Fabulous frame class with Riki Schumacher

My friend Charlene and I went to California to take a class with Riki Schumacher. It was a torch class and we made these cute frames. 

I love using a blow torch!

It was such a fun group! 

We all had a blast and had a great teacher. 

If you ever have a chance to take one of Riki's classes, just do it!

All of our almost finished frames!

Mine, or did you already guess that!!!

I'm not sure what Riki was doing but she was really concentrating!

Jan and Susan

Diana cleaning her frame before the final touches.

After a day of class we hit the Pasadena Flea Market, OMG! If you're ever in the area, you have to go. It was huge and the prices were great! There were two parking lots and three levels of the parking garage!! We saw maybe 20% of it!! And yes........I did find a few dolls, one even looks like Bette Davis in her "Baby Jane" role, kinda creepy even for me!

Then we went to downtown LA too look at everything! Joy was a wonderful guide, she took us everywhere! I bought more bling, and then some trim, and then a little more bling. 

No baby doll heads there. Rats!

CHAPTER TWO

So after going and blowing for several days I was pooped! So, when Joy, her husband Dale and Charlene wanted to go to dinner I decided to just have a snack and take a long hot soak in the tub. 

I took my dinner of crackers, cheese and grapes upstairs, had my snack and put the rest in the sink, safe from the two dogs.........I thought!

This is Joy's dog Duke, a GINORMOUS black lab. He is the sweetest dog ever. 

So I climbed in the tub and began to soak. 

Well Duke came up to visit, I left the bathroom door open. He sat and looked at me eye to eye, and them put his head in the bathtub and had a drink with me in it! Then his nose goes up in the air, sniffing, and you know what happened next.....he stood up on those long legs and ate what was left of my snack out of the sink! Well I'm in the bathtub and I didn't even have "Duke! No!", out of my mouth before he ate it all and part of the paper towel. Thank goodness her long haired weinie dog has short legs!

SO, I had a wonderful time in sunny California, staying with my sweet friend Joy and.......

Duke.

I can't wait to go back, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chester was pissed cause his dinner somewhere was cold,

He'd been waiting so long he was growing mold.

He made all the calls and planned way ahead,

He didn't want to cook, so he called it in instead.

But he should have known when a ferret answered the phone,

They're not known to be trusted when in charge all alone!

So when the time came for his turkey to arrive,

He opened the box and the turkey was alive!

"Well that just does it' he muttered and grumbled

I'll just sit here hungry and watch the Cowboys fumble!

But the turkey was so grateful he wasn't the meal,

He told ol' Chester he'd make him a deal.

"I'll pay for dinner and we can order Chinese",

Chester looked at the turkey and said,"do as you please."

So the moral of this story is that the meal doesn't have to be so planned,

It's the people you're with that makes it so grand. 

Helga was UGLY 364 days of the year

Helga was ugly 364 days of the year, 

But on the night of Halloween 

she became something to fear. 

No husband or Bo was safe on that night because 

Helga transformed into a beautiful sight.

Dark ebony hair and emerald green eyes, 

She could catch a man with the blink and a sigh.

The men would gather and she’d get all sappy,

”I don’t have a man to make me happy”.

They’d promise the moon and buy her riches,

 But that was not enough for this little witchy,

She’d take them to her house in the back of the woods, 

Promising them all, this night would be "good!"

She’d brew them a tea with strange looking leaves, 

Making them all drop to their knees.

By the morning light all the men, oh so bold, 

Were all now turned into stacks of gold.

So for the next 364 days of the very next year,

 Helga would take cruises and drink her malt beer thinking,

”Not a bad way to live, working one day a year”

So next Halloween keep an eye on your men, 

she’ll be out there somewhere to do it again!

Magnolia Pearl, down on the Farm Fall 2012

Thanks to the wonderfully talented Amy Boland, I have some beautiful photos of the Magnolia Pearl Booth! It was so crowded in there I could hardly move around!
So thank you Amy (xoxoxo) for letting me use your photos.

This was Robin Brown's new look this year.
Kind of a "farm life" look?

Robin and I. This is when the hug-fest started!

Kristi Day and I deciding what to buy!

John and I,

Sandy and I,

I wish I had gotten their names! They are sisters and they were the cutest things ever! They make their own beautiful purses and just had that flair about them!

I know I have been in this booth so much I have made friends with all of the girls, this is precious Terry!

And last but certainly not least, beautiful Krista.
Her smile is just contagious!

THE END

The Belt Buckle winner is.................

And the winner is...........Danielle of Blessed Serendipity!

I hope she enjoys her personalized belt buckle when I finish it. Danielle gets to choose what ever color or design she wants! Thank you all for joining my blog and for all your wonderful comments. 

I promise to do more blog posts!

I'm heading down to Round Top tomorrow morning so I'll report back with stories and tons of photos!!! 

I'll also be picking up a few things for Danielle's buckle, 

you can never have too much bling!

IT'S A BELT BUCKLE GIVE AWAY!

It's been a long time coming but it's time for another.......
BELT BUCKLE GIVEAWAY!
The Pink buckle above is one that I did for Breast Cancer Awareness Month two years ago. 
I can't believe that it's been that long!

This is a horrible photo but these are a few of the belt buckles that I saved for myself.
I sold so many to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame and at shows, that I finally decided it was time to keep a couple for me!
The two crazy buckles with the Miller Lite bottle caps were for Junk Gypsy Prom.
I made one for myself and one for the other two girls that were there with me.
The red one was for an AIDS benefit.
The silver and turquoise western one I wore to the 
Cowgirl Hall of Fame Luncheon,
the purple with the huge Horned Toad was for the 
Texas Christian University Rose Bowl Game. 
The buckle with the ballerina was for the 
Texas Shoot Out benefiting the Fort Worth Ballet,
the gold and green was a Bank event,
 and last but not least the pink one because I LOVE pink!

Some people buy new shoes or a new outfit for an event, 
I make a personalized belt buckle!
When you live in Cowtown you wear a lot of boots and jeans so you have to wear something that has some 
B-L-I-N-G!

I recently have had several requests to make belt buckles for brides! Yep you heard me right, brides! Apparently the "in thing" for brides is to go the 
Miranda Lambert 
way and have an outside wedding under the trees and a reception in a so called very fancy barn with neutral burlap colors, multiple chandeliers but with a relaxed atmosphere. The guests are expected to wear western or their version of. 
SO, if you win and you want a bridal belt buckle, you got it!!
How do you win?
Just leave me a comment and pretty please with sugar on top, join my blog and I will announce the winner on my birthday, September 29th!
Please add my button to your sidebar. :)

The heat melted my Mojo!

PicMonkey is so much fun! 
You can take any photo and play to your hearts content!
I seem to be doing everything BUT posting anything on my blog! What is the matter with me! I think I have the heat has melted my Mojo! 
So, for today, this will have to do!
 Thanks for stopping by!