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Astronaut Douglas Wheelock's photos of his amazing journey to RUSSIA AND BEYOND ( to the space station, and all his adventures)

you must have a twitter account to view, remember they start at the bottom and then work your way up.

Douglas H. Wheelock (Astro_Wheels) on Twitter

Alphabe-Thursday --Rainbow Summer School Extravaganza

This week over at Jenny's Place it is a COLOR EXTRAVAGANZA!!

For My Part I have decided to share something I love; MUSIC!! and I'll be visiting some colors that we did NOT visit during regular Rainbow Summer School

First......BLACK

all of these Song Titles start with the word 

BLACK...

Mirror, Wave/Vibrations, Flowers, Sun, Cat Bones, Butterfly, Gold Blues, Eyed Gypsy, Cadillacs, Widow, Sunshine, Cotton, Jesuz, Math, Velvet, Sea, Tears, Gold, Mambo, Swan, Betty, Balloon, Butterfly, Parade, Friday, Water, Cop, Man's Struggle, Rose, Cage, Night, Or White, Bird, Is Black, Magic Woman, Hole Sun, Fire Choked Our Death, Hole, Tambourine

there are at least 2 songs that the Title is just BLACK

all of these Song Titles have the word BLACK in it:
Super Golden Black Sunchild, The March Of The Black Queen, Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie, Blackberry Way,  Coma Black, Baby's in Black, Back to Black, Blue Black, Back in Black, Fade to Black, Fade to Black, I'm Black, The Black Angel's Death Song, Fourteen Black Paintings, Paint it Black, Men in Black, Man in Black, Run to Black




Now onto WHITE

all of these Song Titles start with the word

WHITE...
Christmas, Rabbit, Wedding, Room, Punks On Dope, Lines, Lines, Lie, Riot, Horses, Cliffs Of Dover, Girl, Horse, Hot, Ashes, Winter Hymnal, And Nerdy, Lightening, Silver Sands

all of these Song Titles have the word WHITE in it

Little White Church, Black and White, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, Nights in White Satin, A White Sport Coat (and A Pink Carnation), Ride A White Swan, Black Tie White Noise, Hand Held In Black And White, Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White, A Whiter Shade of Pale, Everything's Turning To White, The King is White and in the Crowd, Great White Buffalo, Honey White, Pretty Fly for a White Guy, Trapped in the Body of a White Girl, White Is In The Winter Night, Fly little white dove fly, Then Came the White Man, African And White, The boys in the bright white sports car




Let's try PINK:


all of these Song Titles start with the word

PINK...

-erton, Houses, Cadillac, Shoelaces, Cashmere, Champagne, Toothbrush,Blue Toothbrush, -y, -y Blue, Lemonade, Tee, Bubbles go Ape, Panther theme, -y And the Brain theme, Orange Red, & Blue, ! Pink! Pink!, Eye, And Velvet, Love, Evening, Maggot, Cellphone, Killer, Toenails, Riots, Frosty, Roses, Life, And Brown, Spider (with spread beaver), Elephant, Moon, Cherry, Dinosaur, HQ, 's Song, Glove, Flamingos, Steam, Chimneys, Bullets, Triangle, Flag, Thing, -Eye Paranoia, Noise Waltz, Peg Slacks, Roses and The Graveyard, Fluffy Dinosaurs, Turns to Blue, Water 2, Water 3,  Cookies in a Plastic Bag, Shack Blues, White Blue, Ego Box, Flamingo Kind of Love, Wine Sparkles in the Glass, Starts and Magazines, Cigarette


all of these Song Titles have the word PINK in it

In the Pink, Sink the Pink, Mrs. Pink, Chancellor Pink, Geek in the Pink, Pink is the Colour(featuring Joy), Tickled Pink, Hot Pink, The Pink life, Pretty in Pink, A Pink Dream, Electric Pink, Lily the Pink, Pretty Pink Ribbon, In the Land of Grey and Pink, Pretty Pink Rose, Pink Tee (Cam'ron Diss), Half This Place Is Pink,  Two Pink Lines, Big Pink Dress, Tickle me Pink, Juicy John Pink, Little Pink Stars, My Love Is Pink, Little Pink House, Blue For A Boy, Pink For A Girl,






I was also going to do GRAY, but I figured the post would be waaay too long!  Hope you enjoyed this :)

Altered Art thursday

Hello, I am going to try again to share an image with you from ALTERED PAGES


Make something with this image and link in into a comment on this post. I will pick a random winner to receive the entire collage sheet it came from.

