Hello Out There! This is sadly a no-sew post. We've been busy with other Christmassy stuff as I'm sure you are too.
The 2016 Craft Project was........Shower Tabs to Steam Away Colds. Everyone pretty much guessed bath salts which was close.
They were fun to make and smell wonderful.
Giveaway Winners: Alicia B (even though she commented on FB and not officially here and cause we're friends). I also picked at random from those who guessed bath salts or bombs and Janet O was the winner! Send me your home addresses and santa will bring them your way.
I made my own labels with Avery. Did you know that you can print your own at home through their website? they have a gazillion designs. So easy!
And here they are ready for gifting.
I love setting up crafting stations here in the DR. Hanna is busy assembling our guild favors.
We decided a little "treat" was more fun this year than the same old recycled FQs.
While ordering Christmas Stamps I saw this on the USPS website and all I could say is "Merry Christmas Barb".
This came as is, fully framed, for $39. with the newly minted stamps. I just love it!
It was released the day before my Birthday last year. How fun.
I've hung it in the "Hall of Presidents" which I need to do a post on. You can see some of my collections of Lincoln here.
I found a vintage tablecloth at the antique mall. These are almost always card table size and imagine they were used for bridge parties or bunko.
Here is a video of the windowsill Hanna and I arranged in our kitchen. We wanted a theme that would work through February. We bought almost everything at the Dollar Store and most of it is Plastic but I think it looks like a million bucks......ha ha....get it?
Hope you are enjoying all the sights, smells and sounds of the Holiday season.
I'll be back soon to share a Christmas quilt that I made start to finish in 2 weeks.
Yes, I know it's Saturday, but yesterday was one of those days.
Spring has finally arrived in Connecticut!! Hip Hip Hooray! What a joy to swing the door open wide and let the fresh air in.
While turning and watering my pansies I notice a little insect on the stoop. I almost stepped on it.
What a miracle of nature. It is a baby praying mantis. Soooo tiny!
I used a leaf to pick him up and put him in my flower pot so coco wouldn't step or lay on him. It was near the stoop that I found an adult one last fall.
I changed my funky paint-by-number art in my powder room from the winter "buck" scene -
to my spring swan scene.
Mr. Fun thinks these are trashy, but I love them. Look at this funny painting mistake under the swans neck. Surely it was supposed to be blue.
I bought a great batch of fun stamps on line from USPS. No extra charge and no shipping.
A friend asked me to share her Granddaughter's Theme Park Teen blog. This young lady is an excellent writer and offers a lot of great information to anyone visiting a theme Park.
She has also opened her own Etsy shop. Good Luck Megan!
Oh, how will ever live without my Mad Men!?! Only 4 episodes left. Last Sunday I spied this 1950s, polyester, yarn tied patchwork quilt.
A lot of us think of Blogging of self publishing, and it certainly is. The only problem with it for me is that you can't touch it. So I've been "real" self publishing my blog each year through a website: Blog to Print. It is very easy and very professional.
I learned the other day that the Library of Congress transfers Hollywood movies from digital to "real film" - so there you go. It's all about the archiving.
I have noticed that each year is a little thinner. But that seems to be the way of blogging in general.
My friend, Kelly of Pinkadot raised this question in a recent post. Stop by and weigh in. I blog to keep a visual record or journal of what I'm working on and creating. I also enjoy meeting quilters around the world through their blogs.
A reader contacted me this week and is desperately seeking this fabric. Please leave a comment here and I'll get you in touch with her if you have some you are willing to share/sell.
Fun For Friday
New US Postal stamps. Vintage Circus - how fun are these? I can practically smell the peanuts and cotton candy....and elephants :)
I'm hitting the road on Tuesday to give a lecture and trunk show in Illinois for the Village Quilters of Lake Bluff/Lake Forest. Click here for details and come if you are in the area, I'd love to meet you. I'll be adding my lecture/workshop information soon and would love to visit your guild.
Hello out there....anyone home? It seems very quiet in Bloglandia.
I finished my little cathedral Window dolly quilt - or so I thought.
I feel it would be better looking on my little bed if it was just a few rows bigger. Easier said than done~
On the home front - here is a mountain of empty boxes. It is literally the size of a SUV. Our refuse service will do one free pick up to recycle, so we're holding off until we're done. Goal; next Friday.
I have a many walls that currently look like this:
Interestingly these are the same background wall colors and also the same sample colors. This is why it's important to do different walls and look at different times of day and lighting.
And finally. I am a self admitted stamp nerd and here are the new offerings from the U.S. Post office:
Johnny Cash; love him. Emancipation Proclamation; Abe Lincoln love. Lighthouses; live in a shore town now. Yea!
I'll be back soon with a new quilty tool and a newly acquired antique quilt to share.
