Glass House Banner..show in tell

Here's a shot, not a good one of the Glass house banner...We had 10 swappers.

So 10 glass houses from all over..Texas, New Mexico, Washington State, Arizona..

Amazing houses from Amazing women, I've met in person, thru flickr, and blogs..

I attached each of mine with a chip stone chain..I don't know what the others did. I do know that Mendy would wear her's to school as a necklace each time she received one in the mail..Isn't that fun?? Thanks Ladies for being a part of this!!

Have a great day!

tee

A little Late~

But better late than never, right???!!!

The winner on the domino post is : Diane, another Texas gal!! Thanks for the comments ya'll it was great fun to see who wanted a chance at this little thing..

Thanks for Coming to see me here!

Class in Waxahachie went very well, those gals are soldering up a storm!! We did the round charms, where you float the solder across the backside. They did it like there was nuttin' to it..I was so proud of them!! yea!!! Thanks for coming to my class ya'll !

Since I was there soooo late in the day, I took advantage of it and spent the night with my good fren Cindy..The next day we went 'teeking' at a store in Mansfield..there were some super awesome booths there..and here are a few of my finds :

Don't you love the hair and the peter pan collars on the girls??? I smell a retro themed collage in the works...don't you???

And look at these old wooden Chess pieces!!!!!!!!Cee scoffed at me for picking them up, but....after I rattled off a few ideas that popped into my head, she decided she would 'buy' few from me..

And then we forgot to get some out for her when we got back to her house...lol...

I had to have those tins for some reason..and that brass cow tag, I've been wanting one, what better than Lucky Number Seven???

This was a surprise in the mail the other day:

My friend Linda in MI, found this cool box and knew I had to have it! She's such a sweetie, to think of me like that.. not only was it an very cool box, she filled it up too!

Is that not cool or what??? THANK YOU Linda for all the wonderful goodies!!! ThANK YOU Cee for the sleep over and the fun we had!!

See ya'll tomorrow!!

hugs,t

Nice things!

The winner in my Paper Cowgirl blog trail ride is: Paris Cowgirl~ KIM!!! Yea Kim!!! Thanks so much for everyone's comments and riding along with us!! Wish you all could come to Paper Cowgirl in June! I'll be in touch with you Kim for mailing directions!!

We've had the nicest things said about us here:

Lesley wrote the nicest post about Cindy, myself and Paper Cowgirl!!
Thanks gal!!

Feelin' like somepin's done

Slowly I've been adding things to Etsy..I closed up shop back in March there...after much prayer, I opened it back up..

Some of these things are going to be added:

This Fun Time little shrine needed a face lift, so it got a new pieced together necklace...

This little ornie was fun to do:

Love those Art Chix images..I need to get some more..she has such fun things..And the vintage anagrams spell out the JOY, I have to make sure and use them more...what good are they doing me other than looking pretty in jars??

This one I'm freaking excited about:

Awesome?? or what?? German Scrap, Anagarms and a flying bird...it's fairly large too..this one may have to go to the bead store with me to find somepin' special for it..what do you think of it?

Here is a group shot of some of the finished solder pieces..Cindy~ yours is peeking out from the top~

Ya'll have a good Wednesday~

t

Never did tell ya about

How my teaching gig went..

I had a bit of a freak out right before sitting up..But with Cindy there she calmed me down, handed my can of clothes pins to me and sent me in... I looked at those things for hours before and never even moved them, but when the time came I couldn't find the freaking things!!!!

So, started class by handing out our class kits: yep, they were in a coffee to go cups..Everyone loved it..passed out the 'lost' clothes pins, Popsicle sticks and instructions..All seemed well..explained what we were using and that the crystals were called: Onion Skins, because they are THIN..so be CAREFUL...We had at least 4 busted ones..from over zealous burnishing..but that's OK..live and learn..I had packed replacements just in case...lol..

Everyone seemed to understand my hand outs, that's a good thing.. I gave everyone 6 images to choose from and several sayings all printed out and ready to use..

I loved how every one's was so different but yet the same..it was great..We had one burn..after being told which end was the hot end..but some ice on it and she was good to go.. I did redo a few of the globs of solder on some of them and put on a bunch of jump rings..that's the toughest part of the whole thing.. Fixed some mistakes and answered some questions..but that's what class is for..to learn what not to do and how to fix it if you do mess something up..right??

And BOOM, times over, every one's cleaning up...and I think I inspired some to do some soldering of charms on their own! Now that makes me happy, to give inspiration to others!!

Hope you enjoyed it if you were in my class..Hope to see you there next year if all goes well!!

Thanks again for the support and kind words!!

Have a great weekend!

t

Road trip Report

I rolled into Cindy's Driveway about 9:30 yesterday morning...and the fun began! We yacked and yacked and yacked...who'd thunk it??

We got in the car and headed to town...Cindy took me by all the places we are going to be doing Paper Cowgirl. We went by the Cottage (below) to look it over for vendor night. We are having 8 for vendor night to set up in this CUTE little place, so if ya'll are in the area, come by and see us Friday Sept 26th for all the super cute handmade goodies and snacky foods with a cowgirl twist!




We had lunch at Panera's, which we both love, and headed back home to work on the mail out packets:

They are going to be super cute. Will be mailed out September 12th, so be on the look out for yours really soon if you are joining us! Plans were also being made for next year's retreat!

We had some help from her fur baby:

Being all nosey in my bag of tricks...

It was a fun day, we got some stuff done, and we got alot of talking in!!

This weekend we are headed North. So I'll see you in about a week!

have a great weekend!

tina

Watch out~

Waxahachie! I'm headed over tomorrow to meet up with Cindy to work on Paper Cowgirl info packets we are going to mail out soon! And they are going to be super cute!! But we are going to 'go places' first..so loook out here we come!!

I'll be sure and take pictures!! Cindy and I have not ever met face to face, we met thru blogs about a year ago..she was whining about no bingo cards on her blog and I told her I'd share, so that got us going..now look where we are! Planning altered art get-togethers...what fun!

See ya!
t