Here is the image:

Here are 2 ATC's for this newest Lottery on ARTchix sister yahoo group, the theme is "Gothic"

Lots of different images and embellishments from several places, but the main images are from ARTchix collage sheets and the German scrap is from ARTchix. I also used Ranger's distress crackle glaze on one of them.

Hope you like'em!

Scrappy Sunday--some close-ups

ok so here are some close-ups of the scrapbook that I shared with you. My great-niece's sweet 16 party (5 years ago) (links to the posts with the full pages are at the end of this post)

This pom-pom fancy fiber looks great but is a PITA to work with, the pom-poms totally unravel while working with it. I was given over 2 yards, by the time I was done I had enough for the drape on the title page of the album, and about 16 inches left.

Hard to tell but the brads used on the title page are black velvet.

I know this is blurry, but I was trying to show that the brads through the double flowers are glitter brads.

Fancy pants designs chipboard flourishes I painted with the closest green I had in the house.

I Love these ticket letters by EK Success and also wanted to show that I used cat eye fluid chalk on the edges of the flowers.

See I actually used string on the Balloons.

Gotta love a good white gel pen!  all the balloons and the Party time were cut out on a cricut (at a crop, I do not own one)

Flower paper piecing made by a woman at the same crop, she went around and gave everyone a choice out of the bag...we were in the last section, not a lot left in the bag but this was cute, and it worked.

Chipboard "gift" by Bazzill, I used sharpies on it to match the paper, and the word gifts, is from those "older" alphabet punch out sheets.

The zoom in here is for the "sheetrock" tape I used and the bow, but another of the paper piecings from that lady (my friend gave me hers) on a journaling square.

Same 2 page layout, stickles on butterfly bodies, sheetrock tape, bows with fancy fiber and a metal tag that says journaling and organza ribbon.

close up of the pre-designed chipboard pieces from K & co. (I think) it was a huge stack. I wrote inside with Gel pen, see my design runner in action along side of it.

Again, use of my xyron design runner hand-held printer. I left a lot of little tags and chipboard pieces on this 2 page layout for her to journal on.

This is the center of the back page. (set up for her to list things, ie. who was present. how they got her there, what gifts she rec'd etc) I used these 2 great stamp sets from Autumn leaves. I put the big tag one in the center and used some of the flower/flourishes from the other set around it.  I used sharpies and stickles to color them in. 

here are the links to the posts with the full pages:
http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/2010/06/scrappy-sunday.html
http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/2010/07/scrappy-sunday-returnsgonna-try-very.html
http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/2010/08/scrappy-sunday.html

Hope you enjoyed this :)

Susan

September 11, 2010--- 9/11/2001

 

 I remember as a child, on our drives to Jersey City to see relatives watching out the window as the "Twin Towers" were being built. I remember the pride in my father's voice as he pointed it out every time to me. Warning: the Below images may upset some.

 

Do you remember? Where you were? What you were doing? How you felt? How you felt in the days that followed?

I TOTALLY remember. I remember thinking is this some kind of a drill (after one plane but before the second) I was on the internet, and also then put on the TV.  How Horror-struck I was. I was then glued to the television for the next 10 days or so. Almost 24 hours a day.  I swear I had survivors quilt, as many others probably felt. I couldn't stop crying. To the point that my husband, kept telling me to shut the TV off.

I am focusing on NY and the WTC because it had the largest loss. Do you know there are still 1,125 people missing, that NOTHING was ever found of?

I can NOT even begin to imagine the choking, the heat, the pain, the fear that these fellow Americans were feeling. Can you you even try to imagine how BAD it was, that so many chose to jump to their deaths?

They surely had to know that it would be a quicker way to go, and on THEIR terms. SO Horrifically Tragic!!

soooo many. sooo terrible a loss.

and then they came down, the rest of the people in a steel and stone grave.

SO Many came from all over the country, and also from around the world to help and support. To look for the missing, which were in the thousands. Additionally, for a long while to come, we Americans were numb, but also united.

