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Crafty Monday

2011-06-10T13:09:00.003-06:00

Alright so its been quite awhile since I've posted anything but me and Chan are still doing our crafty mondays and I am creating things I've just been neglecting the blog :(

This last Monday Scarlett wasn't feeling good so I had my crafty monday with my Dad isntead and we played with a soldering iron. Dad's project didn't turn out quite the way he hoped it would but I really like mine:

I just bought a package of mosaic seaglass from Michaels and soldered around all the different pieces I used and then soldered them together. It took a decent amount of time but it looks sweet, I especially like the seahorse I added. I'm not sure if its done yet either.

Well thats all for today,
Later Days

Last Weekend

2011-05-01T14:27:00.005-06:00

I love family Holidays, pretty much I just like the chance to hang out and play games (and eat lots of junk food, the begining of soccer season is NOT going to be fun). Anyways Last weekend was Easter and Chan and Gordon took Scarlett to Radium so I was house sitting for them. Their cat Ferrarri is Crazy and this is the sight I arrived to find...

Dang Cat!!!

After I cleaned that little present up I went out to my aunts for family dinner and games. Me and my cousin Aurora owned at teamed Dutch Bliss, (Now accepting new challengers but beware, we're speedy... ;) I also got to enjoy some amazingly decorated cupcakes that my cousin Paula made
So Cute!!! Little Bunny Bums sticking up in the grass :D They also tasted amazing so I may have had more than one...

Well Thats all for today,
Later Day

Inspiration

2011-04-18T17:23:00.006-06:00

So, sorry I missed my post last week it was a good one though. Me and Chan drove down to Lethbridge to visit Kara and see her stores grand opening. while we were there she took us to a little farmers market/ restaurant that had AMAZING food, a craft store, and the Jasmine Tea room where we had some specialty drinks and scones with jam and devonshire cream (delicious stuff). We also stopped in Nanton on our way home for the candy store and some antique shopping.

This week was a much more chilled monday. Chan came and picked me up at around noon and then we headed to whyte ave to have some lunch at the Mongolie grill express. After that we went for a bit of a walk down whyte to the junk cellar and chapters/ starbucks (chantel has to earn her specialty coffee's :) After that we went back to Chan's to craft and blog. Unfortunately I forgot my sketch book at home today so I just looked up inspiration online.

I'll also trying to work on drawing people and I think this is the type of style I might go for:

Well that's all for now

Later Days
Kc

The Boob Tube

2011-04-08T16:02:00.004-06:00

This tuesday was my cousin Sandee's birthday (Little Happy Birthday shout out there ;) Because of this though I think I've been at her house almost every day this week. Its been alot of fun but let me tell you when I have soccer on Sunday night it is not going to be pretty, way to much cake has been eaten. Anyways she got the first 2 seasons of one of my currently favorite TV shows

I loved it before I watched the complete series of 'Firefly' by the way but I love it and Nathan Fillion even more now that I have. So far this week we have watched the first 5 episodes (I've already seen them all but I'll watch them again so they can catch up to me :) and tonight she's making me dinner and we're plowing through the rest of the season (its only 10 episodes long...)

Another one of my favorite TV shows right now is 'Criminal Minds' which brings me to my secomd shout out of this post... Trina Kison!!!. Trina is fellow mighty Zombie Farmer and Scrapbooker who has started coming and hanging out with us more at the store which we really quite enjoy :) Anyways My absolute favorite character on the show is the tech support lady 'Penelope Garcia' played by Kirsten Vangsness. Tell me they don't look alike...

Honestly they could be twins... well thats all I have to say about and if you don't don't already and you like crime TV you should watch these two because they rock.

Later Days
Kc

Fact or Fiction

2011-04-01T16:58:00.008-06:00

Today I am posting to tell you a tale, a very TALL tale, the tale of 'Cranbrook Ed' the one and only wild BC Elephant...

