Getting A Lot of Scrapbooking Done

March 31, 2022 My Time Stitching15 Comments

Hello friends! Can you believe it is the last day of March? I feel like I have accomplished a lot of the last couple of months and I am hoping that April is another month filled with getting things done. I have a lot of hobbies and not enough hours in the day to do all that I want to do. So, I work on what I can when I can. Today I want to share some of the scrapbooking I have done.

First up is a little memory album that I have tried to finish for several years. The pages have been almost finished but adding photos and journaling has been very hard for me. It is an album of someone that I miss dearly and long to talk to often. The last few months I have been wanting to talk to this person every day. So, I decided to sit down and see if I could finish the album. And I did. It took a lot of tears, a lot of remembering and a lot of emotions, but it is finished. I added photos, journaling and some embellishments and I am happy that I was able to get this finished. It was very therapeutic, too.

Next up is a Recipe book. I made one for each of my boys and have been wanting to make one for myself for the last 2 years.

This was a kit put out by Simple Stories that I picked up at a local scrapbook store.

This book is filled with pages of recipe cards and pages to add lots of photos, too.

There are lots of pages with pockets, too. So, adding handwritten recipes from friends and family can be slid right into a pocket. The perfect way to save a sample of a loved one’s handwriting ❤

This is just a sample of the pages in this book. I can’t wait to start adding my recipes and getting them all in one place.

Another project I worked on was a Christmas album.

This album kit was also put out by Simple Stories. But with Shannon’s (from the Scrapbook Tree) spin on it, she takes is from plain and simple to fun and sparkly.

It is amazing how a little doodling with a black marker and adding some gems and glitter can change the look of a plain page.

This album took a lot of time to do with all of the cutting, distressing, doodling and adding glitter and glue to one side of the pages. Then allowing them to dry so that I could add glitter, glue and gems to the opposite sides of the pages. But I am so happy with the results.

This album has room for at least 94 photos! There may be places to add a few more photos that I didn’t count. It will be so fun adding Christmas memories to this album. Not sure if I will save this for the next Christmas that my family is all together or add photos from a Christmas past. Either way, it will be an awesome keepsake.

I have also scrapbooked some 12 x 12 pages, but I didn’t take any photos of them. I think I made some pretty good progress with my scrapbook hobby. So how many hobbies do you have, and do you have trouble juggling them all?

Getting Things Done

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 My Time Stitching9 Comments

Hello blogging friends. It has been a little bit since I last was on WordPress. Today is day 98 of our stay at home. The days have all been running together and here it is mid June. So much has been happening in the world, and we are all in it together so I think that makes it more relatable. There are days that I don’t do much except watch the news and cry. Some days I wander from this thing to that thing and feel like I haven’t accomplished anything. And some days I immerse myself into my crafting. So, what have I been crafting? Grab your favorite beverage and get comfy. This may be a long post 😉

I have a couple of finishes. First up is the Wilma Cowl. I finished it. I can’t say I am thrilled about it, but it is finished.

It is soft and I assume it will be warm. It may be a gift. We’ll just have to wait and see 😉

Next up is a knitting project I started back in September 2019. The Birds of a Feather Shawl by Andrea Mowry.

I finished it last week. I love how it turned out. So soft and warm and the colors look like candy!

I love the fan lacework in some of the rows. So pretty.

My attempt at modeling it, LOL

The yarn used is AJHC Wools in color Unicorn Magic in both Basic Sock and Nephelai Veil.

I still need to weave in the ends and block it. I hope to do that this weekend. And then it will truly be done.

I have done a lot of scrapbooking and completed a coffee table album of my younger Son’s wedding. It came out really beautiful and I am planning to make another for my new daughter’s parents.

I have also scrapbooked 16 pages so far this month. That means that I have eliminated 8 kits from my kit stash. Yay! That makes 66 pages for the year so far. I am working on conquering all of those kits in my stash. I am making progress!

