Hope you enjoyed!

Chris

As many may know now that you have seen the Team KNK post a week or so ago. I am a Lego Robotics Mom. and this year I am a Lego Robotics Assistant Coach. We work on alot of fundraising efforts because those little Lego motors can be expensive and other costs build. Our Lego-ers spend alot of time building with Legos and talking about Simple Machines. and figuring out how to make them function. just awesome to see them grow with it. And prepare for competitions. My son is in the younger version of it after 3rd grade if he sticks with it. He will move into a more technical version.

This is my latest cutter endeavor for a commitment my sweet smiling child got me into. haha.

We have this Lego Pinata guy from a rainy birthday Party last year. So now he has become part of the Lego Club scene. He showcases us well in his stiff armed weird smile manner. Thank you to Tio Ramon for bringing this for the birthday party. Who knew it would morph into such an awesome use when it rained and we were upset we couldn’t smack the candy out of him. And wow that would have been a Ton Ton of Candy. In retrospect I am kinda glad it rained because Lego Guy has become a mascot for the Lego Club of sorts.  He definitely stands out in a crowd. He doesn’t travel well in the car. He stands about 4 ft tall and does not bend.

Do you know what an eegee is? Here in the desert it is a local business that sells ice drinks that are like slushies but not. They don’t have air pumped into them or weird syrupy flavors. They don’t get twisted and turned all day in a tumbler of slushy. But are packed into freezers and scooped into your drink. Those from Tucson would know what I am talking about. Those who don’t will think I am crazy. Those who have left town will start craving one. There are many branches around town and they are yum. The standard flavors are pina colada, strawberry, lemon and flavor of the month. just yum!

Well wanted to share the Lego guy and wish you all a wonderful Tuesday!

Enjoy!

Chris

If you have been in the forum at all this month, and I really hope you have. There is a challenge called New 2U. You can visit it here.

 

What does this mean? Try something new. Well my new this weekend was to go to the Copic Marker Retreat by Jen. Some of you may know her as “Jen the hacker”. However, I know her as “Jen who sat next to me at the KNK Retreat”. Phenomenal artist and super fun person to talk with and chat with. I bought a bunch of markers to go to this retreat. It just didn’t work out for me, but I still have the markers. So I printed an image form a copic marker challenge posted not to long ago. And sat down to play. First time to color with the Copics. Very nice markers for sure. My son sat next to me. We were on school break. He watched me color the first one. And then the second one. And he took an extra copy and started coloring with Sharpies. He was very upset the colors didn’t match the cap when he actually colored with his Sharpies and Bic Mark-Its. However, I told him to just go with it and enjoy it. So he did. He enjoyed it so much that when he was done. He went and got the pink gluearts gun (which he says is embarrassing with an eye roll because it’s pink but he uses it all the time. haha) and glued it to the pink piece of paper you see in the picture. He had a great time and as did I. Not bad for the first try I thought.  Could definitely have been worse. I love my sons and I love the time sitting in my studio at the desk just coloring. The best. Love my Life.

 

It is Friday and I must run lots to accomplish as this weekend and almost everyone through January are jam packed. It is definitely that time of year. So I am off to get a moving on. Don’t forget to try something new and post in the New 2U challenge. So much fun to try something new.

 

Have a wonderful day and fantastic weekend!
Enjoy!

Chris

 

 

Wow what a fantastic weekend. I am still trying to cleanup and get through everything after our awesome party and so much fun. I want to say thank you to everyone for supporting us throughout the year and also participating in the Celebration with us. We had so much fun and the pace in the forum was quick and fun. Lots of fun.

 

Starting Visual Designs by Chris was a huge decision and has been a joy to work on every day. Thank You for supporting me. It helps me to support my family. And for that I could not give you enough words of appreciation.  All the friendships I have made throughout the years of have brightened my days.

 

Thank you soo  much!

 

QMC members… If you are a QMC Member I have loaded another file to the QMC today. It is a blessing book. I hope you enjoy it and can put it to good use. I have a few friends I plan to make these for. Even tho’ life is crazy and has a lot of bumps in it, every day has a few blessings in it and it is good to remind ourselves about it daily. So I am making a few of these as gifts for the holidays.  I hope you can find a use for it.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Thank you so much!!!

Enjoy!

Chris

 

 

Our Anniversary Celebration is here!!. We are loading challenges and giveaways all weekend.  Rather than go into all the details which would be really long. I am just going to post a few links that you can hit all weekend and find out all the great happenings to participate on.

 

Our Newsletter link – there is a freebie listed in the newsletter and some screamin’ deals for our celebration.

 

Our Anniversary Section of the Forum… the go to place for every challenge added. Skim through all the pages and see everything going on.

 

And I am offering all my files an additional 30% off. So if you search through my files you will find some really good deals as this is an additional mark down to some prices. You need to add the items to the cart to see the discount.

 

Thank you again to everyone for supporting me throughout the year! My family and I really appreciate it.  When you support me, you help me support my family. Words would never be enough to express my gratitude. Thank you!

 

Enjoy our Anniversary celebration and have fun all weekend!

Enjoy!
Chris

 

PS. Visit www.iloveknk.com tomorrow for an awesome drawing! Thank you to Sandy for her continued support of our site!

 

 

I had this wooden plaque in my stash and some mini clothespins. So I cut the vinyl. Added some rubons and glued the clothespins on with monkey glue. I love this stuff. However, I looked away to chat with my helper this week while school was on break and woops. To much monkey glue. The clothespin slid off and glued itself to the counter. I turned around and couldn’t figure out what happened to the clothespin. Only to find it glued to the counter top. Great conversation piece? I pondered it for a bit and giggled while I did my best to pry it off the counter. Yes, be careful with the monkey glue. It works!

The file uploaded in the QMC forum. I’d love to see what you come up with.  

On to life…
This past weekend, I got to spend some wonderful time with my hubby and son.We enjoyed our day of watching horses and then hit the rodeo. A hometown rodeo with lots of fun. We spend alot of time in the little town and know the kids that run around. My son got a chance to sit and BS with the “guys” his age. They were yacking and yammering about mutton busting and “this one time….” The stories were quite cute. To get a visual you have to imagine they are all in about the second grade so all of them are short a tooth or two or more. If you stand and listen to some in rodeo, there are always a few digits missing off the ropers, a few teeth off the rough stock riders a little something here and there missing. As my hubby and I stood with our son a few feet away in his group of “guys” and just a few gals because they can mutton bust to at that age. As I sat and watched I had to giggle, the scene was so reminiscent of a group of grown men BS-ing. It just made me smile from my heart. I leaned back against my hubby and he wrapped his arms around me and we watched the rodeo. Love my life. Cherish every moment.

Enjoy!
Chris