Sweet Pea Stampers - Valentines challenge

 Hallo,
   I am a bit late getting my card made for the current challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers. This time our challenge is a Valentine challenge. I  was getting over a head cold and cough - and just when I thought it was done my head feels like exploding again - and I am such a wimp with a cold too....
  I used a digi (from Sweet Pea Stamps of course - and I have her in rubber form too) called 'Black haired lady' by Ching Chou Kuik and colored her with prismacolor pencils.
  I don't do dark skin tones often but was happy with how this one turned out.
  My Hubby loves getting cards with a sexy lady on it for Valentines and the Sweet Pea Stamps are always a winner :)
  I am on call for work tonight and glad of it - slept all day like I normally would and am probably going to head back to bed about now - love it!!!
  We have finally thawed out a bit here in NW Florida - the roads were passable today - even the bridges had cleared off by mid-morning - after over 2 days its about time - we are just not used to it here - no one knows how to drive on ice - thankfully most folk just stayed home!!!
   Have a great weekend everyone!!!
       Tera

 

Ice, Ice babe

Hallobrrrr, teeth chattering,
  It is an icey morning here in - where am I - oh ya I am sposed to be in Florida :)
  Leon left us with a nice coating of ice overnight. It started raining yesterday about noon and about 330/4 pmish it started to turn to ice.
  Only one other time in 15 years have we seen ice/snow here in NW Florida and the last time it only lasted about an hour  - this time its staying around a bit.
  We braved the ice and cold (the wind is nasty) to get a walk with my crazy puppy - she not only loves the cold but we met up with a friend of mine and her dog and the 2 dogs just ran like crazy once we got to the ballpark.
  I fully plan to stay indoors most of the rest of the day - I do have to go to work tonight though (DS is off school and DH may go in to work at noon but more than likely they will end up with the whole day off too)
  All for now - maybe I can get some craft room time today :)
     Take Care
         Tera

Booth pretties....

 Hallo,
   Well despite winter storm Leon bringing the gulf coast a rare ice storm today I managed a quick morning run to Panama City to get my pretties up in my booth. (She opens on Saturday and I work the next 2 nights so today was the only day I could have free to do it.)
  The rain started about noon but the temperature was good until the sun started to go down - I now have little icicles starting to form on my clothesline - all the schools are off today and tomorrow because of the storm, and the college, and ALOT of places closed early today, even the DH got out of work early today. Too bad I will have to go to work tomorrow night regardless...

   Well I was happy with how my booth looked and believe it or not I brought the perfect amount of stuff - I had room for everything I brought along without it being crowded and didn't have to bring any back with me.
  All for me today - now that my booth is set up - I am going to try and get back into my craft room :)
   Have a great day - I am going to get into my comfy warm sweat pants and my slippers and head for the craft room :)
   Take Care
        Tera

Shelves up and ready

front of booth

 Hallo,
   Well the DH went to Panama City with me yesterday to help me get the shelves I made  up in my booth at the craft market and I thought it turned out looking rather cool.
  I can put shelves on either side of the partitions and can create a little 'vignette' in front and back of both side and people will see my booth (part of it at least) from several directions. There is a main pathway designated to either side and there will be a smaller pathway across the front of my booth too.
   All I have to do now is get all my treasures tagged and loaded into the van for the trip up on Tuesday am....oh and stain 3 more boards the put on the ends of the 'shelves' to hide the unfinished ends.
  The last photo is down the long hallway so you can see how big this place is and the beautiful street lamps she has.
   All for tonight - off to work.
     Take Care
         Tera

front of booth, right side

from right side

back side of left side

beautiful old street lights

Busy, busy, busy....

 Hallo,
   Haven't been on the blog or in my craft room near as much as I would like lately - first due to a nasty head cold and cough which is thankfully much better and 2 a new adventure along with a big project....
  My new adventure is that I am going to have a booth at a new place opening up in Panama City (a little over an hour away) - its going to be a Handcrafted flea market. So like the normal flea/antique markets but just for handmade arts and crafts which I think is a super cool idea and a great opportunity for me :)
  I just heard about it about 2 weeks ago - went and looked and decided on Monday this week and she opens on the first of February which didn't give me a whole lot of time.
  I have enough stuff made to put in the booth but didn't have anything to display stuff on.....I had seen a shelving unit at a cute little flower store in my home town made from old doors hinged together and then they attached shelves which I really wanted to do but couldn't find any doors (not for a reasonable cost anyhow - meaning cheep :) So I decided to do the same idea with fencing.
  I bought 3 6 foot tall by 8 foot long sections of ready made fence and the DH helped me cut them into 3 foot wide sections and we put 2 of them back to back.
   Todays project was sanding them down a little (to prevent slivers :) and then staining them and putting on the brackets for the shelves - oh and also painting the pegboard I am going to have on the wall part of my section.
  By the way - if you ever have to paint pegboard use spray paint!!!!! The last time I painted pegboard I used spray paint because I already had some at the house - this time in an effort to save money I used regular paint with a brush and I will NEVER do that again - the paint globs up all the holes and then you have to poke the holes out and smooth out the paint - major pain!!!!
   Well I got everything done except put the hinges on yesterday and we decided to wait on that until we set them up at the craft market on Saturday....and boy am I sore today!!!!
  I didn't get any pics of the shelving but you will get to see it soon, as I plan to go and set it all up (shelving anyhow) tomorrow.
   All for today - the puppy and I need our walk and then I have a couple classes today!!!
      Take Care
          Tera

Flower challenge - Sweet Pea Stampers

Hallo,
  Well how is everyone's new year going so far!! We are pretty much back to 'normal ' here - DD went back to college on the 10th, all the Christmas decs are down and put away for the year...still have a couple Christmas projects that I am determined to finish before stashing away all the Christmas cardstock, DP and doo dads until next year....and I am still working on finishing off projects for the card coloring class I am teaching starting next week with our local volunteer adult learning center.... 'normal' is relative :) and busy is good :)
  Time for another Sweet Pea Stampers challenge and this time it is for 'flowers - flower power :)'
  I know I used this image for the last challenge too but I colored her up a couple different ways when I pulled her out last month and I really love how this one turned out!!! This beautiful mermaid is from Elaine Cox and is called 'Kiara' - she is available as a rubber stamp and a digi.
  I colored her with Koh-I-Noor and prismacolor pencils. She is cut out with and layered to Spellbinders dies. I added some edging with a gold metallic pen, some gold mesh ribbon, some gold pearl drops with a Viva décor pen and some beautiful paper flowers.

Locker hook - sore fingers :)

 Hallo,
   A bit of house cleaning and a walk and now I could use a nap but maybe a bit of blogging and surfin will do instead....
   I made record time doing this rug as I started it mid December. My DD saw the one I did for my self which is twice as long as decided she wanted one too - only not as long....
  I was trying to get this done in time to send back to college with my DD but I missed it by a couple days so will have to send it.
   The finished size on this rug is 34 inches by 28.
  When I started I decided to keep track of how many hours went into the rug - kept a tablet and marked off squares for the hours with a slash for every 15 minutes (I often sit for just a few minutes in between chores and after or before work just to relax/reward myself :) - so the grand total on this rug, which is a fairly simple pattern is 68.5 hours total!!!
  There were times during Christmas break, when the weather was so cold,  when the DD, DS and I were watching marathons - 24 - NCIS - zombies that I worked on the rug for about 3 hours straight so my hands got a bit sore at times.
  All for now - better get back to the house work....
        Take Care
           Tera
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