Finishes and a Couple New Projects

Just a peek into what I have been doing instead of blogging...

Another handbag

 Please don't forget your dryer during Spring cleaning!

 Bookmarks

 Bandannas for door prizes for the Suzuki GMen Spring Rally, 

 Another few Bento Bags

 A Bengals handbag in the works

Knitted trivet, heart design 

 A couple fabulous fat quarters came in the mail from sewcraftyjess 

It has been busy around here and I still need to get outside and work on the front flowerbed. 

Have a Happy Easter!

Santa Soft Book

My daughter and I found this at the bottom of a bag of fabric. I remember buying it about 17 years ago, when she was 3, and then promptly losing it. I think I need an intervention on fabric hoarding...LOL!

I ironed it for about an hour and cut it out.

I found some batting scraps that were the perfect size and pinned it up.

I just did a quick stitch around the pictures and then the outside edge of  the pages. DD is so in love with the Rag Quilt texture, she wanted me to leave the page edges open.

Sew it together and square up the pages and...

Ta Da! 

It's cute under the tree and she says it is going in her cedar chest after Christmas.

She is very good at reminding me that it is the littlest things that can mean the most.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Girl's Scrub & Guy's Scrub

Saturday morning I was feeling the need to dig in the front flowerbed.  It is nothing but mud. Mud, Mud, and more Mud!  I was a mess and so were my nails.  I decided to make a new jar of hand scrub.  Last week I bought a bottle of the Lavender scented Dawn dish soap.  I mixed some soap and sugar together into a runny paste. Presto! Fancy hand scrub!  I decorated a cheez whiz jar (perfect size for everything) and I get a hand spa treatment any time I want.

DH sees this scrub taking spray paint off my fingers (whole other mess I might post about LOL) and asks if I will make him some that doesn't smell Girly!  So, I mixed the sugar and regular, blue, no girly smelling Dawn into an undecorated salsa jar.  He is happy as pie and no smelly stuff touches him...LOL!

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