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I am on Twitter now if anyone is interested. My user name is AmryJR I probably won't tweet much art related stuff there. I just like the idea of being able to post random, rambling thoughts out to the world whenever I feel like it, LOL.

For some reason I am not showing up on the Twitter name search. This link should take you directly to my page so that you can follow me there: http://twitter.com/AmryJR

Let's try this again...

This is my second attempt at posting this. My first attempt was briefly interrupted when we had an electrical fire about an hour ago. Thankfully we are all OK! Sadly our washer/dryer combo and the outlet it was hooked into went to that great scrap-metal yard in the sky...

Apparently the yahoos that ran the line to the machine and installed the power box didn't bother to ground anything. These are the same idiots who put the light switches in my bedroom ceiling when we remodeled as they were too lazy to move them to a proper location... I recall the electrician was too busy making little wire figures instead of actually working. But heck - we got some great little angel Christmas ornaments that we paid $20 + an hour for so all is well - right????!!!!! Did I mention we had to re-do every bit of plumbing they worked on too? GRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Anyway, it finally cooled off enough that I could create! I didn't think that heat wave would EVER end! Our little window air conditioner keeps this house really cool until the temps go over 95, LOL.

This month's inchie theme was kitchen and/or recycle. I combined the two themes and used "recycled" stuff for my kitchen inchies. The backgrounds are cut from the various covers of paper stacks that I have purchased and the words were cut from those book club catalogs that we get in the mail. Those catalogs are the best places to find sayings for inchies!

I think my favorite this month is the coffee cup inchie. I used dimensional white paint for cream and added some coffee scented embossing powder onto said paint while it was still wet to resemble sprinkles. Wonder if you will be able to still smell them after they have gone through the mail?

By the way, I have finally figured out why my scans are always blurry, but I have no idea how to fix the problem. When I scan anything dimensional, the scanner focuses on the thicker, dimensional item in the foreground and blurs the flatter background items. Guess I am going to have to start using the camera instead...

I am excited to get started on next month's inchies as I just read that the theme is owls and/or chickens. I just got some new owl stamps that I am eager to use!