I made this! Halloween Album, part 2

LOL!! I guess I didn't hit the post button oops!

I hope you all had a great weekend and I wish you all an even better week ahead.


This is continued from part 1 here
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-made-this-halloween-album.html

And this is the rest of the album I made.
I forgot to show the inside front cover and 1st page.

The skull pulls out and can be written on and a picture added.

This is another page and I got to use one of the all over punches that Martha Stewart makes. They are very cool and work really, really well.
The card behind is red and the spider and web is the punched out black paper.
Ravens marching along the bottom of the page.

Another skeleton page. This is one of my favorite punches, Jodi and I call this iron gate, probably not the name but we like it.

This is a great page and the colors are standard Halloween. I love it. A photo will fit under the moon and bats on the right page.

This one is a favorite. I love the whole book. The vampire and the moon are printed on plastic. The tombstone is also.
Two paper is silver and gray are for photos and writing.

 This is another favorite. The witch is one of the best pre made decorations I have seen for Halloween. The cloak is velvety.
How about that spider web and spider boarder? Another Martha! She rocks on these punches in my opinion.

And the final page is back to the raven theme again.

The book is full and it was so fun to do. I mean how much better can it get when you go hang out with a dear, dear friend and make something awesome that makes you smile too!!
Lucky me!
Have a good week.

Happy Monday 8/8/11

Happy Monday to you all.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
I know I left you hanging on that last post.
I am sorry.
My daughters busy time of the year at work is right now and I do not have as much time alone as I usually do. I am watching a 2 year old more hours a day and she has so much energy.
That is not the problem, I love that she is happy and smart.
2 year old molars though, are no fun at all.
Then she didn't feel well all weekend so she stayed with me again.
I sit in my chair at night and try to write and I find my face starting to hit the desk, there is really only so much I can do.
Then Blogger has been acting really strange also. I am not ready to switch to Chrome and I know you say it is fast but what about all of my readers that are still using IE8?
So readers if you are visiting blogs and you are having a hard time loading the blog up, it is because they have switched to Chrome and can do all of this great stuff but you the reader have to wait forever to comment or to load the next thing you want to read. I know, I move on too.
I love Blogger, I started here, but I do not appreciate google forcing me to switch everything over.
My readership is still 49% IE users but I see that it is slowly declining. Then I see that google Chrome is steadily rising in the market share. Remember the movie Demolition man with Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, and Wesley Snipes and all the restaurants are Taco Bell? Remember all of the people are enamored of the marketing of huge giants of companies? It is funny there, but it is really not funny here. I feel like all the Internet is Google. I like to mix it up a little.
Well anyway, rant, sorry!
These are all excuses.
I will get on that part 2 right away!!
So Happy Monday, may your week be filled with wonderful people.
May you have many happy moments.
May you have love all the time.
and may you be abundant beyond your dreams.
Remember too that there are many many different forms of abundance besides money!
See if you can find a few this week.

Monday Updates- I am so excited, I have my blog back

Happy August! The year is flying by, yes?
I am back, even the back feels a little better.

Well, I kept waiting for it to get fixed but it wasn't happening and I was tired of waiting so...
I took out IE9 and went back to IE8.
I can edit my blog and I am happy, but I deleted the blog I was working on. ;-(
So I am starting over. ;-D
It was in moment of frustration that I deleted them yesterday.
When my back is out, I am not the most patient person in the world. Ask Madi.
Making 40 different things to eat doesn't work on those days. ;-D

I have added this blog angel to my header to protect my blog and to remind me to not upload beta. ;-D

African Trade beads-part 9 the giveaway

There are 8 parts to the African trade bead how to's, you can see all of the links below. I have more but I am going to take a little break right now.
So this is part 9- the giveaway...

Happy Monday and I hope you all had a great weekend.

I am going to start with this brooch.

1 3/4" High by 1 3/8" Wide. 1/8" thick not including the pin back.
 1" pin back on the back of this vintage finding.
Made out of Cernit.
Canes by me.

I thought that would be fun. The brooch is made will all the canes I have made in the tutorials so far.

1. It is open to anyone blogger or not.
2. Leave a comment on this post if you would like a chance at this brooch.
3. This giveaway will close on the 15th at 6pm.
4. I will ship world wide.
5. Please tell you friends.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz, author (1894-1985)

My friend Porro comes up with the best finds.
How to Steal like an Artist.
http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/
Part 10 http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/04/african-trade-beads-part-10.html


you can see part 1 here,

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-1.html

you can see part 2 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-2.html

you can see part 3 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-3.html

you can see part 4 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-4.html

you can see part 5 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-5.html

you can see part 6 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-6.html

you can see part 7 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/african-trade-beads-part-7-continued.html

you can see part 8 here,
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/04/african-trade-beads-part-8.html