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Fun stuff I found...

Hi Friends

I finally was able to resize the pictures I took from some of my findings at the Market with week.  Nancy and I had another fun day shopping.  This time we didn't get any rain going there and back so the traffic was normal which means for here, very busy but at least it was moving.  We left at 8 am and got there at 9 am after all that walking, shopping and dealing, we returned very tired.  There is no air conditionning while shopping here and it is near the top floor of a 6 storey high building so it is HOT.  Using a fan to keep cooler is a good idea.  So here are some of the things I purchased on this passed Wednesday's shopping day...

These beads are just some of the ones I purchased for almost nothing

 
 This crepe paper is one that the creases are more pronounced and stiffer yet than what I had found earlier.  The photo is not showing the subtle yellow roll properly but it is a lovely yellow.  Time to make more crepe paper flowers, in fact I have a card I made with crepe paper coming on the next blog post.  You might like it!

The next photos are the little blings I was talking about.  It can be used as a whole piece of separately.  All ideal for card making.

 

Close ups of them all
 
 
 


 

I hope you enjoyed the photos.  I will post a card next so come back to check it.  It will be a flower made with crepe paper, glitter and antique looking pearl.

Have a lovely day everyone, thank you for all the comments, I am happy to see some ladies making it back after a while.  Nice to have you back ladies.

 

 

A quick note for today

Hi Friends

What a busy week it has been and it is not over.  Shopping has been the main activity of the week.  Bargains were made when I could find them.  But, I have found some really nice goodies for beading, artificial flower arrangements, tablecloth, and flower stickers I had not seen anywhere before so I am so happy I found these.  It will be nice to use as card embellishments as it is not very thick. So for the time being until I get more pictures to share with you I am sharing a quickie sheet today....

Gone for now....keep an eye on what I found at the market next...

Cute round silhouette of a couple Pyramage.  I can think of many themes to be using this sheet for.  Engagement, missing you, etc...   

Please bare with me on answering the emails you sent, I have read the comments, it was lovely of you to make me smile while reading them.  Thank you so much.  More interviews are set up for Hubby so all is well so far it is really going well so thanks for the positive thoughts as there is another week with many interviews to come so more of your positive thoughts are needed if you have some to spare that is :-)

So I am juggling between running errands, shopping in the City and home front chores and such plus the blog, plus all the emails coming in everyday..... Phew....But I will get around it eventually, just be patient with me.  Hopefully everyone who will read this is doing very well and smiling.

Thanks for stopping by in the hope that I your day is filled with beautiful smiles for everyone

 

 

Wishing you loads of happy fun for the week

Hi friends

Well, when you see this blog we will be in our Monday or soon after.  I am going back to the same market again but this time, solo.  It's ok as I want to explore more so if I am all by myself I can see more rapidly and know where to go back to on Wednesday this week.  Yes you are right, I am going twice.  Hubby decided to stay and study for his big job interview on Tuesday, so if you want to keep positive thoughts for him it would certainly be appreciated.  Prayers are even better but I will let you decide on what you want to do to support his chances for this job he wants.

So Monday and Wednesday are two days of shopping I will try and post at least 3 times this week in between my shopping days and will let you in on some of what I call my best deals.  It is getting so much easier to bargain that I am getting excited to go back. 

I am sharing a quickie sheet for today and I hope you can find some use for it in your soon to make projects.

Gone for now, thanks for all the lovely comments.   

If you remember some of my cards with some of these on, well here is the sheet of many of them.

Have a fantastic week everyone and I will be back with some photos to share as well.

 

Sharing more goodies

Hi Friends

Here I am.  Oh I had such a wonderful time with Nancy and Summer her cousin.  It seems we were there barely for a few hours but I must say we had to waste time in the traffic before getting there and we were late leaving as well.  So it shortened up our stay, but I made some awesome deals.  I will just show you the nice cups and saucer, spoon sets I found.  I am sure some of you are really liking these but before you think I spent a lot on these think again.  I will show you now.  Will write what I got them for at the bottom of the page.  But, I can tell you that it is all sitting proudly on my living room coffee table right now and it makes me smile each time I see it because of the savings. *smiling*

I had to give you different angles because there are details all around the cups and saucers as well as the spoons.

 
This is my morning glory flower set.  The golden design sure does show nicely in the flesh.

