Crafty stuff and other ramblings...

Remember a couple of weeks ago I was telling you about Helen, who passed away, who was a Granny Bee (Stitchery Group member) and I said she was THE BEST STITCHER and she could do it all. Well, we had a Granny Bee meeting last night and we were asked to bring something we have of hers. Here are a couple of her show and tell items.

pincusion

needle keeper book

covered notebooks. Our group is working on doing something in Helen's memory.

And these...

are flowers that the Scribe made and gave to me! CUTE! I'm thinking about putting them on this purse I made, which is pink wool...you can see it in the pic but I'm not going to show you the whole thing until it's finished. The flowers were not the original plan for the purse, so now I'm trying to decide, go with the original plan or use the flowers.....

This is the back side of the purse. I bought these squares at an auction last year and am using them for a pocket.

Some of you have heard about the huge bag of acrylic yarn that was given to me. Well, yesterday a neighbor called me asking if I had any scraps of yarn that she could use for this little group of girls that come to her house on Wednesday evenings.

"I sure do!", I say.

BYE BYE acrylic yarn. To everything there is a purpose.


This is one of my favorite magazines. I wish I knew they were doing an article on lampshades...

especially on re-purposing old stuff to make lamp shades, because

my cousin Ashley made these. (I know, it doesn't belong on a bottle of Evan Williams, I just stuck it there and it was cute. That came from a whiskey tour my husband and I took a couple of years ago....does whiskey go stale?)

So, anyway she has these two left and she was wondering if I knew anywhere she could sell them....

I need to get a definite price on them.

Aren't they cute?

So, back to Mary Jane's farm magazine, they also have an article on keeping chickens for pets. And I have to admit, they are so cute at Rural King right now that I have avoided going there, lest I cave. I even have an antique baby bed tucked away in the attic somewhere, which is what they use for a cage! (BTW-do not buy chickens for pets for Easter gifts. Get a chocolate bunny instead)

I wonder what these guys would think about have chickens for a sister? They are waiting for the boys to walk in the door here (and for all you blogettes giving me grief for watching boys taller than me....I know I know...But I don't really watch them. They just come here every day because the dogs like to play with them! That, and they need transportation getting places while their parents work.)

And this is an afghan that I have been working on for a few months. One of those wip's...

that I put up, get out, get tired of it, put up.....So, last night I decided to take it with me to the Granny Bee meeting and work on it there. We get together a couple of times a month and bring stuff to work on.

I keep it in this bag. Marilyn and I were sitting at the table, and luckily no one else was there at the time. I pulled out my white yarn and wondered what was on it. I smell it...no smell. It's dry...and she asks if I might have spilled coffee on it. Maybe, but I haven't had it out in a long time and I don't remember spilling coffee on it.

Then, when the home owner let her dog out of it's cage, the dog ran straight to my bag of yarn and would NOT stop sniffing. Not even for a treat. Marilyn has two dogs, and we both look at each other...we both knew.... and I was (still am) SO MAD. Marilyn, of course, couldn't stop laughing.

Next time I'm getting chickens.


Cindy Bee