tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27846671852395917292024-03-13T23:14:03.823-04:00It's Just Me... KimAdventures of me... well maybe not always an adventure.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-42174190456793602122020-03-26T16:04:00.001-04:002020-03-26T16:04:20.646-04:00School's out ...for Summer?Last night the Governor of Massachusetts cancelled all school until May 4th. <br />
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He did this on March 25th. <br />
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That is about 6 weeks of no school. My youngest son is a Junior in high school. He spends 1/2 his morning sleeping and the other part of the day on the computer fighting with his friends on some game. I've tried asking him about school work. I even helped him with some but they just aren't giving a lot. I've been working, pretty regularly during the day and also I've got a list of things I need or want to get done. I'm not having all this time at home and then find I squandered it and didn't clean the cabinet or get rid of the boxes in the corner. We only moved into the house about 2 years ago, boxes in the corner of the dining room is still acceptable, right??<br />
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Anyhow, I've never home-schooled and I don't really want to start now. Selfish, maybe. BUT, he's super smart and I believe he already knows the path he's going to take. I believe he'll be following his brother. He already had the interview via Facetime this past Monday.<br />
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I decided to start the sour dough starter. After writing about it, I realized it was the smart thing to do. And I had the flour out making brownies. I've made some type of sweet dessert nearly every night. Something little and something that will just put a smile on your face. Last night was my brownie recipe:<br />
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Mix together in one bowl the following:<br />
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1 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup flour<br />
1/3 cup cocoa powder<br />
1/4 tsp salt<br />
1/4 tsp baking powder<br />
2 eggs<br />
1/2 cup oil<br />
2 tsp vanilla.<br />
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Heat oven to 350. In a smallish pan, I spray it with Pam or some other type of non stick spray. <br />
<br />In the bowl, I mix with a wisk until combined. Don't overmix. I use a scraper to pour into pan and then I bake for 25 minutes. No more, no less. Depending on the size of your pan (again, smallish), you'll have perfectly fudgy brownies.<br />
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This is my homemade recipe. I found a few online and this one just really stuck. I like that you can dump everything into one bowl, stir and bake. No mixer, no fuss, just easy. And delicious. We have probably one brownie left for each of us. They are delicious.<br />
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Tonight I'm going to use up the oranges I have in the house. They are pre-Covid so they are old. I do not want to throw anything away right now so I will use them for baking and what ever is left will be juice for the morning.<br />
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All these sweets have me on a edge. Baking is my joy. I love it. I know my family loves it BUT it's terrrible for the thighs. And since my job is mostly sitting all day, my butt isn't looking as toned as it could be. I mentioned I was a bariatric patient. Sleeved almost 3 years ago. Actually it will be 3 years in 10 days. It was the best decision I ever made. And even now, while I never made it to my goal weight, I'm able to maintain and keep something I feel is reasonable. BUT I have to work a little at it. <br />
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Mornings are for yoga. This morning I tried chair yoga. Why? <br />
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Why not. I'm stuck in my house. I do regular yoga every other day, why not try chair yoga? BUT I had to convince myself to do it. That it was worth trying. Those internal voices need to be locked away sometimes.<br />
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Then this afternoon, I walked in my yard for about an hour. I picked up sticks while walking. I let the dogs run. It is beautiful out and it really made me feel better. <br />
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I should be working.<br />
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But there isn't a lot coming in. And I really can't feel guilty for being healthy, especially now, right??<br />
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This is day 9 at home. We managed to find more seasoned wood in the yard, so I should be able to keep the wood stove going for another 2 weeks, if I have to. Yes, I have heat in the house. But if you've ever sat near a fire, you know the instant, comforting warmth. THAT is what I crave. Instant warmth from all the scary shit going on.<br />
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I heard from my oldest last night. He likes his job and I feel that is great. Our conversation was easy and normal and in this time, I love that. I love that he contacted me, out of the blue, just to have a conversation. I miss him.<br />