The Story:
Charlie Ed was a small African elephant born in the wild in 1910. He ran away from his Mother and younger sister when times got to tough to became part of the Sells-Floto Circus in 1922, earning a living doing tricks. Life was tough for the young elephant and in the summer of 1926, when the circus traveled to Cranbrook and on August 6th, fourteen elephants, including Charlie Ed, started a revolt over poor working conditions and escaped the circus train into the surrounding forest and down the Canadian Pacific right-of-way. An unusual telegraph message was sent over the wires following thier escape asking all trains heading east to keep a lookout for elephants on the tracks and report their location if seen. When the circus owners offered rewards for the capture of the unruly elephants, the first and only elephant hunt Cranbrook has ever seen was on, and the news spread around the world.

Most of the elephants were quickly re-captured but Charlie Ed and another elephant, rumored to be the young elephants girlfriend Myrtle were still on the loose. Myrtle was found in mid-August but, because of her poor condition didn't make it. Charlie Ed, however remained at large for awhile longer until on September 14th, when his hideout was finally discovered near Jim Smith Lake, about six kilometers southwest of Cranbrook. His trainer reported that Charlie Ed was thinner but still in fine shape and although Charlie and the other elephants had been caught the global publicity helped earn them a better life with the Circus.

Charlie Ed was brought back into town where a celebration followed. He received a last breakfast as a free elephant before he was reinstated into the circus and was then led through the streets of downtown Cranbrook, with one photo opportunity after another. To mark the occasion, Mayor T.M. Roberts and the circus owners re-christened Charlie Ed, declairing his name henceforth to be Cranbrook Ed. An to this day a Statue of this young elephant sits at the entrance of this small BC town to make sure no one forgets the elephants that were lost and what he fought for.

Well that is my tale for the day, hope you all enjoyed it but what do you think, is Cranbrook Ed just another TALL tale on this particular day or is there a shred of truth to this tale... You tell me ;)

Later Days

Vacation

2011-03-29T22:45:00.006-06:00

Sorry my post is a little late but I had an awesome weekend visiting an old friend from college in Cranbrook BC this weekend. It was really nice for acouple of reasons.

1) I haven't seen Ashlee in over a year and a half so it was really exciting to be able to make a long weekend for myself and go hang out with her for a few days. While I was visiting we went around town taking pictures of random things (Maybe a future post ;), visited with her family, went to a stand up comedy act, watched the Junos, and I got to watch a rehersal for a one act play shes going to be in. It was really interesting to see that side of the play, and I might be biased but Ashlee was definatly the best one in the play (along with this really funny really old guy, he rocked :)

2) I absolutely LOVE the mountains and the trip between Edmonton and Cranbrook takes me through one of my favorite stretches of road. The entrance to Radium Hot Springs where they had to blow a path through the mountain, when I drive through that I'm always amazed to be there and be literally surrounded by the mountain. Its amazing. I pulled over acouple times to take pictures on my phone as I went (and got pulled over once too, stupid BC police)

3) It gave me the chance to finish my most recent sock monkey (which was subposed to be her christmas present, just a little late :) Ashlee's nick name in college was 'Rex' so I made her a dinosaur sock monkey with short arms (they don't actually look very short but they're 1/2 the size they should be)

I do have to say I'm happy to be home though too, I probably spent about as much time looking at pictures of Scarlett while I was gone as I would have looking at her if I had been home. I'm such a sucker for that kid, it was nice to be able to show pictures of her off too though :D Well till next post

Later Days

My New Goal

2011-03-21T19:37:00.006-06:00

So I mentioned last week that me and Chantel now have these 'Play Dates' on monday where we get to just hang out and craft with each other. Well I decided to work on a general crafting skill during our play time, and what I decided on was Grafiti. So first thing this morning (After a stop at starbucks of course ;) Me and Chantel headed to Michaels for some new art supplies for me...
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It actually turned out pretty well, they had a sale on their 'Faber-Castell' art sets where if you buy one you get a second one for a penny, definatly took advantage of that. So anyways when I was looking into the idea of learing Grafiti last week I read that the best place to start was to playing around with basic bubble alphas and alter them in any way you like...

