Joyful Scrappers February chat

I am in Mountain time.  That would be cool.  Next two weekends are taken up, though, including the Fridays (14th and 21st), and tomorrow I am tied up too.  Maybe midweek next week would work, or any day after Monday (the 24th) morning.

I made 5 new friendship cards today. I need to post them to the sharing thread.

I’ve been making progress on my crocheted granny square blanket too. I learned how to create a border and join each square - new skills!

The collection of creepy dolls was fairly small, thank goodness. A box of small collectible dolls like these except there were more with bridal outfits and some other random dolls with terrifying eyes. There are 4 home dec Xmas dolls (handcrafted, cost $70 new in the 90s, now they won’t sell for $5), an 80s girl doll, and a couple of antique dolls. I already re-homed the one that had a lift off scalp to access her weighted eyes and celluloid tongue. She’s pretty scary looking and about the size of a real 1 year old! I could post a photo but I’ve learned that a lot of people really don’t like dolls.

Now that I’m almost through the sewing stuff and the dolls the next load has arrived - vintage kitchen implements. Some of them are tied with ribbons. I have no idea why anyone would tie a ribbon on a can opener or a potato peeler.

It’s not an actual house-load, like an estate sale, thank goodness (it’s from a 5+ bedroom 2 living room house). It’s more like a collection of collections. The lady who passed away was very enthusiastic about stuff. She has an art collection that covers almost every inch of wall space in several rooms, almost all prints by 2 artists, with lots more that they didn’t have room to hang, and we’ve got about a dozen glass cases to tackle down the line, filled with carnival glass, depression glass, Hummel figurines, Marge Crunkleton figurines... not to mention the lemon squeezer collection, the Santa collection... who knows what else. Her husband is ready to let it all go. We’re slowly emptying the house.

This is my weekend, ladies!  I am counting down the clock at work today itching to get out of here.  I will paint my craft room this weekend!  I'm so excited.  

Happy Friday!!

Does anyone have any scrappy plans this weekend? Other plans? I'm in the final stretch of crop planning and then I get to pack it all up. Other than that, it's just house stuff.

jeremysgirl - I would definitely pick furniture over the wall paper too.

Just don't start moving the craft stuff in until AFTER she closes the door on the way out  .  And maybe leave a day bed in there.  Even after 20, they tend to come back home from time to time!  Have fun at your concert and dog event.  We have to MAKE memories to keep them!

joblackford , do you want to come to my house next and clear out and sort through 30+ years of stuff that was "too good to throw out" and "might be able to USE that sometime"...?  Hoping to get the "kids" to do a bit of that when they are here in July, maybe take stuff out that they want.  But with all the socializing, and a family reunion thrown in, there won't be much time for dumpster--er, basement--diving.

jeremysgirl , I would not look forward to painting, but glad you are happily anticipating it.  I would definitely be spending the $$$ on furniture or tools rather than wallpaper, too.  What colour are you painting the walls?

Not sure about plans for the weekend yet, christinec68.  I am definitely feeling better and finished a couple of cards this morning that had been languishing on my scrap counter.  My ddil was planning to bring their two little guys for the weekend, but one of them was sick last night, so she is not sure if they are coming now.  Those boys love to craft, so I had planned to spend some time crafting with them (and taking photos, or course) 

If they don't come, I will spend the weekend crafting and watching curling on TV (Canadian women's championship, the Tournament of Hearts is on).  Torn between working on my mini project and going back to scrapping the dgk's.

Well this weekend turned out to be a lazy one! I think I might have been a bit burnt out. We didn’t get home from the concert until after midnight. I must have been a little wound up because I didn’t get to sleep until almost 2 am   

I woke up dehydrated and with a headache even though I did not drink alcohol at all! So no dog run Saturday. I put four cards together and have another 8 partially put together. Then I did nothing the rest of the day! 

Today I took Ryder on a 4 mile walk but I didn’t make it back to my room at all. Dh slept in until 2:30, he works nights, so the day just got away from me!

The Blake Shelton concert was great. He is really entertaining and it was fun how he had his ‘friends and heros’ come out and perform throughout the concert. 

I was afraid I was losing my mojo. I thought my nephews birthday was this Saturday, but I was a week off! So I’m excited to keep making cards for another week!

still haven't managed to scrap this month but I've gotten some points for photo scanning (10,000 photos scanned) and I'm starting to pull some in for slide scanning (366 so far and MANY more to go).

You won't receive an invite.  Or at least we didn't in the past.  You just need to open the thread joyfulnana will open on the General Scrapbooking board, then click on the link.  It should patch you right through to the ongoing conversation.

Looking forward to seeing you!

I am quick. I am pretty simple and decisive. I can whip a page in a hour.




My painting went really well. I'm kind of unsure about the color. The more I look at it, the more it is growing on me. I am trying to finish up some more projects and then I promise to post pictures. Right now the room is empty except for a futon. I've got a new cover coming for the futon which is staying. And I sewed some pillows for it. My DH promised me he would paint and recover the seat on my desk chair today. And I made a skirt for my homemade desk. I am going to move everything in there this weekend. And then I will take some pictures. But I'm trying to figure out furniture.