Straight No Chaser....

Nope...I wasn't drinking while I was stampin'!!!! I was watching PBS again. Man they have some good shows on there! Have you heard of the group Straight No Chaser? Well they are awesome! No instruments other than their voices. Check this out....

They had a holiday special on PBS last night. It was awesome..and comical too.
I'd love to see them in concert sometime.
So another calendar.....are you getting sick of seeing these yet? Well I couldn't forget our Goth friends when I was making calendars!!


Chow for now,
Jacqui

Librarian Calendar

I really like the way this one turned out. I stamped the books image on white, coloured them and then sponged with Creamy Caramel ink. Bookworm Hanna was stamped and coloured with the Copics.

I re-read my post from yesterday. Boy that was a downer wasn't it!!! Sorry about that! I hope I didn't get any un-subscribers from my whining!!

You've heard me talk about Celtic Thunder before, well last night PBS was showing Celtic Woman. I must say I love the haunting melody that comes from the bag pipes. The music was beautiful and the women were beautiful and their voices were beautiful. It was an outdoor show which was very cool.....but I'm sorry ladies....I enjoyed Celtic Thunder so much more. It might have something to do with the wonderful "eye candy" that Celtic Thunder provides!! I suppose if I was male...Celtic Woman might be my favourite!!! I did enjoy the show though..so if you get a chance, it's certainly worth watching. Visiting England, Ireland and Scotland is definitely on my bucket list.

Chow for now
Jacqui

Can't forget the boys....

I didn't want to leave out the male teachers when making my calendars. I'm not sure if they would put one on their desk or not, but I thought I should make one anyway.


Why is it when you are down things just keep getting worse? On my way to work yesterday I hit a raccoon. It was a big sucker and it broke my car. It put a big crack in my front bumper and it smashed the windshield washer bottle, cracked some other thing that holds on some tire guard thing. So off to the shop it has to go again....this of course is right after we just got finished paying for a new ignition and a new starter...............as the days go on and more crap happens.....it makes me want to pack up the stuff sell this place and move within walking distance of work.


Chow for now
Jacqui

Green Glitter Calendars

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase has got to be one of the funniest Christmas season movies around. It was on last night while I was messin' around on the computer!
Here is a funny clip from the movie!

Here is another calendar I have created. I was asked to make one with greens - these are the two that I came up with.

Chow for now

Jacqui

Music Calendar

I am having a lot of fun making these calendars. I keep trying to think of different things for different kinds of teachers.....music, phys. ed., librarian, science, math etc. etc. These are the two I came up with so far with a music theme.

I started out making them by stamping the background...but then...I got into my stash of designer paper and that has opened up the flood gates for so many more options! I have a music stack of paper that has some really pretty pages in it. Both the background and the paper used to cut the daisy are from the music pack.

I made a large one and a mini one.


Chow for now,
Jacqui

Christmas Fairy

I love this image. She is so cute and sweet looking. I used Pacific Point paper with some Stampin' Up! designer paper layered on top. I cut two diamond shaped pieces and layered designer paper on those as well. I coloured the image using water colour pencils and sansodor. I need more practice with this technique, but I'm moderately pleased with the way it turned out. I put Stickles on the lace at the bottom of her dress and Crystal
Effects on the glass ball to make it look more realistic.

Chow for now

Jacqui

Teacher Calendar

I have been working away at my CD calendars. I made a bunch thinking they would be a neat inexpensive teacher gift, and then when I took them to work, I got orders for more!

This is one I made using the teacher set from Hanna Stamps.

Chow for now

Jacqui