Free Download-A-Day starts today at www.3scrapateers.com

I am the featured artist this month (September) at 3Scrapateers. Just go to the forum every day this month to pick up pieces of the FREE scrapbooking set and/or coordinating printables.

If for some reason you miss a piece or two, you can make a layout or printable from what you have and post a photo in the gallery. Then go to the forum post here, and request the piece(s) you are missing.

If you don't want to wait until the end of the month, the whole set is available in my store at a reduced price for September.

PLUS - if you look a few posts below, there is an extra piece of the set. Just click on the matted picture of the rooster & hen, then right click and save.

Free Framed Rooster and Hen Picture

It's - Bring Your Rooster Party at Bella Vista today!
I was putting together a set for www.3scrapateers.com for the daily download for the month of September. It has a composition notebook theme. I took a break and went vintage blog hopping, and found the graphic of the rooster and hen at www.thevintagemoth.blogspot.com. It was one of the free graphics offered on the site. I loved it and put it to work on a notebook (which is modeled after an old vintage notebook), a gift box and gift bag that also have the composition notebook theme.

Starting September 1st, you can go to www.3scrapateers.com and pick up one piece a day in the free daily download.

Here’s a picture of the whole set. There are items for scrapbooking as well as printables – and they all coordinate.

In the meantime, you are welcome to click and take the rooster print (right click and save when you get the full size image)!

By the way, all the pieces I used to make this framed piece are available in the free download a day, although the rooster and hen are not the same as the original download from vintagemoth - they've been textured and have chickenwire overlays.

It’s RedNesday at “It’s A Very Cherry World”.

I call this little mouse “Matilda” because I think she looks like she’s ready to waltz. My dear Grandmother made her several years ago. Grandma discovered that when you open up an old feather pillow, the feathers line the inside of the ticking and make wonderful mice. She made several, but I think little Matilda is made from wool.

Matilda is complete with toes, a tail, whiskers, eyes and a seed-bead nose, plus a little hat and shawl.

Normally modest, I didn't think she'd mind if I showed you her little toes.

She’s a treasure to me, as are the pincushions shown in the background. My Grandmother made several of these as well, with the thimble holder attached. She decorated them with tiny pieces of lace and tatting.