Great start to the week!

Haws Family

My grand-Dad and his twin

past metalized project for family

Well you guys this week has really started better than last! Thank goodness for that!

Sunday went to my first meeting of designers and teachers of my local scrapbook store Scrappers Boutique as one of their newest teachers in the near future teaching Metal classes and other things! I am excited as well as freaked out but in a good way! So to Terri my Lil sis I am doing what you said I needed to do! will be posting pics as soon as camera is up and running again! I love Ten Seconds Studio Metal and really love that I will be teaching with it! Cheryl and Megan rock with their Metals and molds! I have been a fan and student for a long time!

Monday went to weigh in and lost 3.5 lbs. Yippee! and while at class found out I won Harry and Davids Fruit of the month club drawing for 6 months.

Tuesday went and met up with friends at Scrapper's Boutique to work on class stuff and visit and so excited with ideas abounding! And actually got some things accomplished!

Got a call before got home to get home to go somewhere with hubby and wound up at Toyota dealership for the night for a car ! You might say I bought my hubby a car! LOL There is inside joke her that if you are a friend ask next time see ya or I will probably spill the beans to ya!

old sign letter metalized for my boys!

Wednesday I am invited to Casey and Matt's new apartment for lunch with them they are fixing me chicken and asparagus yummy! And have a feeling will be helping hang some things for them! We will see what the rest of the week brings!

Have a great day tomorrow and keep creating something good!

Denise

Man Want the headache to go Away ...FAR FAR AWAY!

old well and Windmill!

2 of the 3 dogs....these two are for wrangling the cattle!

Terri's miniature donkey note to self get a better pic!

one of the twin cats!

Past two day have had a bad BAD sinus headache and now it is messing with my thinking mode and gotta get stuff thought out to take to Lil Sisters house to house sit!

Wesley is still doing bad and she is trying to get their end worked out with appointments Air fare and lodgings so please continue to pray that it is God's will and all will fall into place like it did last time they went to Baltimore to John Hopkins Hospital with him!

T!m signing backs of our projects!

Never did get pics from T!mster and Cheryl class posted so here are some of the pics!

before we really got started on the curio!

before one of the classes with our goody bags on table!

In Cheryl's half of class showing how to emboss the metal for the frame that is me in the green shirt!

Forgotten pics of things I finished before surgery!

This is some things I found at Michael's in their kid decor and thought they looked like paint brush and paint bottle holders to me.....Whatcha think?

covered in Ten Seconds Studio's old Red metal before I bought the new red .

Painted all with a sea foam type green then used some distress ink over some of that that wasn't papered or metaled..You can see some of the papers I used in next pic below.

The next pic is back of big bird holder....Left back of bird plain, Just did the outer box part.

Boys had been after me to finish some of the bigger items for their apartment so did it before goin under the knife.....Papers used in their cross collage...largest canvas I that was square maybe 30x30 and don't remember the dimensions of second canvas but do know wooden cross was like 4 1/2 x 6, really not sure but took rosette off of it , thought this metal cross that was white and I distressed with black to go with the rock star black metal looked more like my guys.Papers were a line from Bo-bunny I believe, but don't quote me on that.

Got to use some of http://tensecondsstudios.com new Kabuka molds on this with some cuttlebug folders added in they were really happy with it the day I had them pick up their things.

Really do like the way the cast iron cross that had been painted white looked on the wooden one once I distressed it back to some black in it.

The next item is the first class I took from Tensesconds studios and had never finished and surprised the boys with pis of their grandparents on them.

And when Cheryl was cleaning out the studio over flow and bought this old plastic sign from a store front that had silver plastic in center so pieced some molds and rock star metal for the guys to figure out where they would put it since Casey and Matt are both Cooks but then Casey's name starts with C also. Hope to go see where they have hung all their things when get to go out more.

got some other pics but they did not get the finished items to go with them so will wait. Can't wait to get back into craft room, Casey brought me Three somerset Mags to get me thinking 90 t0 nothing , and already have several things wanna try. But energy level isn't up with the speed of my mind yet.

Have a creative Day tomorrow!

and thanks for the prayers me....

PS ....Wesley is having surgery again tomorrow at Cooks Children's at 1PM We just found out tonight ..think that is why I am not sleeping yet, Not as bad as last surgery but still in brain area ....

In God's Hands

Denise

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Trying to post slide on craft room

Oh Turkey Feathers!!!!Well couldn't get it to work first couple of times so if willing .....scroll all the way to the bottom for the slide show of My craft room....Sorry!

