PRESSING BOARD…..

The blue board ….

one I bought for my self…the blue side is a self healing cutting board and the other side is for pressing…I would like it to be a little bigger but this I the right size for storing in my RV….the one on the bottom is one that I made for my sister…I found a piece of 1/2 in. plyboard that I had …

I put down some batting and covered it with musslin …glued it with some wood glue cause that is all I could find..it worked out great … a really good hold…

This is a pic of that side finished…I like it a lot… perfect for pressing while sewing you don’t have to drag out the ironing board and all that…

In the pic below is the self healing mat that gets glued on the other side…the other side of the mat has a gird for measuring..don’t know why I didn’t take a pic with it facing up….any way my neighbor was putting it out for the garabage .. her kids had did a little marking on it with a marker … not that bad that it would interfear with using it for sewing…I gave it to my sister like this so she could glue it down …she glued it and put her sewing machine on top to hold it down…worked like a charm…

The rest of the story….

The bazar is over…now down to my business…I started to cut the 10  1/2 in squares for the rag quilt I am making for my DD and baby Charley….it is for them to play on the floor when she can sit up….I hope it turnes out ok…will be my first…I will post some pics in another post soon….still dealing with kidney stones…went to doc again today 11/21/14..he thinks it could be in my bladder…so need to continue water to flush it out…praying for it to do so soon…it has been cold the last couple days here in central Floirda…along the east coast…but to warm up now…there is an art show only about a mile from dads tomorrow so hope to go check that out…well that’s all for now…thanks for looking and come back soon….blessings donna  

MAKING MORE ORNAMENTS…

A few of the…

ornaments I have made for the church bazar…snowmen…I had these wood cut outs left from my craft show days…so figured I would paint them up for the bazar…

Close up of sweet little snowmen faces…this is another batch of cut outs…look a little like the others…but are different cut out…

Also found some wood ball ornaments so they got painted too…It has been fun doing these little guys…

More cutie faces…I am glad I brought these with me this time …I had a bunch of ornament  blanks and other craft stuff in PA..they got tossed in the rig at the last min.

And made these before I left in the spring…they are vintage metal measuring spoons…painted up candy cane snowmen…

And here are a few of the ladies at the church working away…every Wed. all year long they show up and make stuff for the bazar…they come and go all day long… every thing made on Wed. is donated to the bazar …on Tues. nights they get together and work on their own stuff…so I do that also…made my GGD her quilt here on Tues. nights…on the other side of the room is where other ladies make quilts for the homeless…and some to sell at the bazar….

And the rest of the story….’

Finally getting over the kidney stones..but there is still one hanging around in the left kidney…drinking a ton trying to float it out…cant seem to get a handle on my craft/art room…I am using it for storage also …for my stuff I brought with me from PA…I would like to get making some stuff to sell…but cant work in there at this point…also need a spot to set up a sewing station…well that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon..blessings to all …donna