Princess Bubbles Creates

I think everyone knows that I like playing with the Kaleidoscope Kreator program.  This week I purchased the snowflake and filigree templates.  Above is a snowflake I created with a flower photograph.  The possibilities are endless with this program!  I plan to print this onto paper and adhere it to fabric.  I then plan to bead and stitch it. 

 We had a ton of candy left from our gingerbread houses for the auction.   So we decided to build another one at home.  This is the fruit of our efforts.  I should have taken a picture of the back because it is equally fantastic.    We had lots of fun and everyone is anxious to eat it! 

I count myself extremely blessed to be a creative person.  I get into a blissful state when I am creating.  Even better is when my creativity can be used to help or bless someone.  My husband and I work with a young adult group in our church.  We decided to build gingerbread houses and then auction them to raise money for a group of kids that are going on a mission trip to Mexico on the Christmas break.  The auction was held this morning and raised $215.00 The house that I helped build is the top picture.  I have to brag.  That house sold for $100.00  How cool is that! Everyone had a lot of fun the evening we spent building the houses.  I think it was a win win situation for all involved.

I've actually had this done for a while now.  I just didn't have time to post the picture because I spent so much time on my journal.  The top picture is a bit dark.  The close up shot is closer to the real colors.  I am looking forward to finishing December project and therefore completing the year.  I feel like I can say I have finally learned to finish things. I have joined the Bead Journal Project for 2011.  I am hoping to improve my beading skills.  Having a deadline each month gets me working. ps I forgot to say that I also incorporated the sword stitch in this piece.  I learned it from Sharon B at the Pintangle blog.  I love learning the new stitches!

I was at workshop with GRIPS on Saturday morning.  What a great way to spend a morning!  Too fun!  I learned a lot and found out I have a lot to learn!  I was not surprised.  Here are a couple of cool shot that I got.

Well, that's it.  I'm done with posting this journal.  Doing a journal from scratch is a lot of work but it is certainly worth it.  If I do it again I think I will start with a theme in mind.  

The fabric page on the left is quite dark.  I needed to really cover it with paint to hide the brown stripes that are in the fabric.  I cut a piece of woven garbage bag that we had painted.  It didn't take the paint all that well so it was pretty light in color.   I stitched some buttons on the edge of the right hand page.  This has been a really fun journal to create.