This is it. My happy place. Just looking at the picture makes me happy. I haven’t felt very well the past few days, so I settled into the craft room and watched a lot of TV. And worked on a little gray Putz church. For me, that’s relaxing. The first order of business? Cut out […]
Home canning is something I enjoy. I love to make jelly and jam and canned apples, canned peaches, etc. Today DH and I worked together to make 31 jars of fig jam. This is the recipe I used: How to Make Fig Preserves/Jam I left out the cinnamon. For the pectin, I used Ball Real […]
I am still tweaking the Putz “Christmas Tree Lot” that I’ve been working on the past few days, but it is almost done. In my last post, I explained how I made the base for the Christmas Tree Lot. It had to be larger than those I usually make to have room for the trees, […]
This past Friday, I made the base for my new Putz / little glitter house, the Christmas Tree Lot. This is the bottom of the base. I like to add a Christmas card surprise on the bottom. Because I want to add trees and a sign and wreaths and roping, etc., the base needed to […]
I wanted to add a Christmas Tree Lot to my collection of Putz patterns so I drew up a pattern for the sales shack. This is as far as I got with the project today. I will make a base for it tomorrow and, once I have it glued to a base, I can start […]
I’ve been emailing back and forth with an online friend who is making her own little glitter houses. She is having a problem with glitter loss after the houses are done. My friend did some experimenting with different kinds of glues and glitter, but hasn’t found a solution yet. I decided to do a glitter […]
I finished a few more spool ornaments. I plan to take proper pictures and post the ornaments to Etsy today. How do you feel about snow like the red one has? Yes, please? Or, no, I like them better without? The bead stars I used on my previous spool ornaments were blue like on the […]