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Paperfacets Tea Bag Folding Website A Year Old

2016-01-23T16:18:00.000-08:00

This creator is celebrating because my website endeavor is still alive. Yes, It's Alive. Paperfacets Tea Bag Folding website is a priority. Towards the end of last year I did negligent putting new material up, but I was still very much thinking of it and logging on every day. Looking for those much anticipated comments and doing small updates in spelling and sentence structure.

At the beginning of each new year I do get a dose of new enthusiasm for all my online ventures. Looking at Google Analytics made me realize the site is doing fine but in twelve months it has only held even on visits and new visitors. I can not complain because 200-250 visits a month are not bad for tea bag folding. It is not a craft to discover like ten years ago when searches were almost 4,000. Now it is about 450 and my visits are doing okay because there are a few other long standing TBF websites. I am so grateful for the visitors I do have and I am offering reassurances I will be adding new material for those who revisit. Today I added a blog post about a tea bag folding paper website I discovered. Be sure to read it soon.

I was rather busy during December. My mother fell and cracked a hip and broke her arm in two places. She is still going through therapy and we are hoping she will be back on her feet and using the walker soon. I also was preparing for a Christmas event at the Homestead Museum in City of Industry.

I made these colorful tree cards and gift tags to display.

I will be making a goal of adding new keywords to the website and for you that means new pages and posts. Happy New Year and enjoy paper crafts all year.

SherryV

I Have Been Priced Out of the Claremont, CA Farmer's Market

2015-05-23T10:36:00.000-07:00

After almost 9 years I gave up my monthly space at the Claremont Farmer's Market. For the last year a friend and I

shared a space to halve the $32 dollar charge that was implemented at the end of 2013. It was hard to survive the new fee. The former fee was 10% of sales. The percentage plan kept me coming back because no matter the spending habits of the customers, Sunday strollers, or impulse buyers I felt the satisfaction of displaying my creations even if sales did not cover the morning Starbucks.

At a few nearby Farmer's Markets I learned artisans or craftsmen get charged the flat fee where the farmers are charged a percentage fee. It disappoints that somehow the artists have been set in a class that somehow has been deemed a group that can be charged more.

Plenty local markets are showing mass produced hardwares and frankly I feel those products may not be a good fit to be shown along with the food stuffs of our local farmers. The spirit and aesthetics of the handmade and artisan objects is the same as the local grower. Indeed, the time and effort that goes into handmade is the same as the farmer or produce grower. Artists are local to the communities and neighborhoods and deserve the same consideration as the local grower. After all, they espouse the same ideas for reducing foot prints and treading lightly.

As community members, artists support the local books for prisoners and each market's efforts for helping another less fortunate by shopping their local farmers market.

Each space at the market is now reduced to a business formula of how much is each 100 square feet worth?

The participation of the local craftsman, artist, seamstress or serious hobbyist is now ignored and priced out of the local economy because why?

Can you tell me in a few whole sentences why that is so?

Any comments would be appreciated.

Sincerely, Sherry Venegas

All New Paperfacets Website

2015-03-23T12:33:00.000-07:00

In January I took the initiative and started working on a website for the name I have been paying for since 2007. Yes! I now have paperfacets.com, up and visible to all that are interested in tea bag folding or flat unit origami. I call it flat unit origami when browsers at Farmer's Market ask about what it is that I make and design cards with.

It is just easier for those that have never seen paper folding done in this fashion. The patterns I attach to the greeting cards almost always lay flat so the card can go through the mail in most cases. It takes eight squares of paper: thus unit.

The website is going to be added to on a regular basis and truthfully, many of the articles I have written in the past will be added to the website for easy management and bigger impact. I do not want readers forced from site to site to enjoy everything I want to share. So you will see some consolidation if you are familiar with my contributions to the Internet.

As with being involved with crafts, art classes, and writing on the web, creating is the fun part of it all. The new banner for the site was an enjoyable process. I took photos of a medallion placed on the paper I made the tea bag folding tiles of and then used Picasa to change color, tone, and lots else, to come up with the finished effect.

