She's Home AND Another New to Me Project....LOL

Look who made it home safe and sound about 3pm this afternoon. Look at that grin, too! She had a blast. And claims she didn't even miss us because she was "too distracted." LOL She's not been too forthcoming with information just yet, but she's also a bit subdued. I'm sure she's wiped out. I don't want to press her too much for information and be that annoying mom who asks a million questions. I guess one girl in her troop ended up having to go home early because she missed her mom too much. I hear she pretty much kept everyone up on Friday night, managed to last the day on Saturday, but come Saturday night was too upset to stay any longer. The leaders told me Amy did great and had a lot of fun. Yay! It sure is good to see her again, though.

Today Steve took Jessica for a bike ride to our "big" park. That gave me the time to work on another new to me project. hee, hee! There's not much I won't attempt if it looks easy enough and the supplies are inexpensive enough. When I saw this idea on a blog not too long ago, I knew I wanted to try it!

For your viewing pleasure...hardy har har...

I made TWO necklaces and two flowers. The neat thing is...I can change out the flowers on the necklaces and put other embellishments on them. The flowers attach with lobster claws.  I made two because I had enough of the chain left to create a second slightly different one. I found the idea on the Polka Dot Chair blog here. If you check it out, you can see how the flowers get attached. I had some fabric that my friend Heidi gave me and I decided to create a couple of Kanzashi flowers that I could use. Sorry the pictures aren't the greatest. I took them myself in my bathroom mirror and the lighting just isn't that great. I edited as best I could in PSE. This was honest to goodness pretty darn easy to put together. Now I think I need some more solid color tops so I can make more flowers. Wheee!

And while I was taking pictures, I took a shot of one of my new tops from the thrift store. This one isn't crocheted or knit, but it is neat, nonetheless. And the fact that it was only $3 made it fly into my cart. 

I just have to fix one teensy part that you may not see unless I point it out. That blanket stitch is done on the ends of the 3/4 length sleeves and the bottom hem. Guess who wants to stitch on all her clothes now. LOL This was definitely a very happy find for me!

Thanks so much for all your sweet comments on the various projects I've been sharing. I know they aren't papercrafts or digi scrapping and hopefully that's not too disappointing, but I must confess dabbling in other crafts is immensely satisfying these days.

Have a great start to your week!