Weaving my way to Thank You!

Weaving Thank You!

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I have to tell you this story... Yesterday at the scrapbook club one of the girls, Fiona was doing a weaving with her pictures, one color and one black & white (same picture, different colors- get the picture???)

I thought that was so clever...she had a vision and was giving life to it, how awesome!

Anyways, somehow that stood on the back of my mind and today I was looking at a Longaberger magazine basket I have and what was that right in front of me??? Weaving...I thought to myself, this has to be a joke...everything was pushing me to weaving, first the Beduin weaving of my handcrafted goodies, then Fiona is doing this cool project with pictures and last but not least my Longaberger weaved basket...

OK I have to give it a try to weaving today...I thought.

I have to say that I was not taking weaving all that serious, so I just picked some random colors, pretty in pink and close to cocoa...and guess what??? Ended up being my today's card...its a lot of fun, I am sure I will be trying more colors and sizes, how cool is that??? You have to try it! Thank You Fiona for the inspiration!

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Recipe:

Stamp Sets: Short & Sweet and Doodle This

Paper: Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink

Ink: Close to Cocoa

Other: Square punch to make border, stamping dimensionals, grosgrain ribbon brown, buttons.

If you you like to see a demo of weaving I will put together some pics. Just let me know...Its fairly easy and so much fun, can't wait to try it with other colors.

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So here are the pictures of the handcrafted goodies from the Rabat ladies I was telling you about the other day... The red, green, black and white fabric its called Beduin and its traditional from this part of the World.

I know I said I was going to post it yesterday but end up forgetting, I think that was the weaving on the back of my mind that made me forget...ahahahah

So the little man on the 2nd, 4th, 7th and 8th squares are tea pot holders, I do not own a tea pot in Saudi so I put one in a water bottle to show better, 3rd and 5th squares are cell phone pouches, last square its glasses or pens pouches and 6th square is an Arab man. I also have got covers for little snack bowls made in the Beduin fabric, they are pretty cool, will post pic later.
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Where do stamps go when they retire?

After years of dedicated service, the following stamp sets from the Spring-Summer Collection 2008 are retiring. So, let's give them a big sendoff and wish them all the best as they begin a new chapter in their lives. But don't wait too long--they're only available through August 10, 2008, and then they're headed to warmer climes!

Retired List (Alphabetical)

Retired List (Numerical)

Its here again, I just can't believe it! I am excited to see what's coming next, aren't you?

Get your catalog, print the retire list and mark all of those stamp sets you can't let go. Let me know and we will talk about it! You know where to find me...

Have a wonderful evening!

Stampingly Me