Winner of the BLOG CANDY - Mandee

Sorry for posting the winner so late. I did promise November 1, but life and work got in the way.

I put all the names in a hat and Mandee was the lucky one. Please send me your snail mail address and I will mail the 3 cards to you. I posted a comment on your blog with my email address.

Thanks
patty * Momma 411 * paper piecing patty * Memorycollector

The Holidays

These are 2 of the paper piecings that I had on sale for the Bayou Segnette Sale.

Christmas is right around the corner and I have to get started on my christmas cards. Last year I made 40 cards and mailed out 35 of them. They were so fun to make. Last year i went over to the Scrapbook Cottage and did a Christmas Card Workshop.

I heard from a few of my nieces and nephews and they really enjoyed their Halloween cards and the treats inside the card.

I would like to get started with a few Thanksgiving cards to sent to a few special people on my list. Any one has any ideas on Thanksgiving cards.

One of the Scrappin Packin Mommas dropped this request in my email box about sending Recovering American Soliders. Well I have already addressed 5 of my left over cards from last year and they are ready for mailing. Which I will do at the beginning of December.

here is the information if you are interested in sending Christmas greeting to an Recovering American Solider.

I'm sure many of you are currently writing cards to friends and family. If you can, please send an extra one to our American military heroes who are recuperating from wounds this Holiday Season. Please enclose a short note thanking them for their service and personal sacrifice. They are the protectors of our freedom, we must let them know that we appreciate their sacrifices.

Your small act of kindness will be greatly appreciated.

Here's the address...
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001

If you would, please send a card & forward this message to your email friends.

patty * memorycollector * paper piecing Patty * Momma 411

Bayou Segnette-Sunday

REMINDER: When viewing the pictures - if you click on them you can enlarge for better viewing.

Here is a picture of my little table for my paper piecing sale.

Sunday I returned to Bayou Segnette at 2:00 p.m. to teach my second paper piecing class, and to sell my paper piecings. The second class was a Frankenstein. After each of my classes I have a drawing with all the participates in my class, and the lucky winners, receives the sample paper piecing that we used in the class.

I love walking around and viewing everyone’s work - the ladies in the Creative Juices group was making some awesome Christmas Cards and they had a ton of beautiful stamps in their possession. Kyle from the Scrapping Cats was also making some really beautiful Christmas Cards. Peggy was working on some Halloween pages from our Witches Night Out (Scrappin Packing Mommas - Oct Crop) and doing a great job - might have to send her my pictures to scrap LOL. Shey was the queen of the crop and went home with a ton of gifts, she also completed quite of few layouts of her New York Trip and some of her little girl. My new friend Charlene completed some awesome pages of her granddaughter at the pumpkin patch.

Debbie the lady that was in charge of the event. Made table stands for everyone that attended the event. She used the metal frame from the political signs and mounted them to a block of wood, and attached some badge clips to the frame so that you can hang either cards or layouts. My good friend Peggy, gave me her stand. What a great friend. Thanks Peggy.

She also used an old lamp shade to make a much larger one to store some of her embellishments. So now I am going to have to hit the flea markets and garage sales to look for an old lamp shade so that I can make a stand. It was awesome because I have been wanting to design something like this stand for my paper piecing sale, and I was surely surprise to see her design, because it is exactly what I was looking. Thanks Debbie for being so creative.

Debbie also invited me to have supper with them. We had baked chicken, cheese mashed potato, and salad, which was yummy. Thanks Debbie.

Here is another find from surfing the net.

Moonlight Inker (Blog). Have a simple tutorial of water coloring with markers.
http://moonlight-inker.blogspot.com/2007/08/basic-marker-tutorial-part-1a.html


Twisted Chick
http://www.twisted-chick.blogspot.com/

Love Bloom’s in Me
http://www.typepad.com/t/comments

Bayou Segnette - Saturday

Here are a few more of the paper piecing that I had on sale at Bayou Segnette. I think my alligator was my favorite to make.

Bayou Segnette weekend crop setting was in the state park in Westwego, Louisiana in the Group camping quarters. Seen lots of my scrapping friends. There was Peggy and Shey (Sugar & Spice), there was 3 of the Scrapping Cats (Kyle, Roni, and their mom Sam), A group of ladies called the Creative Juices (Geri, Nancy, and Ms. Dee, Wanda, Ms Alice - each member had a juice name), Debbie Gauthreaux the lady in charge and old schoolmate, and even meeting a new scrapping friend her name is Charlene.

Saturday evening (5:00 - 7:00 p.m) the state park had a hay ride and trick a treating for all the campers in the park. So everyone in the crop room went outside and sat on the benches handing out Halloween candy and just chatting it was a nice time for visiting ladies that you only see a couple of times a year at the crops. Several of the ladies had their children and grand children come by for some treats. Such cute Halloween costumes.

Saturday I taught a class of 9 at 3:00 p.m. and it was a beautiful sunny cool day in the State Park. The paper piecing that we did was a stack of pumpkins with the top pumpkin wearing a witch’s hat. One of the ladies that was suppose to be in my class was also scheduled for another class. So when she reappear I gave her a private lesson, and the paper piecing ended up matching the paper on her Halloween layouts that she was doing. After the class I set my little stand up on the porch. I must say that I did very well on my sales, and would like to thank each and everyone that bought from me. THANK YOU THANK YOU!

When leaving the park that evening there was tons of rabbits lining the roadway. Also, Debbie was kind to give me some food to take home - some good old fashion home cooking - 2 stuff peppers, vegetables, bread and two chocolate cupcakes.

My finds while surfing the net.

