistry through the window. And from the 105 degree hole that I painted it from. Some of the yard sale find plates. And a box. And a sheep. I think that the boys must have had my camera at some point. Some t-shirt yarn ready for a rug. And a wool pillow. Wool has been showing up at my house in garbage bags. Two...

Stuff!  Most of the darkness hours around here are spent either sleeping or painting.  Our fall open house is quickly approaching.

This was actually the first finished project in the 30 in 30 days race that I am in with my sister. This was made from all recycled wool and is sort of my own design. My step-daughter had seen something similar to it in Create and Decorate and I sort of adjusted it to my liking. This is for her for Christmas.