Amazon April and Birthday Bash Week 2

First an Amazon April post because I didn’t get around to it last night (plus I realized I’ll be linking it up and maybe someone will check it out!)



Can you tell any difference from the beginning of the month?
Week 2 April 17th
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31
I will be turning 31 this year and will be in my Prime …well prime number! Yeah that’s what that sequence of numbers is up to 31, unique numbers that can only be divided by 1 and itself. So today is a challenge by the numbers!
Paper People – Use the sketch from Page Maps

You must use 2 photos, 3 patterned papers and prime numbers of embellishments ex: 5 flowers 7 brads in your blog post put what and how much you’ve used.
Extra challenge scrap you or a loved one in ‘their prime’ dig out those 2nd birthday pictures of your children that you haven’t scrapped yet. That illusive 23rd birthday where you forgot the camera and there may be one fuzzy cell phone pic.



Sketch, 2 pictures from my 3rd Birthday, 3 PP’s in my background, 7 Cardstock Stickers, 5 colors of sharpie (journaling is in 1 but I traced around some of the stickers you can kinda tell), 3 stamps, one stamp 5 times, 11 fussy cut snacks
Your project must be new as of today April 17th ;) and you have one month to post it.
Stitchers – a number project! Find that 12 days of Christmas you’ve been meaning to do and make an ornament. Have a sampler project with numbers? Haul it out and kit it up. Again if the project is large and/or a WIP and you are unable to post a completed picture in four weeks show an in progress photo with a picture of what it will be when it’s finished.
Photos – prime numbers or things in groups of prime numbers, or people or things of a prime age.

Birthday Bash Week 1

1 – April 10th Inviting –



An invitation to my Birthday Bash. It is 6 Wednesdays before my birthday and each Wednesday I will be posting a different theme for a crafty project. I will be doing a linky, I think I figured it out, and everyone can post their projects so we can all enjoy them. Since I have scrappy crafters and stitchy crafters and other creative peoples I will try to make the challenges work for everyone. I do think the projects should be started today for the scrappy people you have plenty of time to throw something together. You will have a month to include your project in the link. The stitch people I will take a new project or a WIP or a lonely UFO you can give some love to.

As I’ve thrown this idea together on Monday I haven’t decided what prizes there will be. It may be something as small as a stitched bookmark (as that seems to take me a month to stitch and then it sits!) Or I may find a small crafty item to giveaway.

Today’s Birthday Bash Week 1 theme is Invitation.


Paper people – create an invitation/card/scrap an invitation you held or received at an event.

Stitchy people – Stitch a card or some place that looks inviting. If your project is a WIP or UFO please include a photo of what the project will look like when finished.

Photos – an inviting place, event or invitation.

Now This is a use of ORTS!

I love Mr. X Stitch! If you don't follow him on facebook or his blog you should.

I know a lot of us are keeping our orts for the TUSAL. What do you do with them at the end? I'm interested in the making paper bit. Some of these are far more creative than my rectangular rainbow tribbles!

Update You should now be able to click on Mr. X Stitch and be taken to the blog link. I did the link before but there were no words to click on :p

Camping

I've had a great weekend camping out in Asheville NC. It was my husbands birthday on Saturday and he wanted to go camping so I took the time off. It was freaking cold! There was frost on the car Saturday morning and my feet were freezing still so he drove me up to the bath house. An air mattress makes for a comfortable sleep but all that air is cold, I don't think it would have been any better if we had just used our self inflatable mats though.

Do not go to the Biltmore on spur of the moment! We saw the ticket prices and walked right out. My mother later said when she looked online that you can get the tickets $10 or $15 cheaper. That's still not enough it was 59 bux a person! I'm sorry for house and some flowers to walk around? I'll wait till more flowers bloom and the leaves turn green and go hiking. We should have gone to the Arborium, I'm not sure if there was a price but their flowers were probably just as pretty.

If you do go to Asheville go to Tupelo Honey Cafe. Best Biscuits EVER! I know this because my husband likes them and he doesn't like biscuits. Downtown location is hard to get into, go to the southern one. Beer is everywhere and it's pretty much all good. There was a brown ale that I liked that I'll have to look for the coaster.

