Hi Welcome

It is so nice to have you stop by and hope you come back often

A little about me I love to paint and do craft

I paint in oil , watercolor, pastels

Some acrylics for fun things

Do some Paper Clay, do little sewing .

I would call it primitive.

Like doing handwork Crazy Quilt, Wool Penny rugs

I do some kind of craft  . I think all most every day.

I go painting on wed almost every week .Social thing, great friends

 With a few friend that paint .

When I have a trouble they help

I like to decorate my house .

I have rooms that are country, Shabby chic.

When I get back from my travels

I will get some new chairs and carpet for my family room Maybe craft room

Paint my living room Red will be the color.

I collect and 

play, dress  Annete Himstet Doll. Sew dresses for then

They where made in Germany,

But no longer  are being made. 

Some are life size most of mine are.

They fun you can made anything fit 

 They stay neat  never get dirty just dusty

We also travel some

End of February

 Going to Cadiz Spain 

My granddaughter study there.

 We went to see her and really like .The weather is nice .

I go to the sea every day and look for sea glass

I hoping to do watercolor painting

Taking some hand work with wool

If any one knows of a place by Cadiz to see.Let me know.

 Want to go to White villages,Portugal.

 If driving ,train or bus tour,what is the best way to go. If you know any thing about the area 

let me know.

I have been married 50 years this last year.

Have four granddaughter 

Jessie- Kathryn--Kristen--Jillian

Jessie is coming to Spain to stay two weeks.

In may me and my daughter

Jessie and Jillian are going to UK

We will be there for two weeks 

My nephew is living there for a couple years

Looking forward to go see Knotting Hill and everything else

If anyone has somewhere they liked or some neat shop. Would love to hear

I'm sure many have been there I  would like to hear your favorite place

I have one son He live in Minneapolis

He also does allot of traveling

 He works for Honeywell

My husband was in the Air Force for 24 year

We live in Texas, Va. Pa,Panama .

It was wonderful time

 Then went to work at a bank

(Wells Fargo )

He love to fish and golf

He even brings fish home

No ice fishing just summer fishing 

Leave a comment 

Let me know if you want to be in one of the two giveaways

I will be having them often here one my blog

 I just had one ,Three blogger  won

These are the prizes

Will pick Feb 15th

1  Small painting of a Rose on a easel 

,two paper boxes good for storage

2
My designs
 Med Framed Rose , Basket with egg rose on it
 , Paper Clay Hand Necklace.
I had a button party,
the package is from that,
favorite

 I make many crafts and love to give them away.

I do have a niece that does shows that sell crafts and vintage things. 

She took  my things to sell I had so many projects done .

 She is going to  travel the states  Winter in the south, Summer up north. 

 She bought a  camper to live in .

It sounds fun 

I would be to scared, she is very sure of her self.

This is my work for today
Proud of the zipper bags if know me I'm not much of a seamstress.
 Have never did a zipper before.
Saw one in a shop I thought about them and tried, only had to rip out one time
Next time I will line them.
I'm going to use them for cords for charger
I will make them for one of the giveaways.
The dream catcher I saw it on pintrest .
Going to keep adding lace string to it

 Wings and hearts for valentines

I have been looking at different blogs and would like to do the  themes 

for everyday to post.
Like Mosaic Monday
Alphabe Thursday

In spain it will be fun to post.
I hope to meet more girls like I have meet
Try and take better  pictures

Have a great 

Grow Your Blog

Laura 

1st giveaway names, mouse, computer

Happy Pink Saturday

Had the first picking of my giveaway

They are

Cheryl--- won a journal And a few surprise

http://cheryl-comfort.blogspot.com

Jeanie--- won a snowman paintings

also surprise

http://themarmeladegypsy.blogspot.com

Rosezeete --Rose paintings and Valentine wings

http://themarmeladegypsy.blogspot.com

 It is fun to meet more friends 

Maybe they will post there wins

I will often have giveaways,

Hope to find things on my travels 

Today was a great day

I got my new printer up and working

also got the phone and iPad 

working wireless

I'm not too good with computers

Had a busy week end had a lot of company to visit

My husband fixed my record player I had when I was a teenage

He was showing some of the company

They spotted a mouse in the garage ( one was pregnant )

They went and got traps,Next day two where in the traps

I when the next day bought more trap 

Some of them plugs, that make high sounds they do not like 

Have not seen any more 

We will be working to clean the garage

Cute Pinterest Pick

Pink Saturday

Happy pink Saturday

This one of my paintings It is one of my favorite

granddaughter many years ago 

My daughter has it

I wore the hat a lot  

 My hair dresser gave me the bird 

kind of cute

 Painting I finished Wed.