While I was playing around with some different ideas I decided to try to make a paperclip alpha (since doing this I've googled it and think my version is way better then anything I've seen there :)

Personally I think it turned out pretty well, it helped that Chan had a paperclip I could play with while doing this so I could actually see if my ideas would work (and how they would work). If anyone comes up with any better options for the 'k' or 'x' (or really any other letter) please let me know because those two were killer hard to come up with.

Anyways, till next week.
Later Days :)

Extra, Extra, Read all About it!!!

2011-03-14T15:37:00.009-06:00

Exciting news, me and chantel now officially get mondays off from work. Don't take that the wrong way, we LOVE our job but its also nice now to have a day were we can go out when other stores are open and shop, just hang out or do whatever it is we want. So in our 1st official play day off we went to the southgate food court for some of the most amazing potatoes ever from Koryo and to people watch

After that Scarlett went to visit Grandma B at work and we're finishing up with blog posts and crafting. Yes you heard me right, me and Chantel are now 'officially' posting on our blogs every monday at some point. Lisa has even bet us ($10 or a date) that we can't keep it up for a month... we'll see what happens :)
Today has been a pretty perfect end to our weekend adventures as well. We had the Memories Wholesale event this weekend and got to learn and visit with some every inspiring people. Here's a picture of a paper flower the talented Little Yellow Bicycle instructor Lori created and a picture with some of the teachers that came in for the event and then came by to check out our store when it was finished.

On that note I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoy the rest of your week :)

Monkeys and Mugs

2010-07-07T12:04:00.005-06:00

So, I've been doing ALOT of crochetting lately and so far only have one monkey to show for it. I've got two more in the works that I'll hopefully be done soon. My favorite thing about making my sock monkeys is trying to find ways to make them all original. This is the one that I made for Kennedy and it is really sweet if I must say so my self :)

It took me awhile to figure out how to crochett the design right into the monkey instead of adding it on top afterwards and if I did something like it again I would have to make afew tweaks to it but all in all really quite cool. I like the little gold medal I made for it too :)

I also bought one of those "make your mugs" from chapters (I like those ones more then the ones at Starbucks because they have more room inside for dimensional inserts). I used it to make my Dad a new coffee travel coffee mug becuase he uses his other starbucks one everyday so I thought it would be nice to be able to switch it up sometimes.

I love the quote I put on it too... if you know my Dad it's a very him quote (although I think I should have changed it to "Let not the sands of time get into your coffee" instead of lunch :). I also used a picture of Neil Armstrong which is one of the moments in history that my Dad seems to remember the most so it just seemed kind fitting to put in one there.

Anyways, latter days :D

Starry Night

2010-06-15T15:36:00.008-06:00

Alright, so I was feeling crafty this morning and since my dad is asking people for pages for his current project I decided to paint something. Now Van Gough's starry Night is one of my all time favorite paintings so I decided to make my own, this is what I made:

I used the Claudine Hellmuth Studio paints mixed with the extra-time medium she has to give it some dimension and to give me extra time to get all the colors on before it dried so they would mix together alittle. Here's a close up:

After that I just painted the riff raff eiffel towel black and sprinkled silver glitter on it while the paint was still wet and 'signed' the bottom corner with my page's title. Pretty sweet if I must say so myself :D

Well thats it for now but I'm still feeling pretty inspired so you might get more soon.

Kc

Scarlett Lee

2010-06-06T12:46:00.004-06:00

Alright, so for any of you who don't know it yet I have a BEAUTIFUL baby niece named Scarlett Lee Mernickle. She was Born May 21st at 11:39 pm, 7lbs 14oz, 20". Let me just say right now I love this little baby so much it isn't even funny. I am in so much trouble by the time she grows up, I already know I'd be willing to go shopping with her, and I don't shop so... Yeah.

Hopefully you guys will be hearing alot about this little one on my blog (If I can actually manage to consistantly blog for awhile :)

P!nK

2010-03-20T01:27:00.010-06:00

I have a confession to make, its been three months since my last hair cut and I've gotten a little shaggy. All that changed tonight though, I took some hair inspiration pictures of Pink (below) and attempted to get at least some variation of her hair ( which I have always pretty much though was sweet) without adding any funky colors. I rediscovered my appreciation for pink during my limited time in style school ( it was pretty much the first lesson and saddly only about as far as I got... Oops :)

The before shot

The pile of hair on the floor...

