Pink Saturday and a New Birdie

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY
Thank you to Beverly
She is the host for Pink Saturday
I finally did it!! I got a birdie made.
I'm listing it here, on my ebay.
I'm going to see David Cook, it is suppose to RAIN!
and it's out doors. yuck

A Day in Portland~The Big City

My pictures are all mixed up, so lets just go with it. We went to the Belmont area to go to an Italian restaurant...we didn't know it wasn't open for lunch. So we found another place right down the street. LOVE Mediterranean food. Here is my Spanikopita little under cooked, but fresh. She never came back after she served us...and we couldn't find any napkins. I had to get up and go to the bar area and get bar napkins...BAD service.

These were in their beautiful rustic courtyard...

They sat us under this grape harbor...to many bees, we went inside to eat

This little courtyard was across the street

The morning glories were so beautiful

I just purchased these Tim Holz scissors, I heard they were wonderful...they are reallllly sharp...
how do I know....well, I was holding some lace and snip snip snip and snipped the side of my hand. OUCH But look at this beautiful old fabric I found.

A Few photos

In 9 years of managing townhouses, moving people in and moving people out...I have never had someone come back the day after moving out...to bring me flowers. How sweet is that!

I cut a piece of watercolor paper the size of microscope glass

How cute will this be as a Christmas ornament, or on a package

aaaah. There is nothing quite like picking wild blackberries....so good. I found this wonderful doily at the thrift store...Love the design
Red barns- my favorite...this is where we go get fresh picked peaches and eggs out side of Independence. Love the name of the little town...it's so American

Inchies, Twinchie Charms Galore

I'm gathering my spoons...

My wool is dyed, I've got my supply of stuffing
New birdies will be born shortly

I spent yesterday getting spoon easels made for each watercolor "charm"
I'm getting into production mode

Soldering ~ Winner

Sally Jeans Class was wonderful. Does it make me solder better...noooo. But I did learn so much. Her husband Brad really helped Stacey and I so much. I got an extra class from him on glass cutting and grinding that was great.

I cut the solder with my scalloped scissors

There are smooooth ones, and some that I will be redoing

I patina on some. I like the aged look

Gettin' ready for fall,
a pumpkin on one side, a nest on the other
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Now for the winner...Colleen!! Yes you Colleen, Yippie!
You can visit her here
Main Street Memories
Email me when you get the chance

I had so much fun reading everyones favorite time of day.
If you missed it, please go check out the comments.
Seems everyone likes early morning quiet, I sure do

PINK SATURDAY and a GIVEAWAY

My bag is packed I'm ready to go.la la la...

I didn't have time to come up with anything new for Pink Saturday..

I went through my pictures

and pulled out a few of my past pinks. I hope you will enjoy them

A little nest in a metal frame

watercolor key chain

I did this after taking Lisa Kaus workshop
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Now for the giveaway...
I am going to givaway a charm that I will be making tomorrow
in Sally Jeans Workshop
What is it, you say, I don't know...but if you look at a previous post, there is a box
full of charms ready to be soldered...I'll pick out something..lol
Are you up for this?? The unknown???
Here's my question,
What is your favorite hour of a day?
I'll pick a winner on Monday

KC Willis Workshop Retreat

Have you all heard about the workshops that KC Willis is having in Colorado...Click HERE

She's also having a giveaway...hurry, go check it out! Shes also having guest teachers. How fun would that be.

Sally Jean's class, here we come!

I like to be prepared when I go to a workshop. Saturday is our soldering class with Sally Jean. I've got my pieces taped up and ready to go. I'm using the case that holds the magnifying glass that I got my husband for fathers day...it works perfect
Stacey wants to solder pictures of her kitties...This sweet Bug was very cooperative...

This funny Poodie (aka...Poodle the cat) did not! 15 pictures...all blurry, wouldn't look at me.
we laughed and laughed...silly kitty
Back to this guy...take a look at those snaggels...good thing he's a "good" kitty...well, except for the time he nipped at my nose...lol.

Somerset Life Calendar

Here it is...I received a package of these new 2010 Calendars fro Jenny at Somerset

It wasn't until I opened it that I realized I had been featured...whoo hoo!!!