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Patrick just wrote to say he's made 36 hours so far this week. That is amazing. Considering they keep cutting, cutting, cutting. He really is my rock star. Not just because he used to be in a band and legit WAS a rock star but because he does whatever it takes to take care of us. I just love him so much. My fear is that this will take him from me. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-13620900945342615562020-03-25T14:22:00.002-04:002020-03-25T14:22:44.286-04:00Day 8 working from homeIt's 2020. A lot has changed since I started this blog. I left it and really, it took me almost a whole morning to figure out how to log in again. Emails changed, links changed, I've changed. I know I have a handful of people who 'follow' me on this. I have no idea if you are notified via email, blogger, Facebook or what. I'm not even sure how you would unsubscribe. Apparently I was subscribed to a bunch but either they don't update anymore or I use a different email address. So maybe they won't be bothered.<br />
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I'm not here to write about what happened in 2013 or 2015 or even really 2019, although that definitely will come into play if I continue. I'm here to write about what is going on now. For me. For me to remember. For me to stay sane.<br />
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Today, I'm working from home. Although I'm doing way more than that. I've been cleaning, disinfecting, organizing, making dinners, making desserts, making things from scratch. I've even thought about making sourdough starter from scratch. I'm kinda crafty like that. BUT I haven't.<br />
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Why?<br />
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Possibly hope that this isn't going to require me to make sourdough starter and then live off it. I'm not a big bread eater and neither is Bryce or Patrick, so we won't need a ton BUT bread isn't easy to find a the grocery store right now. And I have 3/4 a loaf of white bread, 8 hamburger rolls, one refrigerated package of crescent rolls, one of refrigerated biscuits and two refrigerated french bread. BUT, it takes 5 days to make sour dough starter. Am I being smart about this? Do I have enough? I'm sure I have more than some. I counted my toilet paper rolls last night. 21 rolls. We've already used 2 in the last week. So, if this continues, we will be out in about 10 weeks. That should definitely be enough. Hopefully.<br />
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I should back up so I remember. I'm not sure of the exact date but in early March, Covid-19 was starting to show up in the US and become noticed on the news and in our government. Now, I'm a bariatric patient(possibly more on that in another post) and I've done pretty well with it. I've been within about 10 lbs of my lowest weight but really what this is about is my vitamins. I take a ton, still. Almost 3 years out. 6 chew able Calciums, 2 chew able children's multivitamins, 3 chew able glucosamine, 2 chew able vitamin c, one Vitamin D and one Monday's a Vitamin B12. I just added some biotin and something else too but those aren't part of the program. So, I was out of my Calcium Chews and close to the end of my multivitamins and thought, hey I should go grab a couple. This thing in the world is ramping up and I need it anyway, I'll grab two just to be safe. So off I went to my local Walgreens.<br />
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They had none.<br />
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What? This isn't possible. This Corona thing isn't even here, no one's really worried that I've been near. Why are they out? I'll just try CVS. Off to CVS. <br />
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They had one tiny package of chew able multivitamins. I usually buy the package of 120, this had 30 in it. I bought it.<br />
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I called Patrick. Now I was in a panic, what is going on? Why can't I find these items? He suggested I head over to WalMart and look there. He went off to another CVS on his way home.<br />
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I bought all Walmart had. And before you judge, it really wasn't much. They were out of Vitamin C and LOADS of other vitamins. So I ended up only buying 3 packages of chew able multivitamins and 3 containers of calcium. Patrick found a few others on his way home. But the supply will only last me about 10 weeks. - Wait, that's how much toilet paper I have left.... oh no....<br />
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So once I realized about the vitamins, it freaked me out. Really. I won't lie. That got me really worried. Now that I remember, my hunt for vitamins was on a Wednesday. I told Patrick that on Friday, we were going food shopping. They had already started closing schools down and with Bryce home alone, he could either eat everything or nothing. We needed to make sure there was something in the house for him to eat.<br />