The mediallion above is the first tea bag folding instructions I posted on the site. It is like the medallion I used for the banner.

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Also, I found today something else that excited me. There is a wood version of the theme toy. I added it to the original toy article and blogging to call attention to it.

Dont hestitate, belly up to any table and no matter what they say "Tip the Waiter", anytime for family fun.

Five Marriott Vacation Clubs Resort Reviews

2014-05-26T19:15:00.000-07:00

Having a Marriott Vacation Club membership has afforded the family some very nice vacations. We are not a long time member and only joined in 2008. We think we are going to enjoy many weeks away from home at some rather nice Marriott Vacation Clubs.

Hawaii has been the main place we have gone to, but in the future I want to see some other sites, tropics or not. For instance I very much want to see the East coast and Marriott members have big choices in the Carolinas.

To celebrate each time I visit a new vacation spot I write a review and post the best pictures I managed to take for sharing with other Marriott members and interested people. Get an ordinary person's take on the location and see images that are not so professional. Get a less staged look of each locale.

The view point will be of a retiree with adult children that like to share time with the older generation. I will mention the younger generation's input for a varied opinion.

Five Reviews now exist from this traveler and I hope they give you the little extra help you need for your decision making. A Marriott vacation ownership is exclusive and admittedly can be very expensive. Use it to the fullest and get information outside the normal corporate channels.

Marriott Timber Lodge South Lake Tahoe CA

A look at California from LA County to Lake Tahoe. Take a road trip and see the Mojave Desert, Owens Valley and Lake Tahoe. This trip can keep you busy for two weeks.

Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club,Oahu

A sunset view of one of the manmade swimming lagoons. I seen many fish and green turtles in these lagoons.

Kauai Marriott Beach Resort at Poipu Hawaii

Green turtles, monk seal and chickens are some of the wild life.

Photo Peek of Marriott’s Aruba Surf Club

Very clear waters.

Maui Beach Resort – A Marriott Vacation Club

See whales when in season from your oceanview window.

We also enjoyed our first cruise using points through the Marriott Vacation Club. 10 Reasons to Take a Princess Cruise gives you some insight on now that turned out.

As I write new reviews I will add them to this list as easy reference for you in the future.

The Marriott company umbrella is listening to vacationers. The last couple of years new Vacation Club locations have been added. One concept is the antique hotel properties being purchased in city centers. A few new locations are available in cities, such as, San Diego, Boston and New York. Look for them in your emails from Marriott.

Hyper Dash A Toy Demise

2013-05-30T10:55:00.000-07:00

Being a member of the Squidoo writing community some years ago I started to write about products. I wanted the extra cash the webpage might bring in to my writing on the Internet as a whole. Hyper Dash was one of my first toys to feature. Having the kids move around sounded like a good alternative to computer games that are so popular.

I read everything I could and wrote up my sales lens, as this type of webpage was called on Squidoo. In just a few months the company, Wild Planet, came out with a new version. The original Hyper Dash became less searched for and I considered deleting the page for lack of interest.

In September 2012 I started to see a rise in traffic to the webpage. People were looking for the instructions and I had a link to the company's PDF, so I felt good about being able to help owners of the Hyper Dash Game.

I am not sure when but some time between September and April the link broke. I was pretty disappointed my write up was no longer of any help. I noticed many people were still searching for the instructions and I decided to buy the game again and get the instructions for game owners. I now have a Hyper Dash Game and the owner's instructions. I took pictures of the copy I received with the game and have posted them on the webpage for all owners of Hyper Dash.

Wild Planet's Website is gone, their telephone number disconnected and the instructions are no longer supported as a PDF.

I hope the posted instructions for Hyper Dash will give owners a few more months or years of play from their purchase and the kids get some fun exercise too. The copy of the instructions and my toy review along with my saga of observations on the game is here.

Happy Dashing.

What the Marketplace Offers for Steampunk Style Home Decor

2013-02-22T10:13:00.000-08:00

Steampunk style home decor is a look that anybody can afford. If you can mash things together with an artistic touch you would be working in eclectic steampunk. The steampunk look is from the beginnings of scifi, Jules Verne's style, with the touch of Victorian art nouveau and you will not miss the mark of the aesthetic.

