Lisa Vollrath's Go Make Something and Ten Two Studios sites, has another countdown where you can download FREE images! Just follow the guidelines given! and you can have wonderful images to use in your art.
Over at Puzzle Art Plus our friend Lori gave to COOKIES, COOKIES, COOKIES ok ok well maybe we didn't get cookies but we got 10 great new recipes to try out and make our own COOKIES, COOKIES, COOKIES inside this little pretty little book you will find recipes for...
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
Beth's Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Chocolate Crinkles
Andes Mint Chip Pudding Cookies
Gingersnap Cookies
Cherry Date Skillet Cookies
Sunburst Lemon Bars
Java Crunch Cookies
Caramel Rocky Road Bars
Glazed Rum Raisin Bars
On the 8th Day of Christmas our friend Cathy H. gave to us a very pretty and personalized blank book that can be used for a photo album or whatever your creative mind comes up with. Thank you Cathy I love mine very much!!!
Over at ABC - Altered Book Club our friend (update later -- no name) a very beautiful beaded Christmas Tree Angel Thank you it is lovely and mine is going on my tree right now!!!
ABC Altered Book Club On the 7th Day of Christmas our true friend Jeanene made for us a very unique recycled necklace - Jeanene I love the necklace it was extremely creative thank you very much!!!! I am think my daughter is going to steal the from me when she spies it- it is just up her alley and will get lots more mileage around her neck:-) lol 
Over at Puzzle Art Plus our Friend Suzi made for us an AWESOME Winter Tea Party recipe book. Thank you Suzi this is a beautiful gift and will be used I know my daughter who is the cook in the family is going to love trying out the new recipes and will for sure love making the desert recipes!!
inside this beautiful book is recipes for...On the 6th Day of Christmas our true friend Judy gave to us a Christmas tag and book thong - and for those of you that don't read Judy suggested that you tie yours around you rearview mirror in your cards or another option is also a christmas ornament... Me I read so I'll be using mine for the intended purpose:-) lol -- I love mine Judy thank you!!!
My 12xdays gift is a book thong or bookmark. Some were made to fit a book, some a magazine, I used recycled things on them also. If you don't read tie a loop in it and use as a rearview mirror ornament. or as embellishments on something you make. judy m
To see 2 other recycled book thongs check out Halle and Elizabeth's blogs.
On the 6th Day of Christmas our true frind Kathy L. gave to us a very pretty matchbook with friend quotes thank you Kathy I love it!!!! And my apologizes becasue my pictures didn't do your matchbook justice.
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty
~Sicilian Proverb
Laugh and the world laughs with you
Cry and you cry with your girl friends
~Laurie Kuslansky
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable
~Dave Tyson Gentry
A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~Author Unknown
The friend is the man who knows all about you.
and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard
Friendship isn't a big thing - It's a million little things
~Author Unknown
ABC - Altered Book Club On the 5th Day of Christmas our friend Patt gave to us a beautiful matchbox scahet - Thank You Patt!!
At Puzzle Art Plus our Friend Marci gave to us a beautiful ATC (Altered Trading Card) Thank you Marci for the beautiful ATC and a double thank you for filling in on my Puzzle Art Plus group to give us a full 12 players!! I hope very much that you are enjoying your gifts as much as we enjoyed yours!!
Puzzle Art Plus - On the 4th Day of Christmas Our True Friend Angie gave to us a beautiful CD Ornament - Thank you Angie you did an awesom job on these and mine is already on my Christmas Tree!!!
ABC - Altered Book Club Our Friend JoAnn gave to us a micoscope slide necklace and pin - Thank JoAnn I already have my pin on my sweater I wear all the time they are both beautiful pieces of art:-)
ABC - Altered Book Club On the 3rd Day of Christmas our True Friend Halle Gave to us... One very cool altered book - the pages are blank so we can put in this book what we like - I'm thinking I may use mine for a Round Robin theme to be decided later:-) Thank You Halle I love it and Halle was telling me she meant to set a certain one aside for me, but forgot and somehow I managed to get the one she chose for me:-) lol
To see two different images of Halles' gift check out Halle's and Elilzabeth's Blogs
Puzzle Art Plus - On the Second Day of Christmas Our True Friend Stephanie gave to us...
ABC Altered Book Club... Leigh made for us a beautiful wall canvas -- Here is mine ladies I hope everyone will share theirs with us - Leigh I love mine I couldn't have picked a better one for me time is one of my favoirte themes!! I hope everyone else loves theirs as much as I do mine!!!
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I've been busy the past week making quiltlets - I think tha my quiltlest are probably a bit different as I haven't actually sewn mulitple pieces on like most of the ones I have seen - I guess I must always be different:-) lol 
My very good friend has a son with Autism, so when she told me about Art Now for Autism I wanted contribute something, I asked my friends from Puzzle Art Plus if they would like to help me create a puzzle for the art auction. The puzzle is a collabrative effort from fellow artist (left to right) Angie Boesch, Cathy Hudson, Theresa Pillow, Halle Gustafson, Gay Ens, Heather Raycraft Linda French and Jam Ito.
Just some fun stuff Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter Series is among my top 3 list of favoirte book series to read and my favorite character is Acheron he has wit and wisdom, but then when 11,000 years old you be....... (yeah, yeah Yoda another favorite of mine:-) lol)
At first I wanted him to buy me a new label maker that used cheaper cartridges, but I soon found out that wasn't going to work because they didn't have all the symbols that my label maker has just decided to stick with the one I have for now:-)
Since Paper Imagery Designs was having a birthday sale to celebrate Lori Roberts Birthday - I decided what better way to spend my money then at a birthday sale:-) lol I bought two sheets of stamps and two collage sheets if you really want to see what they are you can click on the links to see them.
Artistic Collages
Paris 1900
Digi Fashion Women 196
Fashion Women
The Sale is going on until the July 31st if you want to take advantage of the 15% off sale -
Tim Holtz NEW Stamps $16.96 after discount
Stampington Stamps from $12.00 to $15.00 after discount
Maya Road Products from $1.70 to $6.00 after discount
and most of their VERY Popular Collage Sheets as low as $1.70 each WOW!!!!
I will be enjoying my new stamps by the end of the week I can't wait:-)
Today I am officially 39:-) thought I'd share more of my goodies from friends and family.
Memories in Bloom was having door prizes and thank you gifts in the bag so some of this I didn't know I had until I got home which made it an even more of a fun surprise - my daughter went with me so I ended up with two door prizes -- the purple monochromatic was my door prize which tickled me because as most of you know purple is my favorite color:-)
My girlfriends Boo and Dot took me out to dinner at O'Charley's for dinner and then we came back to the house and had a play date:-) we are always buying things for each other through the year so our birthdays we have a tendency to buy or give foolish things to each other -- the rubiks cube was from my friend Dot's workplace (she works at an insurance office) She seen it and thought of us and knew we would want to alter it -- The coffee was something I had been after my friend Boo to let me have for about a year and while packing up her shop she found it again, so it was a birhtday gift along with the Readers Digests and heart shaped book.
This is a gift from my son Joey - he bought this with his own money - he knew I wanted a Japanese Screw Punch -- well I would not spend $40 or $50 on one since I won't use it a lot so when I seen this at Wal-Mart I thought it would be great for my needs - Joey was with me when I found it - so he decided that was he would his gift to me:-)
I wanted an MP3 player so that I could listen to my audio book in the car so this was my gift from my mom -- Yep I made out like bandit:-) lol
Well on Monday Juley 28 I turn 39 - WOW I feel so old:-) lol
I wanted to share with you 2 gifts I got from a friend she made me a beautiful handmade rope bracelet of blue and green beads and a 4x4 canvas with a handmade beaded butterfly - I feel so special to have recevied such a beautiful gift - yes I know I keep saying gift I know I received 2 but I'm biased I LOVE MY BRACELET THE BEST:-) I will wear it as often as I can.
