Gets Around

My lil snowball in the heat is a busy busy guy! it was featured at One Pretty Thing ( which is one of the best darn craft sites around!) after his creation, featured over on russian site here, and over on wists.com.

And this morning I was contacted by Craftown to have him join their list of thousands of crafts.

They grow up so fast!

Ps Prima fans might just want to be online at TSO between 10am and 12 ( qld time) for a special flash treat today.

PPs id be quick if I was you!!

Merry Christmas

And have a wonderful new year, I feel blessed to have you all that read, heck I feel blessed to have any one at all reading this!

Ill be back soon (after I catch up on the last 2 weeks worth of blog reading), providing the big does not get the spot attack! Chicken pox and christmas stinks!

Our Beer holder christmas houses were finished quickly last night, adding cellophane windows and a battery operated tea light so they twinkle at night!

Finally

Cleaned off my desk, so I treated my self ( and made a new mess.......), and played with some of my new stamps! Just a quick lil Christmas Card.

Ps wanna know the best dollar I have ever spent.  Boring, ( for now anyway. )but heaven when waiting for the bus ( or for this coming Tuesday - The Bigs presentation day - always held out side)! 

All quiet on the western front

Possibly the most boring picture in the world, yes?

This week has been sort of a bust. Im having a very Flat week, even scrap Tuesday ( which might I add was actually even held on a Tuesday this week!) was a bust. I watched daph scrap while I painted a few things and paced waiting for the air con men ( 4 hours late and then it took them 4 hours to put it in!). I have been planning in my head though ( and can I call reading the new Scrapbook Creations research???)  for a few things I want to try. 

So the white house eh? You wanna know what that is about.

I was sitting at the table, having a cuppa, daydreaming and staring at the empty beer six pack holder that Rod had left on the table ( yes the bin is only a step away incase you were wondering), thinking that might be useful to hold some paints. So staring and thinking, I noticed it was house shape, and I have always wanted a christmas house decoration.........

Then reading my blogs I notice this challenge,. at the wonderful Design Dollies. So what we have there is the beginnings of a white christmas house. A house in desperate need of a renovation.

Corrugated cardboard roof isn't completely attached ) just sits with a slit for the handle to stick through) as I thought I might hide some lil lollies in there. 

The Plan was today, to hit my local vinnies and get a bag of old decorations, to attach and spray paint ( esp. as now the big and the sweet middle want to get in on the act). I forgot one very important thing though. My local vinnies strongly believe there stuff is dipped in 5 carrot gold and over price everything. So no decorations from there today. Will have to get more creative and think out side the box!

I had another 5 mins

The boys are busy playing Wii, so just using what ever I could reach at my dining room table.

Much better

Would of preferred the tree to be a bit more dimensional, but my pop dots seem to be on a rendezvous with my white gel pen!!!!!! Hope they send a post card soon!

Snow balls in the heat

Remember this ?

 Well as I was making some more I thought Id try my hand at my first tutorial.

So on to  - Simple Easy Snow balls in the heat!

These are what you will need, I just used what I had on hand.

A million flat head pins 

Styrofoam ball 

Ribbon, enough to from a small loop 

Glue ( not totally necessary, I like the added protection), 

Felt, I just used some acrylic that we had lying around in the kids craft box

A pointy thing ( end of a pencil would work fine, I used my rub on tool)

Scissors.

Ok got all that together? Now to work

Make a hole in the ball with the pointy object of your choice, and then push the ends ribbon inside, forming a loop, making sure ends are tucked in. Inset a pin on either side at an angle into the hole. This is where I also squirted a touch of glue,just to be on the safe side.

Now the fun part, cut a million felt "circlish" shapes, mine are in no way uniform, but I swear it works!

Choose a place on the styrofoam ball, grab a pin, spear it through the felt and stab it in to the ball. 

And then a million times more, over lapping the circles as you go.

Until you get this! 

Hang on the tree and enjoy. 

Im a Loser.

Now no one feel sorry for me, its just the truth. Ask my hubby. Ask any one that has met me in RL ( Im sure my brother will very happily confirm this!).  Im a L-O-S-E-R, with capital L .

Ask me why I am home today.  Its kids gym day. Its pocket money day. I have books waiting for me at the library. 

Am I sick? nope, and (for once) all the kids are well as well.

 

Nope, Ive lost my keys ( AGAIN! sigh). So I cant go out because overtime working husband wont be home till late and Ill get locked out.... In the blistering heat...... with cranky babies. 

So Im home and the only good thing about that is that I got to get some things finished. 

I love this ball, I call it my snow ball. I got the idea lying in bed trying to get my mind to stop racing so I could sleep.  I think Ill do another one. Several more if I get the time.

Found and prepared a home for my mini wreath.

And finished my swap ( photo after she has recieved). So Teresa, Keep an eye out. Should go in the mail tomorrow ( providing Hubby can find my keys for me tonight).

Hmm the baby is still asleep, should dig out my sewing machine and finish off my softie, before I have helpers!

Let it snow

I was trying this out for my chrissy deco swap - but its too delicate for the post, not that Rod is worried. He wants to keep it anyway!

Last photo is of the set up under the lid, before I glued it down. Snow man is 2.5 cms , Tree 4 cms, and the box with out lid is 7 cms.

A Mini Walk Through

 Tree is made up of flowers stacked and stacked and stacked, with pop dots in between. If you are going to spray it ( I used white flowers) spray it first. I have smaller brown ones for a tree trunk, and cut down a few of the flowers on top. If I do it again Ill build it over a pin to help stabilize it. (I sprayed mine with my apple green and my berry blue, made using Wiltons gel food colouring and opal sparkly dust).

I have just used 2 loops of wire and seed beads, but I made sure I used a dot of glue to hold it on the edges of the tree so all the beads dont fall to the back.

 Outside is sprayed with some more of my homemade mist (I used black food colouring and gold paint, on a lot of things the black soaks in and leaves a distressed goldish finish, test first it has different effects on different things). I sprayed the lid with my yellow first to give it a bit more body. Clear acetate and white pen for the stars. Snowman is a lil clay and part of a cupcake wrapper for his scarf, he has a pin through the bottom of the box to help him stay in place.

The floor is pop dotted up so the scene sits higher in the box.

A better view of its size is here

Is it Wrong

Ive been thinking of Christmas? 

Craft that is. 

Cooking, eating and, decorating up a storm as well if the truth must be told. Starting to itch for it. It must be the spring clean up, Ive found all my christmas decorations. Im a decoration addict. Mum brings me some back where ever she is.

My second christmas with my mumma overseas and my first as a mumma of three. 

Bring on Christmas I say! 

(114 sleeps apparently)

my usb cord for my camera is apparently not a normal one so I have to get to the camera shop a few towns over, so another old photo - santa ornament I made last year with my ( my mum remembers having this one as a kid) pompom maker kit