Update on EVERYTHING!!!

Hi everyone! well here is what has been going on in my crazy screwy nutty life! LOL

First we lost our old home due to foreclosure. Bank of America was just total B's to work with and actually refused to work with us.

Second we Got a new place which is MUCH smaller and ended up having to GUT the place before we moved in because there was mold and mildew in the walls. All gone now tho but we are STILL undergoing renovations which is taking forever!

Third. I now have an art and photography studio Its found on Facebook under world of Rae Scott  or you can click here.  I am working on paintings and sketches and clay sculptures and art photography

Also I have started an online magazine about the local music scene, its ALL LOCAL no out of state or out of the area stuff. Its Called Rocker Betty Crocker Magazine and you can find it here.

I am making some amazing friends and have had MANY family emergencies come up and basically if it could go wrong its gone wrong EXCEPT for losing my job. LOL

Luckily for me Things are starting to go back to normal and I hope to get things going again.

Also it turns out I have a blog on Wordpress I totally forgot about having. LOL So I will be over there as well.  Love and hugs to you all!

HI!!

HI!!! Well so far so good! Had a snafu on Etsy that gave me a kink but I was able to sort it out pretty quickly and BOY am I glad!!! It was for some vintage beads for one of the ornaments I am making for christmas gifts. I was able to find something similar but it did cost me just a bit more. :( I got my clay sculpting done check it out! I made a super sized Bomb Omb then a mini Bomb Omb, Mini 1 up, Mini Goomb, Mini Mario and Mini Luigi!   The mini's are going to be ornaments and are now baking once they are done and cooled off they will get paint and sealer and be ready to go. I am totally blaming my current clay sculpting obsession on Ash Evans and her work. LOL.

 I have 25% of the third to last ornament done and will make it to 50% tonight maybe over. I am also going to be sewing up the one I just finished stitching tonight so it can be turned and rhinestones applied. I have at least 2 batches of Dog treats to make and 10-15 lbs of Peppermint Bark and a couple batchs of Potato Candy as well and then the only things left are the 2 ornaments, batteries for my sons Furby and getting something for my dad which I am thinking this year its going to be flannel/fleece pants, Alpine Apple Cider Drink Mix and underwear...he needs the clothes and loves the Apple Cider mix so it works.

I am SLOWLY getting there guys! I am hoping within the next week most everything will be done and I can be more social. I love you all and miss you!

Love Light ans Stitchs!!!
Marie

Update on everything!

Hi everyone! I am so so so busy I feel like I am going in circles. besides last night the last 3 nights i averaged like 3 hours of sleep so not even coffee was keeping me awake anymore! As of this point I have half a wall in the living room and my bedroom to insulate and the ceilings. I have 3 ornaments to stitch up (one is almost half done), what seems like 40 lbs of candy to make, I have 5-6 packages to mail out, all in the country thank goodness and one more clay figure to make then I have to bake everything paint it and seal it, I have to get shipping boxes and gift boxes and get my father his bought gifts, I have a but load of dog treats to make and IDK what all else. I am easily 3 weeks behind and running out of time fast. I ALWAYS have my christmas stuff done by this time of year except maybe 1 or 2 gifts so being this far set back is just driving me insane.

Last night I had a BIG French Latte and fell asleep before 11 pm and withing minutes of drinking it and was up by 6am this morning. I am already up and going and doing, Thank god my dad helped out finally by taking out the trash and doing the dishes while I was at work yesterday. 

I am really enjoying making these little clay sculptures and am considering doing them in the future as mini ornaments for the business, we will see how that shapes up. The ones I am working on right now are Mario Bros. characters and their turning out pretty good. I will try and get a pic up before I paint them and then another after I paint them as well as the BIG Bomb Omb I  made for a friend for Christmas.

Love you all!!!

Love Light and Stitches!
Marie B

Hi Everyone!

Hey Everyone! Glad to see you again. LOL Well I got SO much done today I am totally unsure of how I did it!  I got half of one wall scrubbed with bleach water and insulated, got ALL the clean stuff put away, got the stuff in my room sorted a bit and moved around so I could get back into my dressers. I got my bathroom cleaned and did the dishes and then went and washed and dried 5 baskets of laundry in about 2 hours AND I even rounded up about 2 BIG bags of trash. I even managed to get my huge pile of paperwork filled out and ready to be sent back! I am tired! LOL

For those of you who may have just started reading or who are just now catching up with me let me tell you what happened to lead to the current state of crazy. LOL Back in June my dad lost our house in foreclosure. We had to move and the new place needed to be gutted to the studs. There was no insulation and a HUGE mess to clean up. Fast Forward to December. During the move all the boxes basically got loaded into what is supposed to be my bedroom. Well in the course of everything dad developed some really bad nerve pain which makes some days almost impossible for him to move leaving me to do all the work on the house. On one of his "good" days dad decided to pile even more things in "my" room which completely blocked my access to my dressers. SO since my bed post had split when me moved I am without a bed and was now without dressers to put my clothes in. I had enough and today I worked and got part of the one wall in my room insulated and the boxes mostly gone through and a LOT of the stuff tossed and now have free access to my dressers so I am no longer living out of clothes baskets!

I still have a LOT of stuff to do and tomorrow is a trip to the bank and store for christmas shopping then home for clay working for a christmas gift. IF I have extra clay then I will be making some mini statues/ornament things for my shop in the future tho I doubt I will. I am off to do some assembly work on an ornament and stitching on another one. I wish you all the best and I love you all!

Love Light and Stitches!!!
MarieB

Hi all!!!

Hi everyone! just a quick quick run through.  I have just gotten home from the day job and am rather tired. I have a couple of chores I am going to do that are smaller but necessary and then I am going to settle in my bed with a cup of tea and my little Coco and grab a nights sleep I hope!  I have almost a full page of to do stuff for tomorrow through Sunday when I go to work and I am praying I can get about half of it done at least.  Sad part is my list does NOT include things like sleeping eating and showering. LOL. I love you all and am so so happy to have you all reading my blog and sticking by me. I am checking in once a day to try and keep up on things so if you message me and you dont hear back right away give me a day or so and I PROMISE I will get back to you.

Saturday is a clay day for me and that means I am going to be orking with clay to make a Bomb Omb for a friend for christmas. I have never done one before and have not really worked with clay in a LONG time so fingers crossed it goes ok. Love you guys!

Love Light and Stitches!!!
Marie B

I am SO sorry everyone!!!

Hi everyone! I am SO SO sorry, everything has been absolute chaos here. I had my day job have some major changes take place that changed my schedule and it was a last minute type of thing, I came down sick for awhile too. I have been working on this house and I am STILL not done 6 months later. I am still working on insulation and trying to get that done before the really cold weather sets in. I lost 2 of my birds which was extremely hard for me. I am also dealing with a father who has been very very cranky and in a good deal of pain lately, to the point of not being able to move sometimes.  I also have a 5 yr old that has his difficulties with SPD.  I am working my butt off trying to get my Christmas gifts done as well. I have also been trying to retrain my dogs who seem to have forgotten all their manners after we moved. That is SO vexing I cannot tell you.

I have right now a HUGE plastic drawer thing of yarn to get made into hats and booties for you guys and another huge thing to get made into dishcloths for you. Sitting next to me is a VERY large tote almost completely full of fabric waiting to be cut to be made into things and that isnt even close to being done and its not counting all the stuff still in storage yet! 

At this time I am finishing up all my Christmas gifts as fast as I can, I still have 3 packages to mail out yet, THANK GOD their not going overseas or I would be so screwed.  I am getting things organized for a good start on 2013 so things can get done and listed. I am not even doing the photography of my items at this time as I just dont have the time or energy to do it. My dear friend Matt DeLuca at DeLuca Photography and Videography is helping me out a LOT with that.  I am going to be reworking the store and giving it a fresh new look. I am trying to figure out how to do a video blog thing on Youtube for you guys as my laptop isnt cooperating atm.

So what is coming up in 2013? here is the LIST of things I am working on/ toward/ trying to finish up:

New Products: Baby Blankets/quilts and afghans, doggy Bandanas (doganas), dog squeeker toys, Cat toys, wine glass charms, new baby hats and booties, new heatable pillow covers, new hot pads, maybe some clay sculptures depending on how they turn out and I know there is more I just cant think of it right now. LOL

EXPANSION!!!! Yes I am going to be expanding!!! I am going to slowly branch out onto Etsy and I will be keeping my Artfire store so you can find me in both place.  The structure for listing is a bit different so its going to take time to get everything put up there but I will do my best for you guys. I also am going to try to do some shows and meet some of you in person!

Finishing this HOUSE!!! Hopefully in 2013 we will be done with ALL the insulation and will have the drywall up and finished and my dad and I can look into replacing some windows and getting gutters put on.  and maybe some nice lovely hardwood floors with area rugs of course, much easier to clean up the dog hair then carpet. LOL Oh and of course repair the cedar shake siding and getting the front screen door put on.

Personally: take a vacation at some point. I havent had one in over 6 years and think I am over due. I have 5 needle work project I am going to be doing just for me for fun. One of them I am hoping to enter into the stark county fair.  I am working on a book, i have started it but will not be making anymore headway on it till my christmas stuff is done :(  I am going to be continuing to try and lose a bit of weight, and just expanding and growing me as a person.

To play catch up I am staying off facebook/meetme/ social sites period for the rest of this week, I will however check in once a day. I have been getting so stressed my health is starting to be effected. I am not sleeping right when I can sleep, I  get the feeling of a lump in my throat caused by acid reflux which is caused by stress.  I am also not eating right. I have become a bit cranky. I am not able to talk to the people I want to and havent been able to since like thanksgiving if not longer. SO I am just going to make a major push and try and catch up and destress before the holiday. thanks guys love you all!

Love Light and Stitches!
Marie B

My favorite LOTR Artist!

Arwen and Aragorn (Eternal Promise) Copyright Matt Stewart

Ok so I love cross stitch I LOVE art and I also really like Lord of the Rings. Well I have already told you guys about Heaven and Earth Designs and one of their charts is called Eternal Promise. Well The artists' name is Matthew Stewart and he has the MOST amazing paintings of Lord of the Rings I have ever seen.  Here is a pic of Eternal Promise and it was originally titled Arwen and Aragorn.

Horn of Boromir Copyright Matt Stewart

He even has some other more amazing works of art as well! I have never seen another artist actually paint out an entire scene from the books but Matthew has!  Check out this Horn of Boromir Painting he did! It is SO fab!!!! I am so praying for this to be charted because I am just DYING to stitch all of those Orges!

Galadriel copyright Matt Stewart

And WHO doesnt remember Galadriel??? The elven queen that helped Frodo and the others? She was SO ethereal in the movie but I think Matthew has done a MUCH better job of capturing her in his paintings of her!
This isnt all of his work of Lord of the Rings either. He also has done Aragorn in his hood (as Strider) as well and even done a piece of Eowyn fighting Nazgul! Now who else does that? He also has an AMAZING Gandalf piece too!

Matt Stewart at work with a little helper!

Matthew has worked with Wizards of the coast and Upper deck and a whole host of other companies and his artwork is SO amazing. He is one of the BEST fantasy artists I have ever seen. Interesting Fact with Matthew is that He was with Heaven and Earth a LONG time ago and had had to leave due to contract/paperwork issues. Well he never knew how LOVED his work was and had no IDEA people were still clamoring for his charts! When it was announced that he was re-signing OMG the response was IMMENSE!!! SO many Eternal Promise charts were sold and wishlisted in the first 24 hours I think it came close to setting a record if not setting a record!

You REALLY need to check out all of his work Here at http://www.matthew-stewart.com/  Drop him an email and let him know what you think of his work! I know he will be very appreciative of it!

BTW these photo's belong to Matt and he HAS copyrighted them so do a favor and DONT steal them. Its just plain wrong to do!