Tolentreasures

  These have been in the back of my mind for awhile. Pennants with a twist. So, after cleaning the sewing room, I messed it up again. I am always buying boxes of linens and hoarder than I am, I cannot stand to throw any of them away. Even the stained, ripped ones.   This is what I decided to do with them. Bits of fancy needlework...salvaged! Lots more to go!    The original pennant tutorial is here   http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2012/11/free-pennant-tutorialvery-easy.html   The only twist?   The serger on the edges.   I bought this serger from a friend this summer.   It has sat and sat and sat.   So after dusting and cleaning and Olympic gymnastic acts to get it threaded, it is working!     How fun are those machines?  

This has always been my favorite weekend (long weekend) of the year.   For all my adult life, this was an "alone" weekend.   A Buck Widow Weekend.   I loved it!    And then it happened... JWS announces he no longer wishes to hunt.   Now I am sure that there are women everywhere that would love to hear that proclamation, however, it was not a happy day for me!!!   I liked my time alone. I liked my house to myself. I liked the tv remotes, sleeping when I wanted to getting up when I wanted to eating leftovers and whatever I wanted.   Not that JWS is demanding or noisy or messy or hard to be around.   (He is a remote hog though)   Last year, we compromised, New Orleans.   We spent the weekend there. It was fun.   This year nothing... but   It hasn't been bad so far. I got some canvases done And, I turned this picture   into this chalkboard. And real

Doesn't that just sound all office and professional?  Friday Morning Weekly Progress Report.   I really do go over the past week at work on Fridays and make the list for the next week.   This is a Home Progress Report though.   Afghans. Six of them. One down, five to go and the progress on each.   Because if you live in an ADD world as I do... you know one project is never enough.   Forty-five or so is really the magic number and I guarantee I have at least that many projects started around here! Some are stashed, some are blatantly staring me in the face.   These are all the ones stashed in the living room, if you don't count the doodle art projects started in the one corner behind the couch.   Shhhh, let's keep that quiet! Hopefully next Friday I will have another one finished.   One a week would take me to.... December 19th... I might have to step up that goal a littl

The possibilities were/are endless.   And, of course, I have lots of product to facilitate them. What did we do before Pinterest!   Oh wait...we read books. The paper was flying at my house this week.   What a mess that makes! But I made a dent in the stash anyway. My display at the Kittanning Library meeting yesterday. What a nice group of ladies that I met! I hope I inspired some of them to try something new!   And these are mine.   Storage for more "inspirations" in my sewing room.   The paper is from old Workbasket magazines.   Anyone remember those?   Shades of Gray, not 50 of them, just a few and much tamer in my basket sitting near my recliner.   Another one for the Linus Project.   One down, five to go!

...how soon this is all going to end? Shirt sleeves and bicycle helmets will soon be replaced with scarves and mittens, hats and boots and winter coats. Let's not tell them!   Let's enjoy these last few nice days and remember them when we are freezing and complaining!  

  Elmer's White  Wood Carpenter's Hot Aerosol 527 e6000 Sticks Fabric Not a fan of any of them.   Glue is not my thing.  A necessary evil in the crafting world, but I still cringe when I have to use too much of it.   I am persevering.   I am to do a talk on something at a luncheon this week.  Working away at samples to show.    And these were BIG gluing! I have quite the mess that I am trying to paint my way out of before the end of the week!  

  The Linus Project   http://projectlinus.org/       That has me rapidly crocheting since Shelby informed me she is doing that project with her students BEFORE Christmas.  Me, thinking of calm January nights in front of the fireplace...     Guess not! So, here I go.    And how it started?   With this little boy who is turning four today!   http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-thanks-and-prayers.html   There are chapters groups of  the Linus Project Everywhere!    Blankets can also be mailed!   A very worthy cause!