WIP Wednesday-- First Post for 2018

I missed posting last week for the actual first Wednesday of 2018.  It was just an extremely busy day away from home from the time I got out of bed up until after supper time.

I continued to work on the jingle bell blocks for Amelia's first birthday.  Just have the 3rd one to finish putting together before her birthday party on Friday.
I also have continued to crochet here and there on the headbands.

I have been making quite a few of the double towel scarves.  I have more to make, and actually, these will be items I continue to work on throughout the year.  I have quite a few for one lady to choose her 2 from.  Once she is in town and gets hers, the remaining ones will be listed in my Etsy shop.

I have so many things that need to be worked on....way too many to even try to start making a list here.  Time is not on my side for getting much sewing or quilting done.  I wish that would change, but not sure how to make the change happen.   I already have a really late start on getting this blog post out as I got sidetracked cleaning up a corner of the living room because my oldest daughter finally came to get her desk out of that corner.  Sigh!!

Immediately I need to try to make a couple of things that I took patterns for from the last quilt guild meeting.  These will be items that will be for sale in our boutique booth at the Wichita Quilt Show in June.   I also need to get out my sewn 4 patches and sew around to make pin cushions.  These will be given out as a free gift to anyone who buys tickets for a chance to win our opportunity quilt.
I also really want to get started trying to machine quilt that baby blanket.

In the meantime, I am linking up with the following blogs:



Jo's Country Junction:  http://www.joscountryjunction.com/

KatieMae Quilts for BOM weekly linky.  https://www.katiemaequilts.com/blog/

 

WIP Wednesday 12/9/15

It's beginning to look more like Christmas around our house.  The tree is up and the grandkids have made a few little gifts that are wrapped under the tree.

I'm still working here and there sewing up the microwave hotpads.  As long as I keep it up, I should have them done in time.  I still have other gifts that I want to make as well though.
I bought cheap bowls to put in each one as well although no guarantee they are microwave safe.  They are mostly to show what they are for.

I've been crocheting away on the dish scrubbies and I only have the yellow to get done.  The orders will be picked up Friday.

UFO's:

Rectangle quilt
challenge wall hanging
Hexagon quilt
Emerald Island Fusique table runner
Five and Dime quilt
Charming Stars quilt
Brown half square triangle table runner
5 sets of doll blanket, pillows and rug
Hexagon flower table runner
Wall hanging for quilt guild
yo-yo's that need to be made into projects
black and white rail fence quilt
Arkansas Crossroads scrap quilt
Hot pad bowls for Christmas gifts


2015 Finishes:

Locker Hook Rug
re-do binding on blue and peach patchwork
9 lined fabric bags
yellow crazy quilt lined bag
Pink hexagon table topper
Blue hexagon table topper
Yo-Yo Table runner
GoodNight Irene quilt/wall hanging
Fractured Pineapple quilt
Challenge quilt for quilt guild
Autumn wall hanging

I am linking up with the following blogs:

Frugal Friday with Marsha 10/17/14 More Crafts as Gifts

This is fun, and motivating.
If you've been following me for very long then you remember it was the either 2011 or 2012 when I added the page here on my blog with the ongoing linky for handmade type link ups.  Boy does time fly.  When I added it, it was for inspiration and motivation because I had hoped to have an all hamdmade Christmas that year.  Since then I had decided to always keep the linky open.

Here are some more of the things that I have made over the years and have given as gifts.

My husbands nephew was a big My Little Pony fan so my daughter had me crochet him this My Little Pony for Christmas.   I never have been one to crochet many stuffed animals, so this was a little challenging for me, but he loved it.

Staying along the lines of crochet, I made this cute little bee for my granddaughter, Willo for her birthday one year.  I think it was a free pattern that I had picked up at Walmart.
Speaking of frugal, nothing beats free.  Be sure to look for the free patterns hanging around in the craft areas of any store.

Here we have a crocheted Minni Mouse hat that I made for Zelda when she was a newborn.  Unfortunately, it barely fit her when she was born.  It was so darn cute though!

