Fireman greeting card

I just made this card and put on my etsy site. It is in honor of the fireman that worked so hard this summer. I usually make cards for women but will be making some different ones for men.

100 aceo and counting

I started some time back making an aceo a day. My goal is to make 100 new ones.
What am I going to do with them? Put most of them on my etsy site and a few in an art show next month.

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I like seeing all the different things that you can put in jars. I am going to see how many things I can put in aceo jar cards.
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A few years ago there was a quilt pattern with bugs in a jar. I never did get one made but have always admired them.

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You can see most of these on my etsy site for sell.

Aceo's for the holiday's

I love making aceo cards to give and sell. I have made over 200 and have never made the same design twice.
I might use some of the same vintage pictures but each one is still different.
I started collecting aceo’s when they first came on the market.
I have bought aceo cards in different mediums and styles. Each one is a beautiful work of art.
The first Friday in December our local art group, http://www.sassart.org/ sell aceos and Christmas ornaments at the local http://www.stevensvillehotel.com/. All items are hand-made and originals.

Collecting aceo's

Aceo cards are a lot of fun to make, sell and give.
I started buying aceo’s when they first came on the market a few years ago.
They are like tiny works of art and each one is different.
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I make and sell aceo cards but I still like to collect them.
I spent this weekend making new ones to put on my etsy site and also for a craft show in December.
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Hope you will take the time to look at my etsy site and see what is for sell while you are here.

Volunteer of the year

My husband and I volunteer at Lee Metcalf NWR.
He does data entries and I man the front desk, and any other jobs that they need me to do.
Every year they have a volunteer recognition ceremony.
This year we won the volunteer of the year award. We was given a certificate of appreciation, gift certificates and this beautiful California Quail statue.
We was very surprised that we was chosen and won.
Had cake and ice cream after the ceremony.
If you are ever in Montana, please stop by this beautiful refuge.

Mixed media collage greeting cards

I have not made greeting cards in about two years and decided to make some new ones to put on my etsy site. ----------------------------------------

The woman in this picture reminded me of Paris. I found a few pictures in my stash of Paris and put them together for this beautiful card.






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Remember the Television program of Route 66? I had this sign and wanted to make a card using it for some time.

Lavender sachets

I used the same photo of the woman that I have on my collage listed earlier. It is one of my favorite pictures to use. I also like to use pictures of horses on my sachets. I especially like this one as it features two horses. The pictures are from a vintage painting. Sachets are for sell on my etsy site. ***Both sachets have sold***.

Wild rose and hot weather

Since it is so hot I have not been doing a lot of sewing .
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I decided to put on some flower pictures that I had taken since they are so refreshing looking.
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This one is a wild rose that grows in Montana.
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This one is of my pink geraniums. It seems that I must like pink a lot. For some reason most of the flowers that I bought this year are pink. Most of them was suppose to be red and I guess the plants had wrong tags in them.
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The red rose is a climbing rose that grew wild in a mill village in NC. I believe it was back in the 60’s the homes where sold for $25.00 a room and anyone that wanted to buy one had to have houses moved to their own property. Now wild flowers and fruit trees grow and bloom all over this small mountain.

Etsy bloggers group writing project:orange!

The theme is to post something orange.

This is the only thing I could find that I had made that was orange was this aceo. I used my hand dyed fabrics. I put a gecko ( lizard) and a ginkgo ( leaf) on front.

I have not offered this one for sell and thinking of keeping this one in my collection.

You can find the official site at, http://etsybloggers.blogspot.com/.

Horse lavender sachets and bitterroot flower

I made two new lavender sachets today and put on my etsy site.I love making these sachets using vintage pictures and each one turns out different.
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Went for a long hike today in the mountains with my husband, son-in-law, daughter and grandson. Climbed some steep hills and went down some deep valleys. Saw a beautiful mule deer peering at us from behind a bush. He thought we did not see him but I got a good picture before he bounded off. I seen my first bitterroot flower in the outdoors. I have seen these in shops for sell but their beauty pales to the ones growing out in the open. The flowers are very beautiful and the history of there use by the native american is interesting.

Baby mule and Indian paint brush

I have not had time this week to make any new crafts. Have been working on my flower beds and garden. I am showing a picture of a baby mule that I took and some beautiful Indian paint brush flowers.The baby mule was one of many in a field of new born mules and colts.

goldfish aceo

These are new aceos that I have on my etsy site.

Oriental pillow

I designed this pillow pattern some time back when I needed some small items to sell. Click on pillow to be taken to my etsy site. Pillow with girl has lavender.

Story of the lost quilts

I put two quilts on etsy today, click on quilt to be taken to etsy. I made this full quilt last year and had it machine quilted before moving cross country. I put my quilts in large black plastic bags to keep them clean in my move. When I unpacked I found 4 quilts missing. I gave my daughter some large clear bags that was in another black plastic bag. About two months later she called me and said "guess what I found"? She had looked in bag and found this cat quilt. My husband and son then went thorough every black plastic bag in the garage and did not find my other quilts. We finally figured out that they was either taken to the trash or given to a charity in our haste to get packed and move. Moral of story: do not put your quilts in black garbage bags for any reason.

Memorial Day Heroes.

I made this card yesterday in memory of our military. It is made with vintage drawings from WW II. Every year I buy a red poppy and usually put them in a jar in the house. Over the years I have lost them are the kids played with them and now they are gone. Two years ago I started to put them on the visor of my car. I now have two. I like looking at them in remembrance of our brave men and women when I pull down my sun visor and see the beautiful red poppies. I got the habit of buying Memorial Day poppies from my grandmother and parents who always bought a poppy each year when I was growing up. My grandmother would wear hers proudly on her dress for several days. I heard many stories about WWI and WWII and hope that one day our children will not have to hear stories of wars are even have to be in them. A beautiful poem by Moina Michael, “We cherish too, The Poppy red. That grows on fields where valor led. It seems to signal to the sky. That blood of heroes never die“.