Hello Winter!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I could not sleep last night due to pain in some of my joints.  It almost felt like the pain I get in fall when snow is on its way.  So, I got up and did some sewing as knitting was too painful.  

Thanks to the middle of the night foray into my craft room I managed to complete:

This is a quilt kit that I got for my son and started on last winter but did not finish before spring.  I decided last night that since it was feeling sort of like winter I should get it completed so that I could get it quilted before winter arrived!!!

Well, if you read any of the news feeds or weather reports you will know that mid afternoon today winter did arrive here in Alberta.  As of yet I do not have any in my yard, however, there are frost warnings out there for tonight!!!

Late this evening I made another two log cabin blocks for my Raise the Roof quilt:

TAH DAH!!!

Now off to try and get a few hours sleep before getting up early to go back to bed later tomorrow afternoon so that I can work night shift this weekend.  ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Coffee Talk Swaps

Last night was Coffee Talk at Karina's.  It is a monthly meeting that Karina hosts for her downline and friends.  We get together and stamp, eat and catch up.  It's lots of fun.

These are my swap for last night.

 I think that they are fun now (however, putting the owls together by the end of 12 of these was exhausting)!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Field Journal

My son is a scientist by nature.  When I clean out his backpack, I am usually liable to find a field journal.  I love reading these entries in these little books or scraps of paper, as they provide insight into how his brain works, and what is of importance in his daily quests.  The entries will be things like found a birds nest, no eggs, or three rocks under tree, one was brown.

Yesterday was his first day of science camp for the summer, so as a surprise I made and put this in the front pocket of his backpack!  He was thrilled when I came to pick him up last night!

To make this little treasure for an eight year old, I used a small composition book from the dollar store (3 for $1).

I used double sided sticky sheet to adhere some retired Celebrations Designer Series Paper.  I thought that the blue paper looked like it had atoms on it, and the numbers of course are for all things scientific!!

 The owl of course is the owl punch from Stampin Up.  The velcro is left overs in my notions box for which I used double sided sticky sheet again to fit the piece to the front, as well as around the pencil.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy