There I was just a painting away the past few weeks

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Hello to all! my blog is kind of working now, so I am sharing a couple of things I have gotten done in the past few weeks. I have gone back to my roots and have begun painting on canvas again and drawing on water color paper. I am still working on my dolls and will have to post my new bunch of dolls sometime next week. On the canvas I am using my oil based acrylics with a bit of water and paint brushes, the picture is all my very own of a little girl scarecrow and the horses running in the river are my own ides The little painted plate celebrates fall time, and I am busy working on Halloween items! I am having lots of fun doing it! I can't wait to show you all what I have painted!!!

what' ya Working on for Tuesday, August 3 2015

Today I thought I would share what I am working on, which is some embroidery work.  I loved doing embroidery when I was a young girl mostly the stamped work.  So a few days back I was in JoAnn's and found some really cute stamped embroidery, cotton dish towels, floss, and a hoop.  I plan on staining the towels after I finish the work and putting them in my Etsy store.  Oh I forgot to tell you all I now have 3 Etsy stores, the third one will be showcasing all my artwork that can be downloaded to use for quilting, paper crafts, pillows etc.
Yes I am behind the camera holding the hoop with the work that has been done so far.  I will talk more in my next post about my new store and share some of the art work I have created for it.

A Kick in the Bottom

There are no excuses just that life can throw all kinds of things in your pathway!  I have been working on getting our house to up for sale, so some of the crafting has been on the back burns, we need to paint the outside of the house, inside, replace some flooring!  A bit of work!
So thought I would share a little bit of everything.......

What I have been Working on Wendsday 2015

Good morning, yes I have been away for some time now, there is so much going on around me, new grandbaby who is actually not so new she is now five months a temple wedding coming up in March and working on the house getting it ready to sell.  I also I have another new store in way; its at café press and that is where I am adding all my digital art work. 
These are some of the drawings I have been working on, I have created the art work in Sharpie pen and added some digital effects to make them look vintage, grubby or just very old looking.   Here is a link to where you can see more of my designs for café press http://members.cafepress.com/mydesigns
I have also done a bit of house cleaning in my Etsy stores, most was donated for Christmas and the rest was donated to Goodwill.

Still Alive!

Boy I am truly sorry it has been quite some time since my last post and so much has happened!  New grand baby, my son leaving home and moving away, and traveling to take my son a car being that his truck barely got him to Provo Utah.
We took my son our classic car so that he can get around as his truck broke down and needs lots of repairs!  So today I am just sharing a few pictures of that trip and the car we took him.  Utah was just beautiful and we crossed 4 state lines in 2 days, lost 2 tires on the truck! and got back home with a whole $ 9.00!  That car my son is standing in front of is a rare car! Chevy Modza Spider

New Grand Baby and What I am working on for Tuesday Sept 16, 2014

Daddy, Joey and Zoey and below is grandpa holding Zoey!

Love this picture of grandpa and Joey with the new baby!

Good morning to all! I hope you have a wonderful day!

I have been quite busy with my daughter having her second child another little girl named Zoey! Welcome Zoey!

She was born Sept 2, 2014 and weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and 18 inches long

Right now she is doing well at home and has lots of love around her.  The pictures I am sharing are of Joey, daddy and grandpa holding Zoey.

Yesterday I was teaching me how to make felt flowers and the flower is a blue rose I was creating and teaching myself.  I think I will give a tutorial on how I did this rose a little later on and maybe I show how to make a different flower I have a few ideas running around in my head for creating felt flowers.  This one is one you could tie around your wrist I am using felt and ribbon, thread and a heavy duty glue.    I have my stores closed for a bit because I need to help a little with the grand baby and my son will be leaving and moving away so I have to help a little there also, it has been a little tough the past few weeks as its been very dry here on the Oregon coast which I think this is the driest summer I have seen since I move here in 1985.  Its been so dry there has been no work for my husband and son and I can't believe I have actually been hoping and praying for rain! yikes!  Why do I say yikes well winters here is nothing but rain, rain, rain, and more rain.  I have loved the hot summer here but it does come with a few set backs.  I am doing a vote for yea or nay on a tutorial on how to make this felt rose just leave a comment in the comments  and I might even pick someone to win the felt rose! if I get lots of comments!

Yesterday My Birthday and a Truck Ride with a Steak Salmon Dinner

 Good afternoon to everyone!
Yesterday was a big day, my birthday I am the wonder 53 years of age and proud of it!
Hubby took me for a ride for the birthday and it was a beautiful day high up in the coast range where most do not get to see.....
thought I would share a couple of pictures of the coast mountains on highway 26

 Oh my! how I love Salmon! and for my birthday dinner hubby grilled some wonderful steaks that our good neighbor gave to him!
These were caught in the Columbia river! yum! were they great grilled with a seasoning I made up to put on them!

 Now you maybe wondering who this is???
My son's holly terror! yes he is I came home yesterday to find all my phone books tore up! Bucky must have thought it would make a neat birthday present for me!

