Graceline

Here's My Heart(STAR) Mobile Customiized Red, White and Blue for You - $18.00

2012-02-27T20:25:00.001-08:00

Here's my heart(star) mobile red, white, and blue, OR your color choice.This is a three foot mobile hung from a satin covered wooden ring, absolutely filled with folded hearts and stars, each attached with pearly white beads. This particular mobile is hand cut and folded from a heavy card stock with a red, white, and blue tonal theme. If you like this mobile but want it in other shades, please request that. Examp...

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All These Superwomen......

2011-09-25T05:45:00.000-07:00

I am on the hunt early this morning, not to copy anyone's work, but to get some idea of what a crafty blogger does on her blog page. There seem to be too many Super-women out there. Congrats to you all! When I was much, much younger and raising kids, I did not even have the time to create a baby book for babies #2 and 3, let alone get much crafting done. How do these young crafting mommies do it! i am now a gramma of 12 and I think I am doomed at this blogging stuff. i can't even pick a topic for my blog. Live and learn? Well, at 67 years old that hasn't worked either. So, here's the deal, if anyone, anyone, is out there in blogging land reading this, please help me out. My list of ideas follows: 1. Pick a blogging topic. I have tried a few to no avail. HELP HELP HELP (even in creating crafts, this is the zone I just cannot get beyond, or even enter, THE CREATIVITY ZONE! Are you born with it? How do you get there? Where do you super-women even find the time for it? That's it. That is MY list. Can you believe it?

Graceline: october Surprises

2010-10-09T19:35:00.000-07:00

Graceline: october Surprises

october Surprises

2010-10-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

At the Sierra Foothill retreat maybe for the last time this year. the bear had been here yet again and actually took away my suet feeder that I got from a dear friend. it is gone! But I did find my metal feeder and put it on a pulley even higher this time. I put up three blocks of suet too and I watched the birds come all day long; even got some good photos. Aren't the bears supposed to hibernate soon? the deer got fresh salt licks for the winter and a big bag of food. ............ on to crafts, which I always find inspiration for up here. i have had quite a few orders for my Kusudama flowers as of late. This is from gracelinepaperstudio.etsy.com shop. The latest is for the red and green Kusudama groups. i was able to fold them while here but could not secure the glue. Forgot the paper clips. Good project for Sunday. i will mail them off early next week. Good communication has always been important to me, so I email my customers regularly. ........ i revamped my other etsy site. Gracelinestudio.etsy.com. i love the items on there, but get few hits, so I changed the titles of the items and changed most hit words too. i added sac etsy group to almost all items. ........ Now I will begin again my Christmas card and gifts. it will be a busy fall; off to Minnesota, my homeland, for a visit end of month, then mid November off to Boston to help my daughter as she will be giving birth to twins. That will make an even dozen grandkids for us. i will end on that blessed note.

Aunt Peaches: Friday Flowers: Centerpieces for $3 in 5 Minutes

2010-09-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

Aunt Peaches: Friday Flowers: Centerpieces for $3 in 5 Minutes

September Morn

2010-09-07T21:03:00.000-07:00

Here it is September already and I have not posted since spring. Whatever happened to summer of 2010? I have a new ipad, which, when typing, always wants to put extra letters in. I have a new Etsy shop - gracelinepaperstudio.etsy.com. Suddenly I have sales. I have had an Etsy store for more than a year now and no sales. Suddenly I was inspired by someone along the way, to make Kusudama flowers and flower balls. Now I am up to my ears in folding 320 and 90 kusudama flowers for two weddings. I am making money on Etsy. And I am not sure how it happened. But suffice it to say I even consulted the Master regarding business decisions, so maybe that helped. Need I say more?

