Patterns To Color

You know, there is absolutely no reason to buy any digital background anymore!  There is a way to make it yourself, with just a few clicks, somewhere "out there" on the web...there's a place to make plaid (see yesterday), stripes, and today I found THE background site!  OH MERCY!  I have been there for the last EIGHT HOURS!!! It is www.ColourLovers.com .   WARNING!  Once you get there you may not be able to leave!

There are almost 17,000 patterns already and you can make your own!  The first three below were there already,  I just chose the colors (the pattern determines what will be the same color) and notice, once you color, you name the pattern/color combination

I created the next pattern myself, and colored it twice. Now that I have created the pattern it is out there for anyone else to color.  It took a while to figure out how to create an original pattern and I THINK you are limited to the little clip art (like the daisy shape) that they provide so it looks kind of "cookie cutter" but this is yet another challenge... how to make a pattern like the ones above ....for another day.

Same thing only different

OR...your third option is to just download any already created and colored pattern on the site!  They are there for the taking, FREE!

OH! OH!  And get this!  They are partnered with a company , called Spoonflower, that will make your design into a piece of fabric!  How cool is that!

In Action:

Make Mine Plaid

Hi All!
Where did today go?!!!  It has been one of those jumpin' around can't get a real focus kind of days... My last task has been to find a long lost remote control to my TV so that I can get my Roku to work.... ARGH!!!  Still no luck so I'll have to continue that nasty task.... there's just so many places it can be, ya know?


ANYWAY, before all that I decided to play with Tartan Designer for a while.  It is a place to make FREE plaid...kinda cool.


I made one then decided what I could do with it...I came up with a FREE download for you.  It was 7 pages long so I had to upload it to the web as a .pdf file.  Here is one of the pages so you can decide if you even want to bother with it:

 If you want the whole alphabet you can get it HERE

If you use them for something I would LOVE to see what you make!  Please share.  

OK, I hate to even show you the next picture because it is TERRIBLE!  The only reason I'm showing it is that I made the dumb bag just for this post... there is no real gift giving involved!  The actual bag looks kinda good, its the picture that is so awful.  but oh well....here ya go....something I made with one of the plaid letters.  It is bigger than what you are getting but the bag was big!  

My Space...aka: My sofa is here somewhere!? aka: Keeping it Real

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I like to call this the:  

"Me doing my part to make all husbands of the world appreciate their wives tour"

... Show them!  They just THOUGHT you were bad!...

*** WARNING! This tour is not for the faint of heart!  

MESSY, Real Life, AHEAD!  ***

And, NO! I am NOT a hoarder! ... don't send that show my name! ... I just LOVE tools and every color of every thing I buy, whatever it is.

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The computer room:

This is a picture of my computer keyboard/mouse area... SEE I TOLD YOU I have no mouse space!     

And, this is just the side of the room I was willing to show you!  You can see that my vinyl cutter takes up more than it's share of my desk!

Now, let's move on, to the die cut room....

My brother installed the slat board on three walls of this room for me, then we used the left over scrap pieces in closets and the garage....LOVE MY WALLS!   It is sold by the panel, just look under "store displays" in your local yellow pages.  He also installed the pre-fab "kitchen counter" from the home improvement store for me...I love my brother!

the other direction... some of my dies (I use to sell die cuts before everyone could do it themselves)

from the back side (paper, you can never have too much paper!)

You can probably tell that I LOVE, and spend a lot, on good storage...I just have a problem putting things back in "their place"

Now, to the "Can't-find-anywhere-else-to-put-it-sunroom." 

Paper cutter, spiral binder, embroidery hooper thingy and ribbon, lots of ribbon, (I have GOT to find a better way to keep the ribbon! there is just too much of it. ... See My Solution Here)  OH! and for those of you wondering about the tree in the corner.  That was a gift from some dear friends.  I mentioned that I thought it was cute and they surprised me with it a few days later.  It is a bear cub climbing a tree, not a bare Christmas tree..but a bear in a tree.

jewelry and button making stuff ... hummm...I NEED LABELS! that would at least make it appear to be more organized.

