So this month I will be saying good by to Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator. I should have made this decision a long time ago, but just couldn't let go. When I lived in town I had such a great group of ladies in a stamping club. It was a blessing and I sold enough to make it all worthwhile, at least it paid for most of my stuff! I was never a super seller demo like some of the women I follow, but it was fun.
Now I live out in the country too far from my ladies and so it's just me. I have too many other interests now to spend my money just on stamps and paper, so the end comes on the 30th! I have begun selling retried stamp sets on ETSY, with great success, so I'm also paring down the stamping stuff. After all, there's only so much room and I need to add my new tools!
For as long as I can remember I wanted to cut out wooden decorative yard pieces. I got the chance to do a few last December, when I made the awards for the winners of our neighborhood lighting and decorating contest. I made a tree and a Christmas light bulb. I really want to do farm animals - sheep, cows etc. to scatter around my back yard, but before I get to that here come some Halloween decorations! A week or so ago I saw a cute witch shoe wreath and some witches legs in a pot on Pinterest and decided to try and make some. My amazing husband took me to get the plywood and I drew some patterns and I started to cut them out when he said, "Do you want to go in town and get a jigsaw that sits on a table so you can feed the wood and not be balancing it and holding a saw in your hand?"
I said, "Yes". So we closed up the garage, jumped into the truck and headed the 25 miles into Lowes! We got a scroll saw and got home, only to realize that I really needed that jig saw. So we jumped back into the truck and he took me back and got me the other saw too! I told you I had an amazing husband!!!!!! He added in a palm sander and a few other little treats and we headed home to set up my work area in "man land". Guess it's "couple land" now, but I'm not saying that to him! Just thankful for the space and to be working with him so close by.
Sunday after church I began to cut and before I knew it I had three sets of legs and three shoes all cut out! And my arm didn't feel like it was going to fall off from holding that vibrating hand saw. The funny part was I used all three of my saws on the legs! It's not a very good picture of the shoe, but I'll have more pix next time. So for now I close! I've got painting to do and I want to have these ready in time for Halloween. I've got other projects going right now too and I'll be showing some of them soon. As I said at the beginning, I chose the perfect name for my blog! I know some of you follow me just because of Stampin' Up! and I will be sorry to lose you, in fact, I hope I don't. I hope you will enjoy my new adventures and look forward to the surprises over the next months! In fact, this isn't my only new equipment, I got a Silhouette Studio a few weeks ago too, so new projects are everywhere! Wow, I sure wish I had 36 hour days! Bet you do too!
See you soon!
