ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 47

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Welcome to Week 47 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week... I plan to sew (since this month's TABLE SCRAPS Challenge entry is due next week.  Will that happen?

Read on to find out...

SUNDAY - Like most, the week began with my Weekly Morning Art Zoom.  It was time to play Roll the Dice which is always a fun time.

Prompt set one:
1 collage a dark background using magazines or painted papers
2 stencil
3 use white
4 text
5 add something transparent

Prompt set two:
1 use book pages
2 scribble
3 scrape paint on your page
4 pattern
5 stars

MONDAY - Work...

Was followed by my Weekly Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color.  Here I am, waiting for her to join the call:

During the call, I worked on this stitched journal tag.  It was finished it this evening...

During my Monthly Quilt Guild via Zoom tonight we enjoyed the quilts of Linda and Carl Sullivan of Colourwerx Quilts:

AND...

 Good news for YOU!! 

We were given this DISCOUNT CODE for all COLOURWERX Patterns!!!

The code:  DURHAM

NOTE:  It's valid through Sunday, November 24th.  Thank you, Linda and Carl, for generously offering this for all of our quilting friends!!

TUESDAY - Work

After which, I mixed up some dirt-colored spackle for my take on the TEXTURE prompt for Treasure Trovember.  I'm hoping the photo gives you the 3-D effect that I can see in real life. Focus on the letters in the word BIKE shown below:

WEDNESDAY - Work

Not just work, but I worked late after only 3.5 hours of sleep last night.  When will I learn?!  I can no longer eat a donut and chicken nuggets in the same day.  :o((

After a failed nap attempt, I took a walk to look for a construction update  Work is being done on the front porches of these two sided homes down near the cul de sac...

As well as these three which are awaiting their siding:

THURSDAY - Day Off

I was pleased to attend my Weekly Quilt Group meeting this morning.  Not only was I there, but I also remembered to take a photo of what turned out to be almost our entire group:

An errand followed the meeting.  I had planned a trip to The Scrap Exchange:

When I got home I went up to the studio to prepare for Winging It.  Traci is a hangout host with lots of fun ideas for participants.  Below, she's showing a collection of scrap papers while explaining the plan for this afternoon's art exploration:

I combined the papers that I created during the hangout onto a page in my (Britt-made) Hangout Journal using my new favorite stencil which was purchased this afternoon:

FRIDAY - Day Off

There were three of us available for Knit Group this morning:

After lunch, I went upstairs for this month's final Get Messy lesson called Colleen and the Season of Binding, but rather than a demonstration, she had pearls of wisdom to share.  My takeaway from her talk about attitude was this:

Upon completion of the lesson, I was immediately back on the computer for my Weekly Zoom Call with Knittingsuek.  We skipped last week and were just now able to meet:

The day ended with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I thought I might work on finishing the final section of this journal spread...

But...

This stack of stencils (and my Get Messy Art Journal) was calling my name:

You should hear more about those and other supplies next week, but I had so much fun adding them to the pages of my journal during the meeting...

And afterwards, as well.  Britt and I kept working when everyone else left the meeting:

She was in the middle of something and I had more paint to use up.  Ultimately, I believe that I discovered another use for the vellum pages in my journal, as I accidentally stenciled on and it worked perfectly with a light coat of acrylic paint:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.

But, WAIT!!!  What did YOU do for scrap sewing this week, Joyful???

Well... Not a whole lot!  That tag on Monday made with scraps of paper and then it was hand stitched to hold the flowers and leave in place.  I also moved this month's quilting scrap project from Point A to Point B, but that's where it sits.  The good news is that Point B sits right on top of my quilting machine.  Let's call that progress, shall we?  I laid hands on the project instead of walking past it AND it was moved to a position of readiness.  Quilting can commence at a moment's notice.  That moment may even be this afternoon.  :o))

Come back next week to see the results.  Surely, by then it will be DONE!!!

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Mail Call Monday - Cherie & Anchors Away

Welcome to another edition of Mail Call Monday!!  This post is a bit behind schedule, as Mondays have a way of slipping by without my noticing.

Here's the (brief) story...

I recently got an email from Cherie (formerly of) The Quilted Jonquil blog:

Hi Joy, 

Cherie here.  I'm wondering if the address below is still good for you.  If not, may I have your current address, please?

Thanks!

Cherie 

My reply:

Certainly, Cherie! We moved 3 years ago. Our new address is (details removed).

Thanks for changing your records! I hope you are doing well. What have you been up to lately?

