Maxam Made

A very short post for me, it has been a very busy week!  My dear Husband had surgery on Monday and he he doing great and will hopefully have more voice in a few days.  But to my work desk... Something big will be arriving at my house in a few short hours.  It is a something I had never really expected to have and said I really didn't want because I didn't think I was clever enough to use for the dollars it costs ( which is why I am baking the humble pie)..  Well The flood had its benefits, I was able to claim some of my quilting supplies and scrap booking materials. I was also able to pick what I wanted to replace it.  Even Steve got in on this and HE found the terrific storage system to house it in! So I have a few hints as to what will be arriving in about 5 hours and 43 minutes!  I already have the first 12 parts and have started playing and I love it!! This post is a little like the "I spy Game"     I had to relocate a few things, to make room       The spot for t

    Yep, this weekend our basement flooded!  Our water filtration canister burst, and within an hour we had 2+ feet of water!  Because of that, and the ensuing clean up, I haven't had to much on my work desk this week! I am very happy to report my stampy stuff was not in the basement!  I did have some scrapbooking things and quilty things down there for storage, fortunately that can all be replaced! I grabbed my button box before it sank, for some reason I had one of those shipping air pillows in the bottom of it!  I poured the buttons after the were washed and dried in to this vintage orange juice pitcher, which I have been storing flowers in!!  I don't buy flowers like Primas, they are lovely but I find I have great luck using dismantled silk flowers from stems.  They are affordable and look great sitting on my counter work desk.  I try to only use very thin buttons and I mix them up with paper buttons to keep things mailable!  Looking at this pitcher of buttons is so cheery,

I'm getting ready to hit the road for the day, but I wanted to put up my new cards for the card shop and write a word or two for the blog.  I also wanted a really great picture to post, so I thought well I'll photo my colored pencils because that is what I want to play with and blog about when I get home - my new watercolor pencils and my old prisma colors.   I was distracted from that when I hit the reverse camera button on my camera/phone.  Ugh!!  My new Nexus Android does this all the time, instead of sliding over to up load the photo, it slides over to reverse the camera to reveal not the picture but me!  Of course it is always with a mouth open , doublechin (did I even say that) up the nose angle!!  Honestly I am one of those people that don't care to have my picture taken and when this happens it is always the same response - a grunt!!  This morning it made me think, we are such complex beings, so much of us is revealed in the image of our faces portray, even so, much

It's that day again when we can grab a cuppa and blog hop around the world checking out crafters work spaces!  The Blog Starts here at The awesome Ms. Dunnit's blog in the UK http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/   Enjoy!! It would seem spring is under way!  Two beautiful days this week, out walking with only a sweater, I  can't remember a winter lasting so long and now that it is past it seems like it was here and gone in a flash!! On my work desk today, a mish mosh of stuff to get done.  I like to finish one project before I start another, when I quilt , I never have ufo's around!  With card making I am not so successful, I have about 1/2 dozen projects started.  I have new this stack of card stock I can't wait to cut into!   wonderful colors!                                                                 and a new set of stamps     But before I do that I have a bunch of card stock that I need to get scored and folded and off my work desk!   each of these bins is

I know the saying is "More is Less" and that  can be true, but that was never said by a crafter! Today, or I should say yesterday was a quiet restful day for Steve and I .  Steve had drill this weekend , and after last weeks sad events, we were both exhausted.  Not the worn out kind of exhausted, but the kind that is remedied by a good night sleep and a day of peace and relaxation.  Relaxation for us today was  lunch out, a trip to the craft store,  yard work and card work.   I Only bought a few things and each stamp I purchased (4) Steve picked out! While we were walking through the mall Steve asked me if I wanted to stop at the Hallmark store, I looked at him kinda funny ; he said "for Ideas"!  I have so many ideas I close my eyes and see card parts!   My new favorite tool has to be these snips, which I bought today.   These are the "Non-Stick"  kind and since I cut miles of double sided tape every day, I thought it would be a good idea, My snips are so

Well I had made a tutorial the other day on a Faux Letterpress process.  I have no idea what happened to the photographs other than I was having a Nexus 4g problem and it looks like only half my photos are in the camera.  But since I have to make another batch I will do a redo for the blog too. I made these three cards for an Oriental Arts Swap   The last card was supposed to be # 2 of 2.  Then I reread the instructions, it had to be two trees for a set of stamps.  Oh well, Now I have another one for my card box!  I used Washi and Stickles on the cards.  I try to keep my cards mail-able so you won't see a lot of dimension.   Beautiful day here in western MA, Lots of running around to do.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Ginny M

 I've been making my new "Thursday" Cards to put up in my card shop and a card making post.  The post is almost done but not quite and I am looking high and low for one of my new cards and it seems to have vanished.  While I was doing this I noticed I was feeling more rushed and stressed by the minute.  It was then I decided that the post can wait till the morning.   There are things more important than cards.   My last post was about my Mother-in-law Nancy Maxam passing from this life to life eternal.  This post is about Legacy, hers, mine and yours.  At Nancy's wake, over 400 people showed up, the town population is only around 2400! Nancy was a mom and grand mother not only to her brood but to about half the town and I don't think she even knew it! She wasn't a politician or a town dignitary, she was a CNA that worked 3rd shift at the nursing home for 37 years.  She wasn't on any boards, committee or consuls.  She did however, plan, direct, correct, gui