Sunday, July 19, 2009

A little bit more scrappy this week

Another week of summer has gone by.... but this week didn't seem very summery at all. The highs were in the low to middle 70's... little or no humidity and a a beautiful breeze... it was a very wonderfully weird weather week! Today it's been raining off and on and a bit dreary but the temp is still only 71 at 5 in the afternoon......

I worked on quite a few things this week...... I did a backup and cleanup on the computer... gathered files and burned them to a DVD.... cleaned out the temp files and basically dejunked everything.......

I worked on the borders for a Round Robin that I'm doing ( you can see that on my flickr site). I have one more border to make and then it will be ready to send off to the next participant in the group and I drew up my plans for my Bad Sue mini due the end of the month. We're doing sunbonnet sue... but she has to be doing something bad... lol this is going to be a lot of fun!

On the scrap front I did 3 crazy bird blocks and 3 grass blocks for the bird quilt and I also got several sock sacks done. Two from scraps and a pretty blue one from some fat quarters I found in the back of the stash and two more that were from scrap pieces but weren't in the scrap bag... not sure how to count that!.....

It was a pretty productive week. I also did another 25" charm pack star...this one was from the crazy 8 charm pack. I did the snowman wall hanging last week from the same pack... it came out pretty nice...... it will become a christmas table mat... not sure yet for who.... ( I gotta say that cuz the intended recipient sometimes reads the blog)

I also bought a new cutting mat... mine had grooves in from cutting in the same area over and over.... I couldn't turn it cuz there weren't any inch numbers across the other end......so I went to joann's armed with a 50% off coupon.... they had 3 kinds of mats... fiskars... the standard green one and the standard blue one... all three were the same price.... I wanted the 24 x 36 size mat.....

Well the fiskars was by far the winner...... it had inch numbers along the top and bottom and both sides so if one end got grooved... you could spin it and you'd have basically a new mat.... that's 2 for 1.... great deal.... but there's more! This mat also has another complete gridded and numbered mat on the other side too! So now that's like getting 4 mats in one!! One side is a lite florescent green and the other is a lite florescent yellow.... very easy on the eyes!! So I got the equivalent of 4 mats for 24.00.... I also found a 5" charm ruler! it has a center mark for doing fussy cut charms as well as lines for 2 1/2" rectangles and squares... there are pics of these on the flickr site.... It was a wonderful week!!!

Below are this weeks scrappy pictures...... have a great week and enjoy the summer

Lish