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Card Lot

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Here are the cards finished I was working on for WOYWW sans four that have already gone into the mail.  This was a fun project, if I had worked at it in one shot the 14 cards would have taken me about three hours.  Using an electronic cutter was a huge help!  The verse was Ephesians 3:20+21  "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."  My favorite cards have bible verses, I have worked for years at  setting up verses as digital stamps. I also made this card for my Sweet Sisters' Birthday:  I won't say how old, but just much older than ME!!  Actually I'm the youngest,  they are all a LOT older than ME.  jajajaja, crack my self up !  This stamp is heat embossed in black and watercolored. Thanks for Stopping By! Ginny, the youngest!

WOYWW#169

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Wednesday again!!  It's time for the world wide blog hop! I have a fun desk today, actually the project is occupying my stamp room and has even gone out doors for a little while! Before I show you my desk, I will show you two cards that I made before I decided to mass produce: My desk in the planning stage I received a wonderful birthday gift from my sister, don't ya just love sisters!!  I made 6 of these as gifts for the Deacons in our church, 130# papers with multi -layers made this a very nice weight. I like the concept so much I thought I'd like to make a bunch more of the bases.  So I have 14 to start with. First I picked papers for layers and began cutting, I used my ecraft for this,  each card had seven layers, so using an electronic cutter was wonderful. After I cut the layers, I made the card bases, A6 size on 100# Neenah solar white.  It was so hot in the house, I brought the parts out side and Steve and I glued everything . You can't tell from this picture,

Going to a party!

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On Saturday I am going to a party, just three of us, we are going to sit in a basement studio, eat fruit salad and pizza and play with stamps.   I am looking forward to it, and I have been getting ready off and on all day.  We don't have a plan other than to just get some things done.  I was going to work on my Christmas cards, but I think I will wait till next week and see if I can get Steve to help me.  He will be off all week, still melting down from weds.  So that will give us something we can do here at the house. So I have a list of things I  want to get done, in order, with all the supplies I need.  This is where I have been getting into trouble for decades;  When I was 10 I wanted to organize the sleep over in the tent at my friends, and I did not want anyone stepping on my sleeping bag that matched my nightgown.  When I was a teenager, I was organizing where my friends could barf and not be heard by their parents up stairs, and how to hide the smell of the alcohol.  Of cou

Unloading

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Yesterday I unmounted my wooden Sentiment, and Scripture stamps.  I like having things that are like, and it bothers me to have things unlike. Needless to say I excelled in my third grade 'what things are like and what things are not like' exams.  There must have been secret nuclear testings in New England wafting out radioactivity that day in 1968, because my brain forever froze in that mode.  I don't like mixing my markers, I like having whole families of types of ink pads. Everything plays together better when they are 'like'. So it really made sense to end the dilemma of trying to remember which stamp was where, in a drawer or in a binder.  They are now ALL in a binder!! Not only are they all together and not in 5 different places, they are all indexed.  So I have some good organization happening and these stamps are by far easier to accurately stamp using a clear block.   I also have my unmounted stored and indexed in similar binders, they all live on the same

MOJO Food and cat swap

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I've been working on this swap for about a week on and off.  When ever I do a swap I try to make a batch of the same card, usually I shoot for ten and there are always a couple of big errors that lead  cards to the trash can.  This one however was an exceptional batch to the trash can.  the finished card style card was the I think the 6th and final attempt, and I am happy with it.    I wanted to make a brown square swivel card using several Asian stamps and of course it had to feature a cat     But after several tries, I decided to try a Hexagon swivel.   .    I like that, but not in brown, not in blue and not in red, green was not too good either.  (I feel like the cat in the hat should step in here).  I did finally hit it with my Wasua Birch card stock.  I will spare you all the bad stamps and crooked cuts and tell you what put it all together for me:   A nice big bowl of carbs.  Doesn't matter, there was nothing nutritious in that bowl, just pure mojo food.  This is an A6 si

WOYWW #168 or 9

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My finger is better so I can type a little now!!  But the really good News Is we received the latest test results for Steve and they are Excellent!!!  He is receiving his radioactive treatment today and then another body scan next week and that should be it!!  My mom is also doing great!!  Thank you everyone for prayer!!  I know it worked!!  In anticipation for having a whole day alone, I started  a big project, I am taking all my "word" stamps of their wood mounts and making them clings and reorganizing all my cling stamps.   So that is what my pictures of my work desk show today!  That and a few pieces of my cat mingle swap project.  For the fun world wide blog hop go Here: http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ Thanks for stopping by!!

Uh Oh

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  I won't be  typing  tonight, I cut myself yesterday on my right index finger, while I didn't need stitches, I have gotten a nasty infection, I went to the dr. this afternoon and started on an antibiotic, he felt pretty sure I would need iv therapy tomorrow (sunday) I think he is right, 2/3 of my hand is now red and very swollen and I can't bend my index finger at all. Oh Joy, just about the first day in three weeks I don't have to go to the hospital a dr.'s office for my mother or Steve, or to  I end up having to go for myself! What a summer.!! But I was able to work on a cool card  (8) a little bit today!!  Hopefully I will finish and post for tomorow! Thanks for stopping by! Ginny

