Look what Bruce is getting me for my birthday! We pick him up on March 10th. Soooooo happy!
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I want to let y'all know that Griffin is participating in Math-A-Thon to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He has set high hopes for raising $250.00 for this great cause. Now he needs YOUR help! St. Jude is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. You can help Griffin reach his goal by clicking this link www.mymathathon.org/GriffGast to make an online donation. If you do not wish to make an online donation but would like to contribute, please contact me and let me know. I can make other arrangements with you to obtain your donation. He is so excited to be involved in this awesome project!
Happy Valentine's Day, My Loves
For Christmas Bruce bought me an awesome book I had been wanting that was filled with tips and designs for hand embroidery. This is something I love doing but drawing is not a skill I possess so having this book of examples is soooo fun for me!! Of course, I was then eager to begin a project to use some of these designs. Usually when I sew, I start with some sort of tutorial or pattern as inspiration or a leaping off point but happily, this project is all my own. I decided to attempt to make an interpretation of old fashioned fabric valentines. I have been working on my sewing skills enough for the past few years that I actually have some project construction knowledge locked up in that wee brain of mine! So, I had a bunch of muslin left over from some Christmas projects that I traced a heart design onto (the heart I got by adjusting some clip art to my desired size.) I then cut out the 2 pieces of muslin and a piece of qui...
