New teacher

My friend Brandy has been called to teach the Gospel Doctrine class in our Church on Sunday's. I am sure she will be a great teacher because she is a great person. I wanted to give her some encouragement so I made her a card and gave her some "scripture power" foods (poweraide and power bars) to let her know I am thinking of her and am confident she will be just fine teaching us adults from the Old Testament.

approval

I went yesterday with my family to visit my youngest daughter and her husband. We had a nice visit with the newlyweds of 3 months. I took the Kodak Easy Share camera of ours to show her some of the cards I have made this year. She said "Oh i like that one" a few times. That made me happy. She is an artist and has an artists eye. So a compliment from her is very nice for me. Today I decided to make a card with a new corner punch that I bought from StampinUp. It turned into a Mother's Day card. It is OK. I also finished one with bees that I started yesterday.

Productive day

Today was a productive day in my life. For my creating side I straightened all of my boxes of fabric, had my son move a work table upstairs, and I made a card and updated our scrapbook from our annual pie night celebration held the night before Thanksgiving.

Look what I made. Years, and years ago you could buy a cloud template. On one of the blogs I follow I saw that the lady made her own template. I "stole" her idea and made one for me. And look at what I made it out of, scraps. This is what it looks like used for a card.

A note of thanks

Last month a friend of mine from church passed away. Our church choir was asked to sing at the funeral. We hurried around for a few days and finally got together to practice. There were just 6 of us and the director. The family said it was just what they wanted. Since I am the choir president I wanted to personally thank the choir members that were able to sing that day. I have had this idea in mind for a while but just got it together today. I think it is a bit clever to make the flowers out of sheet music. I have seen flowers similar to these on other blogs and with other kinds of paper like old story books and stamped words. I an very thankful that these people sacrificed their time to help a family in their time of need.

Vancouver 2010

The opening ceremonies last night for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were inspiring. I liked the music. I also liked many of the countries team outfits. I took notes on some that I particularly liked to I could make some cards. I hope to get to that this afternoon. Stay tuned for the photos. Good luck to all athletes. My sympathies go to the country Georgia, and the family of the luge play that was killed while practicing.

A New Quilt

Earlier this month I joined a group through Facebook to make 9-patch quilt squares. Six people joined. I volunteered to do two squares so we would have more finished squares. Everyone else decided to do two as well. So when we swap we will each have two squares. That should be enough to make a crib size quilt. The fabrics chosen were white and a pastel print. I searched through my stash of fabric and chose a lavender print and a baby blue print. Each person sends two finished squares to all the others in the group. I mailed mine a week or so ago. Today I got my first set of two from one of the members. She used a green. It is super cute fabric. I am anxious to receive the other squares. They should be here with in the next two weeks. The deadline is March 1. I hope I get the squares sewn together soon so I have a quilt ready to quilt.