Friday, January 30, 2009

No hearts here,yet.

Hearts may be in the air and on everyones minds, but I have been busy with cat paws and cows. I know, they don't go together and don't have a thing to do with hearts and Valentines Day. But that is what has been on my worktable. Whats on yours?

Cat paws buttons! I had an order for 40 buttons shaped like cat paws for Balckcataprons. That is an Etsy sore specicalizing in hand made aprons. Tey will be used on some of her aprons in the future. I made some black with black pads, white with black pads, black with white pads. Also some that are white with a black cat in the center. They all have some gold running through them. I realy enjoyed doing these and have posted pictures on my Flickr album. See them here.

The cow earrings are a continuation of a project I started a while ago. First I made some Guernsey cow earrings for a friend of mine. She had people tell her they would like different ones. So now I have made Jersey, Brown Swiss and Holstien, to add to the group. Each one is a little different. I an going to be adding more varities soon. You can see them here.

If you haven't seen them yet I have some monkey, elephant and love bug earrings in my Etsy store. They're a little different than anything I have seen before. I hope you like them.

Well back to my work table. Till next time.

May your day be crafty, CraftyLinda
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

One Good Idea for an 8 year olds Birthday

Monday was one of my Grandson's birthdays so I thought I would start him out with some polymer clay. I made a box and decorated it with his name and put some clay,tools,string and some pony beads inside then I started thinking about some ideas to get him going.
So I went to Garie Sims site. Garie is every active in teaching kids polymer clay amoung other great things. He has pages of ideas for kids, with great pictures of the kids. He works with the elderly, and has many articles written about him and his kids in some of the best polymer clay magaizes. He does all kinds of experiments and shares them with the polymer clay community.
This didn't start out to be an article on Garie Sims but sometimes when writing your ideas change and you go in a different direction. If you have the time, because there is a lot to see I suggest you check out Garie's site. You will ahhing and uhing the whole time you are there.
Well I must get back to what I was doing. Finding some creative ideas to include in my grandson's clay play box. Like I said there is a lot to look at and then try to pick just one or two to get him started. Oh my that is a hard one.
I am also working on 42 polymer clay buttons for a special order and 6 pairs of earrings for another order. I will post some pictures as soon as I get them done and uploaded.
So my firends I hope you have a great day whatever you are going to do. Till next time.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Help our American Vets.

Do any of you save coupons and then go to use them and find that they have expired? When going through your coupons, if you see any that are expired or will expire within the next day or so,(or even good ones you don't use) hold them out of your package. Below is a list of military commissaries that participate in the expired couponprogram. Our military families need financial breaks too & they are not inan area where the newspapers & magazines don't have coupons like we do.
This is the list of addys I have for military bases that accepts expiredcoupons. As far as I know, this is up to date. If anyone has any othersnot listed, please let me know, I would be glad to add them. The locationlisted under them is for you, it does not need to be on the envelope. Same goes with the service affiliation.
APO and FPO Addresses work the same as in the USA. No extra postage isrequired to mail, just the normal cost for mailing within the US. The following military bases welcome expired coupons up to 6 months past the expiration date:


Service Affiliation: U.S Air Force
Address: RAF Alconbury
423 ABS/DPF
APO AE 09470
Location: Ansbach, Germany

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:CAFAP
ACS - 235th BSB
Unit 28614
APO AE 09177
Location: Atsugi, Japan

Service Affiliation: U.S. Navy
Address:U.S. Naval Air FacilityNavy
FSCPSC 477
Box 32FPO AP 96306
Location: Bad Aibling, Germany

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:ACS - 279th BSB
Unit 27535
APO AE 09139
Location: Brussels, Belgium **

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:CAFAP
ACS - 233rd BSB
CMR 441
APO AE 09175
Location: Gaeta, Italy

Service Affiliation: U.S.NAvy
Address:Volunteer Coordinator
Navy FSC
PSC 811
FPO AE 09609
Location: Giessen, Germany**

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:Outreach Program Coordinator
ACS - 284th
BSBUnit 20911,
Box 132
APO AE 09169
Location: Grafenwoehr, Germany