 
The colors are so stunning!  This was the one that first got my eye on these beautiful sets.  The top feather sticking out is from the spoon.

 
I had purchased some stargazers this week so I wanted to show them off.

 
I just love all the details on each one of them.  I hope you are enjoying them as well.

 
That is the end of the cup and saucers sets.  I am going back again next week for more good deals.  As promised I told you at the beginning I would tell you how much I paid for each.  It cost me $8 USD.  The nice flowers in the back with a lovely vase was after dealing only $15.  So the shopping for a few pieces takes longer than when we just go to the superstores to say the least, but if you want to pay much less you have to work for it, so I don't mind the fun!

I hope you enjoyed what I had to share with you today.  It was fun to prepare it for you.  I will share more quickie sheets soon as well as my own cards.  Come back soon and please leave a comment since you are here looking. I thank you for stopping by and hope to see you very soon!

Have a lovely Friday and weekend

 
 

 

I have another quickie sheet for you

Hi Friends

I have a fun day planned today.  Going shopping to a huge market known by a lot of Expats but it will be my very first visit there.  I am hoping to find a few long time items on my list and if there is a deal to be made I will be right in there saving the dollars.  It should be a fun day shopping the three of us ladies.

Yesterday I made some bread loaves, a carrot cake and a pizza and 2 calzones.  So my day was in the kitchen while my housekeeper was grabbing anything dirty to wash and put away it was so easy and not one single time have I seen the kitchen looking like a hurricane had gone through it, thanks to Wang.  She was wonderful at keeping the pace with a crazy cook like me.

Here is the quickie sheet for today.  Welcome back to some of you, I am glad to have you back and please leave comments and say hello when you have a chance.

Gone for now, a new sheet to come soon! 

 
I had to Decoupage this one, I will tell you where I got her.  I was shopping one day and they had this kind of same version store of our $1 stores and she is actually part of a necklace with a black chain for a little more than a $1 and she is so sparkling it will be a nice thing to add to a gift box someday to the right person.  But for now, it is yours to decoupage if you like her.

Have an awesome day everyone.  Go ahead shower me with comments, give me one more reason to smile today.

 

 

Back for another card share

Hi Friends

It has been a lovely Sunday here or weekend for that matter, with sun but not overly hot.  I love that kind of weather.  I may order more of it from Mother Nature.  But we may have 3 days of rain to come.  Monsoon season sure is showing its teeth hee hee.

I also wanted to touch base with you about my newsletters when I send a blog out.  It seems that there is a delay of up to 12 hours before some of you will get notified that I have a blog out.  But from what I have seen with my own subscriptions to other blogs it does take up to 12 hours to get notified of any blog sent out, at least for me and some of you as well.  So if you see the blog has a new posting but you haven't received a feed yet it is playing in that 12 hours window before you get noticed.  But what matters most, is that you will get a notice.

Well for today I wanted to add a sheet and a card I made so I will start with the card and finish with the sheet.

Here is the card for today with the recipe:

 
Recipe

1 pattern paper of choice, 2 CS colors of choice, my CS was from SU.  I also used a Spellbinder tag and added a Birthday wish in white to the middle.  I also have inked matching colors according to the cards you are looking at. I also stamped a butterfly and on the blue card I have cut out butterflies in blue and white.  On the blue card I have cut up a blue piece of CS and added 3 pearls for embellishment. Scalloped edge punch was used on the pink card. Both cards I have used a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots for the matting.

Easy and clean looking card to make.  Try it and add your own personal touch to it.  You will like it.

Enjoy!

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Here is the quickie sheet now, the month of October is coming soon so if you make Pink cards for Breast Cancer, here is one to add to your collection.

Gone for now. Sorry 
Have a fabulous day and week everyone!

 
 

Technical difficulties

Hi Friends

Well, I am hoping this one will go out to you.  I was left under the impression last Thursday that my blog had gone out but instead it was frozen in a bubble on the internet LOL.  As I was preparing to look at what I was going to share today I realized that it had not gone out to you.  So sorry, that will teach me to trust that it always goes out to you when in fact it is not necessarily true.  Lesson learned.

To get back to our morning last Wednesday we indeed had a nice time and that will stick to my fond memories of being here as I think I made a really caring friend while so far away from home.  We had a so much fun.  She brought the leftovers to her boyfriend and cousin that evening and they all enjoyed it and asked her if we too ate Chinese food LOL.  She had to laugh and answered that we have so many Chinese food restaurants everywhere in the US for that matter.  But there is nothing like make it is at home though.

