Happy Valentine's Day

 

I've been making paper hearts,

and sewing up some 

heart shaped coasters

to decorate the house for February 💘

The inspirations for my coasters 

comes from 

Nana Diana 

of

Nana Diana Takes A Break

(from a post back in 2017)

here's a link

https://thenanadiana.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-heart-you-i-heard-you-heres-tutorial.html

💝Thank you Diana!💝

As well as hanging these

little hearts in the kitchen

that I made last year. 

And a few

others around

the house.

💗💗💘💗💗

That's the total

for my decorations.

Just a little bit . . .

to sweeten up the house.

Happy Valentine's Day!

💕Spread a little love💕 

💗💗💘💗💗

Your blogging sister,

Connie :)

Recycled Christmas Angels

 

 

This is my mantle 

this year.

Look closely at 

the lowest mantle shelf.

There you'll see 

my recycled

Christmas Angels. 

I made these from recycling 

and cutting up

last year's Christmas cards. 

Then adding clipart wings 

and cutting out the faces 

from photos that I took 

on my phone and 

then ran through the printer.

Then I glued them to a 

piece of 2X4 that I painted

white  . . . so they 

would stand up.

 

These are the ladies 

from my Bible study. 

They are not actual angels 

but they are prayer warriors 

and true believers 

in Jesus Christ our Lord. 

I thought it would be fun 

to have them lined up 

on my mantle this Christmas.

 

There are two angels 

without faces because 

they missed the last two 

Bible studies when I was 

taking photos and there are two 

more angels to make 

because two have been hospitalized 

for surgeries and still recovering.

 

Hopefully next Christmas 

I'll have them all there. 

I wanted to show this because 

it was a fun craft 

and something you could easily make.

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Wouldn't it be wonderful 

to have a row of grandchildren 

angels or the children 

in your Sunday school class.

That's my post for today.

I hope it inspired at least one of you.

Merry Christmas

&

 God bless you all! 

You're blogging sister, 

Connie ♥️

Butterflies In Flight

 I was scrolling through YouTube 

the other day and found this 

intriguing pop-up card.

I hope I did justice to this design.

It's quite complicated, for me anyway. 

But I watched the video, stopped it 

and rewound it many times 

while going through the steps.

The artist name is Sarah Trebilcock

and I'm putting the link here 

to her video on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZGvOhmrcA

Just in case any of you want to try 

making it.

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

Have fun!!!

And God bless you all. 

You're blogging sister, 

Connie :)

The Bad And The Good Of My Week

 I've been having

a good week

&

Truly hope that you

can say the same 😊

I needed a couple greeting cards 

but didn't feel like driving to town. 

I haven't made homemade 

cards in such a long time, 

it was actually a lot of fun.

I went to Pinterest 

for inspiration.

Do you remember the grow light 

stands that I made a couple 

weeks ago.

Well, some of the plants

are up and doing

very well :)

These are little tomato plants. 

🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

Another thing I did this week 

was work on a quilt. 

I was doing free motion quilting 

and I thought everything 

was going well,

until I looked at the back 

and found that the tension

was off.

I had a half a bobbin 

of sewing to rip out 😫

🥬🥬☘☘☘🥬🥬

Oh well, we have to take the 

bad with the good. 

It's all ripped out now 

and I can start again. 

Actually I have nothing 

to complain about.

Ripping out some stitches 

is a very trifle thing.

🪡🪡🙫🙫🙫🪡🪡

Thanks for stopping by 

I hope you'll leave a comment 

I love reading them. 

God bless you all! 

Your blogging sister, 

Connie:)

Paper Stars

 

Good evening sweet blogging friends!

 

 

 I just want to share my amazing

evening with you.

I put up my tree today

and then decided to do my version

of some paper stars that I saw

on Pinerest.

 

 

 First I got out all my supplies. 

Then I put in a Willie Nelson 

Christmas CD and got some

cookies out for munching.

 

 

I printed these with my computer.

 

And because my printer won't take

card stock any more, I cut

larger stars from white card stock

and glued the small paper ones

into the center.

 

Then I applied glue around the edges,

 

and added glitter.

 

Punched a hole, added string

and there you go . . .

ready for the tree. 

 

 

 

 

I've just had a lovely evening . . .

and I wanted to share. 

 

 

 

God bless you all! 

 

Your blogging sister,

Connie :)

Happy Valentie's Day

Today's post is my valentine

to all of you . . . 

 

 

I've gone through my archives 

and found projects with hearts . . .

like these many banners from years

gone by :)

 

 

This is a windmill we purchased

for our 40th anniversary.

 

 And this is the base Steve

made for it :)

 

Next I found pot holders

dish towels, mug rugs & quilt labels.

 

Many journal pages . . .

I don't know why I quit drawing

it does provide much enjoyment.

 

 

 

 

This is "sharpie art" that I 

did on my first guitar. 

 

 

These two hearts and the photo 

below this one, are hearts that I made

after seeing a tutorial on 

Nana Diana's Blog,

Nana Diana Takes A Break

many years ago.

https://thenanadiana.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-heart-you-i-heard-you-heres-tutorial.html 

 

A chair that I painted.

 

 

This post is so long . . .

I'm going to stop with some embroidery

and an apron made from 

and old pair of jeans. 

 

 

If you are still here

all that I can say is,

"Bless Your Heart!"

 

 

 

Thank you for following my blog

it has been a source of love and friendship

and you all hold a warm spot in my heart.

 

 

God bless you . . .

If you are blessed to still have your 

Sweetheart near you

give him a huge hug  . . .

(or her . . . I do have two gentlemen

that follow my blog)

and then thank our Sweet Lord,

because you are blessed 💝

 

Your blogging sister,

Connie :)

 

P.S. Again, Happy Valentine's Day!