Father’s Day is coming up fast, so I thought I’d share this layout, my hubby’s first Father’s Day. I made a pocket to keep the cards he received and had a blast coloring in the frogs with watercolor pencils. Aren’t they adorable? …
The only changes in this workdesk for the past two weeks is that the pile of stuff has grown deeper. I’ve been busy machine quilting a queen size quilt and haven’t done anything other than that except go shopping. Hence, more stuff. In the…
Here’s a super-easy but immensely practical craft to help keep your paper goods from blowing about during your next cookout or picnic. I call them picnic weights. It will probably take you longer to collect the materials than it will to make…
Lots of fun details in today’s layout. It all started with the scalloped edge diaper pin paper by Creative Imaginations. The woman holding the baby (who is now 23 years old and a Marine) was my mother-in-law. We lost her in 2005….
Since my worktable looks remarkably the same as it did last week, I thought I’d share with you a different work surface. My husband finished building this sewing table for me last fall. A little over a year ago I started shopping…
You may not think of your computer scanner as a crafting tool, but there is so much you can do with it! Lately I’ve been using my scanner mostly to scan old photos that I plan to scrapbook. There are several good…
So this morning before church I did a bit of clean up in my sewing room. All the piles of fabrics to be sewn into garments went into a basket, the stacks of patterns rubber banded together so they’d stop slithering all…
Today’s desk shows my preparation for getting serious about learning how to improve my machine quilting. Last fall a fellow quilter recommended Diane Gaudynski’s Guide To Machine Quilting. I checked it out of the library and had to agree, it was fantastic. So I…
Here’s a fun weekend project for you. Doncha just love those funky red chunks? So grab your favorite something to drink, then sit back, relax and watch the how-tos. Then make sure to grab some beads and make a few! …
In the interest of full disclosure, today’s workdesk is not just as I found it this morning. I had to whip the “top secret art quilt project” off the table and replace it with a project from another work area. (Otherwise it…