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People were already talking about the stores being low or completely out of toilet paper (I had bought one at Walgreens without even knowing this information) and we get a meal delivery service so we don't really have a lot of food in the house. Thanks to EveryPlate and HelloFresh for making my life easier, although I was asked to suspend that yesterday so I'm back to preparing like a whole bunch of other people... When Patrick got home on Friday, there was more talk but still nothing too crazy. People talking about going shopping, stocking up, needing hand sanitizer. We went to our local Shaw's and dropped $330 on groceries. And then on Saturday morning, Patrick was in line at Shaw's to buy two packages of toilet paper (cause they were out the night before).<br />
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When they called the schools off, my thoughts and feelings about this went haywire. I was safe, Bryce was safe, Patrick was safe but Caleb... Two thousand, five hundred miles away from me. <br />
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AND HE CANNOT COME HOME. <br />
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Having a child in the armed forces is bittersweet. So proud but worried about 99.2% of the time. When my thoughts came to Caleb, I remembered something he had said to me in January. "Mom, this virus... please be safe. Wash your hands. Tell Dad. Tell Bryce. Stay clean." In January, I said thank you and moved on to something else. I didn't give it another thought, until sometime in March when his words came flooding back. He's not really in a position to 'know' something but did he? Was it intuition? Something they told him? I don't want to know. <br />
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Work. Thankfully we are cloud based for about 90% of the business. Well that's my guess-timate. I don't really know. But my percentage of what I have to do can be done online for about 90%. My co-worker, the Office Manager, still goes in. She's doing the 10% I can't do, plus her stuff. BUT I'm working. I'm doing the best to pull whatever weight I can from here. And, I'm cleaning. You know, all the stuff everyone else is doing here right now. They gave us the option on March 16th if we wanted to work from home, we could. I chose working from home. <br />
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After a LOT Of internal debate. I didn't make the final decision until about 1/2 hour before leaving.<br />
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While my anxiety about this was high, I'm a worker. I LOVE being busy. I have two jobs plus I volunteer for my local Boy Scout Troop, I'm taking online Real Estate Agent classes and I've got a great group of friends. I stay busy. In early March, I can remember telling someone that my first day off was going to be April 5th. But I wasn't complaining. I'm a worker. Actually what I really love to do, is teach crafting. And my second job at the Nailed it Studio really helps me with that. I can work 8 hours at the Monday-Friday job and go home miserable (it's just not what I really want to do) and then I can go on a Friday night, after working the M-F, and head to the studio to teach and it flies by. I LOVE it. But, it just doesn't pay the bills. So I do it for my own sanity. That job.... well, I'm hoping it will be there when this is over. So when I say, I had some internal debate. I did. I want to work. I'm not a I'll-stay-home-and-watch-tv type of person. Although, I am loving this working from home thing. I think it's the freedom. I'm going to have to explore this some more....<br />
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I've been out of the house 2 times since staying home from work. Once we went to Crochetti's, a local butcher, for some chicken and steak tips. And the other time to meet someone in the parking lot because I found about 100 yards of elastic string. They've been looking for elastic for safety masks and I had some. Not exactly what they were looking for but someone said they could work with it. So I bundled that up, the fabric I had and any 1/4-3/8" ribbon in the old store stash and met this Scout mom to pass off the supplies. I know they will go to a good use. <br />
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It's the best I can do right now. <br />
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Keep my son home and schooled (I didn't even mention having to learn logarithms to help him with his pre-cal homework). Keep my work up and do what I can there. Keep my house cleaned and my family fed. Patrick is considered essential, so he's at work. But they are changing that too. This is going to be a huge financial burden on us soon if things keep up. He's a flat rate auto technician. And if people aren't leaving and don't need work on their cars, he won't have any work to come into the shop to do. If he doesn't work on a car, he gets paid absolutely nothing. Flat rate means, he gets paid on the work he does. If an oil change charges 1 hour to do and he can do it in 30 minutes, he still gets paid the 1 hour BUT if a tie rod end charges 3 hours to do it and it takes him 5, he worked 2 hours for free. Regardless, if no cars come in, he makes nothing. He's not paid hourly. So this could change everything about our life as we know it. Oh, and the shop is now only open until 1. So, he's walking in now and it's 2:16, about 3 to 3.5 hours early.<br />
