Happy Birthday to a dear friend!

Hope you had a great day!

Craft Night

Paper Source is hosting a Crafter's Night Out in their stores next Thursday. Too bad there isn't one in WI. I'm not sure that I can drive to Chicago for this event, but I wanted to let folks know who might be a little closer to one of my favorite stores. You can pick a store and sign up at their website Paper Source.

While you're in the store, make sure to take a look at all the pretty papers and stock up on supplies for your Christmas cards. I've started to plan mine. Last year, Megs and BLady gave me a Letterpress machine. After some technical and delivery issues, I have it in WI, and I'll be using it to make my Christmas cards. I like the holiday letter press printing plates they have at Paper Source. I'll keep those in mind as I think about what I'm going to do for the cards this year.

Happy Birthday to a dear friend!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful friend! I hope that your day is extra special.

I have word via text that my friend received her card last week. It went in the mail early because I was concerned it wouldn't get there in time otherwise because of the holiday and, well, the girl on the card was just looking at my begging me to send her to her new home.

For the card, I started with a hand-drawn figure. It took me quite a few tries, and I'm still not sure how I feel about her hands. Then, I scanned the drawing and removed the eraser smudges. I printed the design on cardstock and glued on the fabric triangles.

I'm going to keep working on my figure drawing, and maybe I've come up with a signature card look. Tell me what you think.

Happy Mother's Day!

I love you BLady! Thank you for all the support, advice and love that you've given me to get me to where I am today. I'm a little sad that the place is WI so I can't see you today.



In the card I sent you, I admitted that you were right all these years - fixing your bed just makes your day better. Here are some other things that I've learned from you:

• It is nicer to come home to a clean house after a vacation
• How to sew
• 'Dry clean only' is often just a suggestion
• How to hold a spoon 'like you mean it' when cooking
• To read all the instructions on a recipe before just dumping ingredients into the mixer (sorry about the old mixer, but you got a Kitchenaid out of it)

Okay, so that's just a short list of everything that you've taught me. For everything I've listed above and all the things that I haven't, thank you.

Birthday card

Doodles, pretty paper and a sewing machine. This is what I can do with those three things.

This birthday card for my coworker was pretty fun to make. I think it might be the first time that something I've hand drawn has ended up on one of my cards without some kind of manipulation. I have done some drawings for things to gocco, but those sketches still get enlarged or grouped together on the copier. This one was fun. The question is, did she like the card?