Baking Blue Berry Muffins with a Butter Milk Pancake Mix

 Howdy to all! I hope you have a great weekend!  Once again I was playing around in the kitchen wondering what on earth to do with the fresh blue berries?  I did not have any baking soda or powder in the house and the berries were going to spoil....
I did have a butter milk pancake mix and began to think I bet I could make muffins the dough would rise well with out the soda or powder.

 I took 3-4 cups of the buttermilk mix, 2 eggs, and 1 1/2 cup of sugar, a tsp of lemon and a table spoon of sour cream, 4 cups of fresh blue berries, mixed it and then added water until the dough folded together and was somewhat thick like regular blue berry muffin mix or bread.  The Muffins came out quite good and I got 24 muffins!  Sorry about the picture with my blood pressure medication in the back round.   They baked about 30 min at 340 degrees and I took them out of the oven and added some sweet real butter to the muffin for my hubby in the picture below!

 It was a good way to use the blue berries and easy when you don't have any baking soda or baking powder in the house.  Just had to show one of my babies, Ruffles she is being so cute here and she is getting old she is the only old member of the house now and she loves laps and heating pads to lay on, she is 9 years old now!

Time for a Recipe! Homemade Salsa Dip

 I just love this recipe because you can also freeze it for days later.  I have not done a new recipe for a long time so thought it was about time to share something new in cooking!
so this is what you will need:
2 cans of Garlic fire roasted chopped tomatoes
1 can of black beans
1 can of corn
1/2 cup of chopped yellow onion
1/2 cup of sliced Mango frozen Mango works the best
1 1/2 cups of Cilantro
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp of Cayenne pepper
Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl starting first with the tomatoes and adding the peppers last mix well do not drain any of the canned items.  You can make this hotter by adding more Cayenne pepper or a Jalapeno pepper sliced up!  You can also add different kinds of beans along such as white beans or pinto beans.  You can freeze it also up to 2 weeks in a freezer just place into a freezer container and thaw when you are ready to use it.   This is what I do because this recipe makes quite a lot so I freeze about half and  put the rest into a container in the refrigerator.
I love it because its an easy way to get some yummy salsa quick!

Just Goofing off with a Video of Popeye from my YouTube Channel

   
I am sorry I have not posted in a long long time! Sometimes life has a number of little trials, and one of these is getting help for a family member who needs good help.  So I am having a few troubles that I need to get through and I will....
So in the mean time I did this goofy video of my Pot Pie! and I played around with photo or video add ins's  it turned out a bit fuzzy but thought I would share it anyway.
I plan to share some new ideas in crafting, quilting one my favorite easy stew casserole's and lots more!

The Winner is.....

Well this one is a easy one! Barb you are the winner!! hooray!  

Thank you!

for joining in and winning the little wall hanging!!!

Free Giveaway! Tiny Summer Time Celebration wall hanging

Oh Summer Time...

Oh Summer Time...

You can win this tiny wall hanging for those fun summer days that lay ahead! 

The rules are simple, just leave a comment telling me your favorite thing about summer!

On June 27th I will put all the comments in a small green basket and draw the winner!  Be sure to check out the blog and see who the winner is....

The winner will need to contact by email at stockerpam@gmail.com and the winner will need to send me their mailing address so that I can send send the tiny wall hanging priority mail.

If I do not hear from the winner by July 6th I will pick a new winner and re post!

So come have a little summer fun with me and give me your best comment about summer!

Oh Summer Time......

Froggy Time, for some Croaking Ideas Meet Curd and Bletch cloth doll animals

Hey to everyone!
Well I am back at the sewing machine and I thought it was about time to make some froggy's.  This is Curd and Bletch and they are 10 inch small frogs from cotton quilting fabrics.
The pattern is a free pattern from Judi's Dolls  http://judisdolls.com/index.html
I have make the frogs a bit different from the instructions, I am using the quilting fabrics, black beads, ribbon and buttons to make frogs.
I love frogs! and where I am located I get to hear the tree frogs sing from Feb-June and I have not done any frogs up so here is my first attempt for croaking up some ideas for frogs!

Nothing but Tooth Problems

Boy is this picture correct!
It's been a tough week!
Friday was my oral operation to have a tooth that was ugly, rotten, nasty, mean, evil and now is finally gone but its looks as though the top tooth is decided to cause problems.....
and you should see my husband!.....
yikes! today was an emergency call to the dentist for his teeth he is having tooth problems seems like the teeth in both our mouths decided to have a revolution at the same time!
Hubby is so bad that I had to race out and find clove oil and put it on a cotton ball to help the blood curdling pain.....
Holly cow! clove oil does not taste delightful, hubby put that in his mouth turned white as ghost and fell to the couch to lay down and .....stink..... blah!....blah!

I and hubby have 2 mouths full of cavities! how on earth did this happen?  You also notice when you get older you don't tolerate pain as well as when say you were 12 to 18 years of age! those days are long gone down that dirt road....
Who would have thought ! ..... guess I know a whole lot better! this has been one heck of lesson these past few weeks!

Memorial Day

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