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I guess I should help him disinfect. It appears he's taken a customers car home. Who knows what they have.... these are the times.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-25479356149861414432012-03-19T19:26:00.002-04:002012-03-19T19:26:21.752-04:00Long forgotten...My poor little blog. Lost in lala land. Never to be seen or heard from again... Unfortunately I haven't had the time to devote to my little blog. I do semi-regularly participate in the Class Schedule blog. You can find more information about my classes at <a href="http://www.kdcraftyconcepts.blogspot.com/">www.kdcraftyconcepts.blogspot.com</a> <br />
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I'll have some catalogs available if you feel like you need some supplies and I do have a small store for you to peruse as well.<br />
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I'd love to see you! Be sure to stop on by and say Hi!<br />
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284 Beulah St<br />
Whitman, MAUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-81062321416776015542011-10-19T14:19:00.001-04:002011-10-19T14:20:59.949-04:00eBay...Has anyone out there ever eBayed before? It's hard work, huh! <br />
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I've got several items that I've been meaning to get rid of for months and with the restructuring of my craft room and the children's room I just need to make space. Never mind not having a regular paying job this last month as well. I've given away a bunch of stuff, thrown away broken things and donated a majority if books and clothing but there is some craft type supplies I decided would be best suited to eBay. I even have a few things I might put up on Etsy but that's a different adventure, I'm sure. <br />
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So I listed some basket weaving items and some stamping items up on eBay. First, let me say.... It takes about 15 minutes to list each item. That doesn't count answering questions, packaging and mailing. <br />
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Then the fees involved are huge! 9% from eBay and the another 2.9%+.10 for Paypal. eBay even takes fee from your shipping. So I already know I'm going to have to cut into any profits just to pay the shipping to get these items to their new home. Ugh! <br />
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Really, I'm wondering if it would have been easier to give the stuff away. Or throw it away. I don't want to - goodness knows I never get anything for free and I don't want to pollute the world anymore than it already is. But if I end up paying someone to take the stuff off my hands, what good is that to me either? <br />
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If you are interested in any of my eBay items, you can look up my eBay name at zinfodel. Or try clicking here to get to one of my current auctions:<br />
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Lot Of Close To My Heart Ink Pads<br />
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My only hope now is that something goes for big money. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-26713783228355958242011-10-15T22:00:00.001-04:002011-10-15T22:02:05.058-04:00Copic class in NovemberI'm working on my November 10th Copic class. We will be working on reds and some faces. Here's a sneak peek of the techniques we'll be working on in class. <br />
Don't worry, it will be a card. This one was just colored. Whether you are a beginner or a regular Copic user, this class is for you! <br />
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I've got a class calendar, guest book and even a newsletter sign up page!!<br />
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I've decided to create a more professional looking newsletter and have signed up for a marketing service. If you would like to know what classes I'll be teaching, where I'll be teaching them and more, please go to <a href="http://www.kimparkinson.com/Newsletter_Sign_up.html">http://www.kimparkinson.com/Newsletter_Sign_up.html</a> and fill out the blanks. Even if you are a friend, this will be the place I send out all the information you need to know about classes.<br />
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On Tuesday, I'll manually add some of you who had asked to sign up to know more about Donna Maligno's and my classes while at the Cupboard. - And YES!, I'll up date the newsletter to include Donna's classes as well!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-84987475267815413952011-09-30T19:11:00.001-04:002011-09-30T19:12:26.293-04:00ProgressingI'm progressing on my studio. I've got a lot of stuff in the eBay pile and some things in the living room still but I'm making progress. <br />
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You should be able to see the improved site tomorrow. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-18129740573145658022011-09-27T05:07:00.000-04:002011-09-27T05:07:55.425-04:00All About Halloween class starts today!I have teamed up with Bethany Kartchner and Jennifer Priest and we are bringing you some fantastic projects in a brand new class called <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=442">All About Halloween</a>!<br />