Happy quilting!

Joy

Not many days passed...

In the interim, the interaction had me wondering what Cherie might have put in the mail for me.  On the day that Cherie's surprise arrived, my suspicions proved to be true:

The backstory...

Cherie once posted a thrifted shirt haul and I volunteered to take a variety off her hands.  She graciously mailed them to me.  You can read about that HERE.  Before that, we did a swap (in 2019) which you can read about in THIS POST.

Here is the card that arrive...

And the sweet little bundle of fabrics that came with it:

What you can't see from the somewhat blurry photo is that the fabric on top is a sweet little anchor print.  LOVE it!!  I'm looking forward to using it in something special in the not-too-distant future.

Thank you for thinking of me after all this time, Cherie, and it was sweet of you to send along some friends to accompany the main attraction!

Until next time...

Color me SEW surprised!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 46

Welcome to Week 46 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week, I'm afraid I might be singing the same old song.  No sewing going on.  Again.  If you are here for the quilting, you may be sorely disappointed.

Check out how my week went by...

SUNDAY - It started with my Weekly Morning Art Zoom.  I can't recall what I worked on, but later in the day, I participated in a co-create time with Wendy @willawanders on her YouTube channel.  I finally took the time to complete my final art experiment from Get Messy's Season of Experimentation.  The following pages in my Altered Book Journal were inspired by a reel from @hannahhh.mp on Instagram:

After an early dinner, I headed up to the studio for Collage Club.  I completed the following simple collage in my Get Messy Art Journal:

MONDAY - I'm always thankful for a holiday that falls on a Monday!  That meant there was time for coffee with a side of knitting.  This is the first chance that Tracy and I have gotten to catch up in quite some time:

After lunch, I was thrilled to be able to attend Curiosity Collective.  The nature-inspired lesson reminded me that I had plucked the last geranium leaf for stamping:

I also drew and painted flowers in hopes of catching up on Rae Missigman's lesson for Get Messy:

TUESDAY - I had a long-overdue hair appointment this morning...

And...

Ended my 8-day weekend two days early by going in to work on a corporate order for my office mate whose son is sick.  :o((

WEDNESDAY - Work

Afterwards, I enjoyed my Weekly Zoom call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

THURSDAY - Work

A quick stop at the grocery store on the way home scored a butternut squash for the pot of soup shown below.  DH coined the term "dessert soup" to describe the flavor:

FRIDAY - Work

Pizza for dinner was followed by my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I worked on pushing back the words inside my latest Altered Book Journal with copious coats of gesso.  Nothing photo worthy, but Britt and I stayed after for a few minutes to plan tomorrow's ARTventure:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  There's no scrappy quilting to share this week...

Knittingsuek and I postponed our Weekly Zoom call so that I could go to Britt's today.  (Thanks, Sue!)  When I should have been putting the final touches on my blog post, I was off and away for a bit of art.  We watched a couple of video tutorials and worked on the Week Three journal for No-Sew November.  Mine is a memory zine from this years TWO trips to Rhode Island and Britt's is more like Meg's:

Whoops!  My post ended up not being scheduled for release.  I'm releasing it as if it were done on time in order to maintain the proper flow of the blog.  Sorry!  Life got in the way this week.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 45

Welcome to Week 45 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week, I thought I might sew on my TABLE SCRAPS Challenge project for this month.  Will that happen?

Read on to discover the truth...

SUNDAY - Weekly Morning Art Zoom found me decorating the No Sew journal that I made with paint chips yesterday afternoon:

Apparently, it took 2 days to develop a rash from my latest Covid shot.  By evening the itch was driving me insane!  Thankfully, this is the first time I've had this reaction and hopefully the last:

MONDAY - Work

After work, I raced home to make it to my Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

TUESDAY - Work

I was wrong about last week's rose being the last one of summer!  Our recent warm weather has coaxed yet another fine specimen out of my plant:

WEDNESDAY - Day Off!!

Let's try this, again...  It's the 1st day of my 8-day weekend!!  What???  It sure would have been nice to know ahead of time.  I might have planned to go somewhere besides the grocery store! Sigh...  The "dirt parade" continues in the new section up the street.  What the following photo doesn't show are the 3 trucks I passed on the way out of my neighborhood and the 2nd truck that was turning onto the road, as I waiting for the light to change:

THURSDAY - Weekly Quilt Group

I was there, but I can't prove it because I forgot to get a group picture!!!  :o((

After lunch...