I got on a hair tie kick for awhile.  Gosh, I made these for everyone, and I mean everyone....well, ok, just the females.  I made so many that I donated a bunch of them to different charities at Christmas time too.   I didn't have a pattern, just kept crocheting around until they were the size that I wanted.


I actually have bee asked to crochet some little dolls from a book......I wonder what I did with those patterns.....hhhmmm.  I just ran across them the other day, but of course I don't know where I put them now.  If I find them I will share the book with you in another post.

For now, how about some of the supplies you will need for crocheting?




Don't forget to share any type of frugal related post you have put up this past week :)

An InLinkz Link-up

WIP Wednesday 9/8/10

It's time for WIP (work in progress) Wednesday!

Rules: To play along on Work-in-Progress Wednesday, make your blog post for Wednesday be about something you're working on - some type of craft, renovation project, landscaping, even that novel you're writing. You can play along even if it’s not Wednesday; She leaves each WIP up until the following week.Click the button at the end of my post to copy the code below Rosie's picture and paste it into your blog post so that others can follow too, and see the rest of the projects that are posted.

Each week I look forward to checking out the WIP's of others.  I find it very encouraging a motivating to participate.  It keeps me working as I should be.

Now, here are my WIP's for the week:

I have all of the strip squares sewn for my strip quilt.  I still have some of the squares to cut down, but I have sewn together 2 rows of the 7 I will have on the quilt.    I am building a How To Make a A Strip Quilt-Step-by-Step with Photos squidoo lens.  I hope you will right click and open it in a new window or tab, check it out, and let me know what you think.  It's continual until I get the quilt completed. 

My next work in progress is making headbands.  I have the pink one completed.  The next one will be made with the purple and I am trying a different pattern on it.  These go in with an order I am fulfilling.  These are being made on request.

Lastly, I have started on crocheting a prayer shawl for a program we do through my church.  As you can see, I barely have a start on it.

 Please click the button below to share your own WIP post, or just to check out the others that have been submitted for this week.

WIP (Work in Progress) Wednesday

I joined stumble upon, and while stumbling, I ran across the blog Every Day Crochet.
She has a neat idea.   WIP Wednesday's!   WIP stands for work in progress.

She has it set up to where it doesn't have to be a craft WIP....it can be the novel you are writing, your landscaping project, garden project......basically anything you are in the process of.

I will be posting weekly my WIP for my crafting.   It will keep me motivated to always have a work in progress  :)

So, here are my WIP for this week:

 An online friend sent me some gift cards out of the kindness of her heart.  She asked me the price to buy some washclothes from me.  I'm not selling them to her, instead they will be a gift from me.  One complete, another started and one more to go as I plan to send her 3.

 Simple baby quilt.  I have the fabrics cut and the batting pinned to one.  It will be simple because I'm not doing squares.  Instead I am using the Sesame Street material as one piece on each side.  I will pin it, sew the edges and hand tie it.

What are your WIP's?   Can I finish these before next Wednesday and get more work started?

Please click the button below and head over to Every Day Crochet and check out the list. (as I type this she doesn't have the new post up, but I will be on the look out for it and in the meantime add my link to last week.)

Resolutions Journal Week 10--April 3--April 9

Week 10 Accomplishments:  April 3-April 9

Read in my current book--Sins of the Flesh--and finished it.  I wrote my review on gather. 
Sins of The Flesh by Caridad Pineiro Book Review.

Crocheted other washcloth and dish scrubbie for my giveaway.

Updated my Our Garden 2010 squidoo lens with quite a bit more.  I also updated my Jasmine's Lapbooks, Under The Rainbow Gifts, Helen Steiner Rice, Kansas Cosmosphere and The Vision Board, Gather, and Tiger Eyes squidoo lenses.

I built My Book Reviews and When Ghosts Speak squidoo lenses.

I started to crochet a washcloth, but got an order for 2 purple dish scrubbies so crocheted those and got them out in the mail.

