October Is Upon Us!

The October Newsletter is up at Design By Dani, you can download it here:http://www.designbydani.com/designbydanioct.zipIncluded with the newsletter is a free printable template to make some adorable Halloween candy tents that you just print, cut and fold! Speaking of Design by Dani, I found out this week that one of the projects I did for for Dani's Girl Talk Blog was featured on Disc Talk Radio

Colonial Blue

More farm pictures, the white and blue were popular in Colonial Brazil during the 17th and 18th centuries. This is a coffee farm, the owner was a kid when my dad was growing up and it was so nice to see them talking about old times. The farm is well-taken care of. Their oldest employee, who is over 80 years old, moved there as a kid, raised his family there and still likes to help out around the

Saturday Stuff

Just poppin' in with a little card I did for Di Hickman's Card Sketch Blog this week:Also had another request for a project from Scrapbook Dimensions yesterday and that made me happy :) You know I love that magazine!I had such a nice surprise last week when I found that Karen Maggie mentioned my blog in her September Workshop: Focus on Hybrid post for Scrapbookgraphics.com. I was blown over when

Landscaping ideas

Last time I showed you my Great grandparents cottage. This time, I want to show you this creative touch I found on the same farm, near the hard ground where they dry coffee beans. Not long ago, Geraldo posted a different view of the same basket.Update: Many of you have asked questions about the basket fountain. The basket is made of bamboo, the fountain uses running water, no pumps. As far as I

I'm Baaccckkkk....

Wow! I've been MIA for 2 weeks! I got a temporary job for the month of September so I've been working every day and that has kept me quite busy. Needless to say, not much crafting going on around here. I did have a card in this month's issue of Scrapstreet.com Magazine - here's the card:This latest issue of Scrapstreet is a good one so go check it out!!! Have a GREAT weekend!

Back in time

My Great grandparents Virginia and Francisco lived here and they had 16 kids... Some of them were married already when they moved in, probably about 80 years ago. My mom first visited them in 1953, when one of my grandmother's brother got married and my mom was introduced to the family. My parents got married the year after that. Mom and dad say the house remains exactly the same. I have more

Altered CD Binder & Some Freebies :)

Last weekend I spent several hours backing up all my digi kits from my external hard drive onto CD's. I wanted someplace safe to hold my CD's so I remembered this CD binder that I had, it's like a small three-ring binder (except it has two rings) and it holds little CD-size page protectors to hold your CDs. I decided to make it cuter by using Trish Jones' Popsicle Meltdown Papers to alter it. I