Location: The Sonoran Desert - Dry heat? Like a kiln!
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Going to try to hold myself accountable here:
~finish morning glory flower child'
~finish knitting soap sack (learning to knit with 5 dpn)
~finish waldorf doll that was supposed to be daniel's third birthday present (he'll be 4 in september)
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arg, i am going to have to drop out, i am on bedrest for a bit and while i hope to work on many projects i have no idea how often i will be able to get on the computer
you guys have a great time and i definitely want to be on the next one!
8 sets of hedgehogs, and 1 barrette. The hedge hogs were new, but I didn't have to buy the materials, the barrette used ribbon and stars that I had ready to go.
29 pts
Running total: 71 pts
6/26 and 27
17 sets of hedgehogs (51)
1 set of rose petal beads (3 pts& 80 beads--yeah!)
1 rosary (3 pts)
1 container emptied (4pts)
nothing previously started, but no new supplies aquired
I've got unfair advantage-- dd is one very small and sleepy girl still and dh is currently never home because he's got a summer job in addition to his regular one.. I'm also an insomniac with a history of sewing and crafting under deadline (used to be a theatrical costumer and propmaker for some repertory theatre companies-- + I was raised by my mother who I will never be able to outcraft.) Maybe I'm just making stuff that's too easy?
-H
Location: The mountains, the plains, wherever my road my lead me...
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I think that rosary looked anything but easy. Was it hard to learn how to bend the wire that way? I can do curls and the such, but I've never tried anything more intricate.
No-- it was pretty easy. I've been doing tons of spirals and other stuff (although dh has to do my clasps for me' cause his a perfect and mine always come out lopsided.) I love Jane Davis's book Decorative Wirework it's got great ideas and nice beginning instructions. I just did a spiral for a center, and then bent zigzags like I was going to make a star, and then bent them into a circle and squished them to make the sun's rays.
-H
Originally posted by mom2JandJ You can't outcraft your mother? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does she not sleep at all? LOL
Kathy
Not really lol-- she's an incredible painter and tailor, decorates wedding cakes, quilts like a maniac, crochets up a storm, and has the coolest wood shop in her garage where she and my dad have my great- grandfather's lathe and a table saw and scroll saws and routers etc. They just bought a compressor so they could play with nail guns and stuff. I'd be jealous, but normaly all I have to do is ask for something and they'll go create it. (Normally with no cost, my dad is the ultimate scrounger) She's been a sahm for my whole life and always had projects on the side like tailoring, and catering weddings, and is down to just my 24 yo brother at home so she finds herself with nothing but time. I think last year alone she donated 117 baby quilts and 27 afghans to various charities, not to mention the booties and stuff she just gives away to random people (She crocheted an entire layette for my sister's labor nurse's new grandchild) She's just a crafting goddess. I grew up with an eensie bit of a complex since I had slow fine motor development and couldn't use scissors effectively until about 4th grade. My sister's and I normally go up and quilt together once a week, and her grandkids are enjoying playing in grandma's stuff. My 3-4 yo neices and nephews decorated their own animal cakes last week and couldn't have had more fun.
She did foil me today though. I got a couple of huge bags of rose petals-- she deadheaded her rose garden. It's got to be worth at least -5 pts
-H
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