The clean up is done, but sadly no one has learned anything. We are not numb, we are becoming complacent again, and we are no longer united. WE NEED TO REMEMBER, TO FEEL IT again and to STAND UNITED.  YES, I agree there is evil in the world, but we need to show tolerance and love.  I say there should be a mosque, a catholic church and a protestant church, a jewish synagogue, a Buddist and hindu temple and other building representing other major religions in this country at ground zero. The true muslims did NOT do this.

The many Memorials

Hoboken, NJ: 

Bayonne, NJ: 





Logan Airport, Boston MA:

 The Pentagon:

 NYC:   

I Hope you have not forgotten. Truthfully, I hope my post made you remember more clearly, and made you FEEL IT again.                                                                                I am a PATRIOT, and will NEVER forget.

Some Halloween cards for OWH

I made 12 Halloween cards for OWH, that were like a set, and then one odd one. (the witch I showed last week)

The ones that are like a set, are 6 using orange and 6 using purple Card Stock. the main cards are made from black Card Stock. 

 I used the steps corner punch and bent the corners back. I used a sizzix ghost and some epoxy stickers on each. All stamps are by Stampin' Up.  Black ink in Memento tuxedo black. Orange and Purple ink by Stampin' up. Images colored in with Sharpies. I also stamped a "Bingo" on each card. One the orange cards I used a purple bat stamp as the "Bingo dauber" and the purple cards I used an Orange wrapped candy stamp.

All the cards here were made the same way, just with different stamps, and bkgd. colors. They all also have one of  Jenni Bowlin's Holiday mini bingo cards.  the main color of them is kind of creamy light beige. SO I used "Old Paper" distress ink on my white paper before stamping the image on them. I them crumbled them up in my hand, scrubbed the sides with  a nail buffer (file) and then inked them with a sharpie.  For the green frames around both sets of images I used my deckle edge Rectangles Nestabilities both a large and a smaller size, one to cut one to emboss, which I did twice, it gave it a framed, and distressed look. I then inked the frames with the tuxedo black ink.  As you can see, using the "old Paper" distress ink on pure white paper made them the same color as Bowlin's bingo minis :)! These cards fulfill the September challenge over at Sir Stampalot's for distressing.(made on Sept. 1 mailed on the 2nd)

I really like how they came out, and wish I bought a couple more packs of the bingo minis, I would have made more cards!

Thursday--Altered Art (late)

Here are some items I've been working on the last few weeks.

you already saw my bird pages (get swapped)  here is the cover page I keep for myself.(This is the Maya Road Bird coaster book) BTW this bird cover as well as the pages from a couple of weeks ago, would fulfill Sir Stampalot's September's challenge for distressing, but the bird pages were actually made in August, so they do not count. However this cover bird does!:

here is the front :)

this one is more to show the shimmer and shine.

Here is the back :)

You probably noticed I put the wing on upside down on the back, I liked it better this way for how I used the all the mediums I used. I used sand paper. paint, ink, several different specialty and hand made papers, tar gel medium(mixed with the paint) Tattered Angels glimmer mists, chalk, some distress stickles, and obviously feathers.

Here are Altered Puzzle pieces, it is a swap I am hosting with BIG puzzle pieces from a kids game. each person will end up with 2 pieces that fit together in the same main color and theme. My themes to make were Orange/Halloween and Hot Pink/Rock n Roll, now there are 2 other artists, with the same color/theme to send to the lady(s) meant to get them.

I will be receiving 2 pieces from 2 different artists in White/Snow Day theme.

Ok here are mine:

I am showing several angles so you can see all that I added, epoxy stickers. Torn strips of Heavy hand made Black mulberry paper.

Some bling gems, and K& co. 3D paper bat stickers, tiny dot German scrap in purple. A brad and fancy ric-rac. The words "spells" and "sung" off an old scrap of wordy paper, a resin purple, green and silver witch. Lastly a scrap of orange with red scribbles on it paper for the Bkgd.

Here is the Rock n Roll one:

The Bkgd. paper is from DCWV Rock Queen Mat Stack. The border sticker I got in Mike's for a Buck, it is like felt or fleece and self stick.

The Guitar and Music notes bling is by Jolees. The other Bling is by Prima.

 I raised up one of the hearts, and a skull and cross bones on foam tape.

I hope the recipient's like them. what do you think?

:)

Susan