As you see, I've been doing well getting posts into my blog.  I'm back in business!

You can also see that I really got going on my squidoo lenses.  Can I keep it up?  I sure plan to.  I need to get some better money made there.  All visits to help my lensrank are truly appreciated!

Until next Friday night, have an awesome week!
Marsha

Resolutions Journal Week 6--March 6--March 12

After keeping track on gather for 5 weeks on my resolutions, I've decided to continue to keep track of what I am accomplishing each week here in my blog. (I did win a box of 100 calorie snacks for doing the resolutions journal entries on gather)

As a reminder, here are my "resolutions" for the year:
1. Using the exercise equipment we have on a regular basis.

2. Reading whenever I get a chance so that I can do more book reviews and in turn turn those book reviews into squidoo lenses.

3. Getting back to my online business. As a whole I call it Gifts Galore and More, but includes everything that I do online to earn money.
I will be updating or building a new squidoo lens each day, working on getting crafts made and listed for sale, getting more books listed for sale, etc.

4. Getting my blog back going again.

Week 6: March 6-March 12 accomplishments:

Updated homeschoolbuy auctions

Updated Crash, online parties, and REO Speedwagon squidoo lenses

Cut t-shirts to crochet with and made another t-shirt hand bag. I made a second bag for an order from a lady at church.

Worked on plastic canvas baby blocks and cross magnets, but didn't finish any.

Finished reading Hollywood Crows and got my book review written on gather.

Listed the newest t-shirt handbag in my blujay store.

As you can see, I'm not doing well with the exercising. I'm finding myself so into doing my crafts that I'm not wanting to take even a few minutes out each day on the equipment. I do want to change that as I know it will help my stamina...as well as the way I look.

Monday April 20

Good Morning!
I pretty much just relaxed yesterday not worrying what I got done and what I didn't get done.
One of the church ladies (a real hoarder) had donated 5 large boxes of yarn to the church. I brought home a medium box full to make some prayers shawls. The prayer shawls is one of the outreach programs we do at our church. I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening crocheting.
Also at church I was given a ticket to the Crown Uptown Theater this Friday. They said someone at church bought it for me. I'm excited, I think it will be fun, and Friday is my birthday too.
My son ended up wanting us to come to his house for dinner. He bbq'd pork chops then they fixed lots of other foods. My oldest daughter provided the food, my son and his girlfriend did all the cooking and clean up. It was pretty nice to have the famiy time even though we didn't get home until bedtime.

No real plans for today, nothing outside the house anyway. Just the normal housework and computer clicking LOL I went to bed last night and woke up this morning with my left palm itching...I'm being superstitious and expecting money today he he.

Sorry nothing too exciting today, just my life. Hope your week is starting off great!
Marsha

Monday April 13

Good Morning! I hope everyone had a nice Easter.
Yesterday was a nice day...despite the weather. Church was great. We had to have the egg hunt for the kids inside the church due to the rain. It was raining when I woke up in the morning and still raining when I went to bed last night. They are calling for rain every day in the forecast through Saturday. I guess it's the April showers to bring those May flowers.
I really am wanting to get my garden area ready and get to planting.

Today is my moderate cleaning day upstairs. I've done some dishes and will head up to sweep and mop the kitchen, then vacuum all the carpets after I am done with my blog. I've already snapped at my mom this morning..she just had to start making comments on how I wash dishes, telling me it didn't look like I was rinsing them very well, then going on to ask me if I was ever taught how to do dishes. I screamed at her asking her if she wanted me to do dishes or not, and I told her that she needed to shut up. I hate myself when I act like that. For one thing is the quitting smoking thing, for another it's just my mother's attitude that if you don't do something the same way she does then you aren't doing it right...that is for everything not just the dishes. Ok...done with that rant! Yes, I do love my mother and I do appreciate her, and I am thankful for her.

