Friday, October 25, 2013

Last meeting for 2013 of our "Greatful Threads" group

Last night was the last meeting for our art group for 2013.  Our challenge was to make our badges this year and we were working out of an art book which was very interesting and taught you different techniques.  Also we had a guest speaker who shared with us ways to help us market our art.  All in all it was a great meeting.  Next year we have decided to each be a part of the meeting by doing a different technique and telling how we came about using that technique...the pieces are to be no bigger than 11 x 18 with the intent of making one project by the end of the year with each months technique....I think it should be pretty interesting to see what we all come up with.  Our challenge for the year will be to make a self portrait....hmmm for me I know that will be interesting because I do not know a thing about that area.  Here is a pic of my badge......
The weather here in Chattanooga is a bit chilly and we have had our first frost already.....brrrrrrr!


ATC Trade

I joined a group of ladies to exchange ATC cards.  The theme for this month was "From the Stone Age"  well maybe I should have waited for another month but I wanted to do something different and I know these are pink and pink was not from the stone age but it was my dedication to cancer awareness month.  I used crayon method to make the background and then printed out the mugs on fabric and added the bead as to represent stone.  I also printed out the information sheets that went on the back and the ones that I attached telling us how beer was made at the end of the "Stone Age".  It was very interesting to read and I am not sure what the hostess was looking for but I was trying to find something different and hope these ladies do not take offense to "beer" as my theme.  Have a wonderful day.....








Thursday, October 17, 2013

Just a note about the previous post on the bag

Good morning..whoohoo I am posting again for now anyway.  I am still having a few problems with my computer so the post might be a little sporadic still but as soon as I can get myself whole again I will be posting.
I was asked on the previous post about the bag pattern that I used and yes it is a pattern and a very big bag and so user friendly.  It is called the "chubby charmer"  I did make it a little smaller because I had to mail it and I rather like the smaller version.....
Thanks for staying in touch with me during my computer issues.....have a wonderful day.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Bag exchange

Good Morning...things are moving along with my m-i-l we are getting her settled and have almost all of her calls and id's and all that finished. 
I am in a tote bag exchange and we did have a theme for this one it was fall but my partner does not like fall colors or civil war colors  and wanted brights and loves teal and red so I just added a few autumn things to her bag that she can remove to keep within the parameter of the rules for the bag.  After all if she does not like those colors I did not want to make her something that she did not want so here is a pic of the finished bag.....hopefully she will get it soon as it went out on the scheduled date.  It has tons of pockets per her request and long handles so we will see.  Here is a pic...


I will keep my fingers crossed that she likes it.  Have a great day everyone...