I had a really productive weekend mixed with lots of fun! My husband was away so I decided to pull out my scrapbooking and see if I could get any of my California trip album done. I have a gazillion photos and I usually take a long time with each page but this weekend I decided to speed scrap for the sake of getting a chunk of it accomplished. Well, I finished 12 pages! Scrapbooking was my first crafty love and I miss it so much. I am going to leave my scrap stuff out in the craft room and really try to do a few pages each week. Many years ago I had a layout published in Memory Makers magazine, boy do I miss that magazine. It was full of inspiration. I feel out of the loop somewhat with it because I have been so busy quilting. Maybe I’ll add a second podcast to the line up about scrapbooking someday.
On Saturday, my mom came to visit and we took the girls to a local quilt show. It was just the right size show as not to bore three young ladies to death! There was a vendor there selling Pandora style beads and charms for super cheap money and the girls went to town purchasing beads for their bracelets. My mom got some beautiful fabric for a jacket and I got some hand dyed fabric all cut in 2″ squares for English Paper Piecing. Later that night we went to the book store and out for dinner. It was such a great day! We hoped to win a raffle or two but no phone call has come =( My 10 year old daughter informed me if she won a basket, she was going to auction off the contents to my mother and I and make some big money! How can you not admire that entrepreneurial spirit?
I am going to post some of the other projects I worked on in the quiet moments of the weekend. I will post a picture of one of my scrap pages, the English paper piecing vase mat I finished up, some squares of an afghan I am working on for my living room, and my hand quilting project in progress. I hope you get as inspired as I did this weekend!