one more post for November.....

I started making Santa postcards. I painted paper to use and ran out of beard paper. That is why there are some floating pig noses on the two cards. They are his face painted on there, waiting for me to come back and work on them. 

These coasters are made with 4x4 tiles and 6 pack beer containers. You cut them up to fit and glue them to the tiles with mod podge. Then spray it with acrylic sealer. I should have saved them for Christmas presents. But they have been snapped up and are now living elsewhere.

There was a surprise snow day on Wednesday. I took this when it was 4 inches, I think we ended up with 8 inches.

So.....

The binding went on this t-shirt quilt. It took forever to come back from the quilters. I told Amanda it would be done before it got REALLY REALLY cold. I forgot to measure it. It's really long and about that wide (hold your arms out)

This is the park uptown next to the grocery store. I looked so pretty with all the snow.

USUALLY tractor joe leaves for Wisconsin to go deer hunting with my brother-in-law. He would have been gone, but with all the snow, he waited until Thanksgiving morning to leave.

So he was home on Wednesday.

I was busy sewing some new star blocks for a quilt. I was in my own little world. The TV was off and the blinds were all open. Lots of natural light coming in.

Well in walks tractor joe. He did a trial run with the snow and decided not to leave after all. 

On goes the TV and the blinds are pulled shut.

I squawked about this.

And continued to sew.

Heavy sigh....I messed up sewing on one of the blocks when the room got dark and noisy. I couldn't even go back and fix it. I had already trimmed off the triangles. 

I really need to pay attention.

Another example.

I started the Bonnie Hunter Mystery yesterday. Clue one had you cutting strips for HST''s.

NO WHERE does it say to sew the strips together.

But that is exactly what I did.

I don't know what I was thinking.

Two options, no, three....

make something else with them

pick the strips apart

or

proceed as if nothing was wrong and pick out seams later.

I decided to pick out the seams later. At least half are just a small little area that seems like nothing. I do have a few units done!

With them like this, I want to have black and white nine patches in there.

But who knows what it will be, it's a mystery!

Now back to picking out seams.

mostly cards.......

Attic Window Quilt Shop posted THIS PICTURE!

 I knew right away I wanted to make cards based on it.

I made a bunch of these too.

So there wasn't much sewing going on.

Except for the latest block lotto blocks. 

(pattern and guidelines here)

making valentine cards.....

Yesterday I punch out a bunch of hearts from magazine pages. 

I thought I would put them on painted playing cards. I went looking for them and couldn't find them. I don't remember tossing them, but it is possible.

Maybe they will show up some day.

Plan B.

I got out my Sizzix and punched tags from empty cereal, stuffing, cake mix boxes.

I had a stack, I cut until the stack was gone. I ended up with 30.

I wanted at least 21 for the first graders at school.

Time for paint. I used a sponge and started adding paint.

Dab dab dab. 

As one color ran out I poured a new color until all of them were covered in paint.

Time for the Mod Podge. 

Each tag got three hearts, 

the words DREAM BIG (I printed them),

and a strip of the black and white paper (from the shopping bag of a gift shop)

And, done.

With the front anyway.

Looking at this, I forgot one of my steps....stamping the swirl with ink.

I want to add names. But these kids are part of a trend to give your child a common everyday name,

AND spell it differently.

Beside having to spell out their last names, they will be spelling out their first names for the rest of their lives to make sure it is correct.

OH well.

Found this the other day. Needs fixing. 

Dang. 

Big sale at the quilt shop today. I think I am going over there for some shopping!

postcards again....

I did 3 cards with leftover supplies that haven't been put away yet...

(three cheers for not being organized and leaving things out)

Two will get sent to the pet postcard project today. It is my dog, Ozzy, on them.

When pulling out these pictures, from a camping trip, there was also one of my sisters dog.

Her name is Tiki and she isn't spoiled or anything. 

Doesn't every dog have a chair that goes with on camping trips?

 If Tiki wasn't in her chair, Ozzy was.

This one will get mailed to my sister Jenny, Tiki's mom.

postcards for kindergarten kids.....

