FALL CLASSES posted

Fall classes have just been listed on my teaching site... 

www.purpledragonflystudio.blogspot.com    
Hope you will stop by and check out the new classes that I will be teaching...  cards, boxes, techniques galore... all kinds of FUN!!!! 

Love to see you there...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Happy Tuesday to y'all....  it was a pretty day here...  all day long... but I had a long list of  things I wanted to get done ... one had been on my list for a very long time... very very long time...  and that was to make curtains for our bedroom...  and I finally sat down and made them... I still have to make a few more adjustments but for all practical purposes.... they are DONE.... YEAH...  

So after that I decided to sit down and see what the Diva had up her sleeve for us today... and it was this...creating two tangles... knightsbridge and tipple... so even though I was dragging and still had to do dinner... I sat down and created this...

   Not a very detailed one.. but I was happy that I got it done...  I was so very tired...  but you see then I sat down in my lazy boy.... and it was all over... I fell sound asleep...  for over 3 hours...  my sweet hubby made his own dinner, and I slept thru it... he was pretty quiet I guess... and I was tired... I really pushed to get those curtains done...  

Anyway... so now I am walking all over the house... trying to make myself     TIRED!!!!!  I am getting there... so I thought I would blog this tangle... and it would be one less thing to do tomorrow.. since I will most likely be sleeping late... LOL... one thing really does effect the whole... doesn't it... 

I am going to make bread tomorrow anyway... and need a long time to do that... I found a great gluten free recipe but it does take a long time to rise, and then rise again... and then cook... at least an hour for each... so I will play while that is going on... but need to be here...  

So maybe you will see some more things...  but I am going to be making some general Never Ending cards... thanks to all of you have placed orders, I have to make more and more...  I just got my Christmas ones finished... and now need to make more every day colors... especially purple ones... seems like everyone this week needed purple...  a nice fall color...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.. and hope that you have a lovey day...  keep the creative flow going and make something everyday... 

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie  

Christmas Trees Galore

I have really tried to get on here prior to today... but have not been able to get a connection to do this... I am really having some serious trouble... and don't want to give up my computer...  but really getting at the end of the line.. . boo hoo...  this is not fair... it is all over greed on AT&T's corp ways...  they will not put in dsl or even decent phone lines down to our neighborhood...  there are about 10 of us waiting...  most of the other people have moved onto other methods, but our home sort of sits in a bowl... and between the trees and the land we are unable to get a good connection.,...  anyway... enough of that... I have been trying ...  

So I started to work on Christmas cards, Christmas CD's and all that  kind of thing...  so here are some cards that appear in the newest CD...  It is from Tea Bag Folding class #11...  but it is all about TREES... cute little Christmas trees!!!!  

 I used up some papers that I had bought last year...  or maybe it was the year before that???? LOL... you know how that is...  anyway.. I had fun making these cards...  

On the CD there is software to print you own tiles, all the directions... and you can always write to me... and ask 1000's of questions anyway...  

I also used some new die cuts from Tim Holtz collections...  and of course a spellbinder or two...  love it all... don't you???  

 I had to have a 'flying reindeer' across a card... I love these reindeers that just sort of float above it all..  

This tree is so very easy and so very effective on a card... and it will fold flat for mailing...  and puff up when opened...  I love the hedge row of trees in the background...  another new die...  I had to have it...  just a must for making Christmas cards... 

 Angels of the light...  so cute with a little tree as a memory of the season...  holly galore and of course the red berries...  


I also of course had ti dye my own ribbon to match my creations... love inky fingers... 

 Waiting for Santa always is a childhood memory...  can't wait until Santa gets here...  

I use to share a bedroom on Christmas eve with my little brother... and he had bunk beds... and he use to say he was going to sleep on the top bunk...  so  I would tell him, that was okay... as I could be the first out in the morning... and he would get upset... and then he would tell me I had to sleep on the top bunk... and I would say... that is okay... then I can hear Santa coming...  LOL.. he would end up sleeping on the floor out of fear that he would miss them both... 

Love Making these little trees and I hope that you will too... on the CD there are directions to make all three tree styles... and also a tile making soft ware program... and tons of tiles... and also a lot of clip art to use on these projects...and over 50 cards that I have made over the years using these trees...   all for only $25.00  a real bargain in todays' market...  so let me know if you desire one.. . I can send you a Pay Pal bill, or what ever your choice is...  I am certainly flexible... that is for sure...  

hope you have a wonderful day..  I am going to go make some more trees...  for more cards... to send to my friends, family and neighbors...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie  

Computers????

Well I did try and post last week... but I am not really sure what is going on.... I have two computers and they were both rather 
S  L  O   W 

I was totally unable to do much of anything except get my e-mail on SOME occasions... not all the time, as sometimes it wouldn't even connect...  so I stripped out my desk style computer and put it all on an external hard drive...  and it is now empty... weird feeling to say the least.... so when I got in this computer this morning... I was shocked to get the amazing connection of 32.8 kbps...  yipppppeeee.....  it has not even connected prior to this... so that was awesome... I know that most of you are in the 3 and 4 G.... and I am not even in the MBPS.... LOL... sad but true...  

