Day 205 - Felt and spray paint

Bought these metal stars in red after 4th of July for 1.99 each and wanted to spray them black to hang outside on my fence.  Dug out the spray paint tonight and began the process.

Pete was "helping" tonight by taking up most of the work space.

I began sewing the last candle mat (which is a different color green and I am using a single strand of floss for the stitching).

Day 180 - Minimal....

Did a little bit of stitching tonight on the candlemat...long day with extra hours at work and not too motivated tonight.  Watched some of the show "Hoarders" online.  It was the scariest show I have ever seen...

Day 179 - Felt Candle Mat...

So I worked a bit on this candle mat and am not pleased at all with how it looks....:-(

This is the relaxation side of the basement-can't do much yet...

Did clean out the shelves and got rid of some books...

I had two new visitors this morning...

Wonder if they are related...

Day 172 - Felt Candle Mats

We had a fun albeit rainy camping weekend at Great River Bluffs State Park near La Crosse, WI.  Our daughter was able to join us for the weekend too.

After tremendous, torrential rains Friday night we went into La Crosse in the morning.  Visited Hobby Lobby and then to Olive Juice Quilts which Micaela so enjoyed.  It thrilled me no end to hear her say "I want some of each fabric in the store."  A daughter after my own heart!  I knew that it was a quilt shop that she would enjoy and find many fabrics that she would love!!  Then had lunch by the Mississippi River where we watched a barge go by.  Micaela suggested that we drive to the Lock and Dam #7 and watch it go through.  That took up the rest of the afternoon and was fascinating.  Dinner and a campfire and then the Park Ranger stopped by to let us know that there were severe thunderstorms in the area as well as high winds.  We packed things up for the night and about 45 minutes later the rain began.  Lots of rain and wind.  It was another grand camping weekend!

Needless to say not a lot of crafting was going on.  I did get the 8 base pieces cut out for the Easter candle mats and then some of the chicks pinned on to one of them.  So I go to begin sewing on the chicks and realize that the assortment of thread that I brought along for the project didn't have yellow in it.  So ended

 the attempt at this camping weekend crafting!!

Day 77 - Craft Group

Had my monthly Craft Group meeting tonight.

  I worked on yo-yo's and here is what I accomplished tonight:

My friend Lois was also making some yo-yo's and look at the interesting square shape she has.  She said she couldn't remember how those were done but would look it up for us.

Carol was making felt eggs and bunnies for the grandkids to give to teachers.  The tiny little butterflies and little pink bunny heads were decorative brads for scrapbooking!  Cool use for them!

Our fourth member Verna wasn't able to make it as she might have broken a bone in her foot.

She will find out tomorrow.....

Day 49 - Cutting Felt/Craft Group

Tonight was my monthly craft group meeting.  We have met for 20 years (I think).  It is 4 of us and this is what I worked on tonight.  Finished cutting out all of the flowers and stars for a project out of wool felt.

My friend Lois was working on knitting a little baby cap...

My friend Carol is working on her fall tree book....

and my friend Verna shared a Christmas album that she had put together.

It's after midnight and my brake light and ABS sign on the dashboard was on when I went to go home tonight so who knows what is going on with the car....

Day 47 - Cutting Felt

So I hit the wall today and had no ambition tonight when I got home from work about 7:30.  Then I get a call from my dear Archivers friend and I had forgotten that it was a meeting/working night for us there!  Ok, we should be even then because there was one night that she forgot too...bummer.  Would have been good for me feeling the way I do.  Anyway, decided that a change might do me good.  So I cut 64 of these tiny leaves out of wool felt and started to cut the flowers and I also have to cut 64 of them...

I saw I had gotten my feet in the last photo then I looked around the chaos of this room...

Remember gum paper chains???  Well stroll down memory lane and look at this- I draped it over my box of "little ideas".