Finally back to normal I think?

       Well the fair has ended and I survived working 11 days straight and standing on my feet 15 hours a day plus doing two shows on top of doing the fair and all is back to normal. Well except maybe house cleaning and washing. The weather for the fair this year was beautiful and sometimes even a little chilly compared to last year which was 100 degrees plus everyday of the fair.  A new fair was hired which had some really cool rides and an awesome petting zoo and some really nice employees. Everyone was nice and people were there to spend cash. This may be the last year to do that as everyone starts to tighten their belts for the months of uncertainty ahead of us.
       I made the front page of the local newspaper which was awesome so being some sort of a celebrity I am packing my bags and heading to 'HOLLYWOOD". Not really! I did make a commercial for the local tv station and was quoted in the newspaper and now making the front page so this year has been totally awesome. Now if I could just win the lotto things would be perfect.
      I am having crafting withdrawls and have not crafted since September 19th when I made 15 Baptism invitations. Dang and I think I lost my mojo............have no fear though I have been staying up late viewing all kinds of blogsites and watching tons of videos......so look for some new postings soon.
      I broke down and bought my self two new toys.............will post pictures on Sunday. I decided might as well get them now while I had some spare cash and besides I will never be able to afford to retire so I might as well spend my cash now.
      We have 11 shows left this year....man my poor feet and back. But it is fun and worth all the hard work so I can buy the things I like to play with. I work for a friend during the weekends going to differant venues selling food......like funnel cakes, fried pickles, hamburgers, corndogs, turkey legs and assorted fair foods.
       I am sitting here resting before I leave work to go work...we will be in Marshall, Texas working the FIREANT FESTIVAL. Have a great weekend and go out and enjoy the beautiful weather. PEACE!

I made the front page of our local newspaper

Fair Food Morphs Toward The Strange And Sugary

Every year I take a vacation to work at our local East Texas fair. I  have worked in the Sweet tooth  booth for the past three years and every year we come up with wild and crazy food. This year it was CHOCOLATE COVERED BACON. Too funny but believe it or not people eat it. It has a really good flavor if you can get past the chocolate...........it tastes like chicken! 

I won some blog candy!

WOOT, WOOT! I won some blog candy from I LOVE REALLY REASONALBE RIBBON. The ribbon they sent me is fantastic! I can't believe I won. I used some of the ribbon on my Halloween paperbag mini book. You should all go check out their blog. They have some wonderful ribbon there. Thanks ladies for my prize. Aren't they just yummy? I won more but my battery died on my laptop where my pics are.

Scal cut

I have really been intimated by the SCALbut the other day I decided that the SCAL would not get the best of me so I traced an image and used ACY cart and this is what I came up with. I plan on giving this to my mom since we all hang around the house during the holidays. I found the plate at $tree. The best store ever! I cut the words at 6" and the shape at 4". TFL!

Kim's baseball boy

A co-workers son needed a tag for school so he could hang all his artwork from it at school so she knew I had a cricut so she asked me to make her one and this is what I came up with. I cut him out at 10 inches using EDPD. His school colors are blue and red and they are called the Panthers. Her son as well as the teacher loved it. Her son calls me "The expert" now. I love doing stuff like this for the kids cause the enjoy it the most. I was happy that he has the best clip in the whole class. TFL! I don't know why they always turn sideways when I post these. Maybe my friend Pam will figure this out for me. (hint, hint)

Halloween Mini Book

I decided to venture out and try to make a paper bag mini book. I used 8 lunch bags and covered them and inserted tags and made little pockets. I have not finished it but I thought you would like to see my book in the making. This was a pretty easy book to.....it's the decorating that gets me. Once again I used K&Company paper pack. I covered 6 x8 pieces of chipboard for the cover and the back and punched two holes in it for the binding because I didn't have one inch binders for my bind it all. But after I punched the holes in there guess what I found at HL....yep one inch binders. Man I was mad because I really wanted to bind it. Oh well. I will show the finished product after I get through with our 10 day show at the fair. Tired just thinking about working. Thanks for looking.

Fall card swap

I know that we should be getting our swaps soon so I can post these now. I used all close to my heart products for our swaps. I think they came out pretty good. Thanks for looking

Happy Hauntings

I made this card using the Happy Hauntings cricut cartridge. I used K& COMPANY paper and added bling. TFL!

