A WEEKLY POSTING ???

Maybe I could be more consistent if I write a little each day and publish once a week; then maybe I would have time to upload pics and write what it's all about!!  Sounds good to me !!!  Then the family and I went camping and that just messed me up altogether.

OK...today is Monday, the 28th,  and the plan for today is to get maybe one or two cards done.  I found out about two deaths in the family so the two sympathy cards I made over this weekend are going to be used up.  I need more of them.  We all seem to run short one time or another.  I just looked at the date and talk about  getting messed up!  I need something to eat -- I just noticed the time, and lunch is definitely needed. 
One of my favorite places is Pinterest!!!  So full of inspirations and ideas !!  It has become a daily "MUST"  !!  I do have to pick up my Stampin' Up order.

Today is Tuesday, the 29th of July -- I just have to make time.  I learned how to add a gadget today on the blog.  The only trouble is when I try to change the place it had landed in, the blog does not give me a chance to save the change.  I can preview it changed but on the page where the change occurs (to drag & drop)  the blog changing area doesn't have a button that says "save changes".  I guess I have to visit the forum again.  That is where I learned how to "add a gadget".  So now I am off to pick up my SU order and hopefully I can get back to this later.  (After I get done with PINTEREST !!! )

Yup -- goofed again !!  Today is 8.1.2014 -- Friday -- and I missed typing for 2 days.  I spent most of my time on Pinterest and visiting though.   So today I would like to DO something.  I am looking at remaking clothing.  I hate throwing out clothes (for the material mostly).  I just saw some cute things to make out of old tee shirts....I do want to do THAT !!!  Later -- people !!

OK -- here I am again!!  Today is August 5th, 2014!!    I am going to try to really do a weekly blog-thing ---  but I have been a little busy anyway!

Played games with the grand=kids and my DIL -- we had fun and then I went downstairs and worked on a necklace I had been wanting to make.  When I was down in Florida, I found this pendant and I immediately pictured a 3 string necklace.  I HAD to get it; finding the right beads to go with it was a challenge.

A friend of mine, who is a jewelry maker - Beedle's Baubles -- told me to go with a satin cord and just make it as a single pendant strand.  On the back of the pendant, was a piece of backing with 3-rings on each side to make it a 3 string necklace.  So here is the finished product -- I absolutely love this.  It is all that I expected it to be !!  It is silver with clear rhinestones in the center -- lovely !!

 

I have also made a couple more necklaces where the beads just caught my eye.  Here they are --

 

 

 

I was born in November, so Topaz has been one of the favorites, but these beads really caught my eye!!  Now I should make a bracelet and earrings to match -- on goes the search for beads that will match.

 

 

I love the vermillion color -- these beads just spoke to me.  I took a picture of them two ways - together and separated.  The reason for the separation is to see which way I would like to see them worn. I did find some beads to use them for the "in-betweeners".  But, to me, it still doesn't look right.

Maybe I should just leave them together as in the first photo.  Hmmmmmm!!

 

 

This is a picture of two of my favorite people:  Aidan ( in the foreground) is wearing his new "Dino Dan" type outfit -- he LOVES dinosaurs and Alex (in the background) is quite the little ham-bone!!  They are so cute, but a REAL handful !!  Alex will be in 1st grade this year and Aidan is in pre-K 4!!

This is my youngest son, Wayne, with the newest addition to our family -- Jayden, who is 1 year old.  He is a little chubby baby -- he'll lose it once he starts "runnin'" !!


This past month I even was camping with the family -- what fun that was !!  I really enjoyed it -- it's been a long time (longer than I would like to count) since I was camping.  I think I only had the two oldest children at the time -- Phil and Peter.  Camping and fishing -- that was the thing in those days.  That was so much fun!!  We did go fishing this time -- Alex got the first catch, this trip, was a "TURTLE"!!
And I did catch a fish -- !! -- Yay!!!  Glad to see I haven't lost my touch!! I wish I had a picture of what we caught.

 

Here is the family discussing the "plans for the day".  We were at Black Rock State Park.

 

Making smores was just the thing for  the evening !!!

 

Here's the two grandchildren pretending to be ALLIGATORS coming to shore to attack GRAMMA !!

A really fun weekend !!



 

I have made some newer cards -- I just have to take pictures and then I can post them. 

I also got the tee-shirts and have started making the "scarves".   I have to get the contrasting embellishments before I can take pictures and "show them off"  !!

 I just love PINTEREST !!!  I can already see the presents I will have fun making!!  OK -- I guess I am done with this blog for today!!  Yay !!  I just wanted to have something interesting to say; I have been checking out other blogs and most of them have something on a daily basis --  maybe someday I will have a little something for every day -- or maybe every other day !!

Thank you, Lord for my talents and another day !!  Help me to put everything to good use !!

