So I’ve had this hankering for the past several weeks to SEW something.. something other than paper…. Poor Bernie (my Bernina Activa 240) has been staring at me from where she’s been sitting on the floor in my studio and I swear if she had puppy eyes, she’d have been using them… LOL! ANyway.. yesterday I was perusing the internet and came across a fun little project on the Fiskars website. Oooh La La! I found me a project.. and…
I just woke up from a Sunday afternoon nap and remembered I needed to post about the Where In The World photo guessing contest and a blog candy winner… Here’s the photo again: There were several guesses and you are all right.. it was taken in Yellowstone National Park and that is the Firehole River. This photo is looking back towards the Upper Geyser Basin (which is where you would find the Old Faithful area). If you turn to the…
I have been on a much needed vacation with my sweet husband in one of the most beautiful places on God’s great earth. We just returned home this evening and I couldn’t resist starting to edit pics. Can you guess where we went? Bonus points if you can tell me where EXACTLY this is in this great place we vacationed. 🙂 Leave me a comment and your guess and I will draw a name on Sunday for a fun little…
Hey friends! Just popping in to let you know that I have changed the way I do comments here at Inky Smiles. For the longest time I had the word verification… but if you’re like me, that’s really annoying and you don’t usually comment when you have to go through the extra steps of word verification. So I took that feature off Inky Smiles’ comment form. For a while it was ok, but then I was getting the ickiest comments…
Hi Friends! It’s been a busy few/several weeks here at the Inky Smiles house. We’ve been CANNING (tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers). ‘Nuff Said. LOL! However, I did find some time to spend in my studio and play around with some crafty things. My friend, Jeanne, had a birthday last week and I had this little gem ready and waiting to be sent to her for the longest time. I cut out butterflies from misc papers from my stash and placed them…
We’ve hit MONSOON season here in Utah. The weatherman has said we’d have “monsoonal moisture” the last couple of days and today… well, yesterday we had gale force winds and a doozy of a rainstorm and this afternoon we’ve had even more incredible gale force winds and one heck of a hail and rainstorm. This wasn’t just a downpour… it was an angry rain… it came down and pelted the flowers and plants in my garden and caused a great…
I ran across this quote today. I’ve been really thinking about “the important things” and what I focus my energy on and have been trying to redirect some of that limited energy on some very important things. “We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the ‘thick of thin things.’ In other words,…
Hey friends! I promise I have not totally dropped off the face of the planet… just been a little busy, both in life and craftiness. What I’ve been up to: 1) Getting the house ready today for out of town guests. I haven’t seen my friend, Elisabeth, since before I was married… at least 11 years. I also have not met her 4 children yet! So stoked! The house went to pot over the last month with everything going on…
Hey friends! A while back Heather from Skipping Stones Design gave the DT members the option to stay or leave when our term was up this summer. After mulling it over for several months and then having some things come up in my life I have decided that it is time for me to bid a fond farewell to the Skipping Stones Design Team. I have thoroughly enjoyed being on the team and have had a blast sharing new stamps…
Ahhh!!! I’m back! It’s been crazy.. I will post more details on Wed. I do realize that I missed drawing the winner of the Skipping Stones Set “Chic Martini” from this olllllllllld post. I truly apologize. It really has been hectic around here. So I used the random number generator to choose a winner out of the 19 comments and Random.org chose commenter #5 which is Lilian Child So, Miss Lilian, if you would kindly shoot me an email with…