Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Happy Birthday Chris!

Wish I could give you a big hug today. Kind of hard to do when you are in Iraq. This seems like a good time to tell you how proud I am of you. For being the son, husband and father that you are. For not complaining about missing half of your daughter’s life so far. For always sounding upbeat even in 130 degrees. For your kindness and gentleness even though you are a big tough guy soldier. For doing your job, day in and day out without a break.

I want you to know that we miss you. Every day I pray you will come back safely and there are many others doing the same. Thanks for being such a great son. I love you.

Crafty College Makeovers

My youngest daughter,
Maryanne, is getting ready to go back for her junior year at Longwood University. She came downstairs while I was working, scrounging for containers, cool stuff and organizing ideas. This year she’s living in an apartment with two other girls and gets her own room. I had a white rolling cart which she appropriated and also a white laminate unit with three shelves. The colors we were working with are ice blue, apple green, yellow and pink. First Mary cleaned them up, then we measured and I cut a matboard piece to fit the bottom so that desk supplies will not fall through the grid. Then I cut piece to fit on the ends so that papers won’t go flying out, and then some cute little label tags. Mary punched holes in the matboard with the trusty Crop-a-Dile and used some pretty cable ties to hold everything together. I made some black foamboard dividers since black is her other color in the room.

We didn’t do too much to the shelf unit except to clean it and add a blue matboard piece to the top for a little color and then put clear contact paper over it because she plans on using this as her night table.
Then it was on to a duvet cover. We have tons of blankets and I refused to buy another one. However when totalling up the amount spent and time involved on the cover, I could have been wrong there. But it was fun to plan and do it together. Oh wait a minute- she’s at work… who’s down here sewing??? I haven’t done a fun project like this though in a long time and it makes me want to sew more.
I also made some curtains for the RV tonight. Am I on a roll or what? The curtains are placed on a rod up behind the driver/passenger seats and are drawn in case the lights are on in the back. When driving at night the light is very distracting to the driver so this way you can still hear what’s going on, but see where you’re going in the front. Hayward calls this the “night driving system” 🙂 like we’re in a tank or something…

Too much email…

It’s crazy! I was gone for 2 weeks and it is talking me forever to get through everything that accumulated while I was away. Honestly, email does nothing to get my mojo going. I have a bunch of projects to do but can’t seem to get in the zone.

It could also be that I have given up my very good friend, diet Coke 🙁 as of Aug.1, the day Chris returned to Iraq. It seems to be a small thing in the grand scheme of life but it’s surprising how attached you get to the stuff. I am nervous that the magnet that I always thought was funny, “Without caffeine, I have no personality at all.” is true for me.

The good thing is no headache which I thought I would get for sure.

Guess it’s time for another light Minute Maid lemonade with no bubbles or taste…

CHA is over!

and wow- it was fun! I can finally tell you that my line of Sizzix dies has been released! I’ll post photos when I can. The dies are designed to cut and score thick material such as- MATBOARD and chipboard. There are eight designs available and they are called ScoreBoards. They are officially released in December so won’t be available for a little while yet. I’ll keep you posted 🙂

The show itself was actually somewhat small compared to other years. However the companies that were there were serious and doing quite a good business. There was a record crowd for the consumer SuperShow which was held immediately following the trade show. The booths were exciting and CROWDED. I didn’t even get to walk the whole show- the crowds were crazy. Anyway, more to come on this later… along with photos!

Heidi and the fringe

I told you a while back that my daughter Pam came by and we worked on a project together for her friend. I had found a little “Heidi” Golden Book somewhere in my travels and had to buy it. It was one of my favorite stories growing up. I can still remember the anticipation as a little kid-after we had our baths and gotten ready for bed, it would be time for my sisters and I to hop up on the couch and listen to our mom read to us.

Anyway, Pam happened to see this little book and ask if we could mat the title page and she could give it as a birthday gift to her friend Heidi. I love it anytime my kids (even when they are 25!) ask to work on something with me so we picked some colors out and cut the mat. Upon closer inspection of the book, we saw that the previous owner had taken scissors and snipped the bottom of the first few pages into fringe to make their own version of grass.
Happy Birthday, Heidi!

And we have a winner!

That would be Candace Jedrovitz! My daughter Maryanne picked a number and you were that number comment!

Thanks so much to all who took the time to listen to the show and leave me your kind comments! I hope you will continue to check in and see what’s new as the summer goes on. It’s easy to subscribe to this blog in a feed (little gold button right under my picture). When I put up a new post, you will be notified. Fun stuff is just around the corner…

Many thanks to Tiffany and the Inspired at Home family, that was a fun time!

Candace, please email me and let me know whether you would like MatBoard Magic or Foamboard Magic and also need your address.