Until next time --
Ronnie-Bear

 

 

 





Trying to be consistent ----- !!!!

So much to do; so much to learn!!  I love to Craft. I have been doing it since very my very young days.  At least I am showing that you CAN teach an old (I'm not a dog!!) (sort-of-old) wondrous personality (I like that one!) new tricks (?) nah, new things, new crafts, new recipes, new interesting things. (Much Better !!)

I wanted to do and be many things in my lifetime, but many obstacles came my way for a few of them; and maybe for a good reason.  Let's see -- Auto Mechanic, U.S. NAVY, Hairdresser in NYC, Home Construction -- Creativity is in my blood!!  As I look back, I can see why a lot of these vocations did not pan out - or maybe I gave up too easily ??? 
I really loved working on cars - my boyfriend and I took apart his GTO to put new rings on his pistons in the engine -- that was a heavenly accomplishment - I loved getting greasy hands and the feeling of accomplishment after it was done.  I changed my own oil and even took parts from other cars to fix my tail-lights on my car (splicing wires and such) OH WHAT FUN !!! And the best part about it was that when I pulled the knob - they worked !!!
The NAVY??  My mom and dad would not sign for me to go in -- (good thing --- VIETNAM)
That was a close one !!
Hairdresser in NYC??? -- I didn't want to leave home at that point (boyfriend, of course)
Home Construction?? -- I wanted to take a class of Industrial Arts in my high school (WAMOGO Regional H.S.)  and I was told that was a BOY'S CLASS so I was refused (that was in 1960, imagine that!!)  When I got older, I took a woodworking class in an Adult Continuing education course -- I did have fun with that -- I loved making things with wood and other such things  -- It all had to do with crafts !!

I have made jewelry, crocheted a LOT of Christmas presents, sewed a lot of clothes (even gowns) for dances and weddings (I still like to sew) -- and now I make cards and I love to scrapbook -- I can't afford those trips people go on -- too overwhelming to be in a group of hundreds of people.... I like small groups!! 

OK enough of this one post -- I am going to try to be more consistent (hopefully I will be successful!!

Thank you, Lord, for another day !!

It's a New Year (again) !!!

I know I archived a post -- but I don't know what happened to it??? !!!  I have to practice more on this blog.    I am going to try to get better --where does the time go????  Some days just zooooooom by -- I guess I mean ALL days -- they just seem to just zoooooooom by at an alarming rate. 

At least I got a few things done this month -- Scrapbook pages -- a few cards -- one was a total challenge -- and I just love challenges --- a "POP-UP BOX CARD"  ----- it came out sort of  good, although I just used scrap papers -- I tried to put together papers that would sort of match, but it still came out OK....the next one I make, I will definitely give more thought to before I leap to putting these types of cards together.

 

Now I have to fix the alignment -- sheesh!!!  Thank goodness it worked!!!  Now I have to try to do a really good one!!!  Ok, now I'm going to upload the cards I just did (I must be on a roll -- not really or I would have more than this done in a month -- I wanted to challenge myself and try for 1 card a day -- that's a dream -- I'll just have to keep plugging away !!)  I do love to craft cards -- I also want to do some mini-albums for my family -- like cousins and such -- little by little.

 

 

This is the inside of this challenging card from a tutorial I saw on Splitcoast Stampers -- a craft website that I belong to.  It was easier than I thought it was going to be.  I love making those bows!!  Now for the front ---

 

 

The tutorial was all about the inside stack of presents for this challenge.  To me, I think doing the front of the card was more challenging than the inside.  I kept thinking -- "What can I do??, What do I do with this????"  I finally figured it out...but it was exasperating!!!  Sometimes it comes easy and other times --- days!! 

 

Now for the finale of this blog this evening ----  My scrapbook page of " The 3 Generations" --  It is a picture of me, my dad, and my dad's mom -- my grandmother " Baba Waterbury" !!!

 

 

 

I love the way this page came out!!  I started reading a book on Scrapbooking (I have a few of them), and this was a very interesting book.  I was trying to do pages that would have more than one picture.  This particular book had quite a few interesting ideas of different types of pages and subject matter.   One chapter talked about 1 picture pages.  I am starting to learn more about embellishing a scrapbook page.....So this page is my 2nd pride and joy (the first one was my prom pages).  I'm hoping I can see if I'm getting beter at it as I go along. 

 

Well, it is REALLY late now - like quarter to two in the a.m. ----  So, I better get to the bedside and under the warm, cozy covers -- like it's really C-C-C-O-L-D out there tonight!!! 

Sweet Dreams, whoever may be looking at my blog!!!

 

Catch you later -- and hopefully I will make more of an effort to get more posting done!!!

MU-AH !!!  Wish me luck for this coming year!!