When we had the 100th day celebration, one of the items that the kids glued to their crowns was cut out book covers from book order sheets. There were some left over, so I took them home.

I actually used them!  With mod podge, I glued them down on postcards.

I punched out a bunch of stamp shapes with painted paper scraps.

It took a while to decide what else would be on these postcards.

Finally decided on their names.

I will mail these out near the end of the year. I don't know why the last picture is sideways.

Oh well, you get the idea.

bliss.....

My mom and sister were down for the weekend.

There was a craft show and an auction yesterday. We did both. 

Jane also wanted to make some postcards. 

I dug out cut-up cereal boxes that had already been painted to use.

She added more paint and stamps to them.

We had quite the mess going. Paint, ink, stamps and paper. There was some scrap painted paper that needed to be used up. I also was making our meal, so I finished one and Jane made three. My mom watched us. 

She thought it was way to much work for these four cards.

"Cards?" my sister said.

"These are works of art!"

We had so much fun.

It was our bliss.

After they left, Jane sent me a picture. I had no idea she took it. 

It is of a different kind of bliss....

Laid back and playing on my phone.

Postcards...

Snow day again. This isn't funny any more. Spring starts this week.
Right.
Did up some postcards.
All my bobbins remain empty. Eventually I will fill some and sew some more.
This was too much fun today!

a silly postcard...

Mrs. Browndirt from Browndirtcottage commented a while back, 

something about how it was 70 degrees at her house. 

How nice.

So, I told her, she needs to be careful about what she says....

tractor joe and I could go buy some rusty camper and end up in her back yard for the winter.

So she said...."I will tell the neighbors you are our hillbilly cousins."

Our conversation went back and forth about hillbillies.

We, of course, aren't hillbillies. Everyone else is.

Well, maybe, both of us are part hillbilly.

Silliness.

That is why I made this card and sent it to her.

Making this card reminded me that I don't spend enough time cutting up magazines and making postcards. This was fun.

halloween things.....

I made some postcards. I had enough pumpkins cut for 6 of them.

When I was addressing them I found one wasn't even glued yet.

Then I ran out of stamps. So only 4 went out. I am not even sure they made it before Halloween.

On the bright side, I have 2 cards for next year.

My brother-in-law. He makes the BEST costumes. He has done so many super hero costumes over the years. He is so talented!

My niece, Madison is crazy over legos. So he made her a Lego costume. They both got first place for costumes at work and school. He looks so real!

I would feel so safe walking down the street with him. 

Unless we ran into a bug or spider. He doesn't like bugs. He would be off running until the bug was gone.

I carved one pumpkin, just in case some trick-or-treaters came by. We are too far off the beaten path. Besides, I had given kids candy at school, and that left some for me!

cards

My mother-in-law needed some birthday cards for a couple of her girl cousins.

She wondered if I could make her some.

(she had talked to tractor joe, who said, "Mom needs 2 birthday cards")

I made a few birds with happy birthday on them,

postcard style

Hmmmm....there was hesitation as she looked.

This will work for one of them, but the other is turning 90,

and she is a quilter

and I need an envelope....

(tractor joe didn't get the details of what she was thinking)

Okay, back to the drawing board.

Now I had the details...

I made this one on card stock,

using fabric,

getting a quilt block on it,

 made sure it said 90,

and it is a real card with an envelope.

On my way to give them to her this morning!

painted papers...

My great aunt Meta had lots of bingo dobbers.  She has moved to a nursing home now, so my Mom asked if I wanted them. Sure. They are such pretty colors. I tried them out recently.

On plain paper I drew hearts and flowers with a yellow crayon.

Over that I started dabbing with different colors.

Love, love, love.....

I made more "I love you more than coffee, NO WAIT" cards.

and since I am easily side-tracked....

I also starting cutting up painted paper that I had from this free online class...

sign up here!

(I didn't doodle on these, I just wasn't lovin' the results when i did)

My favorite place for fonts is...

http://www.dafont.com/

under Fancy is "typewriter"

I printed out the typewriter looking words. Size 22.

I cut a bunch of birds from that paper and made several postcards.

I found the words here....(etsy shop)