Change Lives One Little Dress at a Time

I received a mailing from Nancy's Notions which had an ad for a kit to make three dresses for little girls in remote villages in Africa. You can purchase a kit to make three dresses ($24.99 + free shipping). After checking out the web page, I decided it would be an excellent use of some left over fabric I have and also when I go to yard and estate sales I can pick up pillow cases to make some of these dresses (directions are free on the web page). They are to be mailed to Nancy's Notions and they will forward them to the distribution points. Check it out at: www.creativekindness.com. Today I picked up a new looking queen flat sheet ($1.00), three pillowcases ($1.50). Now all I have to do is follow the simple, easy directions and soon I will be mailing several little girls' dresses to Nancy.

Christmas Card Gallery July 2010

Here are the cards from today's cardmaking session at Donna's. We only made 11 cards and had a technique class on how to make the favor boxes.

Love Letters

Today a group got together at my house to make cards to send to Love Letters in Altamonte Springs, FL. Together we made 150 cards featuring a train (Sizzix),running across tracks using the Hearts wheel from Stampin' Up, "Bringing you a train full of love!" on the outside, and "Have a wonderful day from your Love Letters Pen Pal" on the inside.

The Birthday Girl with Her Quilt & Journal

Cathedral Windows Quilt #1

The QUILT is FINISHED!!!!! (I started this quilt in 2004!)

Rocking Chair Before & After (many years!)

This is a rocking chair my dad picked from someone's trash sometime in the late 1950's, thrown out because it had a broken rocker, so he made a new one, refinished in mahogany, and recovered the seat. After my mom passed away eleven years ago, I took it and it sat in my living room until several years ago when I stripped it intending to refinish it in walnut, retying the springs, etc. Last month, after I repainted the guest room, I found over 1/2 gallon of the previous wall paint (too much to just throw away, tightwad that I am sometimes), so I decided to paint the chair with it. After two coats of white primer, I thought I had a good handle on this project. Turns out that paint was not a good idea as it was too old - it had gotten really thin and didn't cover very well so it took four coats of the stuff and still didn't cover very well so I gave up on that part of the project. I found a piece of heavy cotton fabric on the remnant table that had small dots of that exact color in it. This is also something I will never again try to do!

New to Me Techniques

Today I attended a workshop with Donna & Emily where they taught a group of us how to do bleaching and embossing two different ways,



paper "felting" using paper napkins & plastic wrap;




how to make a paper pleated 'skirt' to use on a card



We also made two pop-up cards that hold gift cards inside using a die from Sixxix and sold through Stampin' Up. When I figure out how to keep it open to photograph, I'll post a picture here.