I filled my time with art.  I'm starting Treasure Trovember from Kelly @ Collage Lab and completed Days 1 - 7 on the collage shown below.  The prompts were to add the following... a grid, a building, something that flies, stripes, a crowd, pink, and a word:

Apparently, my rose bush isn't done blooming yet.  ANOTHER bud popped out and opened today:

FRIDAY - I skipped Knit Group this morning because I had a 10AM art class. It was called Rae and the Season of Binding...

I made this journal page using watercolor for the swatching and floral elements & acrylic for the stenciling and color wheel elements:

Once dinner was done, I went up to the studio for my Weekly Evening Art Zoom. I worked on decorating my 2 latest No-Sew Journals inspired by Meg Journals' No Sew November challenge.  This is the first year she's offered it and it's been interesting thus far:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  I think I caught up with most participants this week.  At the very least, I did better than I sometimes do.  :o))

Here's the only sewing that MIGHT take place this week...

But first, it was time for my Weekly Zoom with Knittingsuek:

This afternoon, I finally set some time aside to watch a video stepping me through the process of Judy's Magic Cast-On and now my latest pair of socks has been started:

That wraps up this week.  With a number of extra days off work, I'm hoping that next week may include a fair amount of sewing.  Only time will tell.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 44

Welcome to Week 44 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week was filled with work, errands and meetings.  I'm guessing you are here to see the quilting.  If so...

You might have to look really hard, as my attention was elsewhere...

SUNDAY - The day began with my Weekly Morning Art Zoom.  I worked on filling my "mark" book with additional pages of art marks:

Later, I noticed the last rose of summer is fading fast:

MONDAY - Work

Due to conflicting schedules, this week's Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color occurred just after I got home from work today.  Boy, was it ever good to catch up after two weeks of not chatting:

TUESDAY - Tidy Up Tuesday

Work

Construction Update...

The "Dirt Parade" has resumed at the smaller neighborhood addition down the street.  Loads and loads of dirt have to be brought in prior to beginning to build:

WEDNESDAY - Day Off

It's the first day of my 5-day weekend!!  :o))

What's on tap for today, Joyful???

It's errand day.  The list includes a trip to the bank, a stop at my favorite coffee shop for a Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll, and a bit of grocery shopping.

The first stop was supposed to be to drop a small load of decluttered items off at Goodwill, but they were closed in order to pack stuff for their move to a new location.  Between the coffee shop and the grocery store I won the voting lottery!  The wait was 10 minutes (max!)  There were only 8 people in line ahead of me when I walked into the polling place:

THURSDAY - Happy Halloween!!!

It's the 2nd day of my 5-day weekend and I've got another full day planned.

I had hoped to attend my Weekly Quilt Group, but the timing was too tight, as I had planned to meet my SIL in Greensboro for tea and an art chat at Vida Pour Tea:

I had some time between that and time to be in Hillsborough later so I stopped at a shop that I noticed around the block from the tea shop:

I stopped at Britt's before our Monthly Evening Quilt Bee meeting and very nearly forgot to get a group photo until we were all on our way out the door:

FRIDAY - The Guest Blogger(s)

Day 3 of my 5-day weekend!!  Sigh... I got called in to work today.  As it turned out, Knit Group was canceled, so I didn't miss the meeting.  Whew!  I feel like I've missed more than I've attended recently.  :o((

Welcome to November!!  Can you believe that my azalea bush still looks like this???  It is one of my three favorite plants that came with this property and this is why:

Later, I captured this photo for my friend Dee Dee.  She gave me those happy daisies and the little pink flowers were a surprise bonus.  I decided to share them here, as well:

After dinner, I enjoyed my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I worked on finishing the collage I started at Britt's house last night:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  Unfortunately, Angela @ So Scrappy forgot to add the party to her post.  I'll miss seeing what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week. (UPDATE:  Party has begun!)

I wanted to share the following from a couple of comments last week...

Chantal of At the Corner of Scraps and Quilts blog wanted to see what the back of my scrappy Circle Denim quilt looked like.  I attached the following photo (of one portion of it) to my reply to her comment, but thought others might like to have a look, as well:

Jeanne from Loving Retirement wanted to know how big my Circle Denim quilt was and said that it looks huge.  Well friends, it IS huge!  I hadn't measured it, but will to that now.

Drum roll, please!!!

The quilt measures 86 inches square.  It weighs nearly NINE POUNDS (and it's not finished yet!!!)  It currently weighs 8.8 lbs. to be exact:

It covers our king size bed with about a 3" drop on the sides.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!