I've been doing a lot of posting on gather in regards to our Easter holiday. I got stuck yesterday....I got one video in, which took an hour to load, the 2nd one I tried never did load. I got a lot of crocheting on this last craft order while I waited! I will restart the computer today before I try uploading any more videos today. If interested, you can click my gather button to the left and go check out the photos, posts and videos that I have put in.

No plans outside of the house today other than visiting my son this evening. This is our last week to visit, he gets out on Saturday. For those that don't know, he is spending 90 days in jail for driving on a suspended license. I sure hope he doesn't do this again! I have plenty for him to help with once he's out. I need his help with the van, my tv went out, and yesterday the dryer quit working.
Oh, I do also need to walk to the Dollar store and buy cat litter and trashbags, so hoping it won't be raining this afternoon so I can get that done.

Until tommorrow, he's wishing you a good Monday,
Marsha

Monday March 30

Today is the day! I hope to see some of you pop in to check out our online party. I present from 7-8 pm CST.

This will be short. No school today due to the danger of too much snow on the roofs and I way overslept when I have so much to get done today. I need to do all I can on here plus complete crocheting this plarn shopping bag to get it up for sale before my party time. I've done my Monday cleaning upstairs...that took me a couple of hours.

I won another prize on mycoolcontests yesterday. I really want to thank whoever it was that signed up under me. That gave me one more chance each day at winning. Here is the banner if you want to check it out outside of my squidoo lens.


Have a great day all, and I hope to see you in the Spring Fling ;)

Marsha

Saturday March 21

Good Morning! It felt so good to sleep in this morning. It smells like rain outside and they are calling for chances of thunderstorms over the next 3 days. Highs at just about 70 each day.


Below is a photo of the plarn gift bags that I've completed. When I said I was going to work on crafts 2 days ago I guess I meant it, I finished the 2nd bag. Yesterday I worked on sorting bags to use to make my next plarn shopping tote. These gift bags will be listed on blujay later today.



I did a lot of posting on gather yesterday. I hope to do the same today and keep those points coming in to make my goal by April 1. I posted Grocery Shopping 3/19/09 and Budget Supper March 19. 2009

I listed Rich Kid Smart Kid on blujay yesterday, so I also updated my squidoo lens book review as well. Rich Kid Smart Kid Book Review

No other real news. I wanted to go help clean the basement at my church this morning. I decided against it as the van is sounding worse and worse. We've driven it just over 300 miles already with that rod going out. I have no prospects of coming close to earning the $300 needed to buy another engine to put in it. I want to be as careful as I can in hopes we can drive it as long as possible.

Have a great Saturday!
Marsha

Saturday March 14

Well, Well, Well...I stayed up until just after 1 am last night working through my email. I got it down to 600 in my inbox (currently back up to 829)
I didn't get out of bed until 9:30 this morning, and that was because my ex husband called from prison. I asked him how he got money for phone calls. He told me he crocheted a blanket, then latch hooked a Kansas City Chiefs helmut and the word Chiefs on it and sold it for big bucks. First he used some of the money to buy more yarn then the phone card. It's a crying shame that he sells more crafts in prison than I sell from home!! He sells things all the time. He really enjoys crocheting very large stuffed Winnie the Pooh animals.

I posted another Budget meal on gather last night. Today I will be doing my weekly mail call post and probably another budget meal. Budget Supper 3/13/09

Jasmine finished her Anime lapbook yesterday so her lapbooks lens is one that I got updated on squidoo yesterday. Jasmine's Lapbooks
Today I will be starting a new lens...part 2 of our Unschooling Journey.

Since my tv went out I am watching my shows upstairs. I don't watch all that many shows, but it will be good for awhile. Watching 2 shows yesterday I got all the rest of my coupons cut and in to my box as well as got an almost 6 lb ham cut into cubes and divided into bags for the freezer. My aunt is getting a new tv and giving us the old one, so that will solve our problem until my son is able to take a look at mine. I'm thinking it's something simple inside such as a blown fuse. God works things out for us in mysterious ways.

