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"I like to melt stuff…"

I’m showing my age with that quote. 
Remember the show  
Anyway…I do like to melt stuff. 
We have piles of crayons. I think they are reproducing in the cupboard. 
I’ve recycled crayons many times with varying degrees of success. 

Cheap dollar store variety and the free crayons from restaurants contain too much wax and not enough pigment. 
The best ones are the Crayola.
My technique:
Spray mini muffin pan with olive oil to act as a release agent.
Melt in a 230° oven for about 10 minutes. 
Cool completely.
Color.

(I set the pan in the garage overnight to harden.)

Now we have a fun, chunky set of crayons to spark some renewed interest in coloring…hopefully.

 

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Flannel Ragtime Quilt

 

In my previous post I mentioned a quilt…my first quilt…that was made nearly 13 yrs ago. Long, long before I started blogging…probably even before blogs were a thing.
 
I made this quilt during little boy nap-times.
The front is warm tones and the back cool blues.
It’s a perfect throw blanket on cold winter nights.
In fact, there is sometimes a fight over who gets to use this quilt when we are all watching TV because it’s the best one to snuggle under.

 

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Sew….

I’ve been brainstorming some more ideas to use up the things I already have on hand and make some Christmas gifts in the process. 
I had a small stash of flannels from a ragtime quilt I made when my oldest was a baby. He’s almost 13 now. I should show that quilt sometime. It was my very first one.

Anywho… with the weather turning colder, flannel just seems right. Something to warm the hands or toes in boots.
Maybe a something cozy for your cuppa joe.  We’ll see.

 

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Gracie kaleidoscope

Just playing around in the digital word a bit. 
Using some of my custom brushes along with filters and a kaleidoscope plugin I made this….

from this….

 

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And the winner is….
Congrats Jean!! I’ll email you privately for your mailing address and your choice of journals. 

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Cork tree
A few weeks ago at a craft show, I saw a woman selling wine cork Christmas trees.
I thought…”hey, I have corks…I could make that!”
I changed things up a bit to make it more “mine” and love the result.
I’m thinking I have the start of a tree collection when paired with my Dr. Suess tree.

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900th post giveaway

I can scarcely believe that I’ve written that many posts!
And even more shocking is the fact that you all are still here reading after all this time.
Especially considering that I’ve been in quite a dry spell lately.

With that said, I’d like to reward one of you for sticking with me by sending you one of my newly created scrap journals.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, making sure I have some way to contact you if you are the winner.
I’ll draw the winning name on November 27th.
The winner will have their choice  of cover designs.
Easy peasy, right!?!?

 

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