I have also made a little puppy book for my older son and his girlfriend. They just bought 2 little Havanese puppies and I can’t wait to meet them when we can travel again. I won’t show the book, as I haven’t sent it to them yet, but here are my new grandpuppies!

Butter and Pepper. Are they not just adorable!! I can’t wait to meet them.

I have also made more masks for family and friends that have requested them. I have made about 100 of them and I still have not tired of making them. knowing that they will be making my loved ones feel a little safer about going out. And remember, I wear a mask for you, you wear a mask for me 🙂

That brings me to my current project. A cross stitch project that I started in 2018. I am still working on conquering all of my WIP’s and have been so proud of myself that I have not started a new project yet. This is Lady Mirabilia from Mirabilia. I started her in July of 2018 and had put her away, probably to start a new project. Here is what she looked like when I picked her up last week.

Here is what she looks like as of last night.

I am stitching her on 16ct Aida Banshee Brown, a one of a kind from Fabrics by Stephanie. Today I get to move the scrolls! Woo Hoo. So, that is what I have been up to. Hubby and I also worked in the garage for 3 weekends in a row and finally went through the last of the boxes from when we had to redo the basement last year. We gave away a lot, threw away a lot, and donated even more. We have so much more room out there now. We still have 2 corners to go through and clean up, but we have made great progress. What have you been doing to keep busy these last few months? I’d love to hear about it 🙂

Books I am reading · cross stitch · Hand Dyed Fabrics · Knitting · Nora Corbett · Passione Ricamo · Pixie · Poison Pixie · scrapbooking

First Finishes of the Month

January 19, 2018 My Time Stitching22 Comments

Hello blogging friends! We are a few weeks into January and already I have a few finishes. Earlier in the month I finished the 1 ball cowl I had started over the summer and I just love how it turned out.

The yarn is “Shawl in a Ball” from Lion Brand. The color is Community Coral. It was pretty mindless knitting in stockinette stitch and so it became my take along project for knitting on car rides that were 1/2 an hour or more. After the new year, I decided to bite the bullet and knit on it until I finished the skein. I have already worn it once and it is nice and warm.

Next up I have my first 2 scrapbook pages for the year. They were part of a kit from my Local Scrapbook store. January pages of the Calendar Club.

I have done the calendar club at this shop for the past 4 or 5 years, but this year is going to be my favorite as she will be using products from Blue Fern. I Love their products and I enjoyed creating these pages. Hopefully I can get more pictures on them and keep up with it all year. Photos will hide those finger prints on the 2nd page from me putting lotion on my hands. Ugh.

Next up is my first book finish.

I finished this book on Wednesday. It is the 2nd in The Guardian Trilogy from Nora Roberts. With all of my hobbies, reading takes a back seat, reading usually only at lunch time or when I am at a hair appointment or take my car in for an oil change. One of my goals this year is to read more. I am happy to have my first book finished in January. This series is pretty good. I am anxious to start the 3rd book and see how it finishes up.

I finished this sweet little thing last night:

She was a pretty quick stitch. Binge watching the old X-Files has certainly helped me move right along with her. She is White Angel Trumpet, a Poison Pixie from Nora Corbet. I stitched her on a OOAK 16ct Aida from Fantasy Dyed Fabrics. The fabric looks like it has poisonous gasses in greens and grays. I think it is perfect for her.

So I dug this WIP out to work on for now.

This one is Passione Ricamo’s 20th Anniversary SAL. It is quite a large piece and I would love to finish this one this year. There are many blocks on this one each containing a portion of different PR patterns from over the years. I am stitching on 16ct Aida Nantucket Sky from Hand Dyed Fabrics by Stephanie. It is truly going to be an amazing piece. Not sure how long I will stitch on it, but every stitch will put me closer to a finish, right?

