OSA APE 9

my submission to Oriental Stamp Art Annual Publishing Event. 2006

A Barb Card.

  

I want to introduce a friend Barb, who is a card maker.

Barb started making cards bake in the early 90's. She was rubber stamping and creating treasures before stamps were even available in Canada.

She would trek to Bellingham, Seattle and Portland on adventures, and learned many techniques that people are now discovering again.

I have never been able to part with a barb card. i get usually 2 or 3 a year from her, and they date back to 1994, so you can imagine my collection.

One year she even made me a stationary set full of cards. With the Stationary set , I made a cover, and have made a book with
some of her cards sent to me over the years.

this is the first of 3 books with Barb Cards. With my bind-it-all, I am able to put these together very easily.

They are a valuable collectable to me, goes with my OSA - APE books. ( I currently own 5 years worth. )

Enjoy,, these are a few of my favorite cards in this book, if you want to see more, you can visit her card blog. It is listed in my links, under blogs I like to visit. Please check her work out, as she is an outstanding artist.

Brickwork by Trevor

Yippie, the fence is finally here, way over budget, but well worth the wait and the money.

Here is a picture of the house with the New brickwork and Fence.

The front yard has 8 pillars. Matching brick pillar, and eventually the chimney will be redone with the same brick.

We had the railing custom made from graybar metalworks, a custom color powder coating.

the front of the house is not finished yet, we still have some more work to do, but needed the fence to protect the dogs.

When it cools down we will get back to more work, but for now enjoy the fence,

I am so proud of my son, his brickwork is fantastic.

This Old House

It has been a year since I updated my blog, life has just gotten in the way.

The short version, in the past 2 years I have moved, changed jobs, husband changed job, husband now works out of town, and did I say I changed jobs... hummmmmmm,,,, in more ways than one.

And on top of that I am trying to decorate this house, now on my own. My $1000.00 fence is now going to cost $5000 and counting,,, but it will be fun to post it here on my decorating with Dee Blog.

Bit by bit you will see the transformation!

This weeks project,, the attack of the Laundry Room.

This week I will strip the old wallpaper, repaint, tile, and add some ZEST!

I bought a new washer and dryer! The focal point.

What fun, who said Laundry Sucks. I have to say it is nice to just do Laundry for one.

Ron is like the boyfriend that comes over on the weekends with his dirty laundry.

Drinks his beers, plays with his dogs, plays with his wife, gets his laundry done, and POOF! he goes.

So my therapy,,,, a funky laundry room!

Wall Art

Wall Art

The month of August was busy for me, I painted my kitchen, recovered from 2 surgeries, and very little crafting, but I did cut wall art out for my new kitchen. Check out my fun...

A Cup of coffee, shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.

TAGS for MOSAS22

MOSAS round 22 , my partners were Betty G from California , and Bonnie M from New Hampshire MOSAS stands for Monthly Oriental Stamp Art Swap. We are partnered into groups of 3 or 4 and for 3 months in a row we make a small project for our partners.
this month I made the tags for my partners, I have had this set of stamps quite a few years and have used them many times in different ways,, this is just one of them,,,