When its all said and done...

The Comparison Pic...

Honestly I can't wait for it to get just a little longer so I have more to work with but well see how long I actually stick with this instead of putting one of my hats one :)

Today I also noticed my dog found a new place to perch outside to do her sun bathing, she has spots all over the house but this is the first one I've noticed outside. I was just walking by the back door this morning while I was getting ready and took a look outside to see what she was up to... She really makes my day sometimes. I just had to smile when I saw this.

More Scraps :)

2010-03-13T12:47:00.002-07:00

Alright,
So the last couple of days at work gave me the idea for this cartoon and I'm sure some of you will understand.

With all the new CHA stuff coming in I think I moved half the store this week to make the new stuff fit and there's still more coming...

The Weekend Edition

2010-03-07T23:35:00.006-07:00

So I've had a pretty full and exciting weekend (something I finally feel worthy of blogging about anyways :)

It all started Friday afternoon when Me and my awesome cousin Alana headed down to Calgary to watch the Flames take on the Devils. Looking at the two team names now that seems strangely fitting. Anyways Alana is just slightly obsessed with Martin Brodeur and this was the first time she got to see him play live so it was very exciting. You can't really see it in my pictures but she is COMPLETELY decked out in Brodeur stuff. Anyways we Stopped at Michaels on our way out of the city and bought smelly markers and poster boards to make signs for the game (I'm rather proud of our finished products :).

She may have gotten a little over excited a couple times during the game, the other fans around us where surprised she didn't fall out of her seat. Seriously they actually said that. Anyways saddly for Alana the Devils lost 5-3 although they came back in the 3rd and made it a really good game. After the game was over we went and stood outside the arena and waited for all the players to get on the bus and cheered holding our signs as they drove away. It was all very fun :)

I then finished off my weekend by going to see 'Alice in Wonderland' in Imax 3-D with Lisa, Russel, Gordon and Chantel. It was pretty good, I didn't actually realize until I was there that it was a sequile to the story and not a remake but I still really enjoyed it. I just have to say I love Helena Bonham Carter more and more in everything \i see her in she's like the female Johnny Depp.

Well thats it for now but I;ll hopefully have more to post soon so 'Latter Days'

Altered Doll Class

2010-02-06T18:45:00.013-07:00

So, had my class yesterday and it went awesome, there are some things looking back that I would do differently but thats part of the learning experience. Everyone in the class seemed to have a blast, they were awesome and all very creative. If all classes are as good as this one was I will definatly teach more. Anyways everyone had a pictures taken with their dolls when they were done...Since I had already made two dolls instead of doing another one with the class I used the doll form and made it into a travel mug . It turned out really well, I love it :)

Just The Scraps

2010-02-05T16:58:00.011-07:00

So first sorry for it being so long between posts my goal is to write something at least once a week (not a good start but que sera). So I have my first ever class I'm teaching at Treasured Memories tomorrow, it should be fun but alittle stressful none the less. Here's a picture of the last Ten Second Studios metal doll I made, I think I'm going to make a coffee mug tomorrow though (Hopefully I'll post it when I'm done :).

So, I've decided I want to do a little scrapbooking comicstrip because I think they could be fun and there aren't any really out there. I'm pretty sure I want to call it 'Just the Scraps' and it would only be once or twice a month because I can't comit to doodling more often then that or coming up with that many ideas to continue. Here's my first one, let me know what you think :)

Hello Blogging World

2010-01-21T16:55:00.005-07:00

So this is the start of my new blog, I'm pretty pumped about this because now I can share all the fun things I do at the store...

(I have to admit this took ALOT of slouching, even for me:)

I can also post about all the projects Me and Chan will be doing together for Elsies Style School. Look Lisa we finally started our binders

Tomorrow we plan on doing some more before we head out to CHA (YEAH!!!!) so I'll hopefully have more to post then but I'll leave you with this little bit of happyness...

My new gloves Chan brought me back from Victoria :)