Crafts after BC is good for the soul

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  • lisalisa
    lisalisa Member Posts: 824
    edited April 2009

    Thanks, Anna!  I don't know why others (with Macs) have had problems!?!?  but, glad you could vote :)

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  • EWB
    EWB Member Posts: 2,927
    edited April 2009

    Got my vote in today Lisa.

    Jo- boy do you have a lot going on! Prayers that your Dad stays well, thanks for your granddaughter's good news and Yipey on the wedding!!!

    Hugs to everyone for quick recoveries and happy crafting

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited April 2009

    JO, my goodness, what a lot on your plate.  God will guide you through it all though.

    lvtwoqlt- thats awful that you can't use your hand, hope that lymphodema gets better quick.

    Curlieq, it is always so good to see a post from you and I will be looking forward to the picture.

    Hugs and love to all. have a good day.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2009

    Good morning sister crafters.  Just popping in to say 'hi'.  I'm off to do some more errands.  It seems the more I do, the more there is to do.  :)  I love all these crafts and wonderful ideas.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited April 2009

    got a couple of more necklaces, been on a roll again late at night.

    000_0999-1.jpg greens picture by spark56_photo

    000_0998-2.jpg black and white picture by spark56_photo

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2009

    Wow, that green/yellow one is very striking.  You have a knack for color.  If I could get you into quilting, you would be making some awesome show quality quilts!

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited April 2009

    I do want to learn to quilt.  Am glad to see you here my friend, have been missing you.  Have you been studying or just having some fun.  Thanks about the necklace. Hope all is well with you and all your family.  I didn't work 5 to 7 last night but the lady that did came to life group after and said in the storm and pouring rain they fed 144 people.  I was so surprised, I though the weather would keep some in but I guess if you are hungry you will come out in any weather to get food.  I think today am going to try to finish a chemo hat I am making for a friend.  sending you big fat cyber hugs.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited April 2009

    wanted to post my hen and chicks, after all planting and flowers is a craft also.

    000_1003.jpg Hens and Chicks picture by spark56_photo

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  • celia088
    celia088 Member Posts: 2,570
    edited May 2009

    spar, i especially love the last necklace with the blue striped beads.  Wow, you are doing great stuff.  Love the elephant planter too.

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  • arnie
    arnie Member Posts: 3,050
    edited May 2009
    Spar...love the striped beads also, you're on a roll! Laughing
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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    thanks celia and arnie.  am having so much fun making them.  Hope everyone has a great relaxing fun productive weekend.  Not for sure what we are doing this weekend except church sunday and go to okc to pick up my mom from the airport.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    I just had to mention I finally found some jelly beans today at Atwoods.  We are having brickfest here today and tomorrow.  We are going tomorrow to see what it is all about.

    good day crafters.

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  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 2,147
    edited May 2009

    SPAR *

    It is beautiful.   Beautiful !  Thank you dear friend.  Thank you. 

    You are the most giving and kind person.  I will wear it with happiness and delight.

    Thank you from my heart.

    Sahalie

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    thank you, so glad you like it. you are very welcome.

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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited May 2009

    We have those plants here too...Only I always thought there were weeds..omg..lol.

    See I learned something new today.

    I had the stitches out.Dr Says I can'tlift anything with that hand/arm for 4 weeks!! He thinks this is a dise effect of the arimidex??? He is gonna do research and let me know for sure when I see hime in 3 weeks..interesting,huh!

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    glad you got the stitches out but gosh an effect of arimidex, what all does that drug do?  I guess I lucked out just having a dry bleeding vagina and muscle and joint pain.  Be very careful and mind your dr. so you will get back to normal soon.  Did he say it was ok to type?

    Did I understand you right you thought hen and chicks were weeds?  Hey you can send me your weeds anytime. LOL

    Have a good evening crafters.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    Awwww JO will miss your pictures.  pop in and say hi when you get a chance.  Candie hoping your ok and getting better everyday.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    I found a picture of a jeweled spiderweb to hang on the porch that I think I will try to make it was in family fun magazine. 

