A visitor

This Daddy Long Legs stopped by for a bit of shelter in my tent at the Sagebrush Arts Fest.

New hole punch

Got a new hole punch for making journals and notebooks.  The fact that it has a 'neutral zone' makes my nerdy little Star Trek lovin' heart giggle with glee.

Crafting can be dangerous!

Burned myself with the heat gun.  Ow.

Workspace!

Much needed re-location of the workspace this afternoon!

Fresh out of the oven!

A flock of ladybug and butterfly memo-holder magnets.

At the Market!

At the Portneuf Valley Farmer's Market with my new sign.

Working.

I know some people keep their work spaces neat and tidy.  Me?  Not so much.

Bunting!

Working on some bunting to use as a sign!

First Blood

My new carving tool has drawn first blood.  Ow.

Sketches

Working on some sketches for some new stamps.  Some okay, some that need a bit more work.

Woohoo! Supplies!

Always fun to get a big box of art and craft supplies in the mail!

This is only a test

Just testing...

New Stamps!

New hand-carved stamps ready to be mounted on wood blocks:

Bugs, leaves, and bunting!

Here is the little saw I use to cut the wood blocks.  Adorable, isn't it?

Now I just have to do some sanding and create the labels!

Stop Motion!

Remember the polymer clay puppets I made?  I used them to create this stop motion animation!  (My daughter helped with the first half) 

Worktable Wednesday!

On the work table first thing this morning!  Polymer clay butterfly embellishment (from a hand-carved stamp, of course. :)) waiting to fly onto a new journal cover.

Kitty King of the Serger!

Springtime in Pocatello

Well, we thought Spring had truly sprung once the Dandelions started to bloom, but as you can see, Mother Nature thought it would be amusing to drop more snow on us.  I have been worrying all week about it raining for the opening day of the Farmer's Market, but we may actually have to worry about the white stuff instead!  Here are a couple of journals I will have available:

DragonFly Notebook!

Butterfly Journal!

Hopefully people will come, even if the weather is frightful!

Clay People!

Clay People

The finished product of a work in process I posted a few days ago!  Polymer clay people, painted in acrylics,  with eyes from a polymer clay cane,  and assembled with twisted wire and jump rings. These two characters are destined for some stop-motion animation projects.

HA HA! PROOF!

     So, I twittered and facebooked* that I was going to spend my weekend CREATING and MAKING STUFF after two weeks of being sick, and pretty much spending my weekends napping and eating soup. (And going to rehearsals for a dance concert in March, but rehearsals are pretty much a constant in my life. It's a little like mentioning that I spent time breathing.  or reading.) 

So, TAA-DA!

A flower bobby pin!  Created on my flower loom

I didn't actually get as much done as I would have liked, because I took a "percussion for choreographers" master class on Friday, and we spent some lovely time together as a family on Saturday.  (And Sunday I had...yup, that's right, REHEARSAL!)  But I did find time to make this flower bobby pin.

*harumph.  Spell check doesn't think facebooked is a word.  What does it know?

The last two weeks....

Spent much of the last two weeks battling off a nasty cold.  My life pretty much consisted of going to class, going to rehearsal, eating soup, and napping.  Now, this is where I post the picture of the homemade chicken noodle soup I ate in a stoneware bowl, perched on a cute plate with a home baked roll sitting on the side.

Or, um, y'know, NOT...  It always amuses me when people think I'm an uber-domestic Martha Stewart type because I'm crafty and stuff.  Not, uh, always the case as you can see.  

Wordless Wednesday: Tracks in the Snow

Finally!

Got my hands in the clay again!  Here's a work in progress.  

A Frosty Morning...

Woke up this morning to find Jack Frost had been busy on my kitchen window!