Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas...

From our house to yours, may you all have a very Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year...






Love, Richard and Merry

Monday, December 13, 2010

Sewing composition book covers...

I have a lot of fabric, most of which was inherited from relatives/friends, given to me, or from my own various quilting and sewing projects.  It was time to do something with the eight Rubbermaid totes filled with this fabric.  Back in September, the local stores had compostion notebooks on sale for 25 cents each.  I bought a bunch!  I also bought 2 packs of cheap pens for $2.  They went from this:


To this:

 

This is a small sampling of the multitude I made.  I will be giving them as gifts to the children in our church's community outreach program.  Total cost for 22 gifts...less than $10.00.