    JO you started redecorating - well, just because. LOL 

    Goodmorning all crafter, have a great day.

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  • gibby
    gibby Member Posts: 105
    edited May 2009

    That sounds beautiful. I would like to see it when you make it.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    Ok, I have this habit of posting things I make just cause it is so much fun.

    Sahalie, there is a pier 1 import a few towns away but have not heard of the other store.  is it a nationwide store?  Hope your having a good monday.

    I have another elephant I need to find a good plant for, something really tough.  I wonder is mother-in-laws tongue would get too big for the elephant pot?

    Jazzygirl, thinking of you today and hoping you are having a great day.

    JO or anyone any suggestions on what to do with a huge amount of old buttons my mother has.  I wonder is you could sting buttons and make a chime out of buttons. LOL

    I wish they were really pretty ones but they are just all kinds of buttons.

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  • sunkistmi
    sunkistmi Member Posts: 287
    edited May 2009

    Hi Spar,

    Saw a wall hanging once where she had taken all different kinds of buttons and sewed them in heart shapes of different sizes.  Some were just ordinary buttons but they had been her grandmothers and therefore special.  If you drew the hearts in all different sizes first on some sort of neutral tone-on-tone fabric, layered it like a quilt, sewed the buttons thru all three pieces of fabric then quilted around the hearts with a running stitch, it would have enough body to hold up without sagging from the weight of the buttons.  I'm not sure that's how this lady whose sample I saw did it but it is the way I had planned to use my grandma's buttons.  Just a thought to get them out of the box they may be in.

    I have all sorts of ideas about  crafts, I lag in the area of execution.  Bad me.

    Blessings,

    Wendy

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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited May 2009

    A nice idea sunkistmi.

    Spar, yes it is ok to type, just no lifting. What is mother-in-law tongues???

    Jo, my Dr says the tendon problem ( not carpal tunnel) can be from the arimidex. But are you saying carpul tunnel IS a SE of arimidex?

    Havent done any crafts...but love to see what u girls are up to.

    Hugs and prayers

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    I sure thought I posted a mother in laws tongue yesterday.  I wonder if I put it on the wrong thread.  That is weird.

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  • arnie
    arnie Member Posts: 3,050
    edited May 2009
     Here you go...wonder what the other thread thought spar...lol
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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    IMG_0938.jpg bloom on mother in law plant image by momfish42

    This is a mother in laws tongue, the leaves go up to a point and are sharp

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    I was wondering that too.  Everyone have a good crafting day.  I will be knitting in the car ride.  Got to go to the city.

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  • AnnaM
    AnnaM Member Posts: 1,387
    edited May 2009

    Jeeps, I thought you were making a comment about your mother-in-law's actual tongue!

    Another way to stabilize the hearts (for the button project) would be to use Pattern-ease (buy it at fabric shops) or interfacing, or something like that. The advantage of Pattern-ease, as opposed to interfacing, is that you can quilt through it without damaging your fingers too much.

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited May 2009

    Speaking of Buttons, I made a 3-D quilted door hanging of a home-spun Santa (pre-printed) that I left the edges rough (cut with pinking shears to finish the edges) and I glued many white/ivory buttons on his beard to imatate the curls of the beard, black buttons on the eyes, rosy buttons for his cheeks, a large brass jingle bell on his hat and brass buttons on his boots. I don't remember the designer but it has a country feel (santa in a red plaid shirt, patches on his pants and hunting boots) I hang it on my front door every Christmas.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited May 2009

    thank you JO and lvtwoqlt, what some wonderful ideas.  You guys gave my brain a push start.  Now I can tell Mom, sure I want all those buttons, got some wonderful things to do with them, maybe even make something for her.  Wonderful ideas from you too Wendy. 

    love that saying, she never lost her buttons.

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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited May 2009

    wow, I have that plant in my living room...never knew what it was called...boy, I sure do learn alot on here. Spar, I have seen picture frames with buttons glued all over..looks cool.

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