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:ACS - 409th BSB
ATTN: AETTG-SB-CFA-ACS
APO AE 09114
Location: Hanau, Germany

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:CAFAP
ACS - 414th BSB
APO AE 09165
Location: Ikego, Japan ***

Service Affiliation: U.S. Navy
Address:COMFLEACT DET.
FSC
PSC 474, Box 700
FPO AP 96351-0007
Location: Illesheim, Germany ***

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:Coupon Program Chairperson
ACS - Illesheim AST
CMR 416, Box I
APO AE 09140-0015
Location: Incirlik, Turkey

Service Affiliation: U.S. Air Force
Address:Incirlik Commissary
Unit 7105 Box DECU/EU/INC
APO, AE 09824
Location: Iwakuni, Japan

Service Affiliation: U.S. Marine Corps
Address:USMC Community Services
ATTN: 5PSVC
PSC 561,Box 1867
FPO AP 96310-1867
Location: Kitzigen, Germany

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:417th BSB ACS
ATTN: Coupon Exchange
CMR 449
APO AE 09031
Location: Lakenheath, U.K.

Service Affiliation: U.S. Air Force
Address:48 MSS/DPF
ATTN: Coupon Connection ProgramUnit
5200, Box 105
APO AE 09464-0105
Location: Naples, Italy

Service Affiliation: U.S. Navy
Address:Director, Navy FSC
PSC 810, Box 53
FPO AE 09619
Location: Okinawa, Japan (USA)

Service Affiliation: U.S. Army
Address:Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator
ACS - 10th ASG
Unit 35115
APO AP 96376-5115
Location: Okinawa, Japan (USAF)



Service Affiliation: U.S. Air Force
Address:Family Services Program
18 MSS/DPF
Unit 5134, Box 80
APO AP 96368-5134
Location: Osan, Korea

Service Affiliation: U.S. Air Force
Address:Family Support Center
51st MSS PACAF
Unit 2097
APO AP 96278-2097
Location: Rota, Spain

Until next time:
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Happy Crafty Day, CraftyLinda
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Friday, January 2, 2009

I love the Rose parade and every year I would set out to sit down and watch it and then something would come up. So this year, I thought ahead. I took and Christmas decorations down early. That was always something I did on New Years day. I put dinner in the crock pot (black eyed beans) I was ready. And this year I made it. I got to see the whole parade. The theme was 'Hats off to Entertainment'.
There were so many really good floats the Amer Asso. of Realtors float had a Robinson Family theme that was out of this world.
The bands were great. Can you imagine walking, dancing and marching for 5 miles. Made my legs hurt just to think of that. The one for the Salvation Army actually came from Wales, UK.
One of my favorite floats was the one from National Balance pet foods, with the English bull dog skate boarding. There was this big English bull dog on his skate board all done in flower petals and veggie. Then they had a track that went around him and on the track they had the cutest real English bull dog skateboarding. He was going to do that for the whole 5 miles. It was just adorable.
Cal Poly U. had an amusement park theme with the rides moving in all directions. And beautiful colors.
The one was from the city of Roseville boasted a replica of a 1909 steam engine.
China airlines had a huge Phoenix which was bright and beautiful.
There was one with a Jack in the box, using 76 performers, dancers records playing. Just spectacular.
The float from Alaska had bears and a canoe.
The Ronald McDonald house was magnificent. Did you know that Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald clown and he was the one to invent him? Interesting!
I not sure but I think the biggest one was by the International Music and was 410 ft long. Had big bird, Elmo,Abby Cadabby and Oscar.
Ftd's theme was the Big Screen with elephants and peacocks.
Every float was just magnificent.
It takes some talented artist to come up with the designs and then incorporate it with flowers and vegetables. It takes as many as 13,000 men hours per float. Uses over 100,000 flower petals and 16,000 tons of steel per float.
With all of that and the colors and movement is it any wonder that it is my favorite parade to watch. I hope you all got to see it and enjoyed it as much as I did.