tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88099741504399348512024-03-13T00:28:48.166-07:00McMaven Havensilentblairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02527527034190459186noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809974150439934851.post-46930708420009582742017-10-13T07:06:00.001-07:002017-10-13T07:06:01.740-07:00Adult Merit BadgeFor RenStar For the Adult Merit Badge Swap on Craftster WOOT!<br />
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The swap was fun, as we got to think of 5 different adult merit badges achievements our partners would choose to craft from.</div>
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And of course it had to be a Harry Potter Swap...<br />
Specifically, Back to Hogwarts Round 7 (insert link)<br />
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I've decided to try making a Stamp for all of my partner's most important Owl Post Letters.<br />
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The first thing I had to do was think of a design, I used my Hand Drawn app (link) and came up with this:<br />
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Can I just say how much fun that app is? It's so easy to use and I've gotten quite silly with it. Perhaps one day a blog post might happen all about that. But lets just get through this post first, huh?<br />
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What a neat way of transferring a pattern on the stamp pad?!!! </div>
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Pencil Transfer, who knew? But this was a mess up as I don't know how mirror images work.</div>
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Above is my first attempt at the pencil transfer, and me (not understanding how mirroring works) thought it was incorrect and tried again.</div>
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(But really it WAS correct and I'm an idiot!)</div>
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Here's how far I got when I realized my mistake...</div>
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So it turns out I need to do that whole thing over again...Live and learn and laugh it off!</div>
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Morgan got to learn how to carve too by practicing on my mess up!</div>
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I ended up doing it correctly the next time, and it turned out pretty darn cool!</div>
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I'd totally try stamp making again!</div>
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For Morgan's Birthday 2 years ago, we made a Stampy Longnose Cake!</div>
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Lee and his brother, Jay, made a rainbow/tie dye cake and I decorated!</div>
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Those guys are adorable working in the kitchen together!</div>
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I made a grid, used Hershey Bar blocks for the "black" parts, green sprinkles for the eyes, and the rest yellow frosting.</div>
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Miss Morgan loved her cake and I passed another year of sliding by another birthday party.</div>
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Her last year birthday, we had friends over to the house.</div>
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Like 16 friends, it was chaos.</div>
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Since her birthday is in December, we filled a bunch of squirt bottles with Kool Aid and had them "paint" the snow. Not thinking, I did mostly red since it's Morgan's fave color.</div>
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It looked like a massacre in the backyard! HA!</div>
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We had all the children decorate their own cupcakes.</div>
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It looked like a massacre in my dining room!</div>
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Perhaps this year she'll finally agree to have 2 friends over for a sleepover and movie marathon?</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.7px;">"She comes; she comes! The Watcher of the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat. Attend you all, for she comes!"</span></div>
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Made for Melissa in the 2015 Knit Nite Xmas Swap. Inspiration: Wheel of Time Amyrlin Seat Stole.</div>
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Simple crochet, from yarn I already had. All 7 Ajahs represented!</div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cornsilk; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long pass, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.</span></div>
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Hey! I was in a magazine about 2 years ago!</div>
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For this blog here in sunny 2017, I'm catching up a lot of backlog stuff. So be prepared for some old references....</div>
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This article was written by my local Stylish Heroine, Ann Rosenquist Fee.</div>
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She runs an amazing blog (<a href="http://www.annrosenquistfee.com/" target="_blank">link</a>).</div>
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I hooked these up for my partner in the Game of Thrones Swap, IsikkahJai.</div>
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here are the Dragons as little babies.</div>
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<br />silentblairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02527527034190459186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809974150439934851.post-89466969137557175872014-12-07T12:46:00.000-08:002014-12-07T12:46:24.666-08:00Pixie Hat!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found it to run small...So be warned, true believer!</div>
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I upcycled my son's "too small" socks into Fingerless Gloves!</div>
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A Tea Wallet can save your life.</div>
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I'm calling this the John Watson/Mary Morstan Wedding Tea Wallet!</div>
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I've recently (yesterday) gotten a new toy.<br>
A tablet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">i was playing around with said tablet today, you know we were getting to know each other,<br>
when...</p>
<p dir="ltr">I removed the gallery app.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Little did I know that this might be the most headachy thing!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now, on every device BUT the new tablet (including my computer), mcmaven haven pictures are gone!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'll be taking lots of aspirin and trying to figure this out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My apologies if you came here via Pinterest and found a big-fat-annoying-no-picture-post.</p>
<p dir="ltr">GRRRRR!<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">UPDATE:<br>
Kind of "Good news, Bad news"...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Good News:<br>
We were able to find the pictures!<br>
The do, in fact, still exist. HOORAY!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Bad News:<br>
It looks as if I need to reupload every picture in every single post.<br>
Bah Humbug.</p>
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