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Anyone can take this class, it's online at <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/">My Creative Classroom</a>. Class starts today but you can work at it at your own pace. We'll take sign ups through October 7th. Here's a little about the class:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Trick or Treat! Do you love spooky ghosts? Goody bags filled with candy corn? Funny spiders and spectacularly scary mini-albums and layouts? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">If so, <i>All About Halloween</i> is for you! In this jam-packed course, taught by three amazing teachers: Kim Parkinson, Bethany Kartchner and Jennifer Priest, we'll be creating everything you need this spooky season from cute Halloween cards and goody bags to whimsical home decor to fun layouts and mini-albums to document all the precious memories. If you need inspiration this season, look no further. You are in for an entire bag of treats! No tricks!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week One with Kim Parkinson: </strong>Fabulous gift bags and cards using alcohol inks, distress inks and embossed metal. We'll explore ways to highlight certain areas of a design using watercolor effects with UTEE.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week Two with</strong> <strong>Kim Parkinson:</strong> Create a spooky coffin mini book made from cardstock. It even has an easy stitched pamphlet inside! We'll discuss embossing on metal or pliable aluminum. If you do not have access to embossable metals, no worries! Kim will give suggestions on using other household items for embossing.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week Three with</strong> <strong>Bethany Kartchner: </strong>BOO! This week is all about spooky ghosts. You'll meet Zeke, Spooky and a whole gaggle of adorable ghosties. We'll create not just one, but three different home decor projects based on these transparent haunts using Creative Paperclay and supplies found at your local craft store. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week Four with</strong> <strong>Bethany Kartchner: </strong>Silly spiders are all the rage as we further explore sculpting with Creative Paperclay. Four unique projects involving our eight-legged friends are on the docket including a Halloween wreath with a spider named Jimmy, napkin holders and Miss Samantha, the most fashionable spider in the whole arachnid kingdom. Eeek!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week Five with</strong> <strong>Jennifer Priest</strong>: We'll explore innovative ways to create spooky effects on three unique scrapbook pages using googly eyes, paint, ink, and more. We'll also experiment with color and quirky embellishments for a mix of "scary" pages and whimsical, child-focused pages. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">· <strong>Week Six with Jennifer Priest:</strong> Memory preserving continues as Jennifer shares several versions of mini-albums to lock up all of your spooky memories using leftover decorations to create up-cycled embellishments. To top it all off, we'll create custom "spooky" woven ribbon binding using the Bind It All machine. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you are a new scrapbooker or crafter, don't worry! We will be covering all the basics along with more advanced techniques in video demonstrations, narrated presentations, downloadable pdf tutorials, forums and a student gallery. If you aren't sure about how you'll view course materials, please read our <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=20198" target="_blank"><span style="color: #7d6d5f;">FAQs</span></a>.</div><br />
The first lesson will open in a few hours. Here is a close up of the cards and gift bags we'll be making: <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is before I even touched my room. You can see, there's stuff everywhere. I know the photo is tight but it gives you a general idea of what I'm working with.</div><br />
After some clean up yesterday, it was looking clean but still like I had a ton of work to do...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I took to top off of it, and repurposed the cabinet part. Now the cabinet is in my kitchen where a bakers rack used to be. The baker's rack was nice but it always left everything out in the open, for all to see. Now everything is neatly contained in the cabinet. All I need now is a small shelf above it to hang some utensils.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Nice and clean looking! A white-wash of paint and it'll work out beautifully! <br />
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So, here it is... the Art Bar has made it to the house. <br />
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Now to sort and clean and get all the stuff around the room, into the bar... I'm in for a busy week...<br />
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First, let me say that I STILL have a job with <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/">My Creative Classroom</a>. Not only do I teach classes online there but I'm also their Marketing person. It's a great place to learn and a great place to work (even better since I do it all from my <em>home</em>!!) <br />
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But as far as in person teaching goes...<br />
