Burp clothes for Mason

 

Hello!  Another busy day in Mayberry!  Today I have some pictures of some burp clothes I made for Mason and his mommy.  He is a spitter upper so she goes through a lot of them.  Today, I slept in till almost noon.  I was so tired out.  I worked on the library scrapbook from about 2 o'clock till 8 o'clock and got a lot done.  I got quite a few pages either finished or started, and I have everything that I currently have for the project all printed.  All the photo's and all the newspaper articles.  A very big job, and I am glad that part is over.  The rest should go fairly quickly, and smoothly.  The part that will take time is typing up all the captions for under the pictures.  I decided that I will wait till the very end to do that.  Soooo.....I just finished eating supper a little while ago, and packed up all my tools for tomorrow's card box class.  I still need to do the cutting for it, which I may or may not do yet tonight.  We will see.  Right now I need to lay down and relax awhile.  Until tomorrow.....adieus! 

Christ is Born

Recipe:  Stamp Set: Christ is Born.  Vintage Wall Paper Embossing Folder, Top Note Die, Card Stock: Night of Navy (and Ink) Riding Hood Red, Whisper White

Today was a busy, fun day!  I spent the day with Sarah in Reedsburg, at her home.  It was a busy crafting day.  Hmmm...where to even begin.  We started out cutting out suede flowers that we made into magnets, as she wants to give some of these as gifts.  We made a whole pizza pan full!  She needs to glue the buttons and magnets on them yet.  Then we decorated 9 International coffee tins to put them in.  Thanks Mom for continuing to save the tins!  They turned out adorable.  Then I cut out 16 white pieces with the Top note die and Sarah stamped them with Night of Navy snowflakes and is going to use them as tags on her packages.  I also die cut 24 large snowflakes for her that she plans on hanging from the ceiling in her home.  Both my girls are going to have a winter wonderland this year!  We took a break in the afternoon and went to two thrift shops, stopped and had ice cream and then got back to work.  We went to church at 5, and when we got back home Zach was home from hunting and we had supper that Sarah had going all day in the slow cooker.  She had bought some premade boxes on clearance and I showed her how to make belly bands for them, and she punched snowflakes out with my punch and decorated them.  Simply adorable.  The pile of tins and boxes all looked so festive together.  I was going to take a picture of them before I left but was so tired that I forgot!  Sorry!  I also die cut 15 pairs of mittens that we are making into dangling ornaments for her goodies bags.  I started tying bows for them and gluing buttons on them, but Sarah will have to finish them.  The dog and cat were quite fascinated with my supplies, and bags.  Whiskey, the cat, kept sniffing the rolling tote bag.  I am sure he could smell my cats.  Hunter, the dog, was thrilled with the treats I gave him, and he immediately ate a purple mitten that I had die cut when it fell on the floor.  Sarah and Zach thought that was quite funny, as I never gave it a second thought when it fell, as I thought it would still be there when I wanted to pick it up.  My cats do not eat the paper that falls on the floor!  I think I remembered everything that we worked on.  LOL  Any who...it was a very fun day!

Baby shower gift/tag

Hello-  When I was uploading photo's yesterday, I found this post that I had uploaded the pictures for, but never wrote the post for it.  For those of you who read the blog all the time, you probably remember seeing pictures of the baby quilt I made for Jenna's baby shower.  Well, I also went to the one that Edith had for Jenna in Milwaukee and I wanted to bring a little gift for that one too so I made up a basket of stuff for her.  This is the little tag that I attached to the basket.  It is attached to the brown lamp in Mason's room and looks so cute.   Tonight, Diane, Joanne and I went to the Quilt Corner in Sparta for a Kansas Trouble Tea and trunk show.  Kansas Trouble is a line of fabric that is made my Moda.  Moda has beautiful fabrics, I just love them.  A lot of the quilts that they showed us tonight were made with this line of fabric.  They had all the tables in their backroom set up with table clothes, nice dishes, and we had our choice of beverage and dessert.  The dessert was fabulous and was a recipe from the Kansas Trouble newsletter we received in our bag with our packet of charm squares, and free patterns.  The presentation of quilts was a lot of fun to watch, and to see the books and patterns that are for sale actually made up into quilts.  We all found some treasures to bring home.  New patterns and fabrics always inspire you and the desire to sew, sew, sew,....is there just like when you get new stamping supplies!  We all really enjoyed the tea, and I hope to make the one in the spring!

Upsey Daisy chalks technique

This is the other project we made tonight at Stamp Camp.  It was a fun night with the group.  They LOVED working with the chalks tonight!

Recipe:  Stamp Sets:  Upsey Daisy, Inspired by Nature.  Stampin' Pastels, White Craft Ink, Bravo Burgundy, Garden Green Ink, Card stock: More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, and Chocolate Chip, Twill tape, Decorative Label and Wide Oval Punches, Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers.