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I love that my family knows me!

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Look at the cool sparkly paper I got in my stocking for Christmas!  Plus awesome stamps from my son and his girlfriend!  Too fun!  I am one spoiled artist!  I don't know what is with the picture.  This sort of thing only seems to happen with my desk top computer.  I am sure it is not the camera.  Weird. Now I am off to play with my nieces and cameras!  Love it.  Hopefully I produce some worthy pictures.

filigree kaleidoscope

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I am really glad that I bought the filigree templates for the Kaleidoscope Kreator.  Look how pretty  this one is!  I took a photo of some loose beads and then imported it into the Kaleidoscope Kreator to get this.  I think it has a lot of potential. 

meandering book

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These are two pages from my meandering book I created a few weeks ago.  I may never complete the book!  I really like the backgrounds that I have created and that makes it difficult to continue.  I don't want to screw it up.  I hate when that happens.  But really, what else am I going to do with it? I'm sorry for neglecting my blog.  It is such a busy time of year.  I will try to post again before the end of the year but I make no promises!   Thanks for reading and have a Merry Christmas.

it is cool to be recognized as an artist

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Last night at the local camera club I was given the award pictured above.  I am so very pleased to receive the honour.  I come across as a pretty confident person but I was shaking in my boots when my photo was being judged.  I believe I will enter more photos in our next competition.  The way the ribbon is present it quite nice.  They have all the pertinent information to the right and a thumbnail of the photo.  I am inspired and encouraged!

snowflake kaleidoscope original

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I know that this is a template and therefore someone could create a very similar snowflake.  But this started from a photo of a bead journal page I made this past year.  So really it could not be duplicated exactly.  I am thinking ahead to the 2011 bead journal project.  I have created 12 snowflakes all from the same photo.   They are all similar in color - my favorite.  I plan to bead each of those 12 snowflakes in a different way.  I am thinking that at the end I could sew all the bead journal pages together and have a beautiful quilt.  I have good intentions but I may get bored with it and lose interest.  I have improved over the years at finishing things but...

kaleidoscope

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I can spend hours playing with the Kaleidoscope Kreator program.    Here is gift from me to you.  Feel free to use this kaleidoscope.  If you do I would love to see your piece! 

bead journal project for December

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Well, that's it.  I have finished the year long bead journal project.  I used a watch face as the focal point on this piece.  I made the background fabric with bits and pieces of scrap fabric and fibre.  I really would like to do more beading next year.  The pieces I made this year just didn't call for being encrusted.  My intention is to do at least one encrusted piece next year.

snowflake kaleidoscope

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Can't you just see this snowflake encrusted with beads?  My printer isn't working properly at the moment otherwise I would have this printed and I would be stitching on it!  Maybe it will be my bead journal project for January. 

Kaleidoscope Kreator's new templates

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I think everyone knows that I like playing with the Kaleidoscope Kreator program.  This week I purchased the snowflake and filigree templates.  Above is a snowflake I created with a flower photograph.  The possibilities are endless with this program!  I plan to print this onto paper and adhere it to fabric.  I then plan to bead and stitch it. 

gingerbread house

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 We had a ton of candy left from our gingerbread houses for the auction.   So we decided to build another one at home.  This is the fruit of our efforts.  I should have taken a picture of the back because it is equally fantastic.    We had lots of fun and everyone is anxious to eat it!