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Archive for May, 2008

My friend Charlene noticed my first attempt at an altered pie pan in my scrapbook room pictures.  But my first attempt was a total disaster, so you don’t get to see it.  Here is my second attempt.

 
I bought a regular old much-used aluminum pie pan at (where else?) the thrift store.  I painted it with [...]

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I was looking for sweater patterns to knit for my husband.  Not because I can knit or anything, but because I like to torture him on occasion.  Anyway, I came across this wonderful pattern book full of sweaters just for “men”!  (I put “men” in quotes because I don’t know any actual men who would [...]

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I’m often asked, “Mary (that’s what my friends call me is Mary), where do you create all these artistic masterpieces?”  So I thought I would share some pictures of my scrapbook room.  Perhaps you can use some of my organizational ideas.
First, is my pegboard that is approximately 1/3 the size of one wall.  I’m sure [...]

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I made a set of 3 altered canvasses for my mother for Mother’s Day.  I used one 7×9 stretched artists’ canvas turned horizontally in the middle and a 5×7 turned vertically on each end.  I mod-podged patterned paper to each canvas.  (If you don’t know how to mod-podge by now, it’s because you have not [...]

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My husband, kid, and I went to Texas this weekend for my cousin’s graduation party.  We found a few funny signs, but Oklahoma and Texas don’t offer nearly the selection of funny signs that Arkansas does!  Nonetheless, here’s what we found.
Apparently, God is a redneck.  His house is on a gravel road, made of metal, [...]

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I found this postcard at a thrift store a couple weeks ago.  It had never been sent to anyone and I wondered why … okay, just kidding, I knew exactly why; but it’s fun to pretend I don’t.  I assume the person who bought the postcard simply changed his or her mind about sending it [...]

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Since today is Mother’s Day, I thought I would share a little something I made for my own mother.  I also made her some altered canvasses, but I will show those later in the week.  I made her a “card” out of an old CD.
 

 
First I used my Creative Memories circle cutter to cut a [...]

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I’m sorry, Mr. Cosby, but I haven’t been able to locate any JELLO pudding recipe books.  Yet.  Give me time.  I did, however, come across this jewel at my local thrift store last weekend.  It’s called “Swappin’ Good Recipes Featuring Cottage Cheese Fittin’ For Clippin’.”  I don’t know who put it out; probably someone from [...]

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Our firm is looking to hire someone so I placed an advertisement in the classified section of the Kansas City Star this Sunday.  I cannot believe some of the garbage we get!  However, the absolute worst resume I have ever seen came across my desk yesterday.  It is so disastrously bad that I had to make [...]

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