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Another boring post with no photos!  Oh well, just a few words to say I am heading off to the lake for my summer job tomorrow.  I will be offline for a few days at least and next weekend I am heading to The Embroiderers' Association of Canada's National Seminar for 10 days in Winnipeg.  So, it will be quiet here on the blog likely but the upside is I will have lots to say once I get back from Winnipeg!  See you then...

I posted a little while ago about the EAC ATC Swap and how I was late getting mine in for the swap but that the wonderful host guild had managed to swap out most of them anyway.  These are the four lonely little ATCs of my own that came back to me, from my Broken Dishes series.  Would anyone like to swap for one of these?

 Once again, something totally different!  Last night I made bath bombs... or are they bath fizzes?... from supplies in the stash.  Very quick and easy! I ended up with a few of them and I think they will make great stocking stuffers.  I gave dd one to take for a test drive and she reported back that they fizz beautifully when they hit the bathwater so I guess that means they work.

 I spent a little time the other night making up little bags of bath salts with lavender in them - they smell delicious!  Why am I making bath salts?  Back to the stash reduction!  Although I have only made soaps, etc. a couple times, I have collected a quantity of supplies for doing so because I thought it was something I would enjoy.  So, if I actually make all this soap, bath salts, bath fizzes, etc.  I will have this group of supplies out of my stash, right?  And I will have a lot of little gifts etc to give people or sell.  Sounded like a plan to me!  I also have some Battenberg Lace supplies, but found this particular form of needlework was not my cup of tea.  I made a couple items but it is not something I want to pursue.  So, I dug out these ...  and have listed them on my Etsy shop ! I'm not much of a knitter either so a couple knitting pattern books went in the shop.  The booklets charm...

You might want to check out the quilts in the May AAQI online auction .  Here are photos of a couple of them but it is worth clicking on the above link to see the rest.   Russ' Horse Susan Brewer Bloomington, IN USA All 27 of these quilts are from the Priority: Alzheimers Quilt project. Falling Leaves Barbara Beaumont Hubbardston, MA USA The AAQI online auctions are held during the first 10 days of each month, hosted by BenefitBidding.com .  All profits fund Alzheimer's research.  You can bid between May 1st and May 10th on these beauties. The Beacon Marlene Woodfield LaPorte, IN USA

Have you ever been inspired by something you see and wanted to create it in stitches but wondered how to do it?  I was up to catch the sunrise the other morning and I was so struck by the big ball of the sun peeking through the brush, I had to take some photos.  After I cropped off all the extraneous stuff in the yard from the photo, I was pleased that the photo represented accurately what I was seeing - not always the case with sunrise or sunset photos.  So, now the question is.... how can you create this with a needle and thread?  The trees would not be too difficult since they all appear uniformly black in front of the sun.  Creating the background is where the work would come in - a little ingenuity would be needed! After looking at these photos for a few days I have come up with ideas I think would work.  I would paint the background to achieve the grey, yellow and orange areas.  The sun itself is the part that had me stumped.  I ...

I took part in the Embroiderers' Association of Canada's annual ATC swap again this year.  I made ATCs with a vengence but was late getting them in, however, the gracious ladies in the Peterborough guild did their best to swap out as many of them as they could.  So, here's a shout out to the makers of the ATCs I received!  This one is called "Firework" and was greated by Astrid of Nanaimo, BC.  The glitzy bits really pop against the plush velvet of the background.  Bonnie of Simcoe, Ontario, is a member of Norfolks' Own Needle Arts Guild and she stitched this lovely bouquet.  Deb of Lakefield, Ontario created this gem and it has a little poem on the back: "I'd choose to be a daisy If I might be a flower..."  "Merrimbla" came all the way from Vicki in Gurley, NSW, Australia!  Susan in Cambellcroft, Ontario, made these adorable little fish.  These skates came from Linda - I wish you could see them better in this pho...