Get the inside "SCOOP" on CHA with a special broadcast LIVE from the CHA Trade show floor

SAVE THE DATE!!!

More details to come later - We'll be offering a special broadcast LIVE from the CHA trade show floor in Los Angeles, California

 Monday January 31

Please note the special airing time:  11am EASTERN - 10am central and 8am Pacific

Friendly Plastic Brooch with a fun, vintage chic feel

Today on Cool2Craft I made a very fun and playful vintage style brooch with Friendly Plastic and one of my favorite techniques. Enjoy the video - courtesy of Tiffany Windsor of Cool2Craft.



In case you missed the live show, you can watch the replay of the entire show by clicking here

It's been an awesome year and my privledge to be one of the featured guests on Tiffany's show. January 3 begins the NEW SEASON on the Cool2Craft NETWORK!

Read all about the upcoming shows here

Eco-Friendly Plastic jewelry on Cool2Craft Monday December 27

Join guests Heidi Borchers aka EcoHeidi and me as we present some really cool jewelry projects featuring PLASTIC!  Heidi will make an eco-friendy project using recycled bottles to create this fun mixed media necklace and I'll be using my favorite...FRIENDLY PLASTIC to put a vintage chic spin on a favorite technique...

So please join us and meet some new crafty friends on Cool2Craft the #1 Coolest Crafting LIVE webTV show on the net!!!

Join us for pre-show chat too!!  Monday's at Noon Eastern
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Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop - Week 7 - Hugs N Kisses Even if You're a Train Robber...

I know by now, ya'll expect a story...but I bet you're wondering.."What's up with the whole train robber thing?"....well...that's where the story begins.....

This is a picture of my Grandpa Campbell - probably sometime around the late 1960's early 70's standing next to the Frisco Silver Dollar Line steam engine at Silver Dollar City.  We vacationed in Branson, MO every year and the highlight of the trip for me as a little girl was to go to Silver Dollar City and ride the train and get robbed....

When I was 13 we moved to Branson. Silver Dollar City became a weekly hang out for me an all my friends....and yes...we would ride the train ....and get robbed....and ...somehow..as corny as the whole robbers skit was..and still is....I loved it....and I always wanted to be a train robber at Silver Dollar City....cuz it looked like fun......and silly ....and you could just laugh......and the tourists loved it....(just imagine the look on a  prospective employer's face when you have train robber on your list of occupations....)

My friend Charlotte and I loved it so much, we would dress up as hillbillies and pretend...and do the skit in the back yard.... HOLLAR UGLY!...the skit would start out....."Well...I may be UGLY...but ya'll paid to see me...this is a stick up! " What dorks we were back then....\

Well...my dream never came true (unless someone working at SDC right now reads this...and offers it to me....hey - I'd be up for it for a day or two....)

It's seems the apple didnt fall far from the tree.......fast forward about 20 years....I now have two kids...I'm working at Silver Dollar City selling polymer clay miniatures....and my kids Alex and Mariah LOVE LOVE LOVE the train...they're riding it nearly every day. 

Before our drive to work....it's mandatory that we have to stop at the convience store to buy candy for the train robbers.....but not just any candy....Hershy's Chocolate Kisses.....because.....Mariah thinks that one of the train robbers is cute and when he comes up to the window to rob her....she wants to give him a "kiss" instead.......

And wouldn't ya know....those little chocolate kisses melted the robber's hearts...and they became friends.  It wasn't strange that they would call me and invite Alex and Mariah  to the Robber's shack for lunch or to sit in the shack and watch them rob the trains.......Musta been a great life for a kid huh???



So the kids are grown.....but even still ...it's mandatory when we visit Silver Dollar City, we ride the train and give'm kisses....

Because everyone ya know...needs a hug and a kiss once in a while.....even if you're a train robber......


Thanks to Eileen Hull the designer of the Treat Bag Topper Sizzix bigz die for designing such  fun fun fun die shapes to work with.  As you can tell by the story...it had great memories for me...made me smile...made me appreciate how quick my kids grew up.....and without the opportunity to work with this die this week...I might not have the smile on my face now  after remembering these fun family times...

I added a little tulle....cuz It reminds me how girly girl Mariah was when she was little...she liked rufles....The XO reminds me of the Hershey's Hugs and Kisses we bought the robbers....The stringy fringe...because everything we do has strings attached...good and bad.....and the treat bag to wrap it all up in a nice little happy package...

Thanks too to my Kids, Alex and Mariah for making such great memories for a Mom to remember...(Im sure Alex wants to just die right about now......)

Snowmen that won't Melt on Cool2Craft! and the FAVECRAFTS Blog Hop

Im really gettin' into this whole Blog Hoppy thing....It's such a great way to see a variety of creative inspiration without spending alot of time googling every key word that you can think of....

Along with the Sizzix Triple Play blog hop, the folks at FaveCraft's have started a blog hop called "Finished on the 15th"...Okay..so technically mine is finished "BY" the 15th...but none the less it gives you an opportunity to hop down to all my posts from the last month to get a little creative juice flowin in your brain.....

If  you missed yesterday' Cool2Craft show and my demo on creating Snowmen from polymer clay - not a problem!!!
Just click here and you can watch the ENTIRE recorded show in the playback room!
or watch my segment below



Enjoy the show...and enjoy the hop...
RELAX and BE HOPPY!!!