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I'm on my own. Basically. The Scrapbook Cupboard will be closing it's doors forever on September 30th (if not before). I've already taught my last class there. I've been with Bev and the Scrapbook Cupboard for 7 years. It's like loosing a ton of friends all at once. I know that many will follow me and many will keep in touch but it's not the same as seeing them at the Cupboard. This is a sad chapter for me, like missing a piece of me. <br />
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I started at the Cupboard teaching a Circle Journal class. That didn't actually run for a few years after it was introduced. My running class was a sketch series that we called "Map it Out". I had three 'regular' students. Melissa, Stacy and Susan. They stuck with me for maybe a year or so. In that year, I tried other classes but not many ran or if they did, they had small attendance. That was when the Scrapbook Cupboard was all about Scrapbooking. <br />
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About 2 years after I started, we started to move into mixed media, stamping, cardmaking and other paper crafts. That's where I really fell in love. I liked scrapbooking but I LOVED getting dirty with paints, inks and all those other goodies. From then on, I went on to aquire my certifications. Ranger's Inks, Silhouette, Ten Seconds Studio, Copic 1, Copic Intermediate and even some silly ones like the Tombow one I got at CHA this past Summer. (it wasn't really a certification as it was a class on it). Why so many certifications? To better myself so I could teach my students new ways to use their supplies. And I love teaching. I really do. I think I've got a natural ability to help others and I'm creative enough to come up with a project I'm confident enough to teach. All important traits to being a better teacher. <br />
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I've even been on some design teams, like Kandi and Dreamweaver. Both of which, I'm sad to say, I didn't put in as much as I should have. Designing for the sake of designing isn't for me. I design with ONE goal in mind... to teach it. And really, I've always had the store and it's stuff to deal with.<br />
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So, you might be thinking, "What about another store?" I have decided NOT to tie myself to any one store. I was going to. I was all set to start moving my classes over to one store but (thankfully) I found out that wasn't going to work. And now, this frees me up to be able to work in other stores and venues. I've already got some of that in the works!<br />
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For now, I've made arrangements for my ATC club to meet at a local community center. These will occur once a month and we'll enjoy each other's company and create some beautiful art to share. <br />
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As for some of my other classes, well... I bought a large bar-like table that I can teach off of right here at my house. I'll continue some of my classes here and use the community center for the larger classes. I started my own website... <a href="http://www.kimparkinson.com/">www.kimparkinson.com</a> that I'm going to showcase class dates, times, prices and photos. You'll be able to view the class, chose one and pay for it all online when it's finally implemented. Very cool and very easy! I'll be working on that within the next week and hope to have it all up and ready soon with classes started after October 16th.<br />
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I need to be better with my blog now, so you can expect more frequent updates. At least several times a week. I'm ready for the challenge and I hope you are all ready for me too!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-37192778765584425542011-05-26T14:38:00.000-04:002011-05-26T14:38:47.144-04:00Back from vacation!Last week at this time, I was here:<br />
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Thoroughly enjoying my first family vacation out of New England. Evidently while I was away, Boston needed umbrellas the entire week.<br />
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So for Dreamweaver's blog post, since Lynell did some umbrella's, I thought I would show you some too...<br />
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Once I woke from my stupor and felt better, I knew I needed to get into high gear! My online <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/view.php?id=405">Advanced Stenciling class with My Creative Classroom</a> opens next Monday! Yikes! I had barely started creating any of the videos, PDF handouts or Presentations!<br />
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I set myself to task this week and just a few moments ago finished up the last presentation for the third week of class. I'm what you might call a last-minute-Nelly and sometimes, I'm putting the finishing touches on these things the night before the class opens. But! I have made an improvement. The first week of class isn't until next Monday and all is completed! Now to wait until Monday! Here are a few screen shots from my class...<br />
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This Sunday is Easter and today is Sketch Thursday over at the Dreamweaver design team. So, I thought I'd combine the two.<br />
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Here's the sketch for the month, created by Lee...<br />
