Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

May the spirit of Christmas bless you with love, abundance, joy, and peace in your heart!
Wishing you all the very happiest of Holidays with your family and friends.
May your New Year be better than 2011 ever was.
Relax. It is all good.
Santa Can Christmas 2011
Marie Segal



Saturday, December 3, 2011

Holiday update and aftermath

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday in the US.
This time of year is starting to be a very interesting time and I feel that with a pair of fresh eyes (Madi, 2 years old), I am starting to see things in a new way again.
She sees things in such a lovely way, everything is brighter, everything is new, and we "ring around the rosy" everyday.
Last night we went and looked at a wondrous sight. Christmas on Knob Hill. Wow, it is so much better to look at something like this with the eyes of a two-year old.
Thank you dear Madi for bringing a fresh outlook to my life, you rock, baby!!

Sorry not to be around lately, I have been feeling a little out of sorts the last couple of days and now I have a bad kink in my neck.

I have listed some new things in the Hoarders Closet.
Diamond shaped clip back earrings.
There are 14 pieces, 7 pairs, you can see them here

Necklace Chains with the clasp, split ring, jump rings, and extension chain.
Everything you need, except your art, to make a necklace.You can see them here


Oval Pendant Drops or earring drops
Great pieces for adding polymer clay or for working with resin,you can see them here
As always, thank you so much for looking.

On Sunday I am going to be, with my friend Tina, at small craft fair in the area.
It is at Poway High School.
Come on by and say HI!


Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA.
And to those friends that aren't in the USA...
May the spirit of Thanksgiving grace your heart and tables.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Let's talk Turkey!

Gobble, Gobble!!

I thought it would be fun to have a tutorial on a simple turkey.
This could be made in to a magnet or pin.

You will need:

Caramel Cernit
Opaque White Cernit
Poppy red Cernit just a pinch
Orange Cernit
Black Cernit just a pinch
Clay Machine
Clay Slicing Blade
Bamboo skewer
Sun like cutter from Flowers and leaves Makin's clay cutter set
5/16" Kemper Kutter flower
3/4" Kemper Kutter Round



Condition Opaque White clay and roll out in the clay machine on the 4th thickest setting. You can roll through the machine several times to get a nice smooth sheet.

Cut out one of the sun "like" shaped cutters and lay on work surface.











Condition and roll out the caramel on the 3rd thickest setting. Cut out one of the sun "Like" shapes.
Place the caramel one on top of the white one and off set it so the whites points show between the Caramel points.








Flatten the two together with the palm of your hand, preferably the rounded cup of your palm.












Cut out two circles of Caramel out of the round 3/4" cutter. Put them together and roll into a ball. Then using your forefinger roll on one side of the ball and rolling in to a bowling pin shape.










Like so!













With the back of the clay blade (careful now!) Make a mark about 1/8" to 1/4" down from the top of the small end of clay bowling pin shape.













Bend the tip over at the mark.











Place the bowling pin caramel shapeon the  two cut out sun "like" shapes and press the thicker end to the shapes like you see in the picture.

Make marks with the end of your blade around the turkey body where the indents are around the outside of the sun points in the brown flower/sun are. This step is optional, but does add a little more to the turkey.







Roll out the orange clay on the 2nd thickest setting and cut out two of the 5/16" flower.
Push them out of the cutter and pinch two of the petals of the flower together.










Place the flowers that are now feet, with the pinched petals in the back,under the thick flattened end of the bowling pin caramel shape.











Cut out another flower shape.
We are just going to use this for the size, so roll that flower in to a little ball.













Roll on one side of the ball  to shape it in to a shape it in to a little teardrop.













Just like this.
Place this little teardrop thick end first on the end of the bowling pin caramel top of the bowling pin.
You will able to see it in the picture after I put the eyes on.










Roll out a very small coil of black and cut off a tiny, tiny section.













Cut two of them and roll them into balls.

They a will be very small, like a 1/16".













Here is the placement of eyes and beak.














Now we are going to make the pieces for the waddle. Roll out a small coil of the poppy red.
Cut off  two short pieces and one long one.












Roll them all in to balls and then roll them in to elongated teardrops.












Place one of the two small ones on top of the head.
Then place the other.












You can see where the red pieces go, here.


Looking a little like a turkey now.










Poke two holes in the beak, so he can breathe.














With the side of the flower cutter mark the chest with marks for feathers.












Like this.














 Use the flowers cutter and cut out four flowers  out of the caramel sheet that is rolled out on the3rd thickest setting.


Put two together and roll in to a ball.
Do that with the other two.








Roll those into teardrops.















Flatten those teardrops.
















With the back of the blade mark both wings on the tips.












Now mark the wings with the flower cutter and mark horizontal marks on the tips too.














Place the wings on the thick end of the body.

Your turkey is done.










Sunday, November 6, 2011

My little Foofa!

Madi did Halloween as Foofa! She was so cute.
Foofa is a character from Yogabbagabba, one of her favorite shows on TV.
We sing all of the songs and even I, know most of them by heart.
My little Foofa patiently waiting to go!
We visited some scary places.

Met some scary people!

Loved this house.

I loved this fence.

Cool, Huh?

Another great place!

This house was the best and the people very nice!

Madi said "can I come in?" LOL!

My little Foofa was quite a trooper and walked the couple of miles by herself.
She got lots of goodies and was only scared once by a talking skull, as long as they do not talk she was fine with them, LOL!!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Something else I got side tracked on

Halloween cupcakes!
I was making molds and had to try some of them out.




I got stuck here for a while, I made one for everyone on the Sandy Camp committee. I really appreciate all of these ladies.


No wonder I do not have enough time for everything.


I keep adding stuff to my list. ;-D
Do you do this?

Are you having a wonderful start to your fall or spring?
I am loving our weather.
The light is changing.
The sky is so beautiful.
What a planet!
We are so lucky to be here.
My favorite time of year.