The steampunk style has been here in the present era since about the 80's when new scifi writer's coined the word to describe their take on fiction and science. I became aware of the term about 5 years ago.

The look is what I am drawn to. As an artist I use the same kind of mixing for my greeting cards and framed pieces. My creations are not steampunk but I can appreciate the feast the eye encounters when confronted with a rich texture.

I started noticing that many items from other genres can be used to decorate your home or space to fit you steampunk sensibilities. I just went with the fantasy and gathered objects together for my readers as an introduction to this very modern new design idea. The active steampunk fan can pick what they think they can use for their living space to express their steampunk fantasies. I soon had 4 separate pages with my ideas.

Match steampunk, a metallic, shiny, mechanical mix with Mod Vic, modern Victorian, and the marketplace has what you need to steampunk your home.

The series of pages were fun to make and I enjoy keeping them loaded with new items that come onto the market, mainly through Amazon and Ebay, but I look for other web writer's steampunk contributions and offer their links, to give you the richness this genre offers.

Three pages to reap what the general marketplace has to offer for steampunk home decor.

Steampunk Furniture Choices for the Home

Create A Steampunk Kitchen

Steampunk Bathroom Ideas

Beatles Write Up Has Images Again

2013-02-21T15:17:00.000-08:00

An old webpage of mine called The Beatles at Hollywood Bowl 1965 received an author's update that took two days to complete. It is on the Squidoo format and last June 2012 Squidoo and flickr ceased their Internet partnership and Squidoo lenses or web pages had no more hosted images coming from flickr. All the links ceased.

I am still fixing those hosted images and The Beatles lens is my latest fix. There are a lot of fun photos to look at, as they are snapshots of an old scrapbook I started of The Beatles in 1965. It was no time at all and the scrapbook was forgotten, since a dozen other things had to be taken care of.

There is an old typed written story I wrote which I decided needed preserving on the Internet. Now it is added to the World Wide Web, the pictures fixed and more spellings corrected.

This is the newest Beatles photo for the page.

Visit my Beatles story at The Beatles at Hollywood Bowl 1965.

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Added New Idea Tip to Paper Rosettes

2012-05-03T18:44:00.000-07:00

Make A Paper Flower Rosette Decoration on Squidoo.com just got an addition.

If you are familiar with the website you may already know it is loaded with ideas on how to use the zig zag fold using a round piece of paper. The new idea tip is #6. Use this fast technique for greeting card ideas.

With a few pictures I show how to use the Fiskars Easy Squeeze paper punch to make paper rosettes fast and easy. You could have a dozen paper rosettes in an evening using a punch.

See the technique at Using the Easy SQeeze for Card Paper Rosettes - Idea #6

Enjoy tea bag folding and by the way, my new tutorial is Tea Bag Folding for Greeting Card Ideas. Use the tutorial for even more card making ideas.

Make an Origami Box with Lid

2012-02-29T11:13:00.000-08:00

This origami fan spent many hours folding origami boxes on a camping trip. I started with one box and began thinking about, "What if I did this instead?" When my camping buddy came back from the creek he was a little curious about the pile of boxes. He need not worry about me, I was perfecting this rectangle origami box pattern for website presentation. One can not put any ole thing on the Internet.

The pictures I took that day were not very good, and another set I took at home, the coloring was off. The third set of pictures are the ones I have published on Squidoo.

Each step by step fold is a photo with simple short instructions, so that you will not go off track and become confused with the directions. This is easy and basic origami.

I was very surprised that I received Lens of the Day on Squidoo for this. One well spent day of camping.

Make an Easy Origami Box and Lid

While you are looking at the origami paper box, checkout the So Crafty Magazine by Squidoo. Browse knitting, crafts, scrapbooking and more at this new publication. Join facebook and stay abreast of the latest ideas presented in the colorful and interesting format Squidoo has developed for the Internet. If you have not heard of Squidoo, check it out. The people that created Squidoo make writing on the Internet a social event. There are plenty of writers to give writing advice too.

