Things

First of all I can't believe it's been a week since my last post....but haven't really done much.  My ankle is almost healed from last week's fall.  It is still sore in spots, and it will probably ended up aching me lots on those damp days, just like my bum knee does.  And I ended up getting a bad head cold....maybe because when I fell last week, I ended up getting totally soaked on my backside from head to toe...maybe I chilled off.  But the cold is just about gone...have a little congestion left, but feeling so much better than I did.

I did get my necklace done with the stuff I bought at JoAnn's.  Ended up not using the big silver beads, and I like the way it turned out.  I will use those big silver beads in something else!  I went shopping at a local craft store over the weekend, and they were having a big sale on all their beads and jewelry making stuff.  I ended up getting some strands of beads for $1.00, $2.00, and even got some glass pearls at $0.67 per strand!  Great deals that I couldn't pass up.  I got pink, cream and teal colored pearls, two strands of white howlite, two strands of those big ball beads you see in vintage necklaces, three strands of aqua colored crystals, two bracelet blanks, a ring blank, 4 packs of jump rings in colors - lime green, gunmetal gray, turquoise and hot pink (can't wait to make something with those) and I ended up getting two things to take photos of my completed projects...one is a black shaped hand and one is a neck/chest thing to display the necklaces.  So I feel I got some great deals and am anxious to get working on things!

Lately I've been finding myself really drawn towards vintage things, whether it is kitchenware, fabric, hankies, jewelry, images...whatever, but I do love the vintage look.  And I think that I need to start shopping the thrift stores to see what I might find.  I don't want to go crazy looking for items, and I won't pay lots for something, but I do want to start seeing what there is out there.  I read on other blogs about people going to antique stores and auctions to pick stuff up...don't know if I will do that....but I will start out slowly and work my way up to those!!! lol

Another thing I've been itching to get completed are my two lap quilts.  I started one many years ago and the other about two summers ago...I am sewing them by hand, so it does take a little longer...but I like that doing it this way makes them portable...I can sit anywhere and sew!  One is a fall themed village and the other is a beachy scene...I think the beachy scene needs to be completed first!

And I also really need to get back into my scrapbooking.  I am finishing up an album I was working on for a friend, and then have two smaller ones to get completed for my brother and his father-in-law...that one should be fun to work on...they drove Route 66 from California to Pennsylvania back in December, and that's what I will have to work with in these albums.  Some of the pictures are amazing!  I wish I would have a chance to do something like that....all that neat memorabilia they got to see!!!