Meals on Wheals

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This arrived yesterday, today there will be a shipment of sealing bags to go with it.   I had this Brainstorm on Tuesday, What could I do to really help my Mother and her Companion when she got home from the Hospital?  Many of us are now in the situation of trying to help maintain our parents Independence.  My mother, in her mid 80's is still very independent and totally on top of things mentally, but she can't lift and shouldn't after surgery and her mobility is a little bit challenged.  Same thing with the BF.  If I had room here I would just move them both in, and that might be happening down the road, but we would have to sell the house and look for something bigger and on one floor.  So to help immediately I am going to become meals on wheels.  My sisters bought the machine and bags and I am going to do the cooking and delivering!  They would do this too but unfortunately east and west coast sisters live to far away.  I am looking forward to this endeavor.  I run a who

Lantern Geisha

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I thought I'd post a picture of the Lantern Geisha card I had on my Work Desk yesterday.  This was for a mingle on the Oriental Stamp Art Group.  I love this group, always something interesting going on.  Back when I quite stamping for a while,  in 2000, Internet was just becoming affordable and there were very few rubber stamp sources and I don't think "groups" had even started yet, there were "still message boards" and if you were lucky you had a fast dial up connection and you "got mail"  Ah, the old purchase the Internet by hours... and then the cool tool was a crimper.... So I am still amazed at how this whole rubber stamp thing has grown and still retains a very personal identity.  I guess I said all that because I like being challenged and I like meeting new friends on the blogs and in the  groups.  Or I said all that because my brain is functioning more like a fried Cheetos right now - went to bed at 4:30 am and was up at 7.  Any way here i

WOYWW #167

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It is is WOYWW again!!  This is week #167!  I totally missed last week,  Last weeks desk was covered with BC/BS EOB's and if anyone knows what they are, I know I have your sympathy and support!!   This is a better Week, Hubs doing well, and Mom coming home from open heart surgery!! I have been stamping on the run a little bit, and this is what that looks like at my stand up desk: UGH What a mess!!  I am supposed to be making a card for a OSA mingle, and when I took these yesterday this one card had already taken 4 attempts to come to pass: I had a great idea, but I couldn't get it to work!!  So I changed the base of the fabric on sticky paper idea to a leathery black base of 120# paper: Okay now this is working and I should have the finished cards to post tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!  Good here to continue the world wide 'What's On YourWork desk Wednesday' Hop!! http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/

The Forrest and Depression

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Today turned into a very retrospective day for me.  It started out as a regular Sunday, Then Church happened.  Then a question not related to church happened,  Then a question from a friend happened.  Gasp, Did I say that on an Internet blog?  Yep, Oh No Mr. Bill you might offend someone.  I think not, not this post, not today.   The questions were about the same thing and they made me stop and think and type.  For the last three weeks my day has revolved around the health and welfare of my sweet husband and my dear mother.  I have spent more time in the hospital watching them breath than all the times I have been in the hospital put together.  It does something to you, watching the people you love fighting for life and all the while all you can do is be there, holding a hand full of tubes and probes, try to encourage, swab a tongue that looks like it has walked a hundred miles in the desert, feeding ice chips.  Knowing how fragile their lives are there while I sit there, just watching

I'm Back

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I'm Back in a small way tonight.  This week has been so crazy busy for me.  My husband is doing very well from his cancer surgery and will be getting ready for the next treatment and then we hope that will be the end of this story!!  My Mom had open heart Surgery on Monday, 5 bi-passes and a Maze procedure.  She is feeling well enough to feel lousy, at her 80+ years she is making an amazing recovery.  I would say her actual age, but since I have two sisters that might be reading this and this disclosure might get back to her, I will play it safe......  So I am very thankful, all is well with my mother and my husband.   I want to thank everyone for all the prayer and encouragement!!  It has made all the difference! Now on the techno side, I must have the electronic death plague on my finger tips.   First my smart phone, (I don't know why they call it a smart phone, it spells worse than I do!!) locked up, froze, to the point where Google told me the next thing to try was a four i

What A Week!!!!

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Computer Crashed!!  My phone crashed!!! Oy, Oy Oy, But I will be back tonight!!

Time and BMI of 24

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I wanted a really big picture of clocks here,  It has been one of those days, or weeks where it just seemed like I was running against time.  Not Mad Hatterish,  just needing more time, to do the things I want to do and feel I need to do.  But I don't have it and that is probably a good thing, because time works like a diet in reverse.  You gain an hour and the next thing you know you loose 5 more.  It just happens, there is no explanation on the planet for explaining this.  Experts try, but they fail.  If somebody came up with the right explanation just once, we'd have enough time and we would all have a BMI of 24. This will happen the same week a gallon of Organic milk costs less than 2 liters of Soda.    I did manage to get a few cards made tonight.  My sweet husband is feeling better; he still sounds like Marlon Brando in that famous movie and we found out today that may take months to heal up and be normal.  A very significant event did happen today, He took his car keys b

Roza картинка

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This beautiful watercolor Rose was painted by my friend Lena.  Lena is a Wife, Mother and Sister.  She is temporarily living in the City of Ashdod on the Mediterranean coast of Israel.  I believe we all have inner vision, it is this inner vision we try to express in our arts, to bring forward , giving birth to beauty.  Lenas' vision is rich and beautiful with life and promise of tomorrow.  A new bud waiting to open, a new day of life.  In my mind I can feel the velvety softness of each petal and smell that sweet spicy smell that pierces the air and demands your attention in the way only the Rose can do. We all have different gifts needing to be brought forward from the heart.  They are types flowers painted in dimensional beauty, We have them in our  heart, they are there, locked in memories, and   they  come out through our gifts,  needing to be  birthed , bringing to others. These gifts, no matter what they are become a passion, which is why we have guilds and groups, specialty s