Some Fun Things!

I've been really busy lately.

Wanted to share some more things with you today

that I hope you find a little bit fun.

In the Feb/March issue of Quilters Newsletter there is an article about Linda Wilkey, and her quilt happens to be on the cover too. Congrats Linda! Linda happens to be my quilt guild's ex president. She is a wonderful quilter and specializes in Civil War quilts. She is from this south Texas area, in fact was raised in my little town and now lives on the other side of Corpus. I didn't meet her until I joined the guild a few years ago, since I am fairly new to this area. Linda still gives quilt classes at the guild and everyone says she is amazing.

This quilt was made by her and 7 friends as part of a block exchange. The article tells all about it and is very interesting to read. So I hope if you get a copy you let me know what you think.

The quilt is gorgeous and when she brings her creations to show and tell I just love it!

This necklace is made from china berries from the China Berry Tree. These trees grow everywhere down here. The berries were dried and then painted and then strung into a necklace with beads in between. I don't know who made it, I wish I could give credit here. I think it's lovely.

This is Ethel and Marilyn. They made soap in my second class at Bayview RV campground. I had a few observers also. Ethel was in my first class and just loves to make soap. Ethel comes down here to south Texas every year with her husband, from the Panhandle of Texas. Marilyn made 2 batches for her very first time. She lives locally and is in my Stitch and Rip sewing group I belong to. They both made some wonderful soap.

Ethel is cutting her soap into bars. It has sat overnight in the mold and is now hard enough to cut like she wants. She made one batch of gardenia, oatmeal plus some other great stuff. It smelled wonderful!

Marilyn is preparing to remove her soap from the mold and getting ready to cut it. She made two batches of goats milk soap with lemongrass essential oil. She also put some herbs and oatmeal in. What is neat is that the goats milk came from her own goats!

Both ladies did a wonderful job.

In my 2 soap making classes there were 9 batches of soap made total. Every batch came out wonderful with no problems of any kind. Congrats ladies!

Now for my winnings! In the mail this week I received 3 doll patterns from Melissa at Ardeas Nest. I won two of them and I think she threw the 3rd one in just because she is such a nice person. Please check out my Enchanted places to visit on the right so you can go visit her to see all the creative and wonderful things she does. Thanks Melissa and I can't wait to try one of these dolls.

I also received in the mail my winnings from Belinda at Crazy Art Girl. Above are the copper and resin earrings she made. I just love them! They are different from each other and I love that. Love the little face on that one. Belinda, these are just so unique and wonderful. Thank you!

Belinda also had, as part of her giveaway, this colorful Trader Joe's tote. I went to Trader Joe's for the first time in California when I visited my brother a few years ago. We don't have them here where I live. I loved that store and came back with lots of specialty food items. I didn't get a bag while I was there though, so I am very happy to have this one. Thanks Belinda!

This Queen of Hearts doll is about 4-5 inches tall. It was part of a swap at the Yahoo group, Decidedly Different Dolls. Go to the right in my Enchanted Places to Visit to check it out and hopefully join us. I sent this doll to my swap partner Therese. I made this doll from paper fabric and a queen of hearts card from a deck of cards. She is standing on a slice of tree branch to stabilize her.

This photo shows the back of the Queen.

We have lots of swaps in this group and it is so much fun! Each doll is usually about 4-5 inches so it doesn't take very long to make one. They are inexpensive to ship and we just have fun! This group is growing in leaps and bounds, so come join us for some fun.