Phone Night Project

Once a week my best bud and I spend the evening on the phone working on projects.  Although I must admit she works on more than I do.  Sometimes I'm real lazy and I just sit, talk and "watch" her work.  However this week I had a mission.  

I have a very good friend who had a very serious heart attack back on Easter Sunday.  Thankfully he is doing great now but I needed to make him a get-well/I miss you fabric postcard. 

I had bought some really cool fabric from my favorite line -- Fusions -- at a quilt shop in MA a couple weekends ago.  (I did manage to limit myself to only 3 colorways  and not the whole selection this time .)  The flowers were from a trip back in Jan. to Wright's.  (What a store!)  The variegated yarn is from the wonderful yarn shop in Great Barrington. 

These postcards are just so much fun to make.  Because they are so small, I am not afraid to try new things.  If my ideas don't work, I have not wasted much money or time.  The bad thing is, I had to send it out and won't be able to take it to my Fiber Arts Club for Show and Tell.  Hopefully a picture will suffice.

Spring -- Maybe?

It is finally starting to warm up some and the grass is even appearing here and there. Not much in my yard though. Just around the back edge of the house where the SUN hits. Yes, we've actually had sun 2 days running. It's even been warm enough that when I go to the mall to walk, I leave my jacket in the van.

Gotta brag on the U. S. Coast Guard Academy Men's Basketball team. They are in the NCAA Div III tournaments and have made it into the Sweet 16. They best showing ever. Go Bears! ! !

The postcard is my latest card. And I actually sold it! I'm happy and so is the buyer. And again, it came totally from my stash. Gotta love that.

More fiber art items

I spent last Thursday evening and tonight doing one of my favorite things. I'm happy with the outcome. These things are so fun. The landscape is from a book I bought while on vacation. I can't decide how I want to finish it.

Productive evenings are a good thing

Tonight was phone night with my best bud. As usual, we each work on a project while talking. Here's mine.

It was a great night. I only had 2 goofs. And I fixed those. I bet my bud didn't even know I had problems. I tried not to moan and groan. LOL

It's Friday Night!

Do you know how long a 5-day work week is? It is L-O-N-G. I have not had one for over a month now because of the holidays and vacation that needed to be used.

Last night was Phone Night.... the night my best bud and I talk on the phone while working on a project of some kind. I made a couple of "Get Well" postcards out of fabric. (Does that count as Stash Busting? I used 4 pieces of 4.5" x 6.5" and fussy cut another piece.) I'm having such a fun time with them. I've made birthday and Christmas cards in addition to the get well cards. A friend wants me to make her some Easter cards. I need to get on that.

Tonight I went to Karen's for games and supper. We love to play word games. We started out with a non-word game -- Sequence (I think) -- and then after a break to head to Panera's for supper, we played Anagrams. We are very competitive at anything we play and it makes it so much fun.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Kalamazoo to meet Pat (best friend from high school) and we are taking a card stamping class together. Now, she is so good she could teach the class but we decided it would be fun to just take the class and have fun together. We get to use all the supplies at the shop. Should be a great time.

I didn't take pictures of the postcards I made last night but this top one is very similar.

This next one I made for my older brother as a birthday card. I loved that background fabric. I love the shadow effect. My best bud helped me with that.

This one was for my younger brother for his birthday. All the leaves were fussy cut out of other fabrics. Again, thanks bug for your help.

A little food for thought from a lexophile (no it is not a bad thing to be): The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.