I'm going to head out...almost noon and I still need to get my bath for the day! Have an awesome Saturday! I hope you are seeing some spring time weather. Today's high here is supposed to be 50 and it's 41 right now.
Marsha

Thursday February 26

Good Morning. The weather is making a change. After a few days of spring like weather it's clouded up and is very moist outside. I guess we see what it brings with it.
Today is another busy day. I was to take my daughter to a dr. appt. this morning but her boyfriend ended up able to take her. I am going to volunteer in Ariel and Araya's Headstart classroom today. We are planning a get together at my brothers later this afternoon with my aunt and uncle.
I am trying to get most all my internet stuff done on the computer before leaving for Headstart.

I am almost done doing my clearing work in my group on gather. This is something I didn't find the time to do at all yesterday.

I did get a couple of squidoo lenses updated yesterday and a couple more updated this morning. Here is the last one I updated: Earn With Marsha

I got quite a bit of work done on the newest plarn pattern I am trying while out and about yesterday. I will take it when we go today too. I will close for now. I do want time for a short rest time this morning before the afternoon in a classroom of 3, 4 and 5 year olds.

Have a great Thursday!
Marsha

Wednesday February 24

busy busy day, so just a short update.
I've been cleaning upstairs since I got out of bed. My aunt and uncle just took my mom out for lunch. They will be visiting once they get back from lunch.
This evening is Awanas for the girls and Ash Wednesday service at our church for the rest of us. Not much time to do much else!

I did manage to get in my review of the Zatarain's Red Beans and Rice on gather yesterday. Zatarain's Red Beans and Rice Review

Once again I didn't get a thing done on squidoo yesterday. That's not good and I need to get back to business.

When I shopped at Walgreens yesterday I was telling the cashier how I was currently making a bag with red and white bags. She thought it was so neat that she gave me a whole handful of bags just because. Hopefully enough to finish the bag I am currently working on and make another one. I'm making gift bags and want to sell them in sets of 2.

I am off to get at least a few other things done online before they get back from eating.

Marsha

Sunday Lazy Sunday

Oh My Gosh, it feels like such a lazy day.
We went to church this morning. That was nice after not being able to drive ourselves there is what seemed like forever. We had 10 baptisms this morning! We got home shortly after noon. I fixed ham and egg salad sandwiches with applesauce for lunch. I have chicken going in the crockpost. Half the chicken will go in to the freezer for another meal, the other half I am making chicken alfredo with for supper.
After lunch I laid down...for way too long....I just got up and am getting on the computer for the first time today at 3 pm. I will do what I can on here today, but I also need to get a headstart on the housework so that doesn't become an all day job tomorrow.
My aunt and uncle will be here sometime Tuesday from Michigan.

I did work on the plarn gift bag yesterday. I also put in 5 photos and 1 video and 3 posts on gather, including my weekly mail call post. I hope you will take a look, I had some fantasic mail this past week! Mail Call! Week of February 15

I didn't get anything done on squidoo, in fact, I never even opened it yesterday. I ended up being gone all evening after supper with my mom. We went shopping and visited my son. Once home I was so tired I just wanted to get in to bed.

I am off to start my alternating between computer and housework. Have a great rest of what is left of the weekend.
Marsha

Saturday February 21

Good Morning! I don't know about the weather. It's a cold, crisp, windy day out there now under a blue sky. It was a nice spring like day yesterday, but last night the winds were so high they were howling through the house.

All my plans today have to do with the computer...updating at squidoo, doing what I can on gather. While one here I will be crocheting on one of the other plarn patterns I want to try. I cut the plastic bags for it yesterday.

I got 2 magnetic bracelets made and listed on blujay yesterday. Therefore I decided to update my blujay squidoo lens. Marsha's Blujay

I'm excited to be able to drive to church tomorrow morning! As of now, the van is still running, and I am still praying it continues to run until April when my son is out and can assess it...as well as while I try to save the money up needed towards getting it fixed!