So that is it for my finishes so far this month. I have a long list of goals for 2018 and I am still trying to put them into a “18 in 2018” order. I hope to have that list nailed down for my next post. So what are your goals for 2018? What are you currently working on? I’d love to hear all about it 🙂

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A Birthday Finish

January 27, 2014January 27, 2014 My Time Stitching14 Comments

I celebrated my 50th birthday on Friday, and this weekend. And the birthday present to myself was I finished Angel of Grace! Woo Hoo! Yep, finished her just before midnight on Friday for a great birthday finish. Here she is:

She is Angel of Grace by Lorrie Birmingham Designs. She is stitched on 28 ct Salmon and Gold Linen Banding, which was not fun to stitch on. She is pretty much stitched as the pattern is charted, but rather than outline all the little squares that were left open on the dress, I decided to add gold beads.

A basket charm, Austrian Crystals and 14kt butterfly charms were included in the pattern. She really turned out beautiful, but there were many obstacles along the way on this one. I truly wondered if I would ever finish her. She will eventually be turned into a bell pull and given to my Mom for her birthday this summer. I am just so happy to have her finished, and on my birthday 😉

So speaking of my birthday, here is how I celebrated all weekend: I had a Stamping workshop at my house on Thursday night and the hostess brought me this:

Yummy! White cake, my favorite. And I love that she had 29 put on it rather than 50. She also brought me these:

Beautiful, pink, fragrant hyacinths. My personal Spring! Every time I look at them, and smell them, I know I am edging towards that much awaited day when the weather breaks and green starts poking though. It’s a good thing I am in the basement right now as I don’t want to look out the window at this moment. And a cute little frog key chain that lights up and croaks.

I spent most of my actual birthday on Friday, stitching. My hubby and youngest took me out to Chinese for birthday dinner and then it was back to stitching until I finished the Angel-almost midnight, but I did finish her on my birthday. Hubby bought me this:

My own little personal printer and it’s wireless! I had the earlier model, but the printer cartridge got stuck inside and it would have cost almost as much as a new one to fix it. So now I have a new one and it’s wireless! I love having my own personal printing for my scrapbooking. And now I can print from the computer, too. Awesome!

I also received a Gift certificate for 1-2-3-Stitch from a my sweet stitching friend, Annie. I am waiting to see if they get the new Ophelia’s Pearl mermaid in so I can get that and her bead pack and threads. That will be a super project to have in my stash.

On Saturday, my Friend, Carol, came over and we spent the day scrapbooking. We did take a break for presents!

She gave me pink tiger ribbon (great for all of those zoo pictures I still have to scrapbook), Lindor Limited Edition chocolates (My favorite and in a pink bag :), 2 boxes of adhesive, (we scrapbookers go through a lot of that) and a set of Vampire Academy books. I had not heard of them, but Carol knows I love vampires. Can’t wait to read them. And all my gifts were in a very nice re-usable shopping bag. I love taking them to the grocery store instead of getting tons of plastic bags. We also went out to Chinese for lunch and then back home to scrapbook. While scrapbooking and having fun, this is what came in the mail:

The items from my Birthday shopping Spree at Stitches N Things. The thread is my missing thread for Biancabella. The Snowmen Trio by Country Cottage Needleworks was too cute not to add to my stash. And the newest Mermaid Letters from Nora Corbett. The “G” is for Ginny of course, and the “I” is beautiful. It almost doesn’t look like a letter.

And this was in the other package I received in the mail:

My Best Stitchy Friend, Johanna, sent me this adorable pin cushion. It’s not small either. It’s about 6″ tall and 7″ wide. The most adorable thing I have ever seen! I love collecting decorative pins, so now I have a beautiful pin cushion to put them in. I have to get a better picture of the froggy pin in the back:

Isn’t it just the cutest? And he is even wearing a birthday hat 🙂 I love it!

So I had a wonderful birthday weekend and it wasn’t so bad turning 50. And I finished the Angel!!! Do you have a project that has been hanging over your head for a long time?

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