Personally, I prefer warmer climates and warmer activities than ice hotels and snow sculptures. I have had my share with freezing temperatures, snow and ice having spent most of my life in Western Massachusetts. Every chance available the beach is the place to head in the summer months with my favorite beach being Hampton Beach, NH. The salt air and the crashing waves always gave me such peace within. The warm sand and bright sunny skies warmed me up heartily. Unfortunately the event I am about to relate did not come into being until after I left Massachusetts to go south. Continue reading “Sand Is A Beautiful Thing to Craft”
Crafting Snow and Ice
Wow oh Wow what I found yesterday during my travels about the internet. If it exists, it is there for crafting into different and unusual forms of beauty. This is exactly what these folks did at the Quebec Ice Hotel in Canada. You won’t believe your eyes.
I would like to thank Justin and Laren for bring this fantastical place to my attention. They have actually visited and spent a night in the Ice Hotel! Just had to share it with everyone as it is so exquisitely crafted!
Frustrations Turned to Crafting Inspiration
Some days flow so easily knowing just what to do, how to do and the best sequence in obtaining the goal. Other days are a jumbled hodge podge of drama and mishap. What to do….what to do…. 
One seems to lose track putting everything as a priority resulting running around in chaos getting nothing done at all.
There are days when simply crawling out of bed is a major challenge. Insomnia does strange things to the psyche. Sleep deprivation or stress. Either way, the day is a doozy. So a good nights rest is very import for the creative juices to flow and grabbing success by the horns! Continue reading “Frustrations Turned to Crafting Inspiration”
My Serenity Crafts by Sara
It is my pleasure to introduce Sara 
hostess of My Sereneity Crafts on YouTube. This is one very talented and inspiring lady who is nicely organized.
For years I have learned everything the round-about hard way when it came to my painting style. Trial and error can be quite expensive and frustrating. So, if one is not stubbornly tenacious, craft painting may be extremely frustrating and possibly fired out the backdoor as a hobby. Even is painting has been your niche for years, there is always room for improvement. I know I am excited to have found Sara to help guide me through. Follow me as we learn more about My Serenity Crafts and what it has to offer.
Escape With Coloring!
Some days are just slow and lazy when I am not in the mood to do much of anything, although still have that creative urge. Believe it was born in me. Even when watching a show on television, my hands have to be doing something. 
As a stress relief or just relaxation of my physical self, coloring is source of great relief and release.
After a long day of running around or the need to unwind for any reason, I grab the colored pencils and one of my many coloring pages or books. Heading off into the living room with a cup of hot chocolate, flop on the sofa and aaaah. In about 30 minutes, life is far back in check. This is a form of meditation where I remove my focus on the irritants around me and, as I call it, go to LaLa Land where life is beautiful all the time.
Color Crafting – Move Your Soul
Colorful influences surround us wherever we go. Splashes of reds, greens, yellows bedeck the world! Color is everywhere and does ‘do’ things to us. It will affect our mood creating an uplifted and alive air or downtrodden and sad gloom. Color can affect our energy level with vim and vigor or lazy sluggishness. Whatever the case may be, it is always interesting to take notice what colors are present and under what circumstances. This can be a lot of fun and very enlightening.
At the end of this article you will find an informative color chart and psychology.
Save The Bunnies! ! !
Whoooops! Oh No! Plop, bang, splat. Did you know resin figurines splinter and shatter when they fall on hard surfaces. Very interesting and unusual to see all those colorful fragments. Very unproductive and cost inefficient to say the least. Another lesson from the school of hard knocks.
This is exactly what happened to the cute Peter rabbit figurine yesterday. Oh woe. The dear little rabbit in the lower right-hand corner lost his battle.
It was time for the final gloss coating on the bottom. When I went to pick him up, it was at the wrong angle. He twisted awkwardly in my finger tips. It then went catapulting through the air. Almost caught it in the crook of my elbow but abruptly bounced off crashing to its demise. He did land on his feet though. However, the right foot snapped off with all sorts of weird shards and shave-fragments over the floor. The floor is porcelain tiling on a cement slab. Yup, you got it. Harder than hard. Was not a chance in for the poor little guy. He has gone to ‘bunny heaven’ in the sky. Yup, I broke and I own it.
Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits
How does one manage to collect so much ‘stuff’? It’s everywhere. This corner, that corner, heck it hides in the closets waiting to scare the daylights out of you. It all multiplies like rabbits. 
Asking myself, “Why do I keep all this stuff?” Not one good reason came to my head. On the other hand, a million good reasons came to my head as to why I should get rid of a whole lot of it. Number one reason being it is such a pain in the neck cleaning around it.
Now that I am starting up my crafting business, money is tight. Aha! I could make some well needed cash off this stuff. That really got me going. Not to mention more room was needed to keep supplies and articles which were required to run the business. Move out the no longer useful and move in the the bright new future. Do not care what you call it, declutter, downsize, spring cleaning, whatever. Fact remains it is too much stuff and it is cramping my style. Thus I embark upon a mission of evicting all the unnecessary stuff began. Continue reading “Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits”
YouTube Junkie
YouTube never made much sense to me. Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of people they did not know do random stuff. Then one day I tried it out. Had to see what the fuss was all about. People I knew were raving about the thing. One boring night, I logged onto the Internet and pulled up YouTube.
Once on the site, I created an account and immediately became lost. What they suggested was too thrilling. Ah, there was that wonderful search box. What did I want to see. Boston Terriers of course! 
RoseBud was my precious little girl. The rest was history. One video let to another and another and another…… You get the picture. The more I watched the more I wanted to see. It was a taunting bag of Lays potato chips. Bet you can’t watch one! I had to locate the videos on Dachshunds. Lo and behold, Little Dog has come across his craziness honestly! Stubborn as the day is long, silly as 
the Mad Hatter and faithful to the end of time.
Soon I discovered Sylvester the Talking Kitty. My stomach hurt so much from laughing at the silly kitty. He was hilarious and has quite the potty mouth. To the right of each video was a whole list of videos. Some were on the same topic but others of a different genre. This is how I began to find extremely interesting, funny, and informative people. Some were traveling all over the United States visiting strange and of the beaten path places. Locations I had never heard and probably would have never heard of had they not told me. The places were amazing though. Did you know there was a Land of Oz (yes the yellow brick road land) in the mountains of NC? They were visiting filming locations and matched up each site from the actual film footage to present day shots. Then the Disneyland frequenters. Awesome. Having only been to Disney World once, seeing the west coast Disneyland was so exciting. I thank Adam the Woo, Justin Scarred and The Carpetbagger for this.
Day 5 – Uncle Wiggily and Rejuvenation
Been painting most of the day. Working on a large rabbit that looks like Uncle Wiggily. That rabbit is very precious to me, as I grew up reading Uncle Wiggily and playing the Uncle Wiggily board game. All day has been a grand walk down Memory Lane.
I was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts on Sunset Avenue. Around the corner on Amity Street lived Howard Garis. Who is Howard Garis, you ask. He was the wonderful man who wrote all the Uncle Wiggily books and many other stories. Of all the stories, I loved Uncle Wiggily most. Uncle Wiggily was a gentlemanly rabbit with rheumatism. He had many different friends and a few foes with names that were as quirky as his own. The books related various adventures with his quirky animal friends and fantastic escapes from a few mischievous critters. Just so much fun to read in childhood.