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The 'Spring Spheres' (Easter Eggs!) are pasted in black, then pasted over with the crackle paste. I then placed the stencil back on top of the design and colored it with some inks. The eggs were kinda stark white, so I colored them with some Apricot Papersoft and then used a little bit of embossing powder over all of it to give it a slightly glossy look (like and egg!). Cut everything out and mount on your card background!<br />
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A couple of friends asked about the double flocked bunny. I covered most of the bunny in white and then once dry, added glue and brown flock in just the area I wanted the stripe. A small amount of brown is on other areas of the bunny but if you allow the white to dry fully and you don't get glue anywhere else, you should do a pretty good job of coloring the bunny two toned.<br />
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Have fun with your stencils and have a Happy Easter!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-87354744267764480162011-04-07T12:54:00.000-04:002011-04-07T12:54:31.439-04:00To my husband...On Tuesday, April 5, Patrick and I celebrated our 14 year wedding anniversary! I'm so happy to be married to this man. He's my best friend, my love and my everything. We are extremely fortunate and have a beautiful home, two great boys and each other. We've worked through some bad times but mostly we have a lot of good times! Whether raking the yard or watching a movie, pinching pennies or living it up, living through sickness or living healthfully, we have worked through it and each year we get closer.<br />
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Today, this card goes out to my loving husband.... Thank you! For everything!<br />
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If you've ever thought about making your our journals, check out my class at <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/view.php?id=249">My Creative Classroom.</a> Enrollment continues through April 8th and class is only $20!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/Scrapwithme/f1de674b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/Scrapwithme/f1de674b.jpg" /></a></div>That's the trio tulip stencil number LL 444 in the middle. I first placed down the stencil and used some inks to color in the areas. I did have to use the picasso a bit at the top near the actual flower part. Then I took off my stencil, cleaned it and replaced it exactly back where it was. I then used Dreamweaver's Translucent paste over the image and let it dry. While it was drying, I dug out some Springy butterfly and pink paper, orange ink and orange stickles and created the card. It does open in the middle with the tulips and then inside says, "Happy Spring!"<br />
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Once the Tulips were dry, I sponged on some blue and green coloring so that it appeared they were grounded and adhered it to the card. For some added effect, I also used some of the blue and green on the pink cardstock as well. <br />
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This stencil works perfectly for this type of card but it also is the perfect stencil to use for a nice, bright Spring-time card! And for us here in Boston, who just got another dusting of snow today.... I'm yearning for my tulips to make their appearance in my yard!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-85210871015849883072011-03-22T16:19:00.000-04:002011-03-22T16:19:19.129-04:00Wanna play?This Thursday is sketch Thursday with the Dreamweaver Dream Team. If you are interested in playing along... here's the sketch we will be using....<br />
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If you wanna play and have a blog, you'll be able to put a link to your blog on the Dreamweaver Blog too!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-92032856810115769442011-03-17T01:13:00.000-04:002011-03-17T01:13:19.349-04:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day!Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all! Whether you've got a lot of Irish in you or none at all, it's still a day to celebrate with a pint of Guinness and to wear some green!<br />
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My family (on both sides) comes from New England, generations back we've been here. One side was here when the Mayflower arrived and the other arrived on the Mayflower, with other branches sprinkled in as well. I have a miniscule amount of Irish in me. So little in fact it amounts to... well, actually, none. Yes, for a girl born and bred South of Boston, the chance that we have little to no Irish is amazing, considering the Irish population around here. Even my husband has little Irish in him. <br />
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His <em>NAME</em> is Patrick! And I count on him to rid my little island (my 1/3 acre of land) of all the garter snakes he (or I) can find! Couple that with the fact that March 17th is his 1/2 birthday, well.... I guess we'll celebrate!!! YAH!!<br />
