Tolentreasures

Start with leftover glass jars, and plastic Easter Eggs.   Some paper and glue, Some scraps of ribbon and lace and ric rac. And...voila!   Even really bad linens, that you would think of throwing away, have areas that can be salvaged.   I had a little hiccup for the week. Yes, that is a hospital gown. I have been having these dizzy spells and apparently when you are 55 that throws a red flag up. So a night in the hospital and almost every test available and I am home.   So far, so good, all tests looked fine.   Hoping it stays that way!   The start of the first bedspread... making two of these.  

After a particularly stressful week at work, last minute orders, lots of non-profit jobs, mistakes that cost us $$$, and two classes of sixth graders to print their own shirts, John thought a run would clear my head. He was right, it did, although is the hurting in my legs this morning worth it? Somewhere in the middle of all that, I remembered that I have a painting order for a shower this weekend. Why can't I get organized? This is the board that needs painted. I'll start it this morning and hopefully finish it this evening. Yellow, Purple and Butterflies, maybe that is why I am procrastinating. And tomorrow I am teaching these flowers at the church. I have twenty five of them cut. I really think that I have the hard work done. They get the fun part, melting the edges. I like that part! Now where are those tea lights? And this was Gracelyn yesterday morning when I told her that we had to get ready for work. "No Momma, stay here and play" I know ex...

The huge stack of blue jeans is now becoming more manageable. I started cutting this morning and so far these photos are the by-products. Flat felled seams for coasters. (check out the Polka Dot Pineapple) The buttons from the waists and some cute little change pockets. A stack of back pockets... The hems, I don't know for what but could not throw them away. and the rest of the stack that still needs cut, but for now I have a blister from the scissors. And I could not finish without trying one coaster. I have been collecting these jeans because I have an idea to make I SPY quilts for my grandchildren for Christmas. More on that later. I think I am close to having enough, now I just have to gather the spying items. I can see them in my mind...hope that I can create them. I found out yesterday that I have to have a hysterectomy on April 1st. That gives me about 11 days to get things in order and have lots of sitting projects ready to be finished, books gathered to be read...

And this is what I got! A rug for the new bedroom! I remember being somewhere and someone saying that they were going to throw away this stack of tablecloths and in horror of throwing away something so useful, I grabbed them! At least that is the foggy memory that I have of the incident. I had this stack of white tablecloths anyway, found a sheet and an old curtain that matched, cut it into yarn using the tube method, (the link is in the post on the t-shirt rug that I made...or see the Polka Dot Pineapple in the sidebar) and voila! (three days later) have this rug! The floors in the attic are wood and this will be the perfect thing beside the bed to warm toes in the morning. From a canvas in the stash, I painted this...I think that the words need to stand out more now that I see it photographed. The colors are a lot more in the greens than the pic also. Off to the painting table! John has deliveries in a town with a Goodwill so I am loading stuff up this morning for drop of...

Well. the list disappeared! I did not quite make it but I did make a good try at it. No excuses...well maybe one, I did have another cold that really zapped me..the fifth one of the winter, but who's whining? My daughter has a wedding shower that she is helping with and I finished the favors for the shower over the weekend. I left them for her to varnish. These are a few more finished items for a space in my house that I am reclaiming. (there are these cute crystal drops that go in the candleholders as soon as I varnish them. AND........this is the space! Now Lesley, if you are reading this, this will be your bedroom at the end of April....don't be 'fraid, I can do it! Well, with a little help from the daughter that enjoys a good challenge as much as I do. We are tackling this project this weekend. This was my youngest daughter's bedroom when all four girls lived with us. That was a mere 5 years ago, how did this happen so fast? Goodwill, here I come! Fo...