I blame Martha

No, not that Martha, but my sweet and yet, evil friend Martha Brown of Destination Unknown. I DID tell her I was going public with her bad influences of making me spend countless hours, yes hours visiting the blogs of the One World One Heart Giveaways. Tonight was the sign up cut off and Lisa has nearly 1100 blogs offering giveaways in the spirit of this event and world bloginess.

So now Martha has me visiting blogs like crazy. In spare minutes I click click click and I think I can safely say I have visited over 1000 blogs. Now those few remaining pink links on Lisa's blog are like mini challenges. I must click them all!! I admit I am obsessed. There should be a 12 step program for blog contests.. LOL

Anyway, as you may have seen before I am offering up an Remains of the Day mixed media journal as my give away prize. There is still time to enter as I am not drawing a name until Feb 15 so you have until midnite Feb 14 to enter. It must be on the original post. I have gotten a lot of compliments on the journal I showed as an example but it is sold so I made a new one. It was super shabby chic in look with lots of pastel colors which I thought was kind of limiting so I created another one in brighter colors. ( Yes I am obsessed) so the winner will get to choose their cover.. yay. I will post pictures as soon as I get them bound up. I am still playing with the pages.

Back to the blogs...

Winner, winner

Congratulations Elyse, you were lucky # 9 from my random number picker, aka my friend Sharon. LOL

I hope you will enjoy this creation which will be winging its way to you as soon as I get your mailing info. Happy Valentine's Day!!

For those of you who did not have their lucky ticket drawn, there are still 10 days left to enter my OWOH give away ( see below).

And...the winner is HeatherSB!

And...the winner is HeatherSB!, originally uploaded by fairyflip/rachel.

Yeah! Its me, I am so excited. Thank You so much Rachel!!

One World, One Heart

I am a little late on the uptake but not too late to get in on the OWOH giveaways this year. I have debated on what I wanted to give away but most of my stuff lately has been too Valentiney considering the actual drawing for this is after Valentine's Day, so I decided to draw on my other current obsession. As you regular reader's know I recently took Mary Ann Moss'sRemains of the Day journaling class and it was great. I find myself sneaking into the studio for a few minutes at a time and sewing more stuff together to make MORE pages.

This giveaway will be of particular interest to art journalers and lovers of flotsam and jetsam as I am giving away a ROD Journal which I have yet to create although I have tons of pages in process so it will be done before the drawing ends.

I am posting a few pix from other journals I have done as well as a link to the ROD flickr pool so you can check out what all this is about if you are so inclined.

So you all know the drill, leave a comment if you'd like to be entered in my drawing. I will draw the winner on Monday, Feb 15. I MUST be able to contact you so don't forget to make sure you leave an email address or your link goes to an active email address. Thanks and good luck!!

ta da

Well, the little drape is coming off my final design team project for Lollishops. We were provided a kit from Carmelos who always has all kinds of goodies for creating your own artful pieces. As per usual I forgot to take a before picture because I suck like that.. LOL I bet if you hop over to the other gals blogs you will be able to get a good idea of what we were given and I will point it out on my piece.

I kind of struggled with this piece because the palette was kind of all over the place for me. I quite rarely use fuschia in my work so tying that in was hard!

I ended up making this cute Valentine holder. It has 2 pockets in which to tuck Valentines and tags like the one shown here.

We were provided with lots of trims and I think I managed to use some of each.. the white ball trim, rick rack, shimmery foil trim (flower center), satin ribbon and the red & white crepe fringe. I also used the little gold Dresden hearts, paper rose bouquet (top right) and the mercury glass beads layered with my own vintage papers and lace.

On the tag I used a little clip art image and some of the leftover ribbon. It is all stitched together because I have been creating like crazy on my sewing machine and just couldn't bear not to on this project as well.

So here is where you come in, please leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name on Friday to receive this holder. Good luck and enjoy this month of love...

dilemmas and inspirations

Wow, tomorrow is February. January just raced on by. I was really good and finished up my Design Team assignment a couple of weeks ago and I will share it tomorrow along with a give away. So be sure to check back!

This cute little heart decoration was a piece I picked up at the dollar store a while back and embellished with a little pink paint, vintage buttons and German glass glitter. I think it makes a fun decoration for February with out being over the top Valentine's Day themey. The cute little house is a pin from Berries in the Meadow that I just love. Their things are so cute and sweet.

If you see my Facebook you will know I am have been contemplating the things I want to do to spruce up our home seeing as how we will be stuck here

forever. LOL My DH is almost do

ne painting the entire outside of our house, and it looks great! It makes me so happy when I drive up to it and see how cute it looks. Here is a picture.

Anyway my next project is my living room. It has been a dark "Ralph

Lauren" red for years and I am ready for a change. I want to lighten it and freshen it up again and my major dilemma is whether or not to paint over all the brick along the end wall. I am currently debating between doing a wash over it or painting the whole deal. I'd appreciate any ideas, input or inspirational links as to how others might have tackled similar problems. I plan to paint the red portion a creamy mocha color and use aqua blue as an accent since I seem to have gathered many things in that color. Aside from that.. I am open to suggestions.

tattered and worn

I am feeling tattered and broken today. Its has been four days of dealing with terrible headaches, sinus pain, migraine symptoms and feeling generally blah. I barely got to enjoy the beautiful sunshine yesterday and today the clouds are pulling back in. I hope the headaches don't pull in with them. I can't think of anything else that might be triggering them.

I have been trying to work through the pain and grab bits of time in the studio when I have been able to. I finished up my final Lollishops Design Team project which will be revealed on February 1. You can click onto the Lollishops blog for a complete list of the projects and I believe at least a couple of us will be doing a giveaway, including myself. So that till give you a little bit to look forward to.

My other busy-ness has been my ROD class with mary Ann Moss. It is an ongoing class that you can join anytime this year

and let me just say, we have been having a blast! There is SO MUCH creativity going on in there and so many good ideas and so much sharing. I am really happy that I decided to take it. I just finished up another journal for myself which I am working on but I am hesitant to share any pix here because we are planning a submission to Somerset's Art Journaling.

In other news, I have been slowly adding stuff to my Lollishop/ Etsy shop and this little journal will be added soon. There is another ROD journal there now and let me tell you how fun they are to work in. All kinds of little goodies, pockets and flaps. I just have been adding bits of things here and there in case you want to take a peek.

Happy Sunday

the bits and pieces

I have been playing with lots of pretty things lately and neglecting some custom work with clay. (shhhhh!) The vintage fabrics have been calling to me and I have been cozily holed up in my chair or the studio sewing bits of this and that together.

Over the last few days I have been adding a little bits and pieces to my Etsy shop. There is no rhyme nor reason but I am enjoying creating and sharing my goodies. I hope people like them and mush as I enjoy making them.

OK, obviously its late and I have nothing worthwhile to say, I am so spacey, so I will leave off there and just share some pictures....