How I Caught the Easter Bunny

This is the video I made to show the girls that the Easter Bunny was here, as requested by my little one.  I didn't say anything so they won't recognize my voice.

She was thrilled when she saw it in the morning.  The big one had a couple of questions that I just answered with he was hiding. Paper ears taped on a headset.  I am so glad I made her happy.

A Little Bit of Scraping

 

Part of what I have been scrapbooking is My Life Story so this week I made my binder cover page and the spine. 

 

Binder Cover

 

This picture was taken when I was 40, so 26 years ago. 

 

Binder Spine

 

Inside I have dividers for each decade plus the year I was married.  On the front of the divider page is a What Happened in that year and on the back is my Time Line for everything that happened in that decade.  On my Time Lines I included things like where I lived, if we moved, school, jobs, births and deaths, and occasionally a historical fact.  I just had a thought I guess I could do a few more of those.  Well that is a project for another day.

 

 

1948

1958

 

1968

I look like I an ready to take the world on sitting

on the back of the Lion in Detroit.

1978

1988



1992

1998

I still have to find a picture for this one. I have lots of boxes of pictures to go through to find one.

 

 

2008

 

Time Line 1968

 

  This has been a fun project but I have a lot of work left to do!!

 

Happy Easter!!

Have fun quilting, scraping and just living!!!

 

PS I forgot to mention where I purchased the What Happen in Year pages, here is the link to Family Tree Stalker.

 

A Little Bit of Quilting

I was able to do a couple of more rows of tying Mr. B.'s quilt.  I had plans to get to it again the next day but I suddenly became busy filling out adoption papers and running around getting them some of them signed by health providers and notarized.  What a lot of work and that is only one set, I have another set to do.

 

So here is a picture of the progress on Mr. B's quilt.

 

 

Do you notice both borders are visible and I can even see my fabric I use to pin the quilt to the frame.  Yup I am that close.  I think about 5 more rows to tie!!

 

I need to finish this next project first since it needs to be at the shop for our meet and greet the teachers and it is a class sample.  The meet and greet is next Saturday the 26th.

 

It is basted and I have actually quilted a couple rows in the center, not shown here.

 

Well I have to go play Easter Bunny, the girls asked me to set my camera to video the bunny.  I am not sure how I am going to do that and not give it away. I guess I need some paper ears!  

 

Here is a link to a wonderful Easter video with the

true meaning of Easter. Enjoy!

 

More Vine Work

I was bored with sewing on buttons so I started embroidering some leaves.  Here is my progress so far. Only three more sides to go! 

 

I scanned this and I have the one edge too close to the edge of the scanner.   That is why that one border seems so narrow. 

 

Look what I started!

 

Ever since I started working on this, I have been thinking this will look so great in 30's fabric.  Look at it, it is so cute in 30's.  I am trying to decide if I like the blue or the purple better for the inside border.  I am leaning towards the purple.  Purple is my second favorite color and blue is my first. 

One of my friends said the blue looks like me

and the purple looks like Easter. 

I really don't want an Easter look. 

 

Leave a comment and tell me which one you like better. 

 

 

My Vine is Growing

Or maybe I should say, my vine is growing some button flowers.

 

 

Here is my progress this week on my Baby Steps. 

 

I have also been playing in EQ7 as I have my monthly club today.  We are working with Patch Draw and learning how to draw a circle quilt from the EQ book Quilt Designs.

 

Plus it was just a plan old busy week. 

 

Have fun!! Quilting, Scraping and Living!!

 

 

Re-Scraping My Dad's Photo Ablum

My Dad made three or four photo albums of our family.  Think about that it was my Dad who made them not my Mom.  I have two of the albums.  I am not sure what happened to the others.  My brother who lived with my Dad until his death and lived in his home until the house sold did not have the albums when

I visited him in 2009. 

A few years back I had taken some of the pictures out of the book and placed them on black pages and wrote what my dad had written for each page.  I wanted my albums to all be 8.5 x 11.  I didn't feel good about this so I did not proceed with the project.  

Saturday morning while preparing to go scrapbooking with some friends, I hit upon a wonderful idea.  Why not cut the pages out of the books, leaving his pages intact and add them to my paper to fit my books.  I asked my fellow scrapers and they agreed. 

I am posting just some of the pages here.  Now that the pages are scanned I can also send copies to my brothers.

 

 

I didn't make the pages fancy, just a few embellishments, I wanted the main focus to be my Dad's pages.  These pictures are from their Honeymoon at Niagara Falls, they went to both the NY and Canadian sides and swam in the Great Lakes.

 

 

It was hard deciding what paper to use.  I would think oh trees in the background may be a green or a stone bridge brown. Sometimes it was I just like this paper so I went with it.

 

 

I did nine pages but I won't bore you with all of them.  I am happy with the results.  I may add some journaling notes and copy what my Dad wrote as his white ink is very faded on the black paper.  I even tried my white ink pen on the old porous paper and it soaks in and is very faded.  I want to save the information.  

 

I did post some of the other pages here.

 

 

Here are the two album I have.

 

 

 

 

Mixed Media

What do I mean by Mixed Media, just that I have been doing a little scrapbooking and a little embroidery. 

Scrapbooking first!

I have been using the Kiwi Lane Design Templates for 11 months and I wanted to try using them a little different.  My first variation was to use them with spray glitter ink. 

 

I placed them on the paper and sprayed around them.  The next time I will cover the holes with tape, not that the little dots look bad.  Worked well.  The spray wiped off the templates with a little bit of spray cleaner and a paper towel.  I am working on some old pictures from the late 60's and early 70's.  I am not spending a lot of time just short journaling and adding pictures.  Here I used paper, I think the next one I will use card stock. 

 

 

My second idea was to punch holes around a shape and then sew it with floss.  The fish is really more noticeable in person.  This was fun. 

 

 

First I decide where did I want that fish.

 

 

Then I made some holes with a tapestry needle.  I first

marked all the points and all the dips to mark where the

template went in case it slipped. 

 

Time for more holes about 1/4" a part, as even as possible, then I did the stitching.   I was going to use a lighter blue but it didn't show at all, so I went with the darker.  Where the paper is three layers deep it was a little hard to punch the holes so I stuck my needle in the back of an eraser to I could push without hurting my fingers.  It worked well. 

 

 

Isn't he cute! So much better in person.

 

Here is the progress I made on my little Baby Step Quilt, both sashings done, and the main vine of the border is completed. 

Maybe tonight I can start adding buttons. 

Now it is time to clean up my creative mess. 

 

Happy Stitching, Scraping and Life.