Bitten by the bug blog - This blog gives you lots of examples on how to put your cricut die cutting machine to use. Take a few minutes to go over and browse through her blog. Take the time to look at her older post you will be happy you did.
http://regina-bittenbythebug.blogspot.com/

Snuggled up to a heating Pad

This weekend is the Bayou Segnette Crop in Westwego, Louisiana at Bayou Segnette State Park. I will be teaching two classes, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The pieces that will be taught are a set of pumpkins with a witch hat and a frankenstien.

The last two night I have had to shut down production of my paper piecing due to being involved in a car accident. I was stopped with my blinker on to make a left hand turn when a vehicle just plowed right into the back of me. The bummer on my car is cracked, the trunk frame work was pushed in, and now my trunk will not lock, everytime I hit a bump the trunk flies open. So I am now driving hubby’s truck. Had to go to the doctor’s yesterday, and it has been discovered that I torn some neck muscles, and I have a mild wip lash on the left side. So for the last two nights after work, I have gone home and snuggled up to a heating pad.

If you have a little time you need to go over and surf this blog" Got Sketch http://gotsketch.blogspot.com/

patty * Momma 411* memorycollector * paper piecing patty

Blog Candy

Just a reminder - if you click on the pictures you will be able to enlarge them for better view.

I am offering up some Candy Blog in exchange for your comments. If you would like a chance at winning these 3 homemade cards - you will need to leave a comment. But not just any comment. The comment will have to be a suggestion for my friend Jackie Daigle - she is in the process of opening a new scrapbook (Scrappin Friendzee) store on the Westbank (Marrero, Louisiana). Please offer her some suggestions on products (that you would like to see in the store), ideas, projects(scrapbook, paper craft, card making), and general information in setting up a scrapbook store. If you have seen something in another scrap book store that you like please share it with her. At the end of the day on Thursday, November 1, 2007 - I will put everyone’s name in a hat and draw for the lucky winner.

Here are a few more of my paper piecings that will be on sale at Bayou Segnette, Westwego, Louisiana . If any of you will be attending the Bayou Segnette event, I will be teaching a paper piecing class on Saturday and one on Sunday. Both of the classes will have a halloween theme. Each class will have a drawing at the end for a chance of winning the sample paper piecing that was used in the class. After each class I will have paper piecing for sale.

Check out this link - it will lead you to the cutest Halloween box.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/00737191039690130796

High Hope stamp gallery -some really awesmone stamps
http://www.highhopesstamps.com/showcase.php

Witches Caldron Blog - directions for a cute little bag.
http://witchescaldron.blogspot.com/2007/10/just-treats-part-2.html

Daring Carmakers Blog
http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/

Everyone who makes a card for our anniversary dare and links back to us will be entered into one of our Lucky Dips and the winner will find little envelopes of goodies popping through their letterbox - with love from the DCM! But you've got to be in it to win it - as they say!

Thoughts of a cardmarder scrapbooker blog-A cute altered egg cartons filled with goodies.
http://chelemom.blogspot.com/2007/10/altered-egg-carton.html

patty *momma 411 *memorycollector *paper piecing patty

What a find?

Saturday I stopped in at Michael’s to use my 40% coupon, I ended up buying something for my email pen pal. When I walked back to my car. I notice this flower laying on the ground right behind my car, and noone was in sight. So I decided it was pretty and picked it up, took it home and took it apart and was able to yield 6 flowers, and now I have some pretty yellow flowers in my stash.

here are a few paper piecing that I worked on this weekend for next week’s sale at Bayou Segnette, Westwego, Louisiana

Inspired by Flossie’s Follies Blog

I was inspired by her use of stickers on Halloween Cards, so I decided to make a few Halloween cards to send to my nieces and nephews. I used a sheet of the Miss Elizabeth Halloween stickers and ended up making 6 cards and could have made another 3 cards with the leftover stickers.

Here is what I started with and here is what I ended up making. I totally enjoyed making the Halloween cards. In each card instead of putting sentiments I put a goodie (candy) in each one, and they will all be mailed so what a cute surprise.

Lori & Lisa's Stampin Up Party

There was a beautiful board that displayed awesome Halloween & Christmas cards. There were 3 make N takes. The 1st was a cute Halloween card that held a lollipop. The second we used mailing labels and stamped them and then wrapped a stamped mailing label (dollar tree mailing labels) a small candy bar, then 4 candy bars were put into a small plastic bag, then we made a topper for the plastic bag. They also demonstrated how to a sour cream container that you could fill with goodies, and of course when I got home I had to make one. We also made a cute Christmas card, using a background stamp, and a snowman stamp. They gave each of us a white gift bag and we were able to decorated the bag with stamped images, mine was a Christmas bag.

Yesterday (Saturday, 10/20), Peter and I drove down to the French Quarters and downtown looking for all the fleur de lieu, but we were only able to find one, that one was on the corner of O'Keefe and Howard. We tryed to go down Bourbon Street, to go to Royal, what a mistake to drive down Bourbon to many people walking in the streets, and got frustrated and went home, I guess we will try again next weekend. We came to the conclusion that most of them were indoors.

Scrapping for Baby Girl

I have two boys and have scrapbook boy stuff for quite sometimes. Well now there is this cute little girl in our life. My oldest son’s girlfriend’s little girl, we will call her "Baby Girl". Which is my name for her. Well she has been my scrapbook subject on the last couple of layouts that I have made. I do enjoy working with all those girl colors. Here are two of those layouts.

Also, here is a picture of some of the Halloween paper piecing that I will have on sale at Bayou Segnette.

Prairie Paper & Ink - this blog has a really good tutorial on masking.
http://prairiepaperandink.typepad.com/amyr/2007/10/masking-with-be.html

If you are like me and did not know what STICKLES were, well here is a link showing many different colors, it is a glitter glue.
http://trudee.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2007/10/12/friday-favorites-19/