My "Dream" Home

This house has got to be the coolest house I've seen in a long time!
So much loving detail has been put into it, that your eye's never stop looking!
Look at that spiral chimney!

It's located at the entrance of Corona Del Mar State Beach, CA.
You see photo's of the beach in this post.
Look at the size of it's lot!

Even the fence is spectacular!

Star Wars Pancakes!

One of my best friends sent these Star Wars pancake molds to Dyllan for Halloween. Aren't they the bomb? The pancake recipe called for real buttermilk and boy did these beauties melt in our mouths! Easy to do and fun to eat! Long live Star Wars! :)

Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop Week 1 : Vintage Inspired Christmas House!

Greetings!
My name is Michelle Cummings and I'm extremely excited and honored
to once again be apart of another Sizzix Blog Hop!
This time around, 60 artist's will be sharing their creativity
with dies designed by:
Eileen Hull, Karen Burniston, and Brenda Pinnick!

The premise of this Blog Hop is to inspire YOU!
Every Thursday...for 7 weeks,
One die will be interpreted 60 different ways!
Exciting! Isn't it? :)


Featured this week:
Sizzix Scoreboards Pro Die- House, 3D, by Eileen Hull

With Christmas soon upon us, I thought it would be perfect to make my own
Vintage Inspired Christmas House!Supplies used:
Sizzix Scoreboards Pro Die 656836 - House, 3D, by Eileen Hull
Sizzix 12x12 mat board, white
Sizzix Big Shot Pro die cutting machine

Fiskars Threading Water border punch
Generic glittered scrapbook paper, pink & aqua
Tacky Glue
6 silver brads
Ranger Stickles in pink, aqua, silver and crystal.
Colored iridescent cellophane
1 flickering (battery operated) tea light

What I especially love about this particular die, is it's versatility.
The die leaves you room to think "out side" the box.
You can cut more windows,
add extra house additions,
make a home, store, haunted house or even a whole village!
To create the roof "shingles" I used the border punch and layered each piece,
starting from the bottom, working my way up.
To leave room for corrections, I made the layers longer than the roof.
Then once everything was glued securely, I trimmed off the excess.
The stickles came in handy to cover up missed white spots or exposed house seams.

I glued 3 layers of the cellophane to the inside windows.
This helped enhance the candlelight effect from the flickering tea light.
All in all I'm really happy with how my little house turned out
and I hope I've inspired you to make one of your own!

To begin visiting the other designers, please click on the
Triple Play Blog Hop button to the right of this post....
or visit the Sizzix main Blog here.
Happy Blog Hopping!
See you next week! :)
~Michelle

Happy "All Souls Day"!

In remembrance of loved ones that have passed on, I created a Day of the Dead art piece to share with you.
And have included my original illustration for you to print out and color. :)




*All I ask is that you don't sell my work as your own and please link back to me if you want to re post this on another site.

I Spy with my eye .... Mosaics

A train, 6 pelicans, 2 sea turtles, a slice of watermelon, a red B...

1 spoon, 2 dolphins, 2 sea horses, Shamu, a orange slice, 3 star fishes...

a flaming heart, a fork, 1 strawberry, 2 stars...1/2 a grapefruit, a pink piano, 3 stars, 1/2 a apple, a cat, violin...

a coyote, lime wedge, a strand of turquoise beads, clouds, a red mug, cactus...

3 pelicans, a fork, 5 boats, a red flower...

4 frogs- one playing the flute, a swan, 1/2 of a orange...

1 spoon, a space ship, 1/2 of a blood orange, a slice of pink grapefruit, a broken galaxy...

I Spy with my eye.
A game Dyllan and I play at Disney California adventure theme park.
These mosaics cover two benches.
Just right for resting and exploring! :)