My new blog button

For a while now I had been wanting to have a blog button but apparently needed to have a little kick to get me in gear and make one.

If you read my previous post then you already may know I finally got that kick from 

Cindy Adkins' Blog Seminar

post this morning.

After reading her post this morning I decided to make this little pillow and use it for my very first blog button picture.

This pillow was all hand stitched.

The flower is also hand done by me.

A close up.....

Is it wrong to be so proud of me? 

I just love this pillow!

Help yourself to my blog button, up on top of the left column!

Thanks hopping in!

Blog hopping

 Cup of tea in hand and ready to start the day.....

I checked my emails...

Then...

started a bit of blog hopping.

Love hopping through and seeing all the wonderful things everyone is doing. 

Seeing all the inspiration that everyone is so graciously willing to share with us all. 

Love looking at scrapbook pages, card making, altered art in many shapes, sizes, and forms.

Also love looking at furniture remodels and room designs/home decor.

The best is techniques and know how that bloggers share.

Love learning an artsy new technique, from making your own embellishments for your scrapbooking pages, to painting and inking techniques, sketches for pages and cards, to altering images for those pages and cards 

or

how that piece of furniture went from drab to fab!

And, WOW, the different styles everyone chose's to work with!

My personal fav's are vintage and shabby chic but it's so cool to see all the others.

There are so many!

Today my how-to info came from Cindy Adkins' Whimsical Musings.

She is doing a week long Blogging Seminar for us.

It just started today so hop over and see what she taught me today.

It was very informative and I can't wait for the rest of the weeks info.

I hope you find it as helpful as I have!

Happy Blogging!

Happy mail!

I went for a walk in the rain this morning.

I got wet.

I got cold.

I got a Recipe Mini and goodies!

We had a recipe mini swap over at Bella Creations and my Bella Friend Pam was to send to me.

Yay!

Look at this lovely Recipe Mini I got!

This is huge!

I LOVE it!

She gave me oodles of pockets to put recipes and pic in!

And loads of recipe cards with spares on the side!
There are 16, front and back, pages!

Here is a look at a couple of pages.....

It's a paper bag mini, the two recipe cards, on the bottom right pic, go into the bag pocket.

I am going to have so much fun adding recipes in here. 

And speaking  of recipes she sent me some of her fav's!

They look pretty yummy too!

Here is another look at the mini with a peek at some of the goodies she sent as well.....

She sent me flowers, tags and paper galore!

She spoils me! 

THANK YOU PAM!!!