Today will be short and sweet so that I can move on to my other projects.
Have a great Saturday!
Marsha

Thursday February 5

Good Morning! Once again, housework for the day is pretty much done. The weather forecast is saying highs in the 60's today and Friday and Saturday. Sunday and Monday it says highs in the 50's with rain. Rain in the winter, isn't that strange?

Heather has a dentist appointment this afternoon. I can't decide if I want to take a book to read or take this shopping bag and get it finished up. I have to cut a few more bags and make the straps is all I have left to do.
I will work on sorting coupons while I watch Grey's Anatomy this evening.

Here is one of my gather posts from yesterday...it's about the newest gift that Steve has bought me. And something I will mess with tomorrow as he's going to expect to see something done with it LOL Look What Steve Bought Me Now

47 lenses complete on squidoo! Here is the link to the book review lens that I made yesterday. I am also busy updating lenses as I go along. I think I might just be getting the hang of this. Rich Ki Smart Kid by Robert T. Kyosaki--Book Review

Have a wonderful day,
Marsha

Wednesday February 4

Good Morning. I say that although as with most nights I just could not get to sleep last night. I'm going to have to learn to do something productive in those hours of not sleeping. I am tired enough to sleep but can't get my brain to shut off the thinking.
I think I will head back to bed after typing this.
I have about 5 posts I can do on gather today plus put in some photos. I have the book review squidoo lens to get built and then at least one other lens updated.
I have the plarn shopping bag to crochet on. I've not kept up with my listing goal on blujay so I need to get back to work on that...can't sell it if it's not listed.
I've pretty much done my housework for the day today and have coupons ready to go shop the current sale at the grocery store.

For today I will share the photo essay I did on Elizabeth's 23rd birthday. I only got 4 photos taken. Elizabeth's 23rd Birthday February 1

I got another squidoo lens built yesterday on Sample Gal, which is another business that I am affiliated with. It's my 46th lens, only 4 more to go. I will be doing the book review one, then starting one on Jasmine's lapbooks as soon as she finishes the one she started yesterday. I'm so close to getting to the 50! Sample Gal

I'm off, a lot to get done today! I'm glad for all that I do to keep myself busy.

Have a great "hump day",
Marsha


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Tuesday February 3

Good Morning! Well, you know the weather..unpredictable...our high of 49 for today changed now to 37. They are now showing 45 for tomorrow, 64 for Thursday, 73 for Friday and 68 for Saturday. Those sure will be nice if the forecast holds up.

I got through crocheting the green into my shopping bag, and got several more white bags cut up. I will work on that as time permits today. It's bowling this evening so that cuts out a lot of my time. I finally got my Sample Gal stuff figured out and am heading from here to build a squidoo lens about it. Want to check out the page now? You can do so by going to Marsha's Sample Gal page

Here is another post that I did on gather on Sunday. This one is about some homemade cleaners that I made. Now I've Made Homemade Cleaner and Homemade Febreze


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I finished reading a book last night. I will do a book review at both gather and squidoo on it, but doubt I will get that done today. Once done, after I build the Sample Gal lens today I will only need to build 3 more lenses before I can apply for Giant Squid.

Take care my friends, and until tomorrow, have a great day!
Marsha

Monday February 2

Good Morning! It's Monday again. Our weather is still looking nice with highs in the 40's today and tomorrow. High in the 50's Wednesday and highs in the 60's for Thursday and Friday. I think we traded winter weather with Texas!
I've been cleaning already this morning and only have a couple things left to do for the day...well, always more can be done.
I'm working on this shopping bag, but have found that the dress bag is a stickier plastic than the regular bags. It's going to be pretty, just going to take me longer to get the green crocheted through.

Here is a post that I put on gather yesterday about making my laundry soap. Getting Ready to Make Laundry Soap

I didn't do much but check in at squidoo yesterday. I have 2 lenses to get updated today. Let's see.....recently I updated my crafts lens so I will feature it today. Marsha's Crafts

Ok, I'm going to get the rest of this housework done...then I have 2 more posts to get onto gather as well as 3 photos. I made my goal of over 100 points yesterday!

Have a good day,
Marsha