Tolentreasures

Last weekend was spent in Hershey, Pennsylvania, sweetest place on Earth. Kisses Everywhere! On your soap   On your room number, bathroom wall, embossed on the sheets, soap, shampoo, and even on the parking spots.     And then the snow came. And kept coming! Yes, those are cars under there! Luckily, we had the foresight to move our vehicle to the covered parking lot before it started!   Definitely, one of our smarter moves!   On another note, update on the clean out!   382 items have left the house!     Over 10 percent done!    

A few painting that I have been finishing up. I have more wall space in my booth and needed to finish some things to fill it up!   These amounted to seven more items leaving my  house.   Bringing the total to...   366!   I am a tenth of the way there to   3650! Today we are off to Chocolate Land.   Hershey, PA for the Pennsylvania State Fair Convention.   Always a fun time!  

When not at work at either job, this is what JWS likes to call my third job.   It is too much fun to be called a job! Look at all those smiling faces! How can it be work when everyone is so happy!   It's fun to get people in touch with their creative side!  Want to follow along?   https://www.facebook.com/FallOpenHouse/

And... learn something new daily!    Yarn is a totally guilty pleasure.    Seems I can't walk into a store that sells yarn and not walk out with at least one skein!  These were yesterday's purchases. Even more guilty? New scarves for me!  Learn something new?   Bamboo yarn is awesome!  Soft, drapes well and nice to work with. Finished project tomorrow...hopefully! A second guilty pleasure? Boots!    I love them!  Love them even more on sale! What did I learn from that, you ask? Well, even when I was skinny back in the 70's when boots were popular, I had trouble finding ones that would fit my calves.   Now we are talking 110 pounds of skinny and I could not buy boots that would fit over my calves. Forty years and slightly  a lot more than 40 pounds later, it is no easier. Epiphany!  My calves are not too big! My feet are too small f...

Pick some fun colors! Start painting them wherever you want! Sketch in some whimsical flowers. Shade behind them. Add some bright color. Shade Highlight Doodle with your paintbrush and stylus!

Ahhh, memories!   And to think I was even was before the disco skating rage.   I was Skirts with marabou edging (how I begged for one of those) Pom-Poms on the toes of your skates Skate socks that pulled down over your whole skate and Organ Music.   The Flea Hop, The Two Step, The Grand March.   Ok, I have dated myself enough.   Yesterday was our second Family Fun, Hope we don't have to call LifeFlight, Skate Day.   And what fun!       A little, local, old skating rink, That you can rent inexpensively, and have more fun than imaginable! From the youngest, determined little bugger that he is,   to the oldest.   Wait.... that is me! (the oldest, that is)   A good time was had by all!

Already I am a little behind on my Project 365. Four days to be exact but who is counting other than me. Shelby's poncho.   I know it looks a little weird.   It is sort of asymmetrical, but it looks cool on.   At the risk of oversharing and mostly because some of you people might think I have it all together. (Only the ones who truly don't know me) This was the dumping of my sock drawer.   Honestly, I like the after picture so much better, why can't I keep it that way? A chair headed to the shop... wait, can I count that as 188 and the poncho as 189?   Of course, my count, my rules!   Trying to make more of these.   I found them all cut and ready to be sewn.   Tutorial here: http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2012/01/blue-jean-table-runner-tutorial.html