New Pink Persimmon stamps + giveaway!

Check out the new vintage stamps by Pink Persimmon - Antiquated Collection. Plus they're having a draw for some of these new sets! Draw ends Monday, November 21st at 5pm Pacific Time, so be sure to visit their blog and leave a comment! Here's one of my favourites:

November Crafty Wishlist!

Guess what? I bought a house! Yay!!! This means I can make it my own, decorate it with all these ideas I've had in my head and, naturally, plan out a crafty space! I'll share some pics of my work in progress over the next few months.

This also means I have to be more careful with my crafty $$. This month I'm planning to visit friends in the US, so I'm hoping to place some orders with PaperTrey Ink and A Muse Studio. And maybe 2Peas, also. Hmm. PLUS, I want to get the new PWCO stamps! Eek! Seems like it's gonna add up and that I'll have to set priorities, which is a good thing. Oh, and did I mention I'll be going to Seattle - aka stamp heaven?! Uh oh...this isn't looking so good! LOL

I'll be editing this post later with my wishlist so I can trim it down.

*smooches*!

New PaperWorks Co stamps!

Paperworks Co has released new cute animal stamps and sentiments! Check out the PWCO blog for more details on the special new release deal, on until Mon Nov 7th!

Here's the Forest Critters Collection + Sentiments:


And the Barnyard Buddies + Sentiments!

Fellow blogger's blog candy!

Corinne's cleaning out her craft room and has a bunch of goodies she wants to giveaway! Take a look:
Rinne's Craft Room ReDo Blog Candy

Baking & Thrift-Store-Hunting

I made some min Guinness chocolate cupcakes for a St Paddy's day party. They were a hit! At one point my friend called me so that she could point out who had made these lil cupcakes and the girl shouted "Shut the front door! These are *fabulous*!" I was happy she enjoyed them so much and happy she didn't swear. ;-) So, my friend Tami has renamed these the "Shut the Front Door" cupcakes. Tami's sister owns a gorgeous women's boutique clothing store with fabulous pieces. She held an open house/sale recently and Tami asked if I could make those mini cupcakes and so I did!

I also made some mini blood orange cheesecakes, but they didn't turn out as the mini Oreo cheesecakes I've made before; I think the mini cupcake liners were too small and so there wasn't enough cheesecake filling in them.

Chocolate Stout Cake

Recipe source: Smitten Kitchen

Note: to make the mini cupcakes, I baked them for 15 mins.

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Blood Orange Mini Cheesecakes

Recipe source: Kraft

2 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

12-ish Nilla wafer cookies
juice & zest of 1 blood orange

Heat oven to 350°F.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until well blended.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each just until blended.
Place 1 cookie on the bottom of each of 12 paper-lined muffin cups.
Pour cream cheese mixture into each cup.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Cool & refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

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I went to my favourite thrift store today; I love trying to find interesting pieces to repurpose. I found 2 big, wooden pillars to hold candles I'd like to paint white. I'd love to make these music sheet pillar candles featured on Purple Onion Designs to then place on top of them. I also found some vintage hankies with interesting patterns and a tea cup & saucer with birds! The vintage hankies I want to use as a background on a scrapbook layout and I'm not sure what else. I *love* these hankie wedding invites by Bird & Banner. *swoon*! And I love tea & birdies so I was pleased to pick up these 2 pieces.


Thanks for stopping by!

German St Paddy's Day Bday

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's my square card that I made for the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz! The theme is St. Patrick's Day. I also followed PaperWorks Co's Sunday Sketch #73.


Now, my Father's bday is today, but he's German so I always have fun throwing in some Irish into his bday. I took the Celtic heart from WMS's Celtic Heritage set to create my lucky shamrock. :-) This was my first time 'playing' with Basic Grey's Marjolaine collection. The cute, central image is a stamp from PaperWork's Co's Rachelle Anne Miller's collection. The sentiment is computer-generated and tis Happy Birthday in German.



Now, hopefully you waltzed over from Jen Shears Designs' blog. And your next waltz is over to Create.Share.Inspire. Be sure to check out all the other waltzers taking part in the WMS Friends Blog Waltz! You'll need to register for the WMS forum in order to see the Waltz forum thread *here*.

Thanks for waltzing by!

::Supplies::

Stamps: A Surprise Cheer (PaperWorks Co with Rachelle Anne Miller), Celtic Heritage (WaltzingMouse Stamps)
Paper: Coffee Cake; double-sided paper (Marjolaine - Basic Grey), Simply Smooth white (Prism)
Ink: Landscape (Palette), Chocolate Chip (SU!), Copic markers (E00, 33, 47, 49, 71, G0000, 94, R0000, RV29, YG03)
Embellishments & tools: Petite Oval - Large die(Spellbinders Nestabilities S4-138), Green Agate glitter (Martha Stewart), sewing machine, pop dots, ribbon (stash)

Get Well Wishes

Hello!

Thanks for stopping by today. I made this card for my friend's grandmother who's in the hospital. I know she's on the mend, but I also know she's itching to get home and back to her routine. The sketch is from PaperWorks Co's Sunday Sketch #70.

I just got my box o' goodies from PWCO with the new A Day in the Life of Abigail C. stamps and some new Basic Grey collections, including Hopscotch which I used here. I paperpieced Abigail's clothes using Hopscotch papers.

Thanks for looking!

::Supplies::

Stamps: He Loves Me? (A Day in the Life of Abigail C. - PaperWorks Co)
Paper: Hopscotch Collection (Basic Grey), white & blue from stash
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU!), Copic markers
Embellishments & tools: Labels Seventeen (Spellbinders Nestabilities), popdots, lace (stash)