an empty room

poly shapes with pazzles

The polymer cuts very nicely with the settings used last night, een with intricate cuts

Cutting Polymer clay with a Pazzles

Today I finally got to cut Poly clay with my Pazzles after much experimenting with thickness and blade adjustments. The clay has to be conditioned well befor rolling it through a pasta machine. I found it worked best when I put it through at 4 on my machine. To place it on my mat, I pressed it down firmly by placing a paper towel over it and then using the edge of my vinyl squeegee to apply it. I moved the rubber bumpers on my pazzles to the sides of the rollers before cutting. My settings on the Pazzle were 6 for depth, 9 for pressure and 1 for speed. Clean the blade and rollers after each cut. I will try more intricate cuts with larger pieces of clay. These pieces are about 1.5 - 2 inches.
I can't wait to try fondant next but have to get a new mat
Mari

Home!!!

After almost 4 months we are back home...I am surrounded by my stuff (way too much) and ready to tackle many projects. The first is to move my office from one of the unfinished rooms to make room for my mother , who moved in with us last year after an illness. She has STUFF too...80 years of it. After emptying her house for market, donating, trashing and giving away, there is still a barn full and personal items that fill a couple of rooms. I am remodeling the current office to make her a sanctuary to her liking, so she will feel she belongs here. I have an inspiration pic and a vision how to make it work in this room...we'll see how it goes.

MEOW MOOD

,This is the second candle order I received while on the road...Next year I'll have to bring supplies :-o

Door decal

Dressed up the RV a little bit with vinyl cut on my Pazzles...

calling it finished

Okay...The proportion is off now but I am very pleased with the skin tones...going to call her finished and move on :-o

Reinventing myself...again

Today is a new day...you can be anything you want to be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIaxeCzE3Y

On my easel...WIP

Tring to get the skin tones right

Isabella

Yorkie incarnate

Wiped out with a brushstroke

I wiped out a perfectly adorable Yorkie today because of innocent comments by acquaintances...I really have to learn to ignore anything said while I'm painting, or stop working while people pretend to admire a half finished piece
sigh....

3 completed Pet Portraits

WIP

This is Mick Jagger, an 18 year old Dachshund and George, the old Akita...The backgrounds on both will change

wild floorcloth

I brought a roll of canvas with me to Florida so today I started a floorcloth to commemorate last weeks visit to the Miami zoo. I love painting floorcloths...it's the 5 layers of poly and waiting between coats that gets monotonous

Pink Flamingos

Today, I pull out the Pazzles to cut SSOPF (you know who you are) flamingos by request. My husband was very tolerant of me transporting half my electronic toys to Florida for the winter so maybe it will pay off. I also want to make a Merry Christmas decal for the front window of the RV. check back for pictures. For all my northern friends, it was 87 here yesterday...yikes

It's magic, I tell you...

or alien technology...whatever...here I am being chauffeured down the New Jersey Turnpike, headed toward my 100 days in Exile  (that's my other more in-tune blog), and I'm browsing the intertubes, listening to the Carpenters on the I Pod, and writing on my Blog. If that ain't FM, I don't know what is...

Florida mode

I paint alot while I'm in Florida...These are my WIP to take before I start anything new

Craft fair frenzy

I'm just a little over half ready for Saturday's craft fair...I figure i'll make 75 cents per hour spent ;O)

Let's Pretend....

Let's pretend that I'm not leaving for Miami December 9th, only 20 days to...
Close up a 12 room house and mouse proof it
Finish 230+ items for my one craft show I managed to squeeze in while taking care of my mother 24/7, moving the contents of her house, trying to sell said house, surviving a rat bite...yadayadayada
Plan a Xmas party 4 days before we leave
Christmas shopping may have to wait til I get to Florida

Oh No! Edible art

I love this new fondant recipe...It's delicious and easy to work with...There will be no boring Christmas cookies this year.

Versatile vinyl

I'm loving creating with recycled vinyl records...been playing with the pazzles

, polyclay and embossing powders

New tool is cool!

My dear husband surprised me with a graphic tablet and I am having creativity overload. I wake up at 4 am with new ideas how to utilize it...It will fit right into my brand new secondhand laptop case..I am such a geek....

Candle, Journals and Paper Rose

Embedded Candle

 Journals made with recycled Readers digest covers and record album covers...Rose pattern from a Pazzles group on Yahoo

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pazzlesinspiration/post?act=reply&messageNum=20252&referer=/group/pazzlesinspiration/message/20252&use_rte=1

Jornals and a paper rose

I made these journals from recycled Readers digest book covers and old record album covers...The Paper rose is from A Pazzles group on Yahoo...Look for tutorials soon...

Journals made from recycled album covers and Reader's digest book covers...look for tutorial soon

Tutorial Print and Cut with Pazzles Inspiration

This is my very first tutorial. Please feel free to comment if you find it useful
Mari

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6gNI110mLA

How to Make a Pincushion Ring from a Plastic Bottle Cap: 7 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow

How to Make a Pincushion Ring from a Plastic Bottle Cap: 7 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow

Scary stuff

If your pumpkin explodes...

Use an apple and any tools you can find


FYI
ripening apples smell better than pumkins in the same condition

Wall words

More than one way to skin a cat...

...sooooo I was planning my one big show at the Apple Festival next weekend and just found out they are not accepting vendors who are not chamber members...
My very good friend who is a chamber member said "so set up in front of my office"
Everyone going to the festival will have to walk right by me :o)
Thank you Kathleen!!!

(visit her here for that home in the country) 

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:OsomQGZmwRUJ:www.kwardrealty.com/+kward+realty&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Pazzles and wax