Bag'O'goodies

 notes to self;

1) dying individual lacy bits takes more than a day

2) surrender your space to the job for at least a week

3) get used to having interestingly colored fingers for said week

 4) have fun with it!

5) see what $30.00 worth of flowered lace will get you?

I've been busy

 really I have been!
 I have figured out a few things in gimp but I am still struggling a little so please bear with me!
don't ask where that big red rose came from, It just appeared on the top one day and I had to work around it!

We have a group that meets every Wednesday 3p-6p at Crossroads mall in Bellview WA.  we Talia, Donna Pam and I sit in front of the Joannes and stitch, babble, share and compare (anyone is welcome to drop by BTW) 
 I looked down at my block
(can it be a block when it's a circle?)
and there was this big red rose!
where did it come from and how did it get there? have any of you had this happen?
boy I need to pay more attention to these things! I'm getting giddy.

 this is going to be a round box top I made one like this earlier last year but I liked it too much to sell it.

I don't seem to have that problem with this one!

this one has a more spirngy feel to it, I covered it with lots of bugs.

I love the look I get using Krenik braid for the spiders legs don't you?

about posting

I would post, I want to post, but we recently went from windows to linnux and well frankly gimp sucks, loudly!
I can't figure it out (and I've used cad programs for years)
so folks until I figure out another way to reshape, resize and generally fool around with my pictures
I got nothin.
Poo!

BJP October

 well this one took long enough to get here!







but inspiration is like that sometimes



gone when you need it and on overload when you have a lot of other things to do!

Now just one more!    

the fates box

 this is the brightest happy box I think I have made so far!


and boy do the colors POP!

 I found this great thread at Threadneedle Street, a shop in Issaquah. I used it for the swirly pattern around the picture.

It was so pretty I made the block to go with it specifically.

what do you think?
happy mystical, wibbly, wobbly,timey, wimey
fun stuff

Dec BJP

 I need 2 more and I have this years done!



this one was just screaming DECEMBER the whole time I was making it

 I finished all the backs to this years so I could wear them






they are to pretty to leave in a box

 I really should finish the ones from last year like this too!

blue hawaii box

 in hawaii where the weather is just like seattle only with sun and not so much cold!





 where the sun shines bright

 the gekkos scamper with you're morning coffee

 the surfing is wicked good

and the turtles laze about  *sigh*

just thinking about it makes me feel cold today!

getting stuff done-Finally!

 I know it sometime doesn't look like any of my projects are getting anywhere.









they will NEVER be done and I will be sewing on them FOREVER




then you find , squirreled away in a box, 3 projects, while you're  looking for something else


such is my silly life. here is the first of those.

I call it the dark forest.

September BJP

I got a little caught up with my BJP's







Here is septembers







 a little pink and swirly

 like a swimming girly

splashing water having fun

in the summer midday sun

 

Happy Solstice!

may this year find you happy in spirit, Healthy in body and peaceful in mind

what have I been doing?

well there's a story there.


 A little story.




I've been making purses.

 lots and lots of purses.

I've dubbed them Saddlebags.




 i road tested them on my 17 year old by making her a star wars themed purse.




she could put all her stuff in it

while she bopped around the city for the summer with friends.




 then it turned into a school bag that holds all the stuff that she doesn't want to get smooshed in her backpack.



 so it's been thrown around used as a pillow, sat on, thrown in the wash, dragged on the floor and generally beat up and tortured



 then she thought I would be able to sell them at the annual Christmas bazaar at school. so I set about making a few out of material I already had on hand.


 I made a promise to myself I was not going to buy more fabric for future projects I was never getting to, no matter how amazing the fabric was.


so I had a backlog of fabric to choose from




I sewed and sewed and eventually ended up with 35 fun and unique bags to sell at the bazaar.




I also took some of my cq stuff. I got lots of compliments and questions about CQ which are nice





I didn't sell any thing.






so now I have lots of Christmas presents and new items up in the ETSY store

and a rather cynical view of bazaars.

Happy Thanksgiving!