CHRISTMAS TAG

This is the Dec. tag that I made for Tee’s swap theme Christmas. Check out the Altered Paper blog. I used a shipping tag in keeping what we have been using all year. Stamped it with a script stamp and ink.the edges. Added some flower and pine cones. K and company Merry Christmas.

Close up.
And all the goodies that went along for the ride. I hope everything I sent out this year were ok. I really was not really into doing much of anything this year. Too much sadness for me. I think this new year will be much better. DD is on their way will be here tomorrow sometime….Day after Christmas we will be on our way to Sanibel Island. Guess we will be staying in FT Myers and going to Joe’s Crab Shack and April’s Pie Company after our day of shelling on the beach…I can’t wait I need this outing so much…All for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings donna

KEY'S

GETTING READY I have been moving things in to the house from the Florida room. Moved Norma E in the other day. If you notice she has a lot more stick pins.

FIRST KEY Got my first key in from the key swap. Love it! She altered it wit bling and butterfly. The back ground that it is lying on is a card sent along with it.

SKELETON KEY is totally different and I also love it!

Pretty package it came in.

BLOGGER I can not figure out where my text is going to end up with this new blogger. I don't know why I can not post before or after every pic. I hope it will turn out when I am done I think I will try the Live Writer for my next post and see if that will be better.

WEATHER It is definitely getting on to summer here in Florida. Woke up this morning to a cloudy, gray, muggy day. So still and muggy it was a little hard to breath. We are suppose to get rain the next 4 days.

THIS AND THAT I will be leaving in 3 weeks. Wanted to camp on the way up but not sure how that will work out this time. Maggie is getting use to her "buggy" she looks so cute in it. Well all for now I will post this and see how it turns out. Thanks for looking and come back soon

 Blessings Donna

RAK, TAG, & NEW RIDE

 Got my April tag from Denise at http://knuckled54yahoocom.blogspot.com/ I am late posting. Thanks so much for the cute bunny Denise. love it!!

 I got a RAK in the mail from my cyber friend Tee. She got a new printer, she knows I don't have one yet and she printed off a few pages of great crafting images . Thanks so much Tee!!

 Close up of some pages. I love all these! Cant wait to use them , I will be taking them north with me.

Here is a sneak peak of something beachy I have been working on. I will have it done before I leave.

And last but not least :) Maggie got a new dogie mobile. Is she not the cutest thing! I got this dog stroller at the flea market yesterday. I have been looking in the pet stores, and all they have are ugly black strollers. Besides being ugly, black will bake a little dog in the hot Florida sun. What do these people think anyway?? They have a nice little pet shop at the flea market and I had seen these there last year. So went to check them out and got this one. It comes apart, and is a carrier, and a car seat. Cant beat that. And was a few buck cheaper than the ugly black ones. She seams to like it ok, I wheeled her around the house then in the drive way today and she did ok. She hates to have her pic taken, when I was trying to take this, she turned her head away, I told her I see a kitty and she jerked around and I snapped it lol. This will come in handy when traveling, she can now go everywhere with me and we can be tourist & see things. Was limited before, cause could not leave her in hot truck. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.
blessings
Donna

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL & ALTERED ART ARTIST

HAND PAINTED PAPER UP DATE ON THIS POST : I put thinned down craft paint in a small plastic spray bottle from WM and sprayed this paper, then mushed it around a bit. Then stamped it with a dragon fly pattern. Added some dip dots also. I like the way it turned out. This one was panted with old credit card. I drew some hearts on and splashed on some gold paint.

Squares done with the credit card technique again, I like using the credit card because it covers a large area and fast.I will stamp and do some more to this paper. You all should try painting some of these papers to use, in your art work and even scrap booking. If they curl a little on you , then just iron them a little. With a dry iron, not steam.

PEARL SMITH ALTERED ART ARTIST : I went to the Strawberry Festival here in Melbourne yesterday. I enjoyed the event and met a couple neat ladies. This first artists is Pearl Smith a local altered art artist She had a booth full of framed collages and other painted altered art. She is doing some things with "the girls" she learned how to paint on the Internet. Kinda like I am trying to do, but hers are much better than my early attempts. lol I hope to be able to get with her so we could work on some art together. What I really would like to do is get a group going or join up with such a group. Anyone living in Melbourne Fl and would like to do this feel free to contact me. ONE OF PEARL'S COLLAGES

OTHER ART WORK OF PEARL'S WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL: Rain some yesterday with in and out sunshine. Temp 70's

Today cloudy so far and temps to be in the 70's Nice :)

I wanted to add pic's of some more of hand painted paper I did this week but having problems with this computer Grrrrrrrrrrrr! I will try later to add to it. You can click on the pic's to get a better peak at Pearl's great art!

I will post tomorrow about the other artist I met.

I want to thank all those that are following this blog. Welcome to all of you! Also please feel free

to leave a comment they mean a lot to me.

If you want to check out other adventures of Grammynmaggie check out our other blog.http://grammyandthepapillonprinces.blogspot.com/

Thats it for now thanks for looking and come back soon!

Blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too