Welcome to Dingman's Things!

Hi everyone and welcome to Dingman's Things. I thought I would start this blog by giving you a little glimpse into the Dingman family and follow it up with what I am working on today.

 My family consists of five amazing people: husband Jeff, daughter Crystal (in 3rd year of college), twin high school sons Brandon and Joshua, and myself, Heather (B Crafty). We are crafters and artsy people at heart. We enjoy everything from music and movies, Broadway musicals/shows and Disney trips, football, hockey, and rugby games, fishing and camping, and getting creative.

 My husband dabbles in figure creating where he takes an already made figure and spruces it up, changes out pieces and parts, and creates a character he likes better. Right now he is working on the Lone Ranger. He has also dabbled in model trains, but limited space kinda squelched that from going as far as he wanted it to. My daughter creates cards with me and has dressed up amazing photo boxes as well as put together stunning scrapbook pages. She is also talented in behind the scenes theater and that is what she is getting her degree in.  Joshua is a budding artist, his drawings amaze me (I realize I am biased), and Brandon likes to build. Look out construction world! 

My crafting bug was rekindled back in March after I found the Create and Craft USA channel. I was flipping mindlessly though channels while sitting home bored to tears, hurting and frustrated on disability. I am home still, but have something now that I can do when able to, that gives me joy! 

Onto the crafting! The first picture is my crafting table. Its basically a drafting table of my husbands laying on top of my coffee table. Yep my crafting area is in my living room because this is where I am for my day. My craft "stuff" around me. 

You can barely see what I am working on in the above picture... so here are more pictures.......

My daughter and I have been designing and slowly building some cards to put on etsy. In the above photo is the last Happy Birthday that I am cutting out before putting the Sparkle cards together. You can see some of the other pieces around ready for card assembly. 

Below you will see what the cards will look like when complete. The one part that is not very clear on the second picture is that there is sparkle on the butterflies.  I wish you could see that better; so very pretty! (Also note we do know about the typo, this was the test assemble... the cut outs above have the correction)

I really hope you enjoyed this first post! More to come soon!!!

HeatherBCrafty! YouBCraftyToo!!!!