I am having a hard time getting things done the past few days. The weekend was busy, we had a great time on Memorial Day with Older Son and his family, I thought Tuesday was Monday all day long, and here it is Wednesday afternoon and I am well behind where I thought I would […]
I hope you are not getting tired of seeing Putz houses. I have managed to finish two more today. Of course, you need to see it lit, too! The other one is a very simple design. And I worked on the other six that I have in process. I added artificial snow to all of […]
I have been working on Putz houses this past week. I managed to make bases for eleven houses that were ready to be placed on bases, have fences glued in place and then embellished. I have completed three of the houses. The first one is one of my favorite designs. It’s the two-tiered, rounded roof […]
Today I finished the other two-tiered Putz house that I had ready to embellish. The house is yellow and blue. I fiddled with it for quite a while before I settled on a scheme I liked. I used gold embellishments and two green bottle brush trees. Do you like the puff of smoke? And the […]
I have been without my laptop for almost a week. It is an inconvenience to have to sit at one location to use the computer. DH did kindly move the big computer to my craft desk which is really nice! I do appreciate that. Thankfully, my desk is large enough to hold the printer, the […]
I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Four of our five children were able to be here yesterday and I received a nice call from Younger Son. He and his wife live too far away to come home often. Older Son and his wife and the three grands were here. As always, a lot […]
I have a drawer full of Putz houses that I cut from poster board last year but hadn’t put together yet. I pulled a couple of those out last week and put them together. After they had been painted and glittered, I pinned them to cardboard so they would dry straight. The poster board absorbs […]
Today I began working on two little Putz houses. After I painted and glittered them, I pinned them to cardboard so they will dry with straight walls The green roof is for the little house in the back. As are the white window frames. I will have to cut a roof for the other house […]
I listed two new shadow boxes and two decoupaged ornaments in my Etsy shop today. The shadow boxes were fun. Here’s one with a snowman. I like the turquoise and silver foil background. I call this one “Christmas in the Country.” Toy Store Peace You can see more pictures of these in my Etsy shop […]
Today I had a better day than yesterday. Thankfully! I did finish the other little Putz house. Middle Daughter suggested adding pink to the yellow and I think it turned out very well. I also made a new Christmas card shadow box. It features Mary and Baby Jesus. I was able to add some purple […]