Happy Monday! This weekend felt long and productive! It's not every Monday I can say that, so let me show you some things from this good weekend...
First, I made this oversized pincushion based on the inspiration of the ever-so-inspiring Rebecca Sower. She has been doing these wonderful posts about handmade items from things found around the house on her blog http://rebeccasower.typepad.com . I just think Rebecca is the most beautiful person, inside and out.
This project is so fun and easy. Take any planter or container that is a decent size and make a pincushion by using stuffing and some simple material you find in your house! I didn't even do any sewing for this one...just tied it together underneath. Add a few embellishments and pins and you've got an pretty, oversized piece for your sewing area.
I gave this one to my mom who is a sewing maniac! It will look perfect in her sewing room. So go check out what Rebecca has up her sleeve next!
My craft room, as I've been telling you, is a mess. But I did get 5% of it organized, so that's a start! I need a motivator to come help me! Any takers?
I did manage to pull out some vintage blooms while in there though!
I put them in my shop (http://kandeland.etsy.com) and will be putting more there as soon as I can, so stop in again!
Speaking of flowers, these pretties are out my window in my neighbors yard: 
So beautiful! And our garden is getting fuller by the day...pictures to come soon!!
And speaking of sharing the neighbor's bounty...look at these yummy cherries! Our neighbor has a cherry tree and Kevin spent most of Sunday up in it picking cherries- his favorite fruit!
On Saturday I received a huge box of clothes for Scarlet from my Dad who lives in Florida. He hits Macys sales like crazy and buys out the girls section every time! In the box he included these super old postcards for me! Isn't that cute? He knows how I love old ephemera and dug these out to send my way! The postmark are on the back says one cent! Thanks Dad!
Besides having lots of thunderstorms (which I LOVE!) this weekend was nice because I got to spend more time on my Write Place Journal! Here are a few more pages I did:
This is the "title page" in the front cover. I used Jenni Bowling initials, an image from the last e-zine project, and a label and quote from the above-forementioned Rebecca.
This page was for incorporating a cut-out window. I put real window screening in my window. On the left side I write out an excerpt from the current book I'm reading: Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War.
On the flip side of the window I wrote some popular quotes and painted, stamped and doodled around one of Hope's fabulous postcards. (www.paperrelics.com).
This entry was to be about sketching! We were not supposed to make it too serious, and not supposed to really look down at what our hand was doing, but I cheated! I was sitting outside and just felt like drawing some simple things and actually make them a little recognizable, so I looked! I'm really no good at drawing, but even Scarlet knew this was the lamppost in our driveway! I then used it as a journal page for a poem that, again, Rebecca had just posted, and continued the poem on the next page which was more simple sketching:
So between these journal entries, reading a good amount of my book, cooking for guests two days in a row, doing dishes and laundry, and running errands, I actually felt like I got to relax this weekend! How did I manage that?!! Productive weekends are few and far between, so I'm happy with it! I hope you had a lovely weekend as well!
