Conditioning your mat....

This guy "Cricut Dan" has an interesting theory on how to condition your mat so you don't have the "Dirty Mat" syndrome....Pretty interesting-I'll have to try it the next time I have a new mat.

http://cricutdan.blogspot.com/2008/09/mat-conditioning.html

Freda

More Recipe Swaps...

I'm almost done with my recipe swap list so maybe soon I'll have something more to share with you besides recipes..LOL

This one is for a Zoo Animal Swap

I've had a couple of questions as to what I do with the paper piecings I make after I'm done with them so I thought I'd include this one so you can see what I did with the paper piecing after making it.




Hope to get a few pages done soon for my actual "scrapbooks"...they have been terribly neglected lately, need to get back to them I have tons of pics I want to scrap from this year...

Here's something I ran across on another blog...thought this was really an awesome presentation...

check it out-you need to watch it all the way through for it to make sense.

Freda

A New Winner...

Well, Brother Ayers never did contact me so I am pulling another name out of the bucket......the lucky winner of the blog candy is Jen J!!!!!

Congratulations Jen...

Freda

Another Quickie Project I Finished Today

Brother Robert Ayers...if you stop by here please email me at threadluvr@yahoo.com so I can get your prizes to you. I'll give you till Friday then I'll draw another winner for the blog candy contest I had....

Here's the recipe tin that I've been wanting to get working on...I like how it turned out. Won't quite handle the half-pint sized pages, but maybe with a little trimming...LOL

Keep scrolling to the next blog entry to see the other items I worked on...

Freda

Blog Candy Winner Is......

Brother Robert Ayers...Thank you so much for your kind comments, I'm sure that your wife will enjoy her goodies...hope they help her with her recipe scrapbook. Look for an email from me and I'll get the items right out to you.

And an extra special mention goes out to Bonnie...she is the only one that responded to my blog without being told it was updated...there will be a small appreciation package headed your way soon too...

Here's a couple pics of things I've been working on today. I am cleaning my scraproom (believe it or not...LOL) and instead of putting those "kits/project" away that I'll get time to work on some day, I have decided that they will get completed as I encounter them over the next week or so...I've got tons of things I want altered, wall art, scrapped etc...that I just loved when I bought it, but things like these have been moving around my scraproom for a year or more waiting for their time....Well, their time has come!!!!

This is one of those dollar store frames that has the 3 little colored frames inside...I saw this altered in a magazine from May of last year...ran right out and bought a frame and it has knocked around my scraproom ever since...decided to use a puppy theme and put my grandson & puppies in it...

I bought this kit probably a year and a half ago, I just love these hanging things...at the time I wanted to do a class with this as a make and take, but for some reason it never happened, I had my hubby cut me more "boards" out of a piece of hardboard, just got to drill some holes and maybe I'll get some more of these done up around the house...

My altered clip board, I bought a 3-4 of these, this is the only one I have found so far, but I hurried up and put it together with leftovers from the kit above it...will look nice hanging on a cupboard door with a scratchpad on it for my "gotta have" list...I think I'll make one for the fridge to put my grocery list on.

Freda

Food Embellies

A group I'm on is doing a "Food Embellies" swap, here area couple of pics of my "embellies" that I've been working on lately scroll down to see some more samples I posted last week...I'll be using some of these ideas for that swap...

I'm going to use this popcorn box for a "Snack Swap"

This is my Summer Drink Swap for the WS group. I started working on this yesterday...those ice cubes are a pain in the back side!!! I'll put the recipe I decide on in place today.

Celery Stalks I made for use on an upcoming swap...

My carrot cut...think I'll add a couple more carrots to the bunch next time...

Hope this helps with ideas for food embellishments.

Freda

Is Anybody Out There???

These are a couple paper piecings that I have been working on this week to adorn my recipe pages for future swaps...

I've made an extra of each of these...if you would like to be entered into a drawing for them leave me a comment and be sure to include your email so that I can contact you off list for your snail mail addy....I'm just indulging my curiosity here to see if anyone actually reads the comments or if they just look at the pretty pictures on the blogs...LOL

Freda