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My mom is an incredible artist. She oil paints and sculpts. She has made some phenomenal things. Mostly she does outdoor things, she loves bears, so most of her sculptures are of bears, and Native Americans when they receive their spirit guides. Well, I have tried this sculpture thing, and the clay she uses, is not friends with me. I am more the fimo and sculpty type girls. So, one day I was crying to her that I wanted a hippo sculpture. So, being the awesome mom she is, she made me one! Here is my little guy! He stands about 8 inches tall, and probably that wide!

See her cute little behind?

Side view of my baby.

Close up of her snoopy.

She is one of a kind! I was so excited to get her. SO, because she is a Hippo, I had to share her with you. Hope you like her!

Oh...and if you ever need a sculpture, let me know, my mom does commission work!

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I couldn't resist more Halloweenie stuff. My friend Joani, she made some cute little coffin Halloween cards. Hers are 3D. I took her pattern, enlarged it a little, and made the one side on a fold so that it was a card. Here is my first little spooky coffin! How can you not love his eyeball flowers?
Inside of it, I embossed a bat and stamped Happy Halloween.

My next little Dracula, is from the Booglie Eyes set. I find them so funny.

Here's the inside of it.

Make some coffins!! They are fun!

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Thursday, was my dad's birthday. He is retired now, but his hobbies are gardening, woodworking and silver/Goldsmith plus rock hounding. He has tremendous collections and all sorts of fun machines that he makes jewelery on. (So happy to be his only daughter, as I get a lot of jewelery!! :0) Anyways, he was taking pictures of some of his jewelery and specimens and I got an idea for his birthday present. I made him a photo albums where he can put his photos to show clients and things. Sort of like a portfolio. So here it is. I did it in navy blue and sky blue with silver accents.

Its covered in Mulberry paper. The stars are embossed on it in silver. Although you can't see it up close, the words are cut out from my cuttlebug and are done in silver glitter paper.

Anyways, he really loved it. Inside are those album sheets that are 6 photos side by side. And I put dividers in, like Rings, Bracelets, Buckles, Necklaces etc.

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Yesterday was the first day back to school for my boys. You can see how bright eyed and bushy tailed they are this day! They were both very excited. Jade is in 7th this year. The big men in his school. Hunter is in 4th. He was a little nervous, as his teacher is a brand new teacher this year and he hadn't met her yet. I'll tell you a funny, later in the post...

This is their better side...

This is what we did all summer long. Jade is the ref and Hunter plays. I got them both in this pic, however, neither one of them is really doing anything in it..

The Ref

The player, being held on the side line, because he had to take a breather from the game and he didn't want to. He is a Striker or Forward, and he usually plays the whole game, but he is really tired when its over. Here, he has already scored 3 goals, and was taken out for a breather.

I have to tell you...Hunter came home from school, and when he got ready for bed, he came back up the stairs crying. He didn't want to go to school tomorrow. His teacher is new. I said, what's wrong with that? She will have exciting new things to show you and this should be a really fun year, you get to learn all about Idaho.

He said, That's the Problem!! She is a brand new teacher just out of college, and she came from UTAH!!

Needless to say, we explained to him she would be more than capable to teach him about Idaho.

The mind of a fourth grader.

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Yep. 12 more posts to go. I am getting excited, and want to do something everyday!! Here is a Halloweener card I made. I tried out my new embossing folder from Cuttlebug. Love it! I have had it for a while, but never used it. It makes such deep grooves in the paper. Mmmmm!
The stamps I used, get this, were from the dollar bin!! I got them at the dollar bin from JoAnn Fabrics. I love that dollar bin!! They had the best vintage Halloweener stuff ever!

Dang scanner got it crooked and I was too lazy to scan again... Here is another pink share to match yesterdays. I didn't have any brown brads, so I tried someones trick I heard from bloggin...you punch the paper, for these, I punched 3 each. Then you glue them with crystal effects, and make a dome on the top one. It worked really well and I was pleased!!

Have a great Wednesday! We are having Nana & Pa day today! (school starts tomorrow!!)

Shades of Pink

I figured, if I can do a blue share, I can do a pink share. And yes, I have trouble with pink too..and brown. Blue,Pink and Brown...oh well. So I'm trying. I am making a few cards to enter into the State Fair here...and I need some sympathy, get well cards.. Here is what I came up with.

Here is the second. I am really trying to use my Top Note too... since I bought it, I have to justify having it. Its taking me some getting used to. It seems everyone is using it. Which reminds me of a saying my mom always told me... "If everyone was jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?" So, I guess this time, you could say, I jumped too. Hope my shares are as good as all of the others!!

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Shades of Blue

Ok. You know how I have problems with blue. But it seems that I needed blue today. So here are a couple of my shares! The top card, I wanted a shaker with the stars in the moon. It was hard to get the moon, moon shape with the way the stamp was, so I settled for square. I tore papers to resemble clouds and I stamped the back with swirls and stars in versamark and then colored over with gold powder.

This one was for little boys. I cut the corner off of the card, then folded it back, you will notice, that the opening is backwards. You open from the left instead of the right. Anyways, there is a shaker on it too. I has a frog in it and stars and blue and green beads.

This is how it looks from the inside.

I know that they are old sets from SU, but... I still love them!!

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