Recycling and Going Green

I ordered a paper sack pattern from Farm Chicks.  Theirs if very nice but you print them off and use colored inc.  Then you pink the edges in a semicircle.  That is fine, but I got to thinking, (OH NO!), why do I not use the junk faxes from work and the messed up copies so long as I don't compromise any one's personal information.  I took a series of pictures and I think they will tell you what to do.  I think some nice pink tissue paper would be great inside and pinking the top or using a fancy pair of scissors would also add to the beauty.  These are just the right size for bars of homemade soap.

An elderly lady was in and she was wearing a t-shirt with beads going vertically on the center of the sleeve and the sleeve was gathered up with it.  I thought the beads gave the t-shirt a little dressy look so I had to ask.  She was happy to show me how it was made and posed for me.  It is something that anyone should be able to make. She recycled the beads and pin from another t-shirt she owned. 

I wonder what I can do with my beads......... 

I would be interested in your ideas on this technique.  Send me a comment.

The loveliest of them all was the Uniquely Adorned

Some hats and rats and elephants, But sure as you're born

The loveliest of them all was the Uniquely Adorned...

My assignment was to make an item using manufactured yarn and homespun yarn together.  This was to allow knitters or crocheters to see what an item looks like using both since some knitters and crocheters can not afford to buy larger quantities of homespun yarn, or do not want to purchase larger amounts of homespun until they have tried it out first.  I used 100% kid mohair yarn spun thick and thin, plied with 1/8 inch pink, satin ribbon and manufactured, pink wool.  The wool was thinner than the homespun yarn, so I compensated for that when I crocheted the hat.

I hope this project will do the trick.  Blessings!  Dawn 

Banks of Noon Botanicals

My sis makes soaps and as of yet has not placed them on her website.  I found these pics on Facebook.   I was so impressed that I had to show them off.  While I am on a bathroom topic, here is a pic of my great nephew when he got caught tearing up toilet paper.  He is adorable!  How can you get mad at this?

Lone Crane

Most every day I see a crane on the lake with out a mate or friend.   I see him in need of a friend, but he or she may have chosen to be away from others in a quiet peaceful surrounding.  I purchased some apricots last evening at a local grocery store.  The aroma given off as they are lovingly devoured reminds me of sunshine, green waving grass, grandma in her kitchen canning apricots picked from her front yard tree; all of these give me the feeling of being in a quiet peaceful surrounding just as the crane.  It also gives me a feeling of security and being loved.  Grandmas have a way of doing that.  I wonder if the stork has that feeling too?

Grage Sale

Against my better judgment, I had a garage sale this weekend.  I sold a little less than $100.00 worth of items.  We still have a refrigerator, many, many, many, teaching items, and a few other misc. items.  I hate to give away all of the teaching items since there was much time and money involved in putting the supplies together.  Many of the teaching items were only used once, and some were not even used.  I advertised for the sale and that cost about $40.00.  I also dropped my phone in the water and now I am having telephone issues, that may cost me an arm and a leg.  I gave 2 boxes of books, (Most like new), a couple toys, and a box of craft supplies to a co-worker.  She took some items to a church preschool she takes her daughter to.  On a positive side, I was able to  clean out 1/2 of the garage, but the items left from the sale can not be picked up by a by the AM VETS or GOODWILL for 9-21 days.  I bet they would be there faster to get my donation if it was money.  lol  Maybe my son was right when he told me to just throw it all in a construction dumpster and be done with it.  It sure would have been much easier!
Blessings!

Make Mine Pink

Today I joined Make Mine Pink which is a group of businesses that come together in one website for fantastic feminine shopping!  Speaking of pink, I bent over and picked up a piece of a spinning wheel in the dark last night and poked my eye with a clothes steamer.  We have extra items in the living room since we are getting ready for a garage sale.  I guess the eye is more red than pink.  Ouch!

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

I would love to show you a picture of something that I completed, but....  It was one of those weeks that you take one step forward and two steps backward.  Yesterday, I cleaned the cage for the African Gray Parrots and relocated the cage to my bedroom.   As we were moving things around, my son knocked over my clothes rack.  It was packed with clean clothes, so I had to clean up that mess, just to stay even.  We did however, add a bunny to the family.  It is a white, Jersey Woolie, (They are called Dwarf Angora rabbits in Australia.), and he has red eyes. It is all full of fluff.  My son named it Cotton Balls.  He thought it was appropriate, since the bunny was a boy.  Today, he is thinking of Fluff.  Tomorrow?????   Pictures will be posted soon.  Blessings!  Dawn