"The Jule Box": March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Muslin "Thank You" Card!

Hello!!

I made my first full fabric card! I love this..and I've always wanted to make something with fabric! Muslin is my favorite fabric to play with , I use it a lot!!

I will do a tutorial on a later date when I'm a lot more comfortable! For now, here are some pics and the video to follow! I explain in the video what I did so I won't write everything down.

You can find Angie on Youtube here. I know she'll do more swaps in the future, so if your interested, hang out and check in!! Thanks Angie!

Happy Birthday Tiana!

Hey guys!

Our 1 day trip to Portland!! We went to the Clackamas Town Center! I love this place...it's not huge...but you must understand that I live in a town where there is one little mom 'n' pop market....and no movie theater!!! yeah...I'm serious. I live in the boon docks on the flat planes of Oregon...and yeah again...Oregon...."Green Country"!! Only on the west coast and mountains :( But...I have my family and that's the best!!

So off we went, looking at Mt. Hood capped with snow!

This was a 2 1/2 hour drive away to go to the mall!!! Crazy huh? Now Tiana has never been through this area...so I was excited for her to see some sights that have been so part of my and my own family's life...my biological kids and have seen many times, but I love that T took her cell phone camera and was taking pics herself of places...of memorable places that Manny and I wanted her to remember, creating new memories with her new family!! :)

Multnomah Falls! One of the most beautiful Falls I have ever seen!

This is kinda far away, but still beautiful! We will go back with T to have dinner at the lodge there....this was a drive by pic taking!! hehe I will share better pics later on another trip with T and the fam!

So we get to the Town Center and shopped! One place I was so happy we can take her to and where she'd never been and wanted to go to was "Build A Bear"! She made her first and maybe only bear and dressed it!! So cute!!

Now....gonna pic out clothes!!

Anna had a fashion revelation when she picked out her clothes this morning!! The "Build a Bear" shop had it ready for picking out...and guess who dressed up like Anna?

Yeah, the bear!!! Anna was so proud....you can't see her pants but they were a very dark blue like the bears!

Now, his birth certificate!

We walked a little more, shopped and went to have dinner because it was time to get home.....Dad has to go to work tomorrow and they have school to. We stopped at a fav restaurant called "Cousins" Some of the best southern food that I know of. They sang to Tiana and she had some cake!! lol

I think Tiana was starting to fall asleep with you know you!!

It was a great day...of course this was a teeny piece of it, but I wanted to share!

I did a video of a card I made for Tiana, but didn't have time to post pics on my blog, so here it is!

Here is the video:

Thank you God for my family! I ask for strength and guidance for Manny and me, so we would always do the right thing for our family...the family you gave us!

Jules

Monday, March 28, 2011

I'll be gone!

Hey everyone!

Ok, so I totally forgot to post this earlier...I'm sure that maybe "Feedburner" will kick this post to emails later than I want. But here it goes anyways....

So one of my girls is celebrating her 16th on Monday!!! Yay Tiana!! I'm snatching her away from school and I'm gonna take her shopping, and the best part.....Dad took the day off and Anna gets to come, so we're gonna make a day of it!!!

She hasn't a clue...I don't think so anyways:) hehe.. I always wanted to be absent from school on my Birthday when I was younger! Never was allowed too, so..I do for my kids what I wish I had, don't we do that anyways! lol.. I'm excited and I can't wait...

I have been trying to make her a card for days....and nothing!! argh!! it's 3:39am Monday and we gotta get up at 6 to shower and be gone by 7! .....and now.... I finally have a card :/ wow...it took forever....why? I'll share later...and pics of our outing!!

Wish us safe travels, we're driving a few hours away!

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Ok, going to bed, then gonna go out with the fam in a few hours and I will c-ya when I get back!!

Have a great Monday everyone and God Bless!!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Colorful Posey Ball and Card using great products!

Hey all!

I made another posey ball that is so festive and colorful!! I made this for a friend of mine, Aliscia, (click here to get to her YouTube channel she makes the most beautiful mini's) to match her scrap room!!! It's a beautiful Blueberry and Lime color! SO I went and got the same blue and green colored kool-aid!!! yeah, kool aid! I love this ball! I made it the same way as mine just that I only used sugarless kool-aid, you know what, it smells good! lol...! I didn't make hers as full because I would almost triple the filters...this one looks like the one in the magazine I found this beautiful ball at!! (I showed it on the video)

I made a vintage style Posey a while back and I totally forgot to share it on my blog...shame on me! So, I will be posting picks here on this post today!

I also made a card using some great products using Graphic 45, Tim Holtz, and one of my favorite stamps by Crafty Secrets!!! Love it! Aaand, I used for the first time some mulberry flowers that I purchased from "Wild Orchid Crafts" I have purchased another order already because I love these!! You can find some great flowers and a whollotta other very yummy goodies at their website here! Please visit them, they are in the UK, but they ship out here and they are faster than many! Cool!

Please leave a comment on this post and tell me what you think! Have a great weekend guys!!

Here is mine I did a few months ago with tea and a mix of tea and red food coloring! You can watch the video of the 1st part below!

Notice the staining on the edges of the filters in the pic below!

Here is the card I made!

I love this card! I have mentioned before that I'm not a card maker....but I think I feel comfortable enough now...finally, to say that I am!

Thanks for all the encouragement you have given me through my bloggie life! I want you guys to know that I do read all the comments you leave...sometimes I can't reply back, but I sure really appreciate that you stop by, read my blog, look at pics and hopefully are inspired to make something too!!

Luv ya "xoxo"

...oh, I almost forgot....here is the video tutorial on that posey ball! Click on the Youtube logo on the video to get to my channel and see the 2nd part:)

Friday, March 18, 2011

Charm sets and button sale!!

Hello everyone!

I wanted to share a bunch of charms that I put together and some buttons!
The charms come as is, with the exception that some of the charms vary in "metal" (see video) but are already pre-made in the sets you see in the pics below. Thank you!

*You may notice some sets are not listed...it means they've sold out and so they were removed from this post.*

"A cup of Spring"

"Princess Ballerina"

"Mommy To Be"

"Floral Pendants"

Antique Bronze

Antiqued Silver

Original Silver

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"Buttons"

(Ribbon floral, metal)

(Vintage style Gold, hard plastic)

(Frost base with antiqued gold center, each set varies in sizes)

("Napoleon III", antiqued silver metal)

Beautiful Gold Brooch, with Black Pearl center and Black Pearl drop!!

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