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This week the Dreamweaver Design Team has a free week. No theme, no colors, no sketch, just do what we will and what we want! So, of course, I chose.... Some Saint Patty's day cheer!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I used several stencils for this design. First the background is done with the new large plaid making stencil. One way, it's colored in gold ink and the other is in green ink. I also did a little bit of gold Dreamweaver paste and then a little bit of the green Dreamweaver paste for the center portion of the plaid design. **NOTE: The colors in real life look very similar. The colors in this picture look way off. Sorry.** This technique takes some time to do as you need the first layer (in my case, gold) to dry completely before you can turn your stencil and paste the other side (green). Today wasn't a great day for that as it's been raining all day. But once I turned on the stove for dinner, I placed the large pasted piece on the stove and it dried before dinner was done! (I did NOT put this on the burner!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left">While that was drying; I used the stencil LL381, a celtic knot with the Green Dreamweaver Paste. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Oh, and a little note about the paste. When you open the jar... it looks like a light green color. This is not the final color. Once dried, it deepens in shade and ends up being quite a different color then you see in the jar. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Before the paste was dry completely on the celtic knot, I sprinkled just a little bit of clear glitter on to the drying paste. It's stuck in there now and adds a nice sparkle to the card. I used the Gold Dreamweaver Paste on the Celtic Heart knot, LM178 and let that dry. Using some scissors and an exacto knife to cut out the open areas I then adhered it onto the celtic knot. Pop that up entirely, add a little typed sentiment of "Happy Saint Patrick's Day!" and I'm good to go!</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">I hope you enjoy and I hope you enjoy something green today!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-89687017160827225962011-03-10T11:45:00.000-05:002011-03-10T11:45:36.276-05:0015 minute card...Today's Blog Challenge with Dreamweaver is a color challenge! Actually, it's my colors that are chosen today. I chose the colors Brown, Cream and Blue. <br />
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I have a usual routine every week but this week, I'm all outta sorts. I had been away for the weekend and hubby usually has Thursday's off and this week he doesn't so when I woke this AM, I thought it was Wednesday. Oops. So, I thought... well, I'll make this a bigger challenge for myself. I'll make a card using my colors in just 15 minutes. I grabbed some cream cardstock, some blue cardstock, and some brown with blue patterned cardstock. I grabbed my stencils and looked. My lightbox is on my table since I'm using it for some other projects and I went to work looking for a design I could complete in only 15 minutes.<br />
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An easy card, finished in 15 minutes and now, let's hope I can remember it's Thursday!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784667185239591729.post-340190978766685872011-03-05T00:22:00.000-05:002011-03-05T00:22:46.424-05:00Happy National Craft Month!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmOOYY7BwUg8EJVGac6JTZLGFEhabklhSLLsuRO0hNZECCcU1ck4fgeiy_TH8TD-wt4ZKq6GjySS-8k7568gY5YC2PGiV-fkZe6Ph5MeZCCT3m8eayEoMyp-FnNZgWp8ZdN04UTpJNF1O/s1600/National+Craft+Month.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="106" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmOOYY7BwUg8EJVGac6JTZLGFEhabklhSLLsuRO0hNZECCcU1ck4fgeiy_TH8TD-wt4ZKq6GjySS-8k7568gY5YC2PGiV-fkZe6Ph5MeZCCT3m8eayEoMyp-FnNZgWp8ZdN04UTpJNF1O/s320/National+Craft+Month.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
March is National Craft Month! And we are celebrating over at <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/">My Creative Classroom</a>! Interested in taking a class this Spring? Well, now's a great time to sign up and take any class at My Creative Classroom. Sign up for a class and receive one class free (you can choose from 4 different classes)! WOW! Here's a sampling of the different FREE classes offered....<br />
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Would you like to know more information? <br />
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<strong>The Basics of the Program:</strong><br />
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Here is how the program will work. <br />
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•Purchase 1-3 classes in March and you get a one free seat. You get to choose the class from a list of 4 possible classes.<br />
•Purchase 4-6 classes in March and you get two free seats. You get to choose the classes from a list of 4 possible classes.<br />
•Purchase 7-9 classes in March and you get three free seats. You get to choose the classes from a list of 4 possible classes.<br />
•Purchase 10+ classes in March and we will automatically enroll you into all four classes.<br />
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More details can be found here. <a href="http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=16986"> MCC</a><br />
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I hope to see you in the classroom!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0