These are my two gifts from Halle.
My canvas will hang on the wall in my art room so that I can see it everday - in hopes that on those days that my muse is missing it will inspire me:-) lol
A while back my dad came to visit me he lives in Wichita which is where my friend Elizabeth lives and she had some things she wanted to send to me so my dad being the most wonderful dad (yes I know I am biased there to but it is true no one could have asked for a better one) he stopped by E's house on the way here to pick up the things she wanted to send my way along with everything she sent me an early birthday gift gotta take advantage of free shipping no matter in what guise:-) lol She made me a collage canvas of blue's it is the color of my living room I showed it off before but I didn't want her to feel slighted when I started sharing my gifts so please click here to go see my birthday gift from E and how I displayed it -- I had it on my wall in my living room before my dad even had his truck unloaded that evening:-)
Stay tuned for more of my birthday saga to unfold:-) lol
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Here is my ATC for the woman swap on my ABC - Altered Book Club group -- I learned how to do the earring from craft tv weekly - I ran the wire through my paper crimper looped it and then clasped the ends in a bead and glued it to the woamn
My ABC Altered Book Club yahoo group is having a napkin swap, but were not swapping napkins were doing 4x4 were the napkin is either the background or the focal point of the 4x4.
A friend has a patriotic and quotes altered book - I made her a few pages her books.
The first one is for her patriotic, the background is The Pledge of Allegiance. Uncle Sam can be used in either her patriotic or quotes.
Betsy Ross for patriotic
These two are for her quotes book -- the Disney quote is "I DREAM I TEST MY DREAMS AGAINST MY BELIEFS, I DARE TO TAKE RISKS, AND I EXECUTE MY VISION TO MAKE THOSE DREAMS COME TRUE." ~Walt Disney~
The Music background quote is "DANCING IS LIKE DREAMING WITH YOUR FEET" unknown
I'm working on a chocolate 4x4 fat book as a gift for someone wanted to share some of the pages I've made for it.
I'm in a 4x4 postage stamp fat book swap - mine will be a Christmas gift - I will also be adding junk mail 4x4's in the book as well -- Haven't quite figured out what to title the book, but I suppose it will come to me:-)
The background for the Curious George 4x4's is a paint splatter, the Patriotic 4x4's are a napkin, the Statue of Liberty is the postage stamp blow up to the to be used on the 4x4, The Austrailan stamps background is a tissue box. Can't go to the store and just buy any box of tissues these days - it takes longer to choose a box of tissues now then it does to buy a new shirt:-) lol
I made some spoons today for a swap - this was a new endevor for me - I got the idea from my friend Kathy Turnquist She got them from one of the altered arts magazine. These will actually be come a spoon book - you can go see Kathy's Blog to see what a spoon book is.
Stepahnie Loomis and Carolyn Miller
I'll have your prizes in the mail on Monday
Congratulations Ladies
The Answer Was - 'Short Circuit' - With Steve Guttenberg and Alley Sheedy (1986)
My ABC Altered Book Club is celebrating its 5th anniversary - this year we decided to make CD books. I'm going to host a contest, everyone has been doing them so I thought I would to:-) lol
My first CD has the phrase "#5 Is Alive" -- Who can tell me what that phrase is from - I will give you a hint giving me this answer will date you:-) lol -- I will draw two names from both my groups (ABC and PAP - PLEASE when you leave your comment tell me which group your from allthough I know most I sometimes forget who is from which group) Everyone who leaves me their answer by leaving a comment will have their name in the drawing - I'll be making my comments private so everyone has a fair chance. Contest will close May 9th at Midnight
Have Fun
I did these two awhile back, but wanted to share them - I used kleenex boxes as my backgrounds, it is a sad day when we can't even go to the grocery store and simply buy a box of kleenex, with out standing in the aisle and debating what we can do with the designs on the box:-) lol
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