Friends from Blogging

I just love blogging even though I don't do it enough. I meed great people on them, I learn new things and now I get great gifts !!! I love to read my friends blogs and every once in a while I will enter a contest and I won something !! My friend Terri ( I love saying that I have this new great friend !) made me a great gift from the pay it forward post. I felt silly after a bit because not many people follow my blog but hey, it is all about how we pay it forward in life !! Anyway, she sent me this absolutely beautiful purse. I told her I love the colors of nature and I think she some how crawled into my brain and guessed it perfect !


Then to top it off, she filled it with any womans favorite, chocolate !! Cadbury eggs, jelly beans, chocolate eggs and a bunny.
I usually hate the cream eggs but these were caramel and yummy. I passed one out to everyone and we all ate them instantly total yumm !!! what a wonderful gift !

The purse is just so pretty and I love the colors. I will probably add a zipper up top so I don't spill anything out but I love it, it's even lined beautifully ! Thank you Terri !!

Oh and one more thing, she added seeds and how did you happen to know my favorites ??? They truely are my favorites and I can't wait to plant them. Thank you !!

Resin fun

My newest hobby is Resin. Not alot of people like to do it because it's messy, smelly and takes forever to cure. (24 hours or more) but I love it. I have all these ideas of what to put in it and how I want it to look and my biggest trouble is waiting for it to cure. I'm inpatient and it shows, with the finger prints on my first ones. I finally have the nack to it and I'm having fun trying to figure out what to embed in it. Here are some of my first ones. Next, I need to make a mold because I have some beautiful butterflies to put in Resin (no there not real, just plastic)
it's hard to see the flowers since the flash shows up in all the pictures.

productive day

When I get a new crafting idea, I study how it's done, buy what I need to do it- in excess and then finally get around to doing the craft. I think that one of my troubles is that sometimes, the getting ready is the most fun and then I sit and stare at my supplies for a while contemplating what the finished craft will look like. I did that very thing again this time. I decided that I wanted to try making things out of resin so I looked up all the info I could find on it. Then I went to Amazon and bought a couple of books about it all. Well, 4 in all and they were all duplicates lol Two of one book and two of the other. In my own defense, they were both kind of mistakes. One book was totally different on the outside of the matching and the ISBN number was different too. I was so excited when I got the second one, opened it up and started thinking- hey, I've seen these designs before. Then I compared books and realized that just the outside was different. I sent that one back instantly. The other was a slight mistake too. I bought the first one and then realized that I some how got the one without the DVD so had to buy it again with the DVD. I guess I will sell the mistake one on my web site. I took too long to return it, oh well. So here I sat reading, getting supplies and chicken to try it. (did I mention that the dog chewed up one of my molds too while I waited ?) ( look for these on the Etsy site soon)Finally I sat down today and did my first pour. what fun !!! After I cleaned up my mess, I made tomorrows dinner in the crock pot, grabbed my purse and off we went shopping for tires and stuff. I needed a new shirt because I will be on a quaint NH TV show sometime soon and they are filming it this week. Fun huh ?? Anyway... We stopped at one tire place and they only wanted a mere $1200.00 for the tires etc.(besides the guy was a grumpy jerk) We said thanks, we'll think about it. We went to Sams Club and found some nice one's, Kevin gave in and we got them on the spot. So just over $600.00 later, we left with new tires on the Beast and he was happy. Now the truck isn't trying to pull off the road at every cliff and it handles so nice. Wow !! Nice day all in all. New tires, new resin stuff poured, waiting to be removed in the morning when it's hard. Life is good. Oh and I get Joey for a extra week. WooHoo !! :-)