It is pastels from out at napa valley

More pink, wool and fabric flowers

necklaces 

One of my dolls changed her outfit 

This where I cut fabric and matts

 All put away and I start painting again

 Look from the main craft room

 I'm done with what I will be doing

This is the last week for the giveaway
leave a comment . Notebook--Roses on small oval,and round---snowmen7x7 canvas
Will be one next month
Just keep leaving comments

Good luck

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Painting room clean up -Kims paintings- giveaways prizes

These chickens I do for every month

finished these for Jan- Feb

The wreath put on a vine wreath will add more

The bird move to the month it is

This is what I did today

 Part of my giveaways not done 

A little more to do

 I cleaned my craft area one closet behind the wood things is the book do not use them much

hope to finish this wood this year

 Where I took the books from and put plastic boxes

 Does not look like I did much but I did 

put the tubs where I can use them more then the book

 Dinning room table 

 Painted the ceramic that broke before Christmas my husband mailed from PA

they are from my sister in law

The set is very nice 

 Put new form in the set of chair in my living room 

planning on getting new when I get back from Europe

 This is a painting I did for my niece of her grandsons

they are pastel

 They where a mess to frame 

my matt cutter was off so I wasted some matt board

I only do  portrait for  family they take a lot of time 

work a lot on these. The picture are from myrtle beach.

Not many have left comment so the list to win is short 

Next week I pick the name 

so leave a comment

Here is the giveaway things again 

Notebook

 Small plackets of roses

 Small 7x7 canvas snowman

I like to make crafts and only have room for a few

Will be having on going give away to get more comment and friends

I have meet a few already but want more.
One more small 4x4 canvas
I like to sit on a small easel

Starting to clean up crafts

Cleaning my messy craft room

 Closet full of supply

would be nice to have some way to get it organized

could if I had a lot of money to buy more boxes and cabinets

 desk where I paint and do everything else

 closer to the shelves in closet

few days I hope to have it all nice and cleanup

Have one more closet 

Have the laundry room where I cut fabric and matts for paintings.

I save too much but if I do not I need it

Going to try and work on one type of craft at a time 

It does feel good when everything is in it's place.

Have a great day

Gifts for giveaway

Happy Pink Saturday
I love the way Mary Jo Leisure does her roses ,Been trying to do them

 Start of my give aways
wings with felted  hearts on wool

Small canvas with snowmen .Can sit on a easel . Will have the giveaway after next week.Your name will be in the drawing must leave a comment for this week and next.

 Note book  Rose s I been trying to get like Mary Jo's They are not all done.

Working on kits to sew when I'm in Spain

All in packages buttons tread

Snowmen- giveaways message

Hi

Everyone

I miss the swap for hearts 

I'm going to use what I'm making for a giveaway

not done yet but plane some painting rose I will posts I finish

there will be two giveaways 

one --Hearts

two--Grow your blog

You must leave a comment and a email 

There will be a lot more giveaways from my blog this year

I do allot of crafts and love to give gifts and swap
A door hanger or snowman
Some of my snowmen decorations

Heart swap

I love swaps have not done any in  a long time,

they  started  some people not following though with the swap .

I know this they will, it is from AU and they do it is more for mail but you get something back.

I think I will do some Painted roses.

will post as I finish things they have to be shipped by first of Feb.

Is any one going to do the grow your blog,

I'm going to try and get more comments.

I want to share things with people that have the small likes.

I love to make things and doing crafts.  

Love comment if you leave a comment I will leave you one

2015

Happy New Year!!!

My gift to myself is the change on my blog .What do you think?

At last we are back to our regular  schedule .Going to put out snowmen now for January
Taking down Christmas slow this week ,it will be down by next week end after the 9th
I have been gone for a week .
I think I have all my new tech things are working .I can't believe I got it done
Blue tooth, Fitbit, Phone  Charger .
Now I got books to read about Spain and London what to do and see. Going this winter and spring.