Treat bags for grandkids

I made 75 treat bags for my grandson's to hand out at school. This was very easy to make just cut and fold. I am so sorry but I left my book at home so I can't give credit to the correct person who designed this first. I used K & C paper from Micheal's bought at half price and it is double side and very sturdy. TFL!

MIA

Sorry that I have not posted in a while. I have been very busy but I have taken quite a few photos of projects that I have done. I have even gotten a start on my Halloween projects for my three grandsons that are in school this year. This means I have to make 75 treat bags for them to hand out at school not counting the other 100 bags I have to make to for my friends at work. I was also involved in a card swap and that was 52 cards. Boy the things I like getting myself into.......I will never learn! I love crafting and I love sharing so be patient with me I have some cool things to show everyone if only I would stay off the internet and post what I have made. Everyone have a safe and fun weekend. I am off to work in Caldwell, Texas at a Polka Festival. Last week we were in Brady at a Goat Festival. All my weekends are booked up from here until Thanksgiving but hey it is extra cash for me to play with. My goal is to save enough moola to buy an IPad or the Cricut Imagine.....not that I need either one of them.......Peace!
Terry.

BACK TO SCHOOL BANNER

I love making banners and I have made the cricut chirp twice this summer and that was such a great honor. I decided to make this in honor of back to school. My boys are grown up so it was kind of sad not to take the day off  to be at school the first day.

April goes back to school

My friend April, who is a single mom has decided to go back to school so I made her this little pencil box and briefcase for some inspiration to do good in school. I found a cute briefcase/laptop bag at Macy's but it cost $88 so this briefcase is $87.99 cheaper. Good luck April and learn lots of good things to  help improve your life.

August Stamp class

Our fearless leader Ms. Joy gave us yet another wonderful card class. Your inspiration is wonderful and the colors are great.........I look forward to next month. Sorry I have no idea why the photo turns sideways when it is right side up to begin with.  One day I will figure out how to operate a computer...maybe my 9 yr old grandson will teach me.

Cricut Chirp again!

OMG! my swing card banner made the Cricut Chirp. That is twice this summer that I have made the Chirp newsletter. If it wasn't for staying up late at night and getting my inspiration from all the fabulous creative people out there I don't know where I would get my ideas from. So many, many thanks to the talented ladies and men out there who post great ideas on blogspots so people like me can scraplift ideas. I was so excited when I opened my email and saw that I made the Chirp again I almost dropped my laptop in excitement. Thanks to all of you that follow my blog and for all the compliments that you leave for me. I love making things and seeing smiles on peoples faces when they get something from me. If you go down a few postings you can see the swing card banner. Thanks.

Playing with SCAL

Our great and wonderful friend Pam gave me a tuturial on the SCAL and can you believe I learned something..............one I needed a zip program to unzip my files which I did not have and that is why I was going insane and two,  how to download them once they are unzipped. Wohoo...Pam you are the "GREATEST". I traced this witch and cut her at 4.25 with CTMH black paper and then put her on pop dots on top of a 1" strip of hydrangea and that on top of citrus leaf. I stamped it in hydrangea and used the stamp set "spooky smiles". TFL!

Carrie's Purses

I made these for a friend named Carrie for her daughter's birthday. I used forever young cricut cart and cut the purses out at 6 1/4. I used paper from HL, for the flowers I used MS wedding ones. Put a little bling and look how cute they are. I scraplifted the idea and almost the same colors from http://memorablecreativities.blogspot.com. I made 10 of them for Carrie

Hanging out with Teresa

My friend and fellow crafter Teresa Jackson hosted a Christmas in July day at her house. We had 7 ladies there and we all taught each other something new. We all had a good time with lunch, make n takes and gift exchange.Teresa was an excellant hostess and she gave each of us an awesome gift bag full of goodies. Here are some of the crafts and cards we made that day. TFL!

Spider

After scapping all day at my friend Teresa's house this is what I came home to. Pretty awesome but scary at the same time.

Swing Card

After watching this on Paperphenomenon's blog I had to try to make one. I followed the directions from splitcoaststampers on how to make the Swing card and Paperphenomenons directions on how to put it together. TFL! I used FY for the scallops and Wall Decor for the cuts. I will be taking this to my work and put it in my cubical.

Mini Monster cards

I made these cards using the Mini Monster cart. So cute and so many cute Halloween cuts on this cart. Thanks for looking. I used CTMH paper for all the cuts.