Some New Projects

2010-05-17T20:09:00.000-07:00

Been Awhile! Now I am the proud gramma of 10! Samantha Rose #10. What a blessing. I have been to the Sierra Foothill forest property twice now; last year I missed the blooming of the spring bulbs but how lucky I was to find the daffodils, hyacinths, and muscari all blooming on my first visit. I filled the bird feeders and on the 2nd visit the Stellar Jay was proudly taking over the feeder. He is a majestic beauty and quite aggressive. On the 2nd visit I heard and then saw the deer stomping. I let the spring sun shine on my shoulders and thanked God for this special retreat where I do my crafts and relax. Tea-bag folding is still foremost on my 'fun' list of things to do, but I also beaded up a few more angels and even butterflies and dragonflies. These will be posted shortly. Back home in the Sacramento valley on the farm I am collecting lavender flowers and roses to dry. I have planted lettuce, picked some meager rhubarb, put in a few peppers and tomatoes, checked my potato plants that are doing pretty good, and held my breath at the site of poppies and bachelor buttons in bloom.

Emboridery Sewing

2010-02-11T17:19:00.000-08:00

Yes, I did begin a project using embroidery crochet. I made a little baby bunting for my soon to be born grandaughter. A pretty heart has a special poem embroidered on it and I will baste that heart to the front of the bunting. It took awhile, maybe three attempts to learn how to embroider the poem I chose, but in the end it worked out well. No regrets with my new purchase. I have sweatshirts to to embroider for my grandsons' birthdays that I bought very cheap at Target. This embroidery machine will be used often.

New Embrodery Sewing Machine

2010-02-03T08:18:00.000-08:00

Well, here we go again; I made a decision to go back to Walmart and check out the Brother Disney Embroidery machine I had seen there previously, and within my price range. Yup, you guessed it, I bought it. I have been wanting to do some 'embroidery quotes' on fabric and I am excited. I see in the instructions that I can only do 25 characters at a time, but first I must learn how to operate my new machine. It is taking a bit longer than I thought to get the time to do this. You see, lined up here by my chair are boxes of beads, baskets of yarn, my new Kumi Loom, and all my crochet hooks. They are waiting for me too. I also got some gold lame thread to crochet a few beaded necklaces. My projects are many, and this is always the way I have been. I get bored easily, and am finding that all these projects are keeping me from concentrating on just one area to pursue. Any suggestions on that one? I have spent a little extra money on my website and am giving it one month to see if I can get hits or sales from that. My Etsy business is going nowhere fast, and my other website is not being advertised. So I am not selling anything, even though I think I can make some pretty good crafts. What to do, what to do?

New Projects Begun

2010-01-29T10:11:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm on my way again; lots of family things going on and traveling back and forth to visit my 9 grandkids over the holidays. Here it is almost February already. I have tried a few new things; updated my Etsy page and added a few more items. I have been crocheting a lot lately and am doing more Lil Bookmark worms that can be seen on gracelinestudio.etsy.com. I also am crocheting some very soft bath mitts to give as gifts. Trying to sell these things has not been successful. I need someone to market my stuff here in Davis. I also have printed off about a dozen more design ideas, mostly cute little crocheted item patterns from the internet. I have tried doing a crocheted and beaded necklace that is kind of Victorian in nature. I think this is lovely; that I also put on my Etsy page. Has anyone out there had any luck putting their projects up for sale on Craigs List? My most pleasing and fulfilling crafts idea came last night when I used my embossing machine to place very pretty template designs on vellum. This turned out so beautiful that I want to make these into packs of notes to sell. Photographs can not do justice to these. They are so beautiful. Still looking for ideas on how to promote these items. Can't seem to sell a thing. I guess I'm saving most of these projects for gifts *-)

Beading at the land in the Sierra Mountains

2009-09-17T16:23:00.000-07:00

Always, always I love to get away to our 20 acres. I bring my beads and sit at my little table in the forest and make bracelets, necklaces, and pendants. I have so many ideas tucked in my mind that I will always have something to do. That place brings me peace, quiet, solitude, and hopefulness.