Picture of My daughter's birthday flowers

So sorry, I have not been around blog land much lately. I haven't made too many cards. Just a few Christmas cards which I hope to post later, when I find time to take pictures and post them.

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. My daughter cooked for us, and the meal was delicious. Of course, we had Turkey! She also made sweet potatoes, filling, green bean casserole, and homemade bread. For dessert we had Home made Carrot Cake made by my daughter, and Cheese cake made by my husband. Lucky me, I did NOT have to cook.

I have been absent for two reasons, One we are working on our house. Our ceilings needed repair from water damage, and we replaced some floors too. Plaster dirt, sawdust.., painting, .packing and unpacking have kept me quite busy, and also about a week ago, I injured my hand, so it's been mostly typing with one hand. Right now, I can type with both hands, but not for long, my hand still hurts.

Hope everyone has a great weekend...Jill

Afghans and Quilts

Above picture of a crocheted Afghan...is a picture of the first Afghan I ever crocheted.
It was given as a gift to my Grandmother, and when she passed away, My Aunt
returned it to me.

I made the above Afghan for my Mother. The stitches used are mostly double crochet
and the popcorn stitch

The above afghan is made up of mostly double crochet. I had made an afghan very similar to this one, for a friend of mine, as a gift to her while she was going through Chemo. I made one for me out of the leftover yarn. I still think of my friend everytime I see this Afghan in my livingroom. I miss her very much.

Most of my crocheting has been made for gifts, made and kept very little for myself.

I have not had time to make a card lately, so I thought I would post some of my past crochet work, I don't think I ever posted these on my blog before.
I belong to a group at Yahoo for over 11 years, and we chit chat about a variety subjects. A favorite is our crafts, and each week we have a theme. This week's theme was Afghans and quilts. I have never made a quilt, but I have crocheted many afghans...Maybe 5 full size Afghans and over 20 baby afghans, but I never took pictures of those...(wish I had) I wanted to post a pic of the quilt that my daughter made for me, but I'll have to add that later. I can't find the pic of it right now.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend...
Jill

Happy Halloween everyone

Happy Halloween everyone! I'm kind of late posting this...smile...
But that seems to be the story of my life right now...

This the card I sent off to my grandson...the graphics for the card came from the Martha Stewart website in her clip art section.

Hope everyone is having a good week...

Jill

Two Victorian cards

First card I used an embossing folder from Stampin' Up, (tulip folder)
My designer paper is from Stampin' Up
Two Victorian cards that I made for my Mother's best friend...
I found the one image at

http://magicmoonlightfreeimages.blogspot.com/2011/08/beauty-free-images-for-you.html

Yes, More cards from Stamp night (s)

This is a tri shutter card

This is a view master card...a tutorial for this card can be found here
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/view_master_card/

This is a form of a spinner card. The butterlies in the middle of the card can be spun around
they are held up with a string of beads on either side of the circle

I found some more cards that I think I haven't posted yet that are from previous stamp nights. As I said before, I made the cards, but I made them using sample cards that my Stampin' Up Demo made...Thank you Stacie All products are from Stampin' Up

more cards from stamp night

Still trying to play catch up from the cards I made at stamp night July through September. Thank Staci (Stampin' Up demo) I always enjoy stamp night. Last month was even more special because it was held in my own home...All products for these cards are from Stampin' Up.

Cards from Stamp Night

These are cards from Stamp nights, in July, August, and September, I don't think I posted any of these before....so that means I am just a bit behind in posting cards...

I made the cards, (put the cards together) but they were made using the sample cards my Stampin' Up rep gave us. The cards are made using all Stampin' Up products...
More cards to come as I get pics taken and the cards posted.

Just boxes

They're just boxes, but they are so fun and easy to make. I used the tutorial that I found on Split coast Stampers to make them.
I also made a bunch of cards at stamp night to fill them. Just have to find the time to take pictures of the cards. Hope to post them this weekend. Right now I need to get off the computer and get ready for a yard sale tomorrow.
Tutorial for the A2 card boxes can be found here....

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/a2cardbox/

a Card for Fall

My card was made with a Squigglefly image, Cottage Shelf, done by artist Deena Perreault.
Deena's Blog can be found here...http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/
My pumpkin was punched out with a punch by Ek Success, and my striped background paper is from Stampin up, I put a sheet of Vellum over it so my images would stand out more. I also used pop dots on my bottles to make them Pop out, and added button brads to my corners.
Hope everyone has a good day...