I also learned that they stir fry only meat and one veggie at a time.  So when I was done mixing the mushroom, snow peas and onions together in the stir fry pan, I put everything on a bed of white rice as she was watching looking like she had a huge question mark on her face.  I had to ask!  Am I doing something wrong? With a smile and giggle she went on telling me that they only do a dish with one veggie not 2 or 3 at once.  Then I replied I manage time really well LOL.  So I eat it all at once in one plate with rice. It all goes down in the same stomach so it's ok to cheat LOL

We had more cultural fun as you can see.

Well today I will share a quickie sheet since I have lost the recipe of the other card I was going to post for you or I should say, had posted so I thought LOL.  For now a quickie and later another card when I get a chance to redo the recipe for it. Never a dull moment here hee hee

Gone for now 
Enjoy!

For the cat lovers in you!  I couldn't resist this one, I feed a white cat with blue eyes here almost every day.  Its eyes are so so blue it is fun to watch it begging for food if you know what I mean. hee hee

Have a great weekend everyone

P.S.: Thank you for all the
wonderful comments you are all so very sweet to drop by and leave a line of appreciation.  There is more fun giving then receiving, what a fun rush!

 

 

As promised, here's a new quickie sheet for you

Hi Friends

I hope you are enjoying your day, evening as much as I am enjoying my whole day.  It was a busy one as I had the pleasure to teach a few dishes to my Mandarin teacher Nancy this morning.  It was so much fun.  We had a busy 3 1/2 hours and we had the pleasure to eat and really enjoy the food as well.  I showed her how to make some bread and some stir fry as well as a salad.  I had to sit down after I cleaned up the kitchen.  She had to leave quickly not to be late for her next class.  What an experience we had.  I forgot to take pictures, dang it.

But here is a quickie sheet for you I hope you enjoy it:

Gone for now.  Will have more soon 

Enjoy! Have a nice day.  Will post more tomorrow.

 

How about a card share for today

Hi Friends

I hope you are enjoying the Summer season so far.  I know some of you are in a drought right now and some of us are enjoying abundance of rain, in fact we have 7 days of it in the forecast as we are once again in fog that tells me the 7 days will likely be for rain, rain and more of it.  I wish I could divide this rain up and send some of it to places that are thinking about doing the "rain dance" but Mother Nature is not cooperating all the time. I know one thing for sure, we will go through the "Sizzling" Summer season just fine.

As for my today's shares, I am posting another card of mine with the recipe I hope it can somewhat inspire you to try your hand at making something special for a close person in your life even if it was just to say Hello!

 

Recipe

CS I used for this card are 3 colors, Chocolate, Very Vanilla, and Certainly Celery from my SU stash.  I also used SU paper to match.  I used a rubber stamp with chocolate ink on the main card, it is an old SU background stamp which I can't think of its name right now, but you see it well though. 

The embossing folder I have used in this card is one popular Sizzix one from SU I just love the texture of it.  Once I have matted all my layers I ran them through my Cuttlebug machine so all layers are embossed at once.  I must say it really looks beautiful all put together in the end.  I used a Spellbinder label called "The Grommet tags" and 2 copper brads.  The laced bottom was made with a SU border punch.  I am realizing that everything on this card, from start to finish was made with Stampin' Up products, reminding me of my Stampin'Up Demonstrating days!

Try making layers with different embossing folders to see a different effect but make sure your two layers are glued with your favorite adhesive first before running it through the machine so it won't shift.

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I tried my hand at making a cinnamon raisin bread.  Thanks Angela for giving a truly short cut to success

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I have had some time to make new quickie sheets to share soon.  So now that I am feeling better, I can look at my table again and make more cards as well.  I am back to feeling like 24 hours a day isn't nearly enough for me to do everything I want to do so I must be well LOL.  Being a wife, baking, cooking, playing with my new craft items, sorting things out in this craft room of mine, errands and so on.  I can't imagine adding children to this madness, I know some of you manage well with a job and children and a hubby plus doing what I do everyday, "my hats off to you my friends". 