We pretty much just drove around the area and up the blue ridge parkway. I had him stop by the Folk Art Center. Beautiful exhibit of all local crafts like weaving, doll making, and quilting. Just look at the gift shop and buy a post card, unless you have the money! I looked and saw one price tag on an afghan and had a bit of a shock, but at least I know the time and effort that went into making that look beautiful! People, you severely undersell yourself on etsy and other places. Yes I understand that the Folk Art Center is master crafters but still! I did find a lovely set of cards for $11 that was of a Halloween scene and bunnies! Two of my favorite things.

I'll post pics from camping once I get them loaded up. I need to find a good place to share my 3D photos. I hope my photos came out nice too because of the glare on my screen I was pretty much seeing myself and not the beautiful views!

Forgot all about a Wednesday reads post. I've the same book sitting on my nightstand anyway and keep renewing it :p Hopefully I will get some reading time in.

Happy Easter

Well a bit embarrassed. I was listening to Neverwhere and discovered that Anesthesia is the Rat Speakers name not Anathema like I thought. But still having one rat Cheery and the other Anathema is pretty funny. We just call her Ane now. ;)

I need to get the conglomeration Theme-a-licious, TUSAL and WIPocolypse post together but today I'm finishing a canvas. A geeky themed canvas.


She's meant to be Idris. I found a template from Such A Pretty Mess and cut her out with Basic Grey Periphery papers. The background is various paint and Creme Soda pixi stick from Prima. I stamped the stripes and then used a Jenni Bowling clock face rub-on and managed to get most of it off though it didn't like glittery paint. I did grunge hinges in black soot distress powder for the clock hands.

This was for a challenge over at Flying Unicorn to use architecture. I'm hoping the clock counts :)

I haven't yet watched the new episode of Doctor Who so I'm trying to stay away from Pintrest for all the photos and spoilers. I may need to find it and watch it here in a few.

I hope everyone has had a Happy Easter.

The Rats Won out

For being a cheaper pet that can be easily taken care of we got 2 female rats tonight. The cage we got was a ferret cage on sale (way too small for a ferret you might get 6 months) The ferrets I named Pratchett and Ponder after a favorite author and character. The bottle has a turtle in it to see where the level in it and it makes me think of Disc World so one set of names I'm considering is Cheery & Littlebottom. Since the cage and wheel are blue I'm thinking Doctor Who: Clara & Idris. Or Neverwhere since we are dealing with rats Anathamea and Lady Door. Which names are you thinking? Just not Mickey and Minnie like my mother suggested ;)

Thursday I will stitch!

I went back out on Wednesday and went to the library and to the other 2 craft stores.

At the library I got the 2nd in the True Blood Graphic Novels, read Cat Fancy since they had a kitten issue this month and then got two books on cats. Decided to get Doctor Who on DVD with the 2nd Doctor called The Mind Robber. I've seen it on netflix but this has extras like the audio commentary that I like to watch. Also, since I did read 6 books in the time frame for their Winter Reads I picked up my prize. Lets hope I really do like coming back to Michael Connelly because they had his book The Black Box. They did have a nice mix of books and graphic novels, a few YA novels and some audio. Also in my envelope was a Thank You card with a picture of the original library, a book fine pass for $10 this time instead of $7 if I get any fines before May 31, 2013 and a $10 gift card to B&N. I just need to decide if I'm going to save it for a magazine/book next month or if I'll put it on my nook to get an ebook or apps.

At the craft stores I didn't find a charm but JA's finally had a pack of Baseball buttons and the shoe looks good enough. I'm stitching something for an MS Walk and I didn't want to use the awareness ribbon that came with the chart. I'm hoping I can get off work that Saturday that the walk is scheduled. I'd been able to do the walk for 3 years and now I don't have Saturdays off and I forgot completely!

While driving home I realized another reason not to have a kitten. Today my friends from High School have set out to plan another get together sometime this summer to Chicago. If I get the kitten then that's money that should have gone to Chicago and I wouldn't get to go. Now the cat for adoption might be different since that would be money spent now since it's already declawed. Or I can always wait for a rat. Anyone wondering why I'd get a cat and then go on a trip, the trip will probably be a long weekend and my BiL lives with us so he could check on the pet.

Later on today I will be out with my stitchy friends to eat out and stitch in public. Just because we can and to heck with the people who stare at us ;) I will gather my bookmark supplies and start stitching!