Wanted to get some of the craft room pics on here so here is a go to get them on fast and it has wound up taking all night. Hope this works.

Hallelujah....Wesley came thru surgery #1 fine . now we will see if they do the second one this coming Monday thanks for the prayers and please continue....

I am going to bed I am sooo tired. Who knew pictures would take all day... And on such a cold Icy day...GKids will love not having to go to school tomorrow oops it is today....nitey night!

be creative

Denise

It's a New Year and still in pain!

Jeff telling those in view to not tell....sure!

My dear Hubby playing around with Jami my Daughter

Jami catching him !

Well I made it to the New Year without going mad with pain. Did do some imbibing to keep it to where I could sleep some but just really don't like the taste of anything... All becuz the doc did not call in the meds I had been taking, at least I was sleeping 6 hours then.......Go to the Doctor tomorrow and am praying that he will give me something to help with pain and get me in to a neurosurgeon quickly. If not I really don't know how much of this I can remain taking.

Trying to get sleepy enough right now to go see if I can sleep at least a couple of hours.

The boys apartment is lookin good, Casey came by to get him some staples I told him he could have for the pantry, and we discussed some pieces of art for me to get busy on.

Don't know how quick I can get to them with every thing messed up around here after moving things out and trying to switch what we did not let them take make sense and then there is trying to put a craft room together when I can't do a lot before I am wincing in pain. Hope to get some things done before 2pm before have to be at Doc, but we will see!

keep creating and look for the small blessing in your path!

Denise

Family Auction 08

My Family Reunion was this past weekend and I did not get to go with Jami moving into Moms house . The house they were moving to was a mess from the past 2 sets of renters, plus I am just not able to do things for long periods of time in the heat. Although I did too much at Jami's.
These are the items I sent with my big sis to the Auction the first was a book on my sisters The altered book had all 5 of us in it.
My little sister won out but would not tell me how much she spent.. front of book


2 of inside pages Diane and I

2ND item was a large canvas I think it was 18x24 was multi media used caulk, cheesecloth, metal embossing from Ten Seconds Studio on their choc brown metal

The 2 pics are My grandfather and his twin and then

the other is the family they were from the original thirteen kids that started the Haws Family Reunion and my Great Grandparents in the center of that picture.

Used some dominoes and dice for the family games and then watch faces for the time that has passed and then just bits and pieces of ephemera.

I also inked the back side of the metal on the two canvases where the canvases are curled out with butterscotch alchol ink and rust alchol ink, similar colors were used of acrylic paints to paint in the textured canvas.

The twins did tell me that one of my cousins beat them out for 75 dollars for this one. Overall our family reunion is dwindling and the younger familys arent coming becuz of other commitments so looks like for the first time in over a hundred years we are going to one day instead of three at a state park facilty and cabins. This really makes me sad since I did not go this year. I grew up every year looking forward to the trip to the reunion. Since all the family had girls except for my uncle Dudley having Mike and Mike had all girls the Haws name is also going to disappear When Mike passes.

Only us keepers of family photos and history will go on.....That makes me as sad as when all my Aunt and Uncles and My Mom and Dad passed on.

Till tommorrow keep creating and may the son shine on your dreams!

Denise

The Family Reunion canvas!

Posting Pics for the things in last blog to be mounted on.. Well about over did it going this weekend to a Fri crop and Sat to a PMC class and then working on these. When I get my pieces back from class I will post them, maybe around Friday...My pain is a doozy today but decided to post these before I do the next step which is paint. I really have never tried this but TenSeconds studio had some they have done and love theirs so Megan told me sorta what to do and here is my efforts....
I used caulk for the house .cheesecloth,rubber mat pieces for holding rug to floor, heishi beads,old Tacks , beads ,clock pieces ,game pieces etc......Messy but fun!
while I was in a mess and to use up the caulk I had opened I did two more canvases to play with in reverse so I can inset whatever I decide to put in them, The one below this shows a close up on the tiny marbles I used as a texture....more watch parts...


another closeup of some of the gunky mess
This is the third canvas not as many do dads on it, mostly textured....
Not sure I should have put all the peices of dodads on before painting but this is trial and error for me ,( Hopefully not more error just happy mistakes)... Now if I can get the paint to do what I want it to do , I will be doin good, Just will have to wait for a better day, with less pain.....

Hope you have a great week of creating !
God bless
Denise