November in Arizona

Hello!

Lots of things happening here in Bumblebee Lane Studio. The

cooler weather has inspired me to try and organize this studio..

I did make a little headway, but not it seems like I cannot find anything!

Has this ever happened to you?

This week the U.S. Postal, UPS and Federal Express has been really good to me. Lots of goodies arrived. The first item is .... a X-ACTO paper cutter. No more hurting hands!

Second! I was surfing the net and found a great place for rulers, corner cutters, and well, tools...I ordered this metal ruler

called a Deckle Cutter....Now! I can cheat and cut edges of paper and they look hand torn!

Again, easy on the hands.

This beautiful bloom I picked from my side garden, It it in full bloom in November, Fifteen years ago in Berlin, I broke my elbow and my hubby brought me a flowering plant...a Bulgaria ...so when we arrived in Arizona we planted another, I call this vine "My Broken Arm Vine ".. This year the color is a deeper color....might be due to the plant food? Go figure....



Two new books in the mail .... Art Deco Book bindings The Work of Pierre Legrain, and another bookbinding in a series by Keith A. Smith ... I have been following a blog called My Handmade Books...http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5090862 Her blog is chucked full of great reviews on bookbinding and so far, I have tried to keep up with her. If, interested in bookbinding be sure to visit her shop and it is full of great journals that she has made, and sales.
Also, a really cute item called a Bookmark Notebook, I purchased from another gal on Esty and her shop is just full of clever and cute Paper products...One I love is shown in the picture with the 2 books. Her shop is called Space dog....

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=25190 If, interested in her products jump over and check it out.

Another item that is of interest that came in about 2 weeks ago is from Amazon and it is the Kindle Reader.....a cool item, I will be explaining it in another blog, if interested in the Kindle, Just scoot over to Amazon and read all about it. Cool!

Another missing item is the weekly Trim from Joellen's Husky Embroidery site,

she was out and about having fun and well, I got the trim a day or so ago but, by the time evening arrives....I am pooped out...But, this week I will be up and running...

as I am tidy ed out! No more of this cleaning stuff....back to the studio to play!

I can smell a faint popcorn odor on the wind so it means that the popcorn is ready and a game of chess awaits me....Might I win one this week? Don't think so....lol

As always,

Silvery Moonbeams to watch over you.

Sierra

Pearles, Silk and Mink Tarot Keeper

Hello and welcome to Wednesday,
Been busy this week, and Halloween has been sneaking up on me, Big plans to finish but realized it just isn't going to happen ..not this week! lol
I did finish an item for Esty and I must say this one brought back very fond memories of times gone buy...The time was in 1984 and I was in Berlin, Germany with my huisband, He was stationed there in the Army, The winters there were bitter, Much more bitter than in France, I had an opportunity to visit Russia when I was teaching
and remember it was the same deep chilling bitter cold, Our first trip to East Berlin, had to be in a group of ten or more with officers and wives as a couple and
a Senior Officer, as MI due to security procusions prohibited, the procedure was to obtain papers when we went through Check Point Charles, later I was to go through Check Point Charlie every Wednesday to the Opera, an intire season was around 5 marks
and at 25 to one, Made this a around $1.00 to visit up close and personal some grand
performaces.
My husband knew of a Jewlery Shop that he wanted to visit and the Major and his wife
were on the route for the fur factory... I ended up with a beautifl Russian stone of Ruby set in a gilded setting and....a mink coat and matching hat...later I learned that this was his bonus that he had just gotten! I still wear the coat, but the hat has seen much better days, I cut the pelts and have enough for several items,
This is a medium brown mink not like the black mink I cut up for the Gucci Tea Cozy.
Remember that ??? We do go a way back if you do!
Anyway, I made the first of the Mink Tarot Bags and in this blog I have shown a picture of my own Mike Tarot bag that a very special student made for me back in 1982,
Her name was Sharon Von Garland, I wonder what ever happend to her, She was an excellant student in math and astrology, The cards and whatever she set her mind too.
I remember many evenings in her "White Room" and her grand piano....I now own a baby grand...not in white but a Cherry Wood and think, What I think is My heart is still in Berlin as a snip of a girl with very fond memories of the bitter cold and the love that I still have around me. I mean my husband! Same one....lol

Well, anyway, I wish your day and evening a happy and to find something from the past that makes you smile.
As always,
Silvery Moonbeams to Watch over you.
Sierra

Leopard, European Trim and A very very busy Saturday

Leopards come to town in the Esty shop with a Grown Up Second in the series of I-Pod Keepers, Large Bag.
The European Trim comes in with the 4th trim from Husky Design and JoEllen and her glorious digitation, and the very very busy Saturday came in around 1PM as my hubby came in and ask me if I could tell him some of the yarns that I need to give-up, You see I lost my 10,500.00 game of chess to him and instead of our normally charge of $100.00 a game, I told him I would let go of some of my yarns from when I owned a Yarn Shop in France, way back.....get ready for this year....1986! Yep, Large cones for Machine kinning machines, Wools and Shetland Yarns....a mere 15 large plastic containers that have been following us each and every move we made from that day on....I must have paid overage fees each and every time too! I could have and probably still can purchase an even large store front !!!
Anyway, I had to close my eyes every other selection to say...ok...You can have...
well, it is now many hours and missed dinner and we still have to get all my lovely yarn up and away.
I will remember the pain and just give up the $100.00 I normally pay at least 2 times a week to him.. You would think that after 35 odd years he would let we win just once!!! I even tried cheating ... not so , lucky dicks!
Well, Anyway, The last picture is of a trim to come by JoEllen and her embroidery machines for next Wednesday, and a new book that I tried for over 4 months to get, each time I thought I had purchased this book, the Bookshop came back saying, that they could not find it, Nope, I thought I had it....sorry we only a have a first edition and no way am I up to yet another at $200.00 a pop!
So, when a small shop in New England told me that they had 30 copies in paperback and half price, I said Yes! Yes and it was through Amazon and no postage! Well, it arrived a few days ago and it was chucked full of Prayer book trimes from the London
Gallery...so Look out Husky Design and JoEllen! Here I come!
Well, that's it for now, I will be up late in the old "Studio" making up for the entire afternoon spent in horrow of yarns that must go ...
I have one more Puffy Stuffy Tea Cozy to finish and one for sale on Esty, but it looks like I might be too late for the Esty, we will see, I need to finish fand stitching and the special travel boxes and bags they come in....so off I go to the Studio to get started and finished!
I say hope your Saturday was rewarding and as always
Silvery Moonbeams to watch over you
Sierra