Fun Day at The Elders...

The Elder is sewing away on her Featherweight..Below Sherry is checking one of the bags she is making for her grandchildren to keep their camping items in...

Cindy is busy cutting pieces for a quilt she is making to lay across her pillows. I believe it is to match the quilt she made...That is Kathy in the far right of the picture..She is working on the embroidery below..Which will turn into a darling purse...Bobbie, Kathy's Mom,  joined us at Jody's on this day..the picture I took of her was all blurry so I have none to share..But we always love when she comes to visit...The Ol'Blogger..

Altered Book for Precious God Daughter

I love this book.. Jody and Judith created for Judith's God Daughter.

An Altered Book which starts with Emmy's birth and goes through her teen years..Altered books have been defined as "any book, old or new that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art.". Here's an opportunity to use the text of books, old and new, to inspire loved ones...As they did with this one..Lots of precious memories..

 

Judith presented it to here June 2, 2011 for her graduation day...The Ol'Blogger

Hat Pin Cushions...

We are so blessed...Judith got each of us these darling pin cushions....Our collection is growing...it is so nice, while in our craft rooms..to look around and see the love we have when our eyes fall on the different pin cushions...I picked  the purple...as my sewing studio is lavender...Thank you sweet lady...The Ol'Blogger

Christmas in July....

 With the heat we are having, maybe sharing pictures of Christmas items Cindy has been busy working on, will cool us a little..:)

First photo is of Christmas stockings for Cindy's TX kids made out of recycled jeans and denim -

Second photo is the tree skirt to go with the stockings - again recycled jeans and denim

Third photo is a closer view - She used a waist band from a pair of jeans complete with belt loops to make the "closure" around the tree trunk. That would be our very own Cindy, doesn't waste anything..

 Fourth photo is mamaw and Abbi in their "hello Kitty" nightgowns. Abbi chose the fabric for the matching PJ's

Friendship Braclet.....

 While Abbi was visiting she wanted to make a friendship bracelet.. Cindy sent me pictures of Abbi working on her "friendship" bracelet.


Nothing would satisfy her until she showed her how to make a friendship bracelet.

The first one they started was too difficult for her - so Cindy found an easier pattern that she made herself (with a little coaxing from Mamaw!)


So she ended up with two bracelets - one Cindy made and one Abbi made.

 

She is wearing them both here...She is a little doll...

Dream Porch....

Cindy has been playing with her doll house again...She made the "Stain Glass Window" for it.  Hanging from the porch..Pictured below you can enlarge and see the tiny pieces of stain glass she used - yes it is real glass pieces - the hand it to show the size - the darker photo is with the dollhouse porch light reflecting in the background.

The picture below is of the porch swing she created..Cindy used wire to form the shape she  wanted then wove it (like a basket over under over under.... using linen thread - the type usually used in making jewelry - when finished I spray painted it white - all I could find was natural color linen and I wanted white :-)

..It is darling...The Ol'Blogger

Hoffman Challenge 2011

Kathy has made and sent in this beautiful purse as her Hoffman Challenge entry...Named "Half Moon..She used fibers and beads with the fabric...

This is Cindy's Hoffman Challenge Named "Hanami Tsunami"..The name of the fabric Hoffman chose is Hanami.. The only picture I had of the whole wall hanging is really dark sorry about that..the one small one will give and idea of the colors.. Good Luck girls..I will let you all know how they did when they find out..The Ol'Blogger..

Happy 4th!

First off I want to tell you all...that our own "Courageous Creative Cindy T", made this video and transferred to our blog by herself...Aren't we all proud of her? "Way to Go Cindy" ... The video and picture below are a wreath she created for the 4th of July for her front room...She is making one for each holiday..I asked her to video this one because a little patriotic man  plays "Yankee Doodle Dandy"  with drumming music..The wreath is turned side ways in the film but after the lyrics is a picture I was able to flip...

Yankee Doodle Dandy went to town

A-riding on a pony

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

Yankee Doodle, keep it up

Yankee Doodle dandy

Mind the music and the step

And with the girls be handy.

Father and I went down to camp

Along with Captain Gooding

And there we saw the men and boys

As thick as hasty pudding.

Yankee Doodle, keep it up

Yankee Doodle dandy

Mind the music and the step

And with the girls be handy

There was Captain Washington

Upon a slapping stallion

A-giving orders to his men

I guess there were a million.

Yankee Doodle, keep it up

Yankee Doodle dandy

Mind the music and the step

And with the girls be handy

 Be sure and enlarge this picture so you can get the full effect of all that Cindy has applied to the wreath...Happy 4th of July from "Cindy and The Ol' Blogger "

PS...sorry the picture won't enlarge...not sure why..Maybe our sweet Rhona can fix it...

Wall Hanging by Rhona

This is a wall hanging.   Rhona bought the pattern the week before Cindy took this picture...As Cindy reported when she sent me the picture...grrr-and she works! We all agree Rhona and Kathy never sleep! Rhona I love it...The Ol'Blogger

Complain Board

This would be a picture of our "Complaint Board" created by "The Elder".... Compete with a Stitch-in Witches Head......We are allowed to post anything that bugs us..only to be used by the SoTA Girls...Not that I would ever have a reason to post on it...

Oops I have been caught on camera...I think I had a complain about "The Elder",,,which is the only rule we have, respect (her) always...I am sure it was a sweet, loving complaint...Is that allowed????? The Ol'Blogger