Dream Craft House update Day 11

This is Saturday morning, but the pix are from yesterday which was day 11 on the craft house.

It may be hard to tell in the photos but the siding is up on all sides. The electrical wires are installed. The inside photos show the back of the building. My corner will be to the left and Scarlett's will be to the right. Our backs will be to the back wall with two larges desks to work from. Mine is about 5'x6' on top and hers is 5.5'x6'. Geeze... that's huge ... but exactly what we needed. Quadruple more workspace than we had before. How fun is that!

I'm going to put shelves on the walls to our sides and there will be an antique metal literature cabinet under the window between us holding the bulk of my stamps. I can't wait to show you the pix of everything when it's done. I ran out of room a long time ago to store stamps and it's still a challenge today. I'll be having some shelves built that will go on the right side wall just as you walk in. Then there will be a sink about in the center of the right side wall.

It was so hot while I tried to make the photos my camera lens kept fogging up. Hopefully you can see what's going on.

We had an exciting morning on Thursday morning... around 2 a.m. the sheriff's deputies rang our door bell to tell us someone had set our trash can (the large rolling kind the city provides) on fire. It was a mess! One of our neighbors saw a car sitting in the street for about 30 minutes and then they threw something in the trash can and it blazed up. Talk about nerve wracking... I nearly had a heart attack. I just knew something had happened to someone in our family. Thank goodness it was just a trash can. I'll take that any day of the week. My husband asked the deputy why would someone do that and he said we were not the only victims that night, there were others. geeze.... now the melted trash can is stuck to the driveway and pavement and won't come up with a shovel. We're hoping there's a solution to getting that heap of plastic off the ground. I just thought I'd share this snippet of my life with you today.

Now that I've babbled too long I just want to say thanks for visiting. I hope you are enjoying this journey with my dream come true.

Have a great weekend, I'm off to Georgia to see my mother.

take care,

Debbie

Dream Craft House update Day 10

WOW! I can't believe it's been 10 days since the start of my cute little craft house. I type the words, I walk in the building, but I still can't believe it. It truly is a dream come true in the making.

I do hope you enjoy the journey with me.

We had some very heavy rain storms starting at lunch time. The workers had already finished for the day. They managed to get the metal roof (dark green) installed, and put up some siding on a few outside walls. It's just so exciting! I've never had anything new like this in my life ( or anything old for that matter).

It was hard to take a picture because the humidity was so high. The camera lens kept fogging up, so I worked fast.

Hope you are having a great evening. Please leave a comment if you are enjoying the journey of my Dream come true or if you have any questions.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Debbie

Dream Craft House update Day 9

I'm not sure what this is called around the roof line but it's just beautiful!

After I took Scarlett swimming at a friends pool, she and I washed windows in the craft house today. She had to hold the ladder for me to wash the one at the back of the house.

It looks as though the spraying of the ants yesterday really helped. I didn't see but one or two today. Woo-hoo!

How fun it was to dream today that my little craft house was really taking place. I'm so happy I could bust! I have my hubby to thank for this. He's the best!

Thanks for visiting!

Debbie

Dream Craft House update Day 8

The little craft house looks so cute today with its door and three windows. I'm not sure what's next... I think the siding and insulation. That will be so neat to see the siding go up and then painted to match our home. I still can't believe this is happening. Maybe I will when I move all the tons of stuff I have into the craft house. I guess it's a good thing I've been craft room cleaning.

How fun! I just love seeing what's been completed everyday.

I just had to spray around the inside of the building for ants. I used half the can of spray. We seem to have an abundance of the little critters lately. Maybe the spray will soak into the wood and keep them away forever. One can hope.....

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Debbie

Fabulous Friend

This card just goes to show that a stamp doesn't have to be new to be beautiful! This flower looks like an orchid to me, but I'm flower stupid and my grandmother was a florist for 30 years! (Go figure!)
The flower image was an unmounted stamp that I bought at a stamp convention many years ago. It was on a table marked "pound of rubber" and that's exactly how you paid for it... by the pound. No wonder my back was hurting before I left the convention... I couldn't hold all the stamps I had purchased. Much less... you had to buy the blocks of wood to mount them on. I still have a few of those wood blocks left to this day. I was so excited I bought the stamps, then the blocks then walked the show. Was I ever hurting (but sooo happy) by the time I left for the day.

I colored everything with my new Copic markers that I'm still learning how to use. They're pretty cool I must say! The designer scrapbook paper, the sentiment and the scalloped oval punch are Stampin'UP! I used a green die-cut I made on my Cricut Expressions to layer the flower on. So easy... just set it to the size you want and let it go. I attached the die cut, flower and sentiment with pop-dots. The beautiful green ribbon was a gift with one of my orders from www.ellenhutson.com. Ellen has wonderful customer service and has been helpful and responsive when I've had questions.

Okay... that's it for a Monday. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions.

Take care and thanks for visiting!

Debbie

Chicks flew the coop

I don't know if they really flew the coop but the chicks look like they're going someplace. I used my Dee Gruenig "Mini Kitchen Set" available from http://www.sundayint.com/ and colored directly onto the stamp. I colored each chick then tapped onto "inked" stamp with another color to get the spotted look. The white chicken only has the tapping for its body color.

Now below is the inside of the card. I kept it super simple and I'll probably go back and rub the teal ink pad around all edges of the card interior, but so far it's simple.
The sentiment on the front of the card and the one on the inside are all on one stamp. I just colored the top portion I wanted for the front, cleaned the stamp and colored the bottom portion to use inside. You get a lot more use from a stamp if you can use it more ways than one. The sentiment is from Dee Gruenig ATC Stamps Set 2 available from http://www.sundayint.com/.

I haven't written up all the instructions for this card yet, so if you have any questions about what I used, please send me an e-mail.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Debbie

Dream Craft House update day 7

We have a roof. Woo-hoo! It's just soooo beautiful!! I love it so much! (Thank you so much babe!) Isn't it the cutest thing?

The workers bees will have a good week with no rain (I hope) to get a lot more work done. The metal roofing will be ordered, the siding will go up, and the windows installed. It's really happening and I still can't believe it. What a dream come true.

I sure hope you enjoy the journey with me.

Thanks so much for visiting and have a great week!

(Next up.. some cards I made yesterday)
Debbie