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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

WOYWW 207--Graduation Tag Making

Wednesdays are happy because we get to visit each other's workdesks! Link up your own mess...or...neatness...and join the fun of creative snooping!

WHAT'S-ON-YOUR-WORKDESK-WEDNESDAY...hosted by Mrs. Dunnit at Stamping Ground

I did my photo shoot this week in the middle of making some cards and tags. One tag was for my niece, who graduated from high school, and herself is a beautiful amazing artist! So a store-bought boring graduation card simply would not do. I used the old giant dictionary I got at a book sale for 25-cents, some scraps of pretty papers and cardstock, and a fun little tag came together. It even has some machine stitching, and on the back a little envelope where we tucked the moolah for the graduate!

I just love that particular stitch on my machine with the flowers. I added a grommet, ribbons, and a key at the top. There's also a chipboard flower, ric rac for the stem, stamps, and gelato color smeared around.

Why don't I make more tags? They are so fun! I was also watching the season finale of Call the Midwife. I was in tears when (spoiler alert) we could now call Sister Bernadette, "Sheila" and then she got the engagement ring with the note from the doctor's son! I was a puddle. LOVE that show.

Love you all too! Have a happy rest of the week! I am spending the next few days in my garden solid!

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, GROW

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

What's Really On My Workdesk Wednesday

Good morning from the USA's beautiful Ozarks! It is sunny and gorgeous on this Wednesday morning (but possibly stormy later--that's life, isn't it) and I am happy to be celebrating what's on my creative worktable on a Wednesday morning! It kind of looks like a dumping ground today as I'm on my way out the door!

I have been busy, and I'm feeling sooo much better than I did last week. Thank you for your kind thoughts and sweet words by the way when I was under the weather.

I am so late to the party today--but better late than never! (Right Julia?) It's not too late for anyone to take a snap of their desk and join us at What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. It is almost the fourth anniversary of this very cool blog party.

I actually snapped my desk an hour ago--usually I do all this on Tuesday night, so this is fun. I may be at the bottom of the blog party, but no worries...some of you crafty lovelies tend to visit around all week which makes me happy.

Can you tell I've been playing with my photos in picmonkey? I love that site! I am not a photographer, so I really needed something fun to do with my photos and picmonkey is free. That's a snap of my daughter and I at the restaurant on Mother's Day.

I'm also sharing my plant shopping from last Friday. My office job is at a big beautiful university, and the school of agriculture has a plant sale in the greenhouse every year. You would not believe the amazing varieties our agriculture students grow--love it! Have a happy week everyone! Hugs!

One of my Mother's Day presents!

Eat, Write, Dream, and Stitch Happy.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Sunday Threads

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

WOYWW 205--Sick Day

Happy What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday! Visit that desk-revealing blog hop right here. Well, I had such a fun and busy card-making weekend, and for a while, this place was a crazy mess! But I made the most fun card for my nephew turning ten. (No pictures--it wasn't that artistic, just lots of fun.) Then the whole family went to an amazing Brazilian Grill restaurant, where the food keeps coming to your table all night long!

Then my daughter sang in a beautiful choir and orchestra concert Sunday. But come Monday, I woke up sick! Dizzy, ill, what-in-the-world I thought! I stayed in bed most of the day. Today (Tuesday) I started feeling like the old me, and by this evening I had Violet (my new sewing/embroidery machine) humming away on some shorts, and was even working on a hand-embroidery project. My sweet daughter had checked out a book from the library for me, all about Downton Abbey! I'm loving it--especially when I'm sick in bed.

My art journal box, and my bits and bobs tray

I'm still a little wobbly, but I think I'm going to make it. So my desk is in the mid-week project transition mode, and my big boy, Joseph, is laying around looking at me...happy that the sun is out and Mommy is up and about to play!

It was so much fun sharing my new toy with you all last week--I couldn't think of anyone that would understand and be more excited with me than my sweet crafty blogger pals!!

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, and Get Well Soon!

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Sunday Threads

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

WOYWW 204--My New Baby

Happy WOYWW lovelies! And boy am I excited and obsessed!

Isn't she a beauty? She (my new Brother SE400 computerized sewing and embroidery machine) arrived on my doorstep this past weekend. I've never been so thrilled to go out and buy embroidery thread and stabilizer in my life! Sew...this is what I've been doing. I'm learning everything I can about my new baby--I've named her Violet.

I created my own little starter kit with some pretty, shiny machine embroidery threads, a roll of Sulky stabilizer, a dedicated organizer for all the extra tools and parts that come with this machine, and the instruction tools ready to teach myself! Where's everything else I've been working on? Waiting. Waiting until I know everything I possibly can about my new sewing machine. And it's everything I wanted and more! I've embroidered a few things now, and it's funny, because that's the first function of the machine I taught myself. So now I'll go backwards and learn all the basic sewing functions, and applique. It has more stitches alone than I've ever had on a sewing machine. Yay! I think I have quilting foot too!