But hey.. I try and keep up a little bit...  
So I made Never ending cards for the Fall season...  and then started making Christmas ones for sale too...  so I will have over 100 never ending cards to sell...  which will just about be good for me...  I most likely will make a few more... but hey... it's a start...  

I did tangle a little bit... and here is what I created...  
It was done with a red gelly roll pen...  and it is only about 3x 3.... not very big.. and on the back of my shopping list...  not good either...  as I will have to rewrite that ....  I will not loose a tangle..  

 Tangles to me should really be done in black... so this looks so very weird to me... but change is good...  the gelly roll pen did have a very fine point... so I was able to really work small...  actually tinier than normal....  

I did use the newest Tangle from Maria and Rick... I really love it... I did one last week too...  love this tangle...  really fun and very easy to create a lot of different feelings with it..  Thanks Maria and Rick for the new tangle... and Thanks Laura for using it for a challenge...  

Well upon checking the I am the DIVA challenge this morning... Low and behold... the challenge was to create and then to color it...  so I guess last Monday I was just a week early and didn't know it... 

So I sat down at some time today and tangled ... and then colored it after dinner...  

Here it is...  

 I had a lot of fun with this one... and I really love the way it turned out...I wanted to use a lot of color... and I did...  I also used a medium that I have not used that often... it is Gelato's.... and when you turn the page side ways  you can see the glittery effect that some of the colors have... LOVE IT...what neat little sticks of color.   I used most of the colors... and was pretty happy with that part of it too...  

Hope you had fun with this one... and I sure would LOVE to see all the ones that you did...  I miss seeing all the pretty things that every one else creates...  but maybe soon I will be able to connect to something so that I can see everything!!!!  What fun that will be. 

Hope you had a great day... and have another GREAT day tomorrow... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you soon... I am trying to get on here more often.. .but things keep on happening around here...  so I try... . 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Sharing

Today was a funny day... it started out sort of okay... and ended up GREAT...  I finally got the studio back in order... that was a great load off my back... as for the past 6 weeks I have not really been able to pick it up ... just made messes...  which was okay.. but I really like a nice clean studio to play in...  so I am back to way it should be in there..  

I also cleaned out a box of goodies that my sweet hubby brought up from the storage room in our basement... it has not been cleaned out since we moved his folks in here 13 years ago... so little by little we are going thru stuff... and today I found the best thing... a picture of his Grandmother and Grandfather (paternal side...) on their wedding day.. 

I have to tell you that she was 97 when she died in 1975...  so you can figure out that this picture was taken in approx 1896....  it is still in really GREAT shape... it is in a cardboard frame thing... and that is it... the color is about as you see it here...  117 year old picture... amazing...  I wonder what we have now that will be around in 117 years... LOL.. 

This is Nellie and Alton McLain...  and I think that Nellie was about 18 years old or so.. and I think it was in Scranton, Pennsylvania...  but not really sure...  


I just love this picture...  I am so very glad I found it...  along with so many other wonderful family pictures of my husbands family...  

So nice to clean out things and find things that are so loving and rewarding.   I love it...  the rest of the STUFF...  I have no need for any of it...  so we will be looking for new homes for all of that...  

Hope you had a nice day... I am ready for bed... but have to make a few Never Ending cards... making some with a fall theme...  love it...  

Thanks for stopping by... and have a nice week-end.. 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

 

 

Back Again

I have not been feeling to well... all kinds of fun things... and so a I am finally back again...  YEAH for me!!!   So I went to the I am the Diva Challenge... and Laura I love it... but can't get to see the tangle on Flicker...  dial up is so very much fun??? NOT! ! !   Anyway... I have a few to share that are from the past couple of weeks I have missed...  

No matter what... I always seem to totally enjoy my tangling... I have been teaching some Tea Bag Folding classes and also card classes... so I have taken other art into my heart again.. but tangling is a form of art that is really relaxing to me...  

I can't remember which challenge this was for... but it was for one of them.. LOL..  
 

 This is one that I did using the newest tangle from ZENTANGLING...  named  WELL... 

I love it...  

I found it very challenging... keeping my brain focused on the lines, and then when all that was done... wow... what fun I had... I filled in the spaces with LOVE...  hearts galore...  and then added another love.... FLOWERS...  what fun I had with this one..  

 Again another tangle... can't remember what it was for... but did enjoy doing it...  all the spaces in a string I love to fill in...  so nice to have a small space...  

But then again... a clean piece of 8.5 X 11 is nice too... I can deal with either way... 

I have been doing a lot of cooking lately.. and have finally mastered making gluten free bread, english muffins, blueberry mufffins using the last of the blueberries from this season.. . speaking of which.. what a wild one it was...  

Hopefully the next season will be tamer... and will allow the gardens to grow the way they are suppose to grow..  

Thanks for stopping by for a look... and a visit... I have missed being able to blog and share with you... hopefully I will be able to continue now...  Have a super nice day... and create something with LOVE... lots of love..  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie