Projects from November's Crafty Session

Aloha Crafty Friends,

Here are 2 of 3 projects created at my crafty session using RG Studio 360 products. I will post a pic of the 3rd project in another post.

Fun projects, and even better time with sweet friends.

Thanks again for stopping by!!!

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

Jen's September Crafty Session - Friday

Aloha Crafty Friends!! Every month a hold a crafty session with my crafty friends. We get together and create using products from all different types of companies. It's the best fun ever. Then we go out on a little excursion, and break bread together. I host this crafty session every 3rd Friday and 3rd Saturday of the month, and it is by invitation only, or you'll need to know someone within the group to attend. I've closed it up to make it a special type of group, making it more intimate and fun for the ladies that attend. I so love these group of ladies, and the Lord has placed each of them in my life for a reason.

So, the products we created with came from RG Studio 360, RG Inspired Products, Hero Arts, Altenew, My Favorite Things... I am pretty sure that was about it. Here are pics from Friday's session. I will post more pics after my Saturday session tomorrow. :) 

Table all pretty and ready to go!!! My friend, Richard Garay sent me these paper mats for my sessions, and I am just loving how they are looking.

Here is one of the card samples... digital image is from RG Studio 360; I printed them on watercolor paper, using my laser printer, and then coloring using the watercolor paints I got from Altenew.

Here are several samples I created, my ladies were free to paint with whatever color they wanted.... so wanted to share with them several color choices.... 

Working on a card using Altenew, and Pan Pastels....

Us at Rokaru during lunch. Yummerz!!!!

My die cutting machine (crank one), an RG Inspired Product. 

My Bellaboo, she was so well behaved, and just sat on my chair, or Wini's chair... she was loving the company. Thank You for being so well behaved, Bella!!! 

Then a selfie shot before we all went our separate ways.

Thank you for coming out, ladies!!! So much fun!!! Love talking stories and hanging out, eating and creating with all of you. Always a blessing. Thank You for being a blessing in my life.

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

My July Crafty Session - Twist Pop-Up Card

Aloha Crafty Friends!!! I cannot believe that July is already HERE, come tomorrow!!! Eeeeks!!! So I have been thinking about what type of session I was gonna hold for July, and it looks like it's gonna be a fun session. :) If you'd like to know the details, please comment and leave me your email address and I will add you to my Crafty Session's Email Listing. This is a class for Oahu Residents only, as I am NOT mailing out any kits at this time.

Here is the card that we will be making. The inside will be the same, but the outter DSP's might be different. I'll just be making kits of what I have in my stash.

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

A Visit From Maria Bell

Aloha All... so recently, I met up with one of my long time crafting/blogging friend, Maria Bell. If you have been blogging since 2007, like we have, then you probably know who Maria is too. I have met her for the first time, in person, since 11 years that we have known each other through blogging and social media. We met with a bunch of other ladies, and it was just real nice to finally meet her and talk stories with her. I found that she is the same person as she is on social media. True to her heart, and she loves friendships.

We went to eat lunch at Zippy's, and then on another day, we went to eat at The Olena in Kailua. Then on another day, she came to my crafty session. That was SO COOL that she took the time to spend all that time with me. I was truly blessed with her visit. I am pretty sure that we clicked because she grew up here, in Hawaii. She has that aloha already implanted in her. But I thank the Lord for allowing her to come from the mainland and getting to know me on a more personal level. She has planned to come out next year again, so we are already looking forward to that, and making plans for while she is here on her visit. :)

Here are some pics taken during her visit her on Oahu.

The above pics were taken at Zippy's. Rina, Janis and Teri met up with us. Maria helped me to use her selfie stick. I wasn't doing a good job, as she does, but she showed me how to later use it to avoid seeing it in my pics. I later went and purchased a selfie stick from Amazon!!! LOL!!! Thanks Maria!!!

These above pics were taken at The Olena in Kailua. I had the Macadamia Nut French Toast and the Loco Moco. Unfortunately, I had raved n' raved about this place to Maria and Rina, and when we got there, we received such poor customer service by our waiter. He was a real jerk. Attitude problem, and just not a pleasant waiter to have. He only had us and another party of 13 peeps. But was treating us like we were ruining his morning. What a jerk! I won't share his name for privacy reasons, but I'm just saying that the experience that he gave us was such a turn off, and I was so embarrassed that I shared that restaurant with my friends. If I had known that he was gonna be such a jerk, I wouldn't have asked for them to meet up there. But, God is good... his beauty of creation around us was glorious, and the company that I had was wonderful. That's all that really mattered. I was blessed to be with these ladies.

This last set of pics were taken at my Crafty Session Day #2. I always host 2 Crafty Sessions for me n' my crafty friends, and this time, I was so THRILLED and BLESSED that Maria was able to join us. Along with Barb n' Ali, we took pics, and again, Maria is such a pro with using her selfie stick. My doggie was so in love with her, and she was so sweet to be loving on him. I also gave Maria some Pickled Mango and Mountain Apples. She really enjoyed those.

After Maria had left earlier she returned back to my house to pick up her camera that she left behind. We were able to chit chat a little more and just talk stories like old friends. She's a keeper... And although it was sad to say goodbye, (we hugged like uku-billion times before we really said goodbye), I know that we will be seeing each other again, and I look forward, to meeting up with her in the future. Thanks for coming by Maria, and for taking the time to spend with ME. Love YOU!!!!!!


Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

My March Crafty Session

What a great time of crafting this month, we focused on Watercoloing Techniques and Products. Here are pics of our crafting time, the cards we made are posted below these pics.

This card was CASED

This card was a project brought by Wini - Thank You for sharing with us, Wini!!! 

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

Pics From February's Crafty Session

Here are the pics from my February crafty session.... SO MuCH FuN!!!! Thank You, Lord, bless these ladies as they have blessed ME!!!!

Day #1... I forgot to take more pics of faces....

Pics from Day #1 - I remembered to take more pics....

And here's a video to top it all off... thanks Queen Daffers for sharing.... Such a fun filled day!!!

Have a blessed day!!! Thanks for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me.

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~