I am happy I have someone to clean up my house for the time being, it is making my days so much easier in the end.  Oh there is a lesson learned from my stay here, I will never take driving myself to where ever I want to go, whenever I want, for granted for a long time to come.  I miss driving, I miss seeing things I can read LOL, I also miss finding things easily when needed.  Mixing the good with the not so good makes living interesting and never ever boring!  Enough about my boring daily stuff.

I hope you have a fun week ahead of you and will certainly share more for you tomorrow.  So if you haven't already done so please sign up for my newsletter under the followers so when I send out a new post, it will let you know in your email box.  So you won't likely miss the quickie sheet I add and remove after a little while.

Have a fun day!  Sending you a smile

 

 

Feeling better so here is another quickie sheet for you

Hi Friends

Thanks for being patient with me I have had a rough week with this cold that turned into something I wasn't expecting but it is "I hope" all under control now.  No one needs a cold in the Summer time ever, better yet, who needs them? LOL  I am one that has a problem with it.  BUT, I am back trying to catch up with what was left unfinished.  I hope you have had a nice week and stayed free from bugs such as colds and Flu

So here is the quickie sheet for today:

Gone for now.  Thank you for all your comments, all of them are appreciated more than you know.  More to come

 
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekends so far.  Ours is almost over but we are enjoying Sunday for sure. I will be back with more soon.

 

Mid-week share

Hi Friends

I hope you had a great and fun weekend and had all the food I crave so much right now.  I am still under the weather but I am improving.  So I appreciate any improvement as it comes.  Fantastic!

For today I wanted to share another quickie sheet.  I will share another card soon but for today I have limited time to post so I am giving you a quickie sheet and I hope it can come in handy to some or all of you.

Gone for now.  Thank you for looking and commenting while you are here.  I appreciate all comments a lot more than you can imagine.  Thanks 

Have a wonderful day my friends, will post more soon

 

Happy 4th of July USA

Hi friends

I am still nursing my cold.  On the other hand Mark is feeling better today.  So I got the bad part of the deal here.  A day at a time as they say it will last 7 days treated or not.  But I am taking it easy though.  Today I wanted to share a quickie sheet probably one that relates to July 4th, which is a popular BBQ food. I hope you enjoy it.

Gone for now, I hope if you caught it, you were able to make something good with it and I would love to see it by email if you make a card with the Hot Dog sheet please.

Have a fun day everyone in and outside of USA.  Will be back with more with a new card to share in a day or so. 

 

A weekend share with recipe

Hi Friends

Shite card stock should have read White LOL, thanks Dawn for pointing that out.  So much for counting on spell check before posting hee hee. Thank you again!

Here I am sitting quietly at my computer nursing a cold.  Yep, I guess all the humidity in the air, the rain and coolness all ended up giving Mark and I a cold.  A Summer cold, always feel more miserable because it is hot and humid so we are laying low right now, looking like two sick little love birds.  Looking like we need hugs more than usual hee hee.  So while I am sitting here I thought, I might as well share one of my cards with the recipe now so you get to be inspired hopefully if you are here reading this, you are probably in the mood to make cards.  Here it is:

 
Recipe

This card was another fun one to make as it has my Favorite Swiss Dots embossing folder from Cuttlebug and a Spellbinder Labels Four in 3 different sizes, 2 for the center piece and one for the label stamped Birthday Celebrations.  I used some Tim Holz Distress ink "Broken China", some White Whisper and Blue from SU, an iris stamp that I colored with my prismacolor pencils and I used some OMS= Odorless Mineral Spirit, which I much prefer to baby oil.  But both can be used, we just end up having preferences in the way things work.  So I have cut and embossed my layers, but before removing my labels from the die cut I used a sponge and inked up the inside edges to give more depth to my layers.  I also added some stickles (glitter with glue mix) I used the Crystal one inside the flower petals as well as the middle of the flower.

I hope you enjoyed this card.  If you have different labels the same can be done and if you don't own a machine with any dies, the same can be done with cut out circles or any shapes you can think of.  If I didn't have the Swiss Dots embossing folder I would have probably used a glossy white background and inked up the edges like the rest of the layers, for a pleasing effect 

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A bonus for the Weekend I have decided to add another quickie sheet for you

Gone for now, sorry 
Going along with the theme of the day.  A little chicken soup for the stuffy noses and a little laughter is a perfect mix for our day here.

Have fun!

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Have a lovely weekend everyone, I will make sure to nurse my stuffy head and perhaps find more images to decoupage so it is all good in the end.