Gahhhhh!

It has happened. As feared, the minute I join Pinterest, I lose my sleeping hours. Instead of REM cycles and rapid eye movement, it's just click, click, repin, follow, click, like, comment, click, click, repin, repeat. Sigh.

Why have I just now joined Pinterest, you ask? HELLO! Did you not just read the above paragraph?! I knew this was coming, and staved it off for as long as I could. But the call of the community was just too much of a siren to be denied anymore.

On the plus side, apparently I CAN tell the future. I shall use my powers only for good. Sleep is good, right? Ah, yes, I can see the pillow now. It is only a few clicks away!

Second post - Quilt

I've been obsessed with quilts these days.  So much so that I have to put two, count them two, alarms on my phone to tell me it's time to put down the rotary cutter and go to BED!  And even that doesn't work sometimes.  Maybe I need three....

Anyway, that's not important.  What is important is the finished product!

I give you a beautiful quilt I designed and my quilt club was able to help me realize the dream.

This brings up a point.  I was thinking of naming my quilts...  Perhaps I'll name this one Tic Tac 9 Patch.  Has a fun ring to it.

The quilting is basically just stitch in the ditch, except when I missed and wasn't quite in the ditch.  Sometimes my straight lines have a lot of personality.  Let's say drunken personality.

All in all, it was a fun one to make!

First post!!!

O M Goodness, I am so excited to be creating this blog.  It's been a long time in the think tank and I'm READY to GO!

The idea is to show my craft projects or links to other people's that I would covet if it wasn't a bad thing.  But still...  I like them.... a lot!

So let's get to it!  Right off, here's a picture of a craft I've done recently.

This isn't my picture (gosh, I wish I had that cute piano) but I forgot to take a good picture of mine before packing it up for the end of the season.

It's a great advent calendar.  It's made on old barn wood cut to approximately 55 inches long by 8 inches wide and painted an antique white.  The colorful pieces are clothespins with ribbon glued to the front of them.  You can hang anything you want from the clothespins to keep track of the days.  I chose tiny little wrapping bows in Christmas colors.  Other options are small wrapped gifts, tiny toys, ornaments, etc.  Just remember that the clothespin, which is glued on with wood glue, has to be able to hold the weight.  I put some picture hangers on the back on either side and tied on an old-timey looking rope for hanging.

Now, most people take them off with the corresponding day.  (i.e. on December 1st, they remove the number 1 spot, on the 2nd, they take off the number 2 spot, and so on.)  I submit an alternative.  If you take off the 24 spot first, you (and your kids) will know how many days are left until Christmas.  This is what I grew up with, so I'm partial.  But can you see how it would forestall a lot of "Mom, how many days left?" "Mom..."  "Mom..."  "Mom...." "MOM!"  Well, you probably know how that goes.

More posts coming as the crafts roll in!