Back to blogging

Hi everyone! Now that the summer has come and gone and fall is in full swing, I now once again have the time to work on my blog. I am so sorry that I have not posted anything for a long time. But the good news is that I now have learned to up load videos and went out and bought a new video camera. So it's on wades and up wards for this blog. My first video is of using shaving cream to colour paper. I am also working on making my Christmas cards so there will be videos from that also.  As I make them I will post them not only to my blog but also to Youtube.
So take care for now and keep crafting

I am so sorry to everyone that I have not done anything here for a very long time. But as we all know life does sometimes get in the way. I have been doing lots of things in my craft room, but stupit me have not been taking pictures of it all. The things that I have I will post soon. I made all my family cards for Easter. I tried to do different ones, I made what I call box style, easel cards and even made one of my own design. I am working one putting a book together for myself with the steps to different style of cards and other paper crafts. I finished the explosion box for my mom and gave it to her for Mother's day. She loves it. I added pictures of the family members to it and the people that live close I had them each sign their picture. I made my daughter a card for her first Mother's day. Then there was my niece's birthday that I had to make a card for. I have also made a sign for the fornt yard with the help of the circut. Sewed a case for my markers and am redoing a wooden rocking horse that I bought for $2.00. I was so hoping to stain it but as I was removing the old paint it had stained the wood, so instead I went out and bought brown paint for the house and black paint for the seat, handles, and rockers. I also bought the stuff that I will neede for the tail and mane, also tacks that I am going to go around the outside of the seat with. As for cards I have three birthdays coming up, a get well card and it's time to start thinking about Father's day. So I do believe that this has updated everyone on whats been going on in my life. Not as if anyone will really be reading this, but on the small chance that you do I hope everything is going great for you.
Take care for now and keep crafting.

Went to Michael's yesterday and bought two stamps for a penny each. Yes I did say a penny!!!!!!!

Lazy slob!

Boy the time flies by the older you get. My mother use to tell me this when I was younger and she was so right. I don't know what has gotten into me, but every night I go to sleep thinking of  all the things that I plan on doing the next day. I think that I will get up earily, clean the house, do some paper work and sometimes even bake. Then when it's all done maybe go into the craftroom for a bit. But then the next day comes, I open my eyes and it's already eleven o'clock this alone pisses me off to no end because I think of all the things that I could have had done by now. I then get my coffee and since my husband and I are smokers but do not smoke in the house I go out to the garage. Half of our two car garage has a carpet and the outdoor love seat, two chairs and a coffee table, pretty nice set-up. Oh and it's heated also. Anyways I go out there to have my coffee, a couple of cigarettes and go onto the computer. Now when I'm done it's twelve thirty or later,pissed off even more. I may clean up the kitchen a bit but since I still need to get dressed and pick Amber up at two thirty why get started with the house work. Instead I go to the craftroom for a hour. While in town to get Amber I may as well go and see if there is anything new at Wal-mart in the crafting area. After getting home from picking up Amber I may throw a load in and then have a nap. Anyways as you can see I do not get anything done again for the day. This seems to be the way things are anymore and the days that I go to work nothing at all gets done. I remember when I would be up at 7am with the kids and stay up all day cleaning and cooking. Now that they are older if I get up with them I go back to bed once they leave. I find that I do as little as I can with the house when I really want to do more but just can't seem to make myself do it. I always seem to have time to help others even if I really don't feel like doing it.
Boy I can not believe that I just shared this with you! Everyone out there is now going to think that I am a lazy slob. But I need to share it and is not a blog the place for sharing? So please don't look at me poorly, just look at me as a person who needs to get that fire lit under my ass again.

I know that I have not really been posting much lately, but I have been working a lot in my craftroom. I am still working on somethings for my Grandson and as of right now all they need to do is dry when I can wash them and they will be done. Amber will be making her's this weekend and I still have to ask Nicholas if he would like to do one for Owen. I also have been making embellisments. What I have been doing is cutting out small shapes like trees, flowers,bees,birds,etc. from the cricut and covering them with glitter, they look so cool. Some are done with just one colour but others like the bee, flowers and tree are being done with more then one colour. I have also been colouring some pictures with water colours and now I am working on getting them cut out. One that I am working one is of a fairy on a tree stump with flowers all around. My plans when I am done cutting her out is to use her in a card. I would like to make it so that she is inside of a cut out cricle giving her more of a 3 D look. I think that maybe by putting the same picture in behind will help with this. I guess that I will just have to want and see. I will not be getting back into the craft room until maybe tomorrow night since I have to work during the afternoon. The good thing is that after tomorrow I do not have to work again until Thrusday, leaving me lots of time to craft. I told my husband yesterday on the phone that I want to do something this weekend, he thinks I mean  go for dinner or to a movie. But little does he know that what I really want to do is go to Michael's, boy how I could live at that store. I don't think anyone likes to go with me because I like to take my time and look everything over, which ends up meaning being in Michael's for an hour or two.
Anyways take carre for now and keep crafting!

http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/2011/03/cd-giveaway.html

Creations by Gill has anyother give away, this time for a CD. The link is just right above.

Fabric painting

The last couple of days I have been trying my hand at painting fabric. I have been making things for my Grandson. I am still working on one with a honey pot on it and one with eyor ( hope I spelled that right). They are taking longer to make since there are many layers to them so I have to wait until the first one dries before I can do the next. But so far I am very happy with the way that they are turning out. Amber plans on making one also, it will be her first time using the cricut. What I have done is cut out the stencil with vinyl on the cricut then put that onto the frabic, it works great. Take care for now and keep crafting.