The write up is wonderful

Then I noticed...these aren't my birdies. I was so sad. I contacted Jenny to let her know there was a whoopsie. If any one knows whos birdies they are I would love to email her

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Lisa Anbild is the maker of this bird mobile...thank you Patty for letting me know.

Just Chatting with you...and a touch of Aqua

One of my little sewing machines

These child size spoon and fork were in the junk bin...WHAT??!! They didn't see the charm and beauty?!

I picked up this wooden thing, it had an ugly picture in it, It was so easy to cover it with the Glacier Blue crackle med, when dry, I glazed over it with 3 or 4 colors to create age, then I painted the birds nest.

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I got some exciting news in the mail. About 6 mo. ago I asked Create and Decorate mag. to look at my flickr to see if they would be interested in me being in their mag. She said she would like a couple of things and gave me a deadline. I missed it for one item...shoot!!! So, I wrote her and said, sorry, I received a letter today saying she still wanted it, and would give me an extra money...What??!! So, I got out my needle felting stuff...I felt kinda funny, when I realized (my Z works now.lol) what the problem was...remember when my kitty ripped my lip open...I had put away my felting (thats what I was doing at the time). Remember when you tell your kids to get back up on the proverbial horse....I didn't think it would be ME. So, I got a grip, got out my needles. sent the kitties to the other room and needle felted...it felt so good (no pun intended...at the time.lol) So, the promise of lots of money got me in gear and I "gotter done". Yea for me (pat on the back)

I got some more good news, but I'll share that tomorrow

Angel Snowman/ Roses tags

Side one

side two

I've been working on a about 15 of the snowman/rose tags.
Do I put some etsy, or do I save them for my sale???

Pink Saturday

Look at these sweet triplets that were in front of a "pink" house

Adorable "pink" toy stove at an antique shop

Perfectly "pink" flower

I finished my "pink" tags...and a few blue ones...but "pink" roses

And a few more, lots of texture
Be sure and check out other Pink Saturdays
over at Beverly's How Sweet the Sound

Keep the Gel away from the Computer!!

The other night I was finishing up my tags by giving them a coat of gel medium...oops, it fell on my key board...this isn't the thick stuff you have to scoop, its the more liquid kind...well, what do you do? I got out a paint brush and tried pushing as much of it out as I could. I finally got some warm water and poured over it and turned up upside down on paper towels. Paper towels are NOT a good idea...yes, you guessed it, they stuck, so I got more warm water and scrubbed it off. lol. I just knew my keyboard was going to have to become a craft project the next morning...so I tested a few keys. They all work...but one gets stuck...the Z ok, thats not to bad...until I reali_ed that I live in a city that has a _ in it. All my business log ins....have a _ in it. Kei_er this and Kei_er that. lol.

Back from Vacation

We hiked down to the beautiful Deschutes river, it was waaaaay down there. Dean caught some nice trout.
I finished my tags, but I'm going to wait until Pink Saturday to show you. Here is a sneak peek

Found this old box. I scrubbed in some aqua, it was to bright so I aged it.

Neat old bottle and door knob

How do you like this tatting???

Country Wings in Phoenix is the winner of my tag. Thank you sooo much!! It was fun to come home to such wonderful comments. We had such a good time. We rented a little condo on the east side of Sisters.

Happy Pink Saturday and a GIVEAWAY

First I thought I would show you this sweet birdie I made for a special friend to give to her aunt that has an Ice Cream Shoppe. I had this wonderful old scoop with a turned wooden handle.
I'm working on this fabric "tag" I glued the glass piece on, then I found this wonderful dragonfly..its actually a hair clip.
My hubby and I taking a little mini vacation to eastern oregon from Sunday to Thurs. I always like to take something to work on...So I started these pink tags...I used so many techniques and colors to give them a lot of depth. I think a rose or bird nest will finish them off.

For my

***G I V E - A - W A Y ***

I will pick a winner on Thurs. for this crackled blue tag with the rose.

Please leave me a message

Here is my question...

Are you enjoying your summer????

Thank you to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for

hosting Pink Saturdays