notes from elinor

Puyallup Sewing Conference

Off we go.  Cherri Sue Schachterle and I head up to Puyallup Sewing Conference.  I couldn't wait to see my friends.  The drive up wasn't bad at all.  I read out loud from the book "Light in the Wilderness" by Margaret Thomas.  Cherri and I are both reading it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Here's what I got from Pamela Armas.  I showed her my doll and pages for Australia and immedialey she asked me to make one for her in exchange for her marvelous goodies.  I can't lose with a trade like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the bits and bobs that I found at a cut rate place I like.  Must be doing pinks and reds today.

 

 

 

 

 

 Kaffe Fassett..I need some of that.  I just love his incredible colors.

 

 

 

 

 

All the way from Kallispell, Montana.  Joan Hodgeboom has the best at The Quilt Gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Willis and Betts Vidal were so dear.  I loved seeing them.  Dear dear friends.  They are such an encouragement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All togeher it was a great day.

The Trumpets Of Spring

Have you thanked your neighboors for their Spring flowers?  Spring is God's greatest gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relief Society Dollar Store Challenge

The challenge was to decorate our tables with five dollars spent at The Dollar Store.  I bought two containers, and two packages of socks, three in each package..(got to know these are quality socks), some fake forsythia, black and white checked plastic, a red neckerchief and a plaid dish towel.

 

 

 

 I was allowed to suppliment with stuff from home.  So flowers seemed a posibility and everyone could take one home...Yeah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Then I made mermaid sock dolls.  They were so silly and there was not a one left to bring home.  I can do that.

You Have Ribbons In Your Past

My grandaughter, Charlotte, was just baptised and her daddy sent along a lovely announcement with her testimony and the lovliest picture. This inspired me to make this fan using several pictures of her 2nd great grandmother, her great grandmother, two 2nd great aunts and a couple of great grandfathers.  I copied the pictures and used a plastic pattern 

 

 

to cut the photos into ovals and circles.and glued them onto heavy water color paper.  I painted embellishments on the water color paper and then laminated them and put them together with a large brad or split pin.  Then I used a punch to weave some silk ribbon through all four fan sections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It's gone off to Charlotte and since a i put a self addred stamped envelope and a card, I hope to hear that it was a success.

 

Elder Cady and The Olive Garden

This the face of a Mormon Missionary in his personal Heaven, Olive Garden.  We are celebrating his birthday at his favorite restaurant, not mine by the way.  Elder Cady and his companion, Elder Parker, depend on the ward to keep them fed.  It takes a village.

 

 

 

 I just love their enthusiasm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These grins are our reward.  Muff and I dropped them off at their next appointment.

Now Take Me Home

 

Here are my Lukie birds hopping to Nebraska for the Group Challenge of Fiber Fanatics.  Everyone was given 12" of woven plastic tubing.  I pulled apart one end of the tubing and thought "tree" in the jungle with a Lukie Bird perched on top feeling the breeze.  I am loving those silly birds, but I may be over having to make more, unless of course I make them three dimentional.  Hummm

 Take them home Roxanne and see what the gals think.

 

The Big 4 0--Happy Birthday, Maureen!!!!!

Christian was the most romantic of husbands.  He helped plan the party, gave the lady an I PAD. and even wrapped it...with Duct tape.  There's the man!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Marketplace

The gal who owns this place was once a vendor at Camas Antiques and she loves the look, so it is fun to hit this store and see what she's doing.  The blend of the old and the old looking can be charming.  Both Dianne and Roxann loved what we saw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 You can not beat orange.  All these ribbons and hanging things and patterns.  I know, I know: Who is going to dust it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love multiples.  Count the clocks, and the toasters and the mixers.  I already got my first clock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrap.....Can We Have One Of These In Lincoln?

So we had to go to Scrap.  You keep all your plastic medication caps right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Spare parts that could look like this.  How sweet is this?  What have I thrown out?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the boutique.  Something reorganized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I bought bags of monocromatic scraps of paper because I need them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roxann thought she should find out how to open one of these places in Lincoln, so she got one of each flyer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a window that looked as if it could be done again at The Udder Store.  The idea was in the window of a yarn store in Portland.  Roxann went inside and took a picture of how it was done.

 

 

 

 

 

When You Love Machines That Create Fiber

Had to take Roxann to Washugal to the Pendleton Outlet.  We loved the Machines and Dianne bought a pair of boots.  Rox and I got some wool scraps.