Let's give it a try

gain later


OK folks. Here goes.

This is a little project that I worked on and yes it is still in process. That means not finished yet. I picked up some paint sample cards at the local hardware store. Used paint's, gel, all kinds of embellishments and other stuff to put it together. Using it for my favorite recipe cards, and for sort of a show and tell that I can take with me for sharing. I just wish the colors would come out better. Guess I need to learn a little bit about taking better pictures.

Going to try to post a couple of more. Well that didn't seem to work. Will try a

More stuff

Here is a picture of one of my tables at the Disney craft show that I had a chance to do. The red cigar box purse is the first one I made. Kept that one for myself.

The green box is cardboard and I covered it with oriental paper and paint and used little wooden blocks to make the feet and the handle.











So now you can see a little of my handiwork. I did a lot more things. Little journals and note books. Xmas tags and cards, notecards, and regular cards with rubber stamping and all sorts of stuff.

When I get all my stuff moved up here I have to go thru it all and get it organized and then start trying again to do some little craft shows. I have so much stuff finished.

Any and all comments are welcome. Thanks for looking.

Never iron again

OK Never again will I iron my quilting blocks. I will PRESS them. I will try hard to remember to press my seams in any which way that will benefit my quilt laying flat. I will trim more off my seam allowance. I will press seams open if that makes the laying flat work better.

I suppose now you are wondering how I got so smart in such a short time. Go to Quilting is my Passion blog and you too can learn a lot of great things to help make you a better quilter. It was a blog I have been thoroughly enjoying reading. Now I can count this wonderful lady a friend. She is wonderful and a very kind person.

I know, I haven't posted in awhile. I have been quilting to my heart's content. I am almost finished with the 5th top. Wow, for me that is doing great. I know other's can do it a lot faster and get more done in a shorter time. I am happy with what I have done so far. Soon to start a new project of trying to learn and do crumb blocks. I am so excited about that. I hate to throw good material away and now I found a new way to use them and come up with a finished quilt in the process.

The picture above is a bird house I picked up at Michaels and painted and stamped and added stuff to for my sister. Notice my little birds in the holes. I also used velumn and punched out some flowers to add to the house. I was a fun thing to do and I did a lot more after that one.

The other picture is a flying fish. I used 2 cd's and using glue and fish line I glued them together. Then using the foam craft sheets and a pattern I had been given cut out the pieces to make the tail and arms and stuff. I used spray on webbing to decorate the cd and plastic jewel pieces for the eyes. I made almost a hundred of these to hang in our clubhouse for a party. ( Don't live there anymore ). They were a big hit and I sold quite a few for a dollar apiece. So now the RVer's where we used to live have these things hanging off their awnings for decoration. I used many different colors and stuff to decorate them. Wanted to figure out how to do a frog but never got around to it. I am not an artist and can't draw worth a darn.

Ok I will close for now and get back to quilting. All is well in this little world I have created for myself. My daughter is not coming from Utah and this makes me very sad. So I have to stay very busy to keep myself positive. I just started a new altered book and am in the process of gessoing the pages together. Hadn't studied what the theme would be, was just letting it talk to me. Well , thanks to a new friend I had a brainstorm and decided it would be about quilting. So now a new direction and project to occupy my time.

I will post more picture's of other project's I have done. Now that I have that figured out.

So for now Stay safe Stay warm Later