Storage solutions

I have spent a lot of time looking for a sewing box and I just couldn’t find one…. So I headed to the local hardware store and found this tool box and I have to say it works great! This was the only one they had a Lowe’s and one of the latches was a little bent. I asked if they could give me a discount and sure enough I got this $60 toolbox for $20. Goes to show it never hurts to ask. 

I have added magnet strips to the side to hold my needles, the tread fits perfectly in the drawers. It is a little heavy but worth having all the stuff neat and organized

            

A fun get away

 Such a great time out fishing with my husband last weekend. It was so nice to get away for a while and this giant fish made my day. I gave her a kiss and sent her back to a happy life.

Not goodbye just see you later

The Lord took my daddy home yesterday morning. After a hard fight with brain cancer that was stealing his mind he had a stroke Friday afternoon that took his voice and use of his right side. I am so happy he is now home and back with my mother. It was a long hard road but I am so glad I got to spend this time with him. Not goodbye just see you later Daddy. 

  

Roy Alvis Robertson Sr., passed away peacefully on April 17, 2012 surrounded by his family. Roy was a WWII Navy veteran who served on the aircraft carrier, USS Bunker Hill. Roy has resided in Albuquerque for the past 60 years where he and wife Zelda raised their family. He was a retired member of the plumbers/pipefitters local 412, belonged to the Masonic Lodge Hiram 13 and the Scottish Rite, and was a member of the NM Shrine. He was preceded in death and now has been reunited with his soul mate and wife, Zelda Mae Robertson, and his best friend and twin brother, Troy (Bud) Robertson. He is survived by son Marty Robertson, wife Patricia, son Timothy Robertson, wife Carol, daughter Mary Roberts, husband Terry. Grandchildren and spouses: Jeanette (Jeremy), Cindy (Jeremy), Jessica (Neil), Jamie (Todd), Jodie (Cameron), Justin, Travis, Jarrid, and Mitchell. He also had 8 great-grandchildren.

Pancake contest

My brother is having a pancake contest tomorrow.... well I don't do pancakes but I do cakes. It looks a little burned in the photo but in real life it's so cute. I made my favorite rum cake and poured rum syrup between the layers then I made a sauce from sugar and rum and colored it to look like maple syrup.

Police Car

This was a cute card that Sue made I just had to give it a try too. You can find the pattern here. I really enjoyed making this one. It also came with the SVG cut file but I can’t get it to work with sure cuts a lot 2,  so I just cut it by hand. When I do it again I will use white paper for the car, our police cars are white and sheriff cars are black.

On a roll

I am really on a roll, 2 projects and it’s only the 1^st week of January!!!! This project also came from SVGCUTS.COM. Ok right up front they do give you a video you can watch and walks you through these projects…. And boy did I need it! I wish they were on paper so I could go back and work at my own pace. This book was a bit harder for me; ok A LOT harder for me. I am not sure I will try this one again anytime soon.  There are 5 projects in this file so I am sure I will find one I love in it too.  Customer Service at SVGCUTS.com was amazing! I had lost part of a file after I downloaded it I emailed them and they opened the file up again for me and told me if I ever needed it again just let them know they would be happy to open it for me anytime. Now that is great for someone like me who has computer issues on a regular basis. Let me know if you have tried their files and what you think.

1st Project of 2012

 My first paper craft of 2012 and I hope I will have more time to craft this year!!!I bought this SVG (December Gifts) from HERE and I really love it. It was not hard but it was very time consuming. I will make this one again for sure. I wish I would of used prettier paper, I just grabbed a handful I had on my desk to give it a try. I hate to use my best paper for 1^st time projects.

Happy New Year

May God Bless You and Keep You in 2012

Whoop Whoop a new craft for the new year

Well Christmas has come and gone and life is starting to settle down a little around here. I got a Janome sewing machine for Christmas and want to learn to make quilt tops. Yep another new craft, would love to know where to start if you have an idea for me.  This new machine is a dream to use and is my very first new machine, my other two are late 60’s early 70’s models…..boy have sewing machines come a long way. Lol Hope you all have a wonderful New Year.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas! I love to spend time with my family, seems I just can’t get enough of it. We stopped by one of my brothers houses on Christmas Eve and he gave us T-shirts for his new business Steelhorsearmory.com.  Well……… I just had to pull out some of our guns and take a few pictures for him.  We all went shooting on Christmas day and had a great time spending time with 2 of my brothers and their families.  So if anyone needs a new gun check out his site, he has just about anything you want. I bought hubby a .22 597 rifle with a scope for Christmas, it is such a fun little gun, poor guy didn’t get to shoot it much yesterday, I had it. lol

Merry Christmas

LaCueva Craft Show

We had a wonderful craft show this past weekend at La Cueva High School, had a huge turn out and almost doubled our sales from last year.  We have one more show this year and then we start restocking our inventory for next year.  I was sure I had fired enough bottles to last a few years but found myself having to fire 2 loads this week. lol
    

We are making journals this year and when I ran out of ideas I CASED my own cards. I found a few cards I really liked and made journals to match.

JournalCASED Card 

 JournalCASED Card 

Shop is cleaned out

From this

To This!

All cleaned out so we can tear it down!!!! I know doesn’t make any sense but that’s the way it. It makes it a little easier to think the shop employees will have a nice place to work again soon.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope you all have a wonderful time with you family and friends.

God Bless

Sandia Craft Show

The Sandia Craft show was a success, we sold a lot and I had a wonderful time hanging out with my friends.  The day flew by and I am looking forward to the next 2 shows.  Last year I was the only one selling the slumped bottles, this year there were 2 others.  I guess I should of expected at least that many they are very cool. lol

 

Kristen makes some really wonderful paper crafts and I kind of regret getting into the bottles, paper crafts were sooooooo much easier to load and unload. Thank goodness for my wonderful husband for all the heavy lifting.

I got this great stand for $20.00 at a Hallmark store that went out of business. It worked great and I could really get a lot of bottles on it. 

1st carft show of 2011

First craft show of the season is tomorrow….. I can’t believe I am looking forward to getting up at 5am! I am never up before 7am and then it is a few cups of coffee before I get moving. lol  I will post pictures and how we did and what the big sellers were this year. I would love to know what the best sellers for you are. For the last 2 years I sold a bunch of the scrapbook purses, you can find the tutorial here. I sale them for $5.00 and I ran out both shows we did.  This year we are doing 3 shows Sandia High School 11/19, LaCueva High School 12/3 and Eisenhower Middle School 12/10. Would love to see you there.

I have ink on my fingers......

Really true ink!!!! It has been so long since I have been up in the craft room. But after the week I had I really needed to just sit and think of nothing but putting things together. I decided to work on some notebooks for the upcoming craft shows we will be doing this year. We were accepted into the LaCueva show again and did sooooo well at that one last year can't wait for this years. I had some cards that I made and really liked so thought I would turn them into notebooks something that would last longer than a card.

We are still not allowed into the shop at work, and the poor tech's and detail are working outside in the heat. I can't wait to get this all done but until the EPA says we can clean it up and tells us how we "have to clean it up" we are stuck waiting. This is what it looks like 2+ months after the fire.

 

 

This is what's left of a boat.

I miss my blog peeps

I miss you guys so much! I haven't had time to do any real crafting, I did make this cake and cupcakes for my nieces baby shower.

 But we are still dealing with the fire issues at work. So as nice as it was to have a day off to do this for one of my favorite nieces we always have to go back to this....

we are told it will take about a year to get everything up and running again but everyone still has a job so I am very happy about that.