Sunshine Petals

Christmas Countdown

Be sure to visit Lisa at Ten Two Studios for her annual Christmas Countdown! Each day she'll have a great holiday image sheet that can be used in your art projects.So far she's had tags, stamps, atc cards, greeting cards and gift card envelopes. And the pictures on the graphics are just all so wonderful! I look forward to this every holiday. Thank you Lisa!

Finished!

A few weeks ago, I showed a photo of a crocheted work in progress. At that time, it was a bunch of granny squares. Well, I'm happy to say it is now a finished baby afghan. I've really pleased with how pretty it turned out. Here it is!

Father's Day Countdown

I'm late posting this but wanted to let everyone know that Lisa at Ten Two Studios has her printable images up for the Father's Day Countdown. There are some great images to use while making something creative.

Mother's Day Countdown

As another holiday approaches, Lisa of Ten Two Studios, gives us her Mother's Day countdown of beautiful graphics! Be sure to visit her each day for a new image to use for your altered art, scrapbooking, ATC's or collages.

Valentine's Day Countdown

Lisa is having her Valentine's Day Countdown with great crafting images each day until Valentine's Day. So be sure to visit her each day for a new image to use for your altered art, scrapbooking, ATC's or collages. She is a very sweet person to do this for us each holiday! Thanks Lisa!

Go Make Something

Lisa of Go Make Something is doing one of her countdowns with a free image each day until Christmas. These are great for creating art items and ATC's. Be sure to check out the rest of her site for other wonderful ideas!

Today's images are 4 lovely wintery ladies! Here's the link to The 2007 Countdown Calendar.

ATC's

Recently I joined a swap on Swap-Bot where we swapped Artist Trading Cards also known as ATC's. Oh, my, these little things are quite addicting! I've joined 2 more swaps and can't wait to get creating some more. The cards are only 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". It's amazing how artistic some people's cards are. I'm a beginner so I won't say that about mine. Here's one that I did. This was the favorite of my hubby and son of the 5 that I made. The others are on my Flickr.

Love these hangers

I listed these in my Etsy shop tonight. Oh, they are the softest hangers I've ever felt. I used Chenille yarn to crochet and love how they turned out!

This and That

For the past two days, I've washed a ton of laundry or so it seems like. My son has been doing his own laundry for a few years now but never seems to get it caught up. I was tired of seeing it so I went ahead and washed it. Next I'm going to tear his bedroom apart and give it a good cleaning.

Did some organizing of my craft stuff and have two new drawer units to fill up. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to that. I hate not being able to find what I need to work on a project so hopefully I will become more organized. Hmmm, seems like I've said that before. Oh, well, maybe this time it will work. Then again, probably not. :)

We went out to dinner tonight for my uncle's birthday. I asked if I could order grilled chicken off of the 12 and under menu and the waitress said no. So I said if I have a card from my Dr. stating that I had gastric bypass surgery and cannot eat that much would I be able to? No, sorry but for $2. you can share a plate. So I decided to just eat a bowl of soup for $2.95 and hubby finished that. I really never feel that hungry and get filled up quickly. The soup was rich, greasy, too salty and some pieces of beef in it was tough. Luckily it didn't make me sick. Truthfully, I enjoy Wendy's Chili more! So if you've had bariatric surgery don't go eat at Pasadena Steak House. I should add that everyone else liked their meals.

Well, I'm off to bed with my book to read for awhile.

Good to Sew

I feel like I have finally gotten my craftiness back! It was so nice to sit and sew once again. Did I tell you I love my Pfaff? Yep, I sure do.

Today I made 5 tissue holders in Christmas colors. I would like to do some other holiday items and have a Christmas in July at my Etsy shop. Since it's almost the end of the month I need to get creating tomorrow and stay off of the computer.  Will take photos tomorrow and start a photo album for things I make. Now I'm off to bed.