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Mini Magnet Mania

I have been going magnet crazy today. I made 96 (yes you read that right, 96) mini glass magnets. Here they are on the display board read to go in my shop. These 4 are going to my Colorific pal for the July Black and White Swap. Sorry for the blurry picture.

Thank You's Abound

I would just like to say thiank you to my One Skein Pal for the lovely skein of art yarns supermerino I love it. Also I would like to think my swap partner from swap bot for the lovely package for the june colorrific swap-o-rama I love it. My girls took it apart before I could get a good picture. and thank you to my swap-bot pal from the I love magazines swap. she sent me 2 cross stitch mags and one paper art mag all the way from Protugal.

What I've been up to

The road trip ended up to be to Florida. I had a job to take a camper to Deland, FL and so we spent the night at the beach in Daytona. My dad decided that he wanted to be the one to drive so I was able to knit and do a few little sewing projects in the truck. I made a few treasure bags out of sock yarn. I decied that I will never make sock but I had so much sock yarn I had to do something with it so I made up a patter for a little drawstring treasure bag.

I made 3 of them over the weekend, and I made a cute flower pin out of 3 x 2 inch scraps of fabric. I cannot stand to throw any piece of fabric out and so I used the pieces of fabric from the Denise Schmidt scrap bag.

Everything that I took for crafting on the trip was in this bag. I sold creative memories a few years back it has three outer pockets , the large one with the logo is big enough to hold my denise needles. the other 2 pockets have yarn in them. Inside it has three more pockets in the front and two more in the back. In the front I have my Scissors and small Fabric Pieces and more yarn. I managed to get a few white Hankies to stitch and more yarn in the back pockets. There is also a three ring binder in the center that I filled with sheet protectors that come from the Scrapbook section of the craft store, and I was able to fill them with my DMC floss and fabric pieces and a few patterns.

My Weekend Preview

I have been have a wonderful week with no school to worry about. I got a C in the class and an A for the Chair Project. Yipee. This weekend looks like it might be a road trip weekend. My DH is out of town heading to San Antonio, Texas , and someone called and need a RV moved from north of Atlanta to Wichita, Kansas and I will be doing the driving. the girls and my Mom and Dad will be riding with us and I think that this will be fun because the girsl have always wanted to go on a road trip with Nanny and Paw. I will keep you updated. My dad will drive some of the time so I will be able to knit some. My DH has my Camera so I am going to post a few of our camping pictures that I have neglected in posting. (I hate to post with no pictures)

This cool site

This post is for the cool swaping site called Gimme your Stuff. I would love to swap all kinds of American stuff with you.

• Fabric Fat Quarters
• American Candy
• Tazo Tea
• Spices and other food items
• fashion, craft, and home decor magazines
• local newspapers
• postcards.

I am looking for:

1. International Craft Magazines (knitting, sewing, quilting)
2. Craft Supplies
3. Candy
4. local Newspapers
5. Fashion, and home decor magazines
6. teas
7. postcards

Schools Out for the Summer

I turned in my final this morning and I am now out of school until October and I feel like jumping for joy. Here is the pictures of the chair as promised. My 225 lbs DH is the model in the last picture. I think he was afraid it was going to break while he was in it.

Thrifting

My DH was so nice to let me stop at the Thrift shop that is on the way to my shop this morning and I made a few purchases and I know there are at least a few of you out there that love the thrift as much as I do. I love these type of little booklets. They are loaded with tons of little sewing tips. I also pick up a few sewing patterns for a swap I am doing with a friend.

I also happen to notice thse McCall's Needlework, one is form 1981 and the other is 1995 and the Family Circle Knitting is form 2001.

A Couple of MS Living form 1999 and 2000 I love the Christmas Issues because the have some great projects.

And these cute little mini candy jars that I think will make some very good bead holders.

All for only $4

Happy Thrifting

Ok I am still alive

I know I can't believe I let a week go by with no post. I have been so busy with school. My Final is due tomorrow. I am having to build a chair that will support 200 lbs out of cardboard (yes, I said cardboard). It is comming along very well I have the legs and seat complete not for the back. I am attempting a dining chair. I have been getting some knitting in while my DH drives me everywhere, my car has a problem with the battery cables so it will just die and not start back up. I have completed the baby blanket and I gifted it before I took a picture. I am almost done with a baby bib that I started yeasterday. I have not seen the Mason Dixon book so I decided to make up my own pattern. It is turning out great. I will post the pattern tomorrow after I get my final turned in. I have also been sewing I made my DH a Saddle Horn bag for Part of his father's day gift. I also have been putting my carder to good use blending fibers for sale in my shop. After this class I will be taking a break from school for a few months and I am so excited I hope that I can get a lot more crafting done my shop is looking bare. I have also added a few more swaps to the swap-bot site. Here are a few of the one's that I started

• beaded stitch markers
• to knit or to crochet
• the crafty maggy swap
• The Vintage Maggy Swap
• The Blue Yarn Swap
• Japanese Craft Book Swap
• pink yarn swap
• The ribbon swap
• The Trim Swap
• Crafting Green and Pink
• Summer Leftover (Crafting not food)

School

I feel like this class is driving me crazy. It is a model making class and this was one of the projects that I had to make this week.

Violated

I was at work in the middle of the day and my DH called and he had just arrived at home and found that our home had been broken into. We know think that he came up while they were there and scared them off because they left everything laying in the bags that they had it packed up in. As far as we can tell nothing is missing, but we did have a very big mess to clean up. They kicked in our back door and precceded to trash my house. I am just thanksful no one was at home when they came in. The sad thing is, is that they think is was a couple of teenagers and my dh coming home made them run. Sorry to be a depressing post I really just need to get it off of my chest.

• One good thing did come out of it. I rearranged my Living Room so that when I come home I will not have to see the same arrangement that it was in when it happened , and remember they way that it looked.

FIL Update

I just wanted to let you know that my FIL went back in the Hospital on Monday for possible rejection of his new lung, We do have good news as of this morning that that have been able to reverse it and he will be able to come home this afternoon and this could be the first of many of these episodes and we will have to get used to it. I really appreciate your prayers in the matter. Thank you all

Japanese Craft Book

book-16, originally uploaded by Six And A Half Stitches.

ISBN: 4579109813

I have created a slide show of pictures from the book Handmade Zakka le duvet doux