Prayer Changes Things...

A friend of mine on facebook told me about these girls. Their dad is a missionary with macedonia world and their mother died two years ago. Anyway, their dad just had a really bad heart attack and they're not sure he's going to make it he's in ICU. Please pray for him. These sweet girls need a dad even more since they've already lost their mom. Their names are Millie and Maggie Stewart, I don't know their dads name...

Paper quilling selling??

I'm trying to sell these now...I wonder if anyone will buy them. Dad said to be optimistic, but even though I would love to use them if I were scrapbooking or card-making it doesn't mean everyone will. I enjoy making them, now I just need something to do with them lol.

Hair and hairballs lol

Agghhh, sometimes my hair is sometimes a thorn in the flesh...After blowdrying it, this is what it looked like. Believe it or not, I managed to get it much more "calm" than last time!! Anyone who is thinking about going natural with their hair should definitely really think about how much work it will be if they wanna wear it straight.

seat cushion and not horrible saturday

Omg, there is a Saturday that I actually somewhat enjoyed!! Today I went to practice a song that I wanted to sing for church tomorrow morning...I finished it! Mercy said no is the name of the song but in this case mercy said yes and I finished in about five tries :-).
After that I bought an overpriced side salad and ate lunch in front of a show with my sister...then to my grandparent's house to clean. I can't say that my grandparent's housecleaning was an highlight of today (or any other Saturday), but at least we had brownies today. Grampy isn't looking so well, I'm praying for him and worrying a little in my heart.
When we got home this evening I immediately started up my computer and started looking for crafts for my class tomorrow, I finished that in a minimal amount of time and started on my aunt's cushions which were supposed to be done ages ago. I have to say that since it wasn't anything at all difficult that I was kinda uninspired by it and just let it sit. It was almost too easy especially once the pattern was outta the way (which it was weeks ago) it's kinda embarrassing. Anyway, here is the finished product. She picked a great fabric...Now I have at least this off my conscience and am just itching to start on another project! Auntie will be so happy to see it (and finally have something to sit on while she eats :-))

Now...I have my dress for tomorrow set aside (so happy for now that summer is here) and all I have to do tomorrow is wake up and dress...love that...

Not a complete failure

okay so it's not so great...but here is my very first paper quilling design (?) lol. I did somewhat make it through the lil project!

You can't stick to anything...

A few weeks ago, around my birthday I came to the conclusion that I wanted to learn quilling. It's not the first time I came up with this great (or not) idea...years ago I saw it in a craft store and wanted to learn...but that's happened with lotsa stuff.

Fast forward to last week:

I got on ebay and found a cheap quilling kit for beginners and I'm waiting impatiently for it to come in the mail as I type. Sooo since I actually ordered it instead of dreaming about it, I realized that I will possibly start on it with a deep interest and enthusiasm then forty-five minutes later when I realized I'm not immediately amazing at it, I will put it up. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I know me...and things aren't looking good for me in this area. I've decided that I will give it a whole week before I quit. That's fair right? Right?

Elisabeth

Sewing by accident...

Okay yes, I did accidentally get roped into sewing an Easter dress for my little sister. How in the world?! Generally when I say yes to things I mean 'yes sounds like a good idea', or 'yes, that would be nice', but not 'yes, I'll do it'! Anyway, I made the mistake of saying yes to my sister Sarah, so the night before we left town last-minute to visit my pregnant sister the fabric got shoved under my nose. Oh well...I made it without an actual pattern, and after working a couple hours on it had it nearly finished. Tuesday morning I was at it again and my sewing machine's tension is set for thicker fabric so I kept having problems...We left Tuesday early afternoon and didn't come back until Saturday night. You guessed it...I didn't even bother. Sunday morning I woke up thirty minutes early, worked on it for fifteen minutes and I was done! I was happy with the result even though it might've lacked a lil inspiration. It has an elastic band for around her neck, and then some stretch lace that goes around her back and elastic at the skirt so she could get it on without a zipper. It's so thin that I had to use a lining too...I should really do this more often! I received some much needed encouragement from my big sister so I have no excuses (as always lol.)

Elisabeth