Do You Like A Challenge

If so you will want to check out Emily Henderson's blog   http://www.stylebyemilyhenderson.com/blog/imagiantblog-challenge.html

I'm really not up for a challenge with a time limit myself right now  but I really enjoy watching others take it on. 

Wow, there has been some interesting progress here  and  here .

Cindy of   snowfern-clover   has joined in the challenge and has started making a room box.  I'm looking forward to seeing the results.



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Welcome New Followers

Iris  of  It's always sunny in miniland  has a very nice blog displaying the very creative minis she has been making.   She is very new to blog land and has made a great start.

Maria  of   Lascosas de Maria Ayamontino   recently posted some beautiful beach pictures.  Look at her older posts to see many great minis.

Welcome  Iris and Maria, I'm glad that you like my blog.


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Follower and Plants

Audra   does have a blog, Honey, I Shrunk the House.  Go visit and see her progress in putting together a very nice house, a Real Good Toys Glenwood.  I really like the paint color that she chose for the outside. 

I bought more plant making supplies,  I couldn't resist the 90% off price.  They were between  29 cents and $1.

Oops, I cut Jaynie's  head off, she was tip toeing through the greenery.

All of the red bits are pieces from the bunches in the last picture.

I bought this square for the backing more than all the plastic greenery.  I think it will make a nice trellis.

For 49 cents a trellis and 50 little bunches of heart shaped leaves.


Can you see Jaynie's new earrings?  I got her head in this one.



 Here are some of the plants that I started putting together, with help from Jaynie.

 Some of the pieces that I bought looked like a spider plant so I dug out a plant hanger that I made about a year ago and tucked them into it.   I think the hanger and the pot are a bit small.  I think I'll make another a little bigger and with some wooden beads.

The pom-pom tree needs some leaves, I need to find the right paper, I'm not sure where it is right now.  Some things seem to have gotten misplaced while I'm trying to organize.

The little one on the right is half of one of the little bunches from the square,  I think that it makes a decent jade plant.    The other little one is a Christmas cactus.

The last one was made from the leaves from the bunches that I bought a couple of weeks ago and the little red blossom from a new bunch. 

 

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Welcome New Followers

I would like to extend a warm welcome to

Doreen of  http://doreensminiatures.blogspot.com/  and  http://doreensprojects.blogspot.com/ .    Doreen's blog is the first that I started reading, I found a posting of Julie and David decorating the outside of the house while I was searching for Christmas decorations.  That was more than a year and a half ago, since I have found many more blogs that I enjoy but Doreen's is still one of my favorites.

If you have not found Doreen's blogs yet you should go visit.  Make sure that you read the older postings to see all the adventures of Julie, David and their family.   Doreen made a lot of the things that went into her  house and she shows how she did some of it with some nice tutorials. 

And

Audra Pangle,  I could not find a blog.   Audra if you have a blog let me know so can come visit.



I bought more plant making materials and started putting together some plants.  I don't have any pictures to share yet.  My husband 'borrowed' the batteries from the camera last week when the power was out and did not recharge them.  I'll try to post pictures tomorrow.


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Power is back on

Our power just came back on.  We were without power for about 27 hours.  I can't count how many times I started to turn something on before I remembered.   We were very lucky there was very little damage in our area,  mainly just lots small branches that need to be cleaned up.    Today it is a nice sunny day,  good weather is forecast for the rest of the week.   My heart and thoughts are with all the others that had damage and loss from Irene.

Thank you Drora and Kim for you kind comments.

Now I have to go put away candles and clean up all the mess we made while the lights were out.


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Watching Irene

And starting to feel the winds of hurricane Irene.  We are expected to get hit with the end of the storm, by time it actually hits us it is forecasted to be down graded to a tropical storm.  We are expecting it to be very windy and rainy all today.   The weather reports are saying that the winds are about 30 mph and gusts at around 38 mph right now, they are supposed to get a little stronger over the next 4 - 5 hours and then start slowly dying down after that.   Right now it just feels like a nasty, rainy, very windy day. 

We are following the warnings and staying in today, we have our candles and flashlights ready if the power goes out.  There is not much to do now but to watch the news and wait and see what happens.

I hope you are all staying safe.

Organizing and Plant Making Supplies

I thought that I would show you some of the things that I've bought at the Dollar Tree lately.

A couple of office supplies, these will hold some of my clay tools and texturing sheets.

Some baskets,  I like having a pile of baskets to gather the supplies to use for a project or to sort things that need to be put away.  They are helping alot while I'm trying to get stuff shifted around.

I like these baskets because they fold up or stack together when not being used,  and it's even better when the folded ones fit into the stacked ones.   I think the price was right also, $1 each.

 Then a few things that I think will make good plants.

The bunch has 6 branches  (3 shown) in  3 shades of green.    I think 5 or 6 of these leaves in a pot will make a good plant.

Poke the picture to see the texture of the leaves better.

I'm not sure what kind of plant this will become but looked interesting to me.  I really like the yellow pompom flowers and the spikey leaves.

And a bunch with lots of red, orange and yellow styrofoam balls.   Most of these that I find are usually pink, purple or blue.  This is the first that I've found in the more useful colors.









Now I have to get back to organizing before I can play with the plant making supplies.


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