OH!  and we can't leave out the Embroidery section of the room!

Turn around and you can see my dining room... ever ready for the impromptu card making gathering.  

Just so you know, this is what I was willing to show you!  No way you are seeing behind the closed doors where everything else is!!!

OK here is one more inside a walk-in closet because it has scrap slat board...storage for my SU! stamp wheels..

The rest of the walls (and floor) are shelves of the regular stamps, once in alphabetical order. Don't let the empty shelves fool ya, that's what is in the boxes on the floor!... and more are at my feet right now being scanned and being photographed for the big sale!!! .... after all I have to make room for my "next thing"!

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My whole house may be messy but I will say this ...I haven't met a crafter yet that doesn't want to come spend a day digging to see what other treasures are buried within!  And my nieces LOVE it here!  We never have to go anywhere else for entertainment :-)

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Faux Laser Cut Monogram (Part 2)

(Click here for Part 1)

And the "Wonder Can I" continues...

This time I wondered if I could print a frame and add the font to the inside of the frame.... and I did!   

But I have to tell you, it was not NEARLY as easy as not dealing with the frame!  For some reason my cutter was off by 1/8" and that makes a world of difference when you are trying to stay in a confined area.  But, I was determined and kept adjusting numbers until I came up with some that worked.  


I don't know that cutting with an xacto knife might not have been quicker this time!  BUT, I'm hoping if I try it again I can go with only 1 or 2 tries and not 6 or 7!!!


I got the beautiful frame from "The Graphics Fairy" and I am linking there for Brag Monday. You'll notice my version is much pinker...I think my ink cartridge is about out of yellow...oops.


OH!  And the font I used this time was "Manoir Monogram".

Every Weekend....

Skillet is a 3 year old German Shepherd in need of a home.  Yesterday he lived in Kentucky, tonight he will call Florida home...for a while anyway, until someone adopts him...he is headed for his foster home tonight.  It has taken 4 cars of volunteer drivers to get him down to Florida.  


My friend Andrea does this all the time, it was my first trip...I was just curious.  We left Atlanta at Noon on our way to the Tennessee Welcome Center in Chattanooga, TN. where we would meet up with the 2nd car (we were the 3rd) and take him back to Atlanta to meet the 4th car.  I took pictures of our little portion:

 Getting out of car #2

Now he is with us, in #3

BIG FEET: 

 STINKY breath!  He stood in the middle the whole trip so I got a good, loooong smell of that breath!

 Here at last, back in Atlanta, the round trip took 3.5 hours and a tank of gas... time to get OUT of the car!

And into the 4th car....

Awwwww... its a cage this time... don't love that....

And this happens every weekend all over the country!  Volunteers meeting up and driving for hours to take animals to their next home.  Seems like a really nice thing to do to save an animal...but I don't understand why someone if Florida is saving a Kentucky dog when I'm sure Florida has PLENTY to save ????   That part really confuses me, but there must be a good reason so many folks are willing to help in the effort!... I'm just not "in the know" ... ??? 

 BUT, here's hoping that Skillet finds a good family to love him and treat him well!

Spring in Atlanta! Never Be Without A Camera...

I was out and about today...THIS is why you should always have your camera in the car with you!  I took all of these from my car (except the white flower close up)

Ya know, I've never been a bird watcher...or especially loved pictures of birds but since I got my new camera and can zoom in like this!  I LOVE PICTURES OF BIRDS! They don't get spooked because I'm so far away that they don't know I'm there...LOVE IT!  I'm afraid you will probably be seeing more :-)  

Heck!  You can even read the text on the side of the bird bath and I was at least 75 feet away!  

Can you tell I've never had a really good camera before?!  Now I WANT to take pictures!

All the flowers you see above are all gone now...it doesn't take long! ....but, here are some that are blooming this week.  I have NO CLUE what any of them are, except the dogwood...but aren't they beautiful!  This is the second round of all white, yellow and pink/purple flowers!

 Up Close

Up Close:

And Dogwood!!  My Favorite!  This is just from one single tree in my yard...I need to go to West Paces Ferry where it always looks like all the trees are covered with snow there are so many!