Purple, Pink and Black Heart Valentine Card

2012-01-17T20:27:00.000-08:00

A new greeting card with striking sunset in dark purple, black and pink topping a bright spot of deep yellow. This sunset is a heart in a tangled group of birch and tall sycamore branches outlined in black. A winter sunset framed between two suburban homes.

The picture could say a lot. For an example, "you are a bright spot after the sun sets," or "with you darkness does not exist". Last, "I am in a tangle over you."

You can get these heart greetings at Zazzle. If you like you can customize them inside and out. The card is printed to order on heavy card stock. Go to Zazzle to see all the details.

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

Tea Bag Folding Christmas Tree for Greeting Cards

2011-11-16T15:02:00.001-08:00

Two years ago I shared on line the Christmas tree pattern I created for the tea bag folding style of paper crafts. This year it is popular and I have a new layout that I want to share with my fans. Use these two tea bag folding pattern ideas for your handmade Christmas cards.

The basic origami water bomb is used to make a tree shape using 12 tiles, like in TBF (tea bag folding). Fashion a tree stand according to my step by step instructions and you have a handmade embellishment for a Holiday greeting.

On the left is the new layout with the 2nd and 3rd rows (from the bottom) reversed.
The tree on the right is the first pattern. You can get a better shape if you glue the tiles in rows 3 and 4 closer together.

Full instructions are at Tea Bag Folding Christmas Tree for Greeting Cards

I also have a tutorial on a TBF wreath for cards, How to Make Paper folding Christmas Wreaths a paper ornamental star at Paper Frame Holiday or Gift Ornament to Make. Paperfacets Google Profile

Squidoo Blog Hop and Sharing Linkys

2011-09-14T10:44:00.000-07:00

Blog Hop is a new concept for me. Blog writers open up their blog and share links from other bloggers on their own blog. Marsha's Spot takes your link and shares it on Thursdays. The page to learn about it is Squidoo Blog Hop Info. The only rule is that the blog link you submit be about Squidoo.

That is easy for me. I am involved with Squidoo everyday and I get flack about it all the time. One thing leads to another when you are interested in Squidoo. Fun as a video game because you will always find something new.

So I am writing this and including a Squidoo idea for you and I am going to submit it to Squidoo Blog Hop.

Halloween is coming and paper rosettes are fun to make for hanging on the front porch. I have found holiday paper at all the discount stores, such as, Big Lots!, Ross, and Tuesday Morning. Get a few packages to equal eight sheets of the same print. Usually, a package will have three of each style sheet. You will need three packages if you desire to fold rosettes with eight units all the same for the kaleidoscope effect.

If you do not want to spend that much cash make the rosettes with varied units and purchase one package. An example is the second pink and red rosette. They are just as eye catching.

My Squidoo tutorial How to Make a Paper Flower Rosette will lead you through the making of your Halloween decorations step by step. The tweens will want to make enough to fill the whole porch. This tutorial is Not boring. I have included many pictures.

Happy Squidooing and paper rosette making.
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Make Mexican Red Rice

2011-07-26T12:17:00.000-07:00

How to make Mexican red rice is a skill largely ignored until it is Cinco de Mayo. What happens when you want homemade tacos or the enchilada casserole the family likes? Red rice and refried beans are essential for making an impression when it is time to serve dinner.

I have both recipes waiting for you on the HubPages platform. The red rice is as simple as chopping onion, tomato, garlic and adding Knorr tomato bouillon. I take you step by step with photos, tips and what not to do. There are even links for you to browse other red rice recipes, just in case mine does not make your mouth water.

How To Make Mexican Red Rice

Pinto beans are the key to refried beans. This page leads the cook through the cooking process using the pared down necessary steps only. My experience was cooking for a family and working full time on the evening shift. No time for magazine methods. Instructions tell you how to get the beans simmering and in the freezer with no hassles. Simple and not from the can.

How To Make Refried Pinto Beans
Update 11/22/14