Purse

Another purse, this one has an interior pocket and magnetic snap closure

Apron modeled by Annie-she looks better in it than I do!

Aprons

A Chef's style apron made for wearing in nursery

Bunny Box

A triangle box bunny

More Easter Goodness

Easter stuff

Primary assignment

The ward Primary President called last night with my assignment. It appears that I am now the new Jr. Nursery Leader. Our nursery is so large they have split it into two age groups. I have the younger group 18 months to possibly 2? This should be interesting. I just hope I don't have lots of crying children all the time. There are many "pros" to nursery: you get to play with toys, snack time is a must, you don't have to participate in Primary activity days or the Primary Sacrament meeting program and you have a ready made excuse to take a very long nap on Sunday after church is over. And nursery workers have a direct link to the celestial kingdom, right?!

I had thought that this blog would serve as a journal of sorts, which it hasn't and then I joined Facebook and the blog gets ignored.

I am going to try harder to do what I intended for my blog.

To update, I have served as ward Relief Society President for the past two years and today was released from that calling and put in as a primary worker. Mixed feelings really-most people congratulated me, since RS pres. is one of the harder callings in the church. I thought I had another year to serve and have to admit there were some things I wanted to see thru to completion. On the other hand, our ward has one of the biggest primaries in the stake and they are sorely in need of teachers/workers. There are a number of women who prefer to not serve in primary for various personal reasons and I totally respect that. Me, I enjoy Primary and am glad I am not "too old" to teach the children at church.

A number of years ago, I was teaching in Primary and was content to stay there the rest of my life. But, Heavenly Father had other plans for me. I am working hard to learn my earthly lessons and qualify for a place in the Kingdom. That means serving where He would have me serve and doing the best job possible.

Haven't been given a Primary assignment yet, but looking forward to whatever the Primary Presidency cooks up for me.

Can you tell it is almost Valentines Day?

Another Valentine card-jar made from Vellum and glued over stamped jelly beans.

Valentine Card-glitter window, embossed paper

Matchbox

Valentines Day Match box

Crochet Hook Holder

Placemat made into a crochet hook holder for a co-worker's birthday.

New Purse

Mini Miranda Bag made from a Lazy Girls Design Pattern. Love the fabric and all the pockets!

Valentine's Day Cards

A couple of Valentine's Day cards I made today. The first one uses some PapertreyInc. Raspberry Fizz colored paper and the polka dot one uses an A Muse 4 bar notecard-Kitchen Red

New Haircut/color

For Christmas, Susie got me a gift card to Gene Juarez. So I now have a new cut and changed the color of my hair up a bit. Got partial highlights, too! Front and Back views provided!

Of course, good luck to me getting my hair to look like this the next time I wash it and try to style it myself.

Had an interesting week-a bit of a dust up at school with a volunteer which got me invited to the Principal's office to give my side of the story. Why this volunteer couldn't "man-up" and approach me directly instead of involving the Principal is beyond me. Oh yeah, I am so unreasonable, unapproachable and sacrastic. NOT!

Then on Friday morning, as I was walking down my front porch steps, my feet went out from underneath me due to the steps being slippery from the frozen water on them. Have a nice purple bruise on my back and arm. I was worried that I would really be sore today, the day after the fall, but I popped an Aleve and I am good to go. Even got a 1/2 hour jog in!

I got my new toys delivered yesterday-ink pads, ribbon, paper so I am looking forward to playing today and maybe post a photo of playtime results later.

Family Lunch

My brother, David (one year younger) and me. I hate photos of myself! I need a haircut and to re-fresh the color-hopefully next week!

Today, Rob and I met my dad, David Crowder and his wife, Harietta for our annual lunch at Marie Calendars by Northgate. We usually do this before Christmas, but all that snow made us delay our get together. I usually order something really light, like soup or petite salad in order to have a slice of my favorite pie, Lemon Creamcheese.

It was fun to see everyone and lucky for us the restaurant wasn't crowded since we were there for 3 hours!

Fabric Baskets

Also got a couple of fabric baskets made. It is sort of hard to see, but I glued holly buttons to the base of the handle pieces on the basket on the right. They would make fun holders for Christmas cards next year. Tutorials found on blogs as follows: pieced basket www.ayumills.blogspot.com non pieced basket www.orangeflowerpatterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/fabric-basket
enjoy!

Aprons

A couple of aprons I made with all the extra time I have being on Winter Break from work. These are made from a fat quarter of fabric for the apron part and 1/2 yard of fabric for the trim/waistband/ties. It was a tutorial I found on the Stop Staring and Start Sewing blog( found at: http://www.johag.typepad.com/)

Cars and Girls

First two photos are Susie and her baby(Honda Prelude). She loves to drive! The car is a 5 speed, teaching her to drive a stick shift was something else, once she got the hang of it there was no holding her back. She says she will never own an automatic-we'll see

Then Annie and her Honda Accord. She was a slow starter with being ready to drive, but now relishes the freedom owing a car gives her. Before she drove, she was an expert bus rider and recently decided not to drive in the snow and took the bus to work-hated every minute of it, but her car was safe at home!

Snow, the other furbaby, purse

First photo gives a good idea of how much snow we got in the Winter 08 Storm. The second photo is the other furbaby, Mr. Oliver-not as friendly as Miss Ruby. Below is one of the many purses/bags I have made. I was trying to get away from the pastel florals I like to use.