A few more album photos - inside

Here's the inside cover of Barb's album (my secret sister) and the last page. I will have to try and get her one of the heart's (once I get the hang of it!)... it was great fun shopping for her and imaginging her personality... am looking forward to "meeting" her someday soon!

Now onto a real crazy quilt project - I'm so ready, thanks to my secret sister Candi who supplied me with more than enough to get started!! Going to cut out my first heart tomorrow.... I'm also taking an Encaustics class from joggles (bet you wonder what that means! More later about that!) - will post my homework from that next week as well! Never enough moments in the day to do it all.......... Oh well, just something to look forward to I guess - more soon!

My newest venture - crazy quilting

I recently joined a 6 month swap (which ends this month) which was a Secret Sister CQ swap. I thought it would be a good way to learn more about this beautiful art form, get some advice and embellishments (ribbons, material, beads, charms, etc) so that I could maybe have what I needed to start to learn how to crazy quilt. I was so blessed by my wonderful, giving secret sister Candi Harris from California - each month she serenaded me with another great box of goodies (thanks, Candi!).... my secret sister is in Oregon and I"m sending the last package to her Tuesday! I wanted to "make" her something as since I'm not quite a crazy quilter yet, I couldn't make anything in that form...so I decided to put together a photo album that she could keep snapshots of her own crazyquilt projects in... the album has a linen cover... so I made a tiny patch and with the help of my friend Joyce who has some fancy stitches on her new machine, machine embellished the patch and put on a few embellishments related to quilting. Then, I took my first shot at making a ribbon flower - it was great fun and I have a long way to go, but it was a start that got me over the block I always get of starting something new!! Hope my secret sister enjoys it. Inside the pages there's several little quilting sayings that are kind of fun, ie "Crazy Quilters aren't greedy, they're just materialistic" and "Crazy Quilters come with strings attached"... Here's a picture of the cover!