I know I have been absent for a while....life good and bad has a way of messing around with creating time....and my computer was down and out for 3 weeks...it was out for repairs....it came back with a new touch pad, new battery and cable connector, new power supply and my screen was repaired, it had a large scratch running through the centre....I was so excited have it come home : ) a funny thing happend while it was gone?? I discovered that I had more fun when it was not in my lap...I seemed to spend more time creating then surfing....lol I have kind of lost interest in the net?? part of the reason I that I have been MIA for so long....I was also lucky enough to have my Mother-in-law visit us for 2 weeks...yes I enjoy having my M-I-L stay with us...totally miss her. We did not really do alot while she was here, we got caught up on life together talked shop....she is a beader, painter, knitter and gardener and a bit of an herbalist....it was awesome. During one of our someday chats she mentioned that she found one of her old sweater patterns - a loppy?? that she is going to make when she got home I think loppy is the type of yarn, but I do know the sweater pattern she is refering to. In the 80s everyone was wearing them...I totally love them, they are so warm. This weekend was so blustery and cold....I marched down stairs pulled one out of the box...I have 4 of them?? all close to the same colour?? I hit a few yard sales down east about 10 years ago or so and bought a couple for like $2bucks or so....yeehaw!! then I stuck them in a box. Every year in the fall I pull them out of the box I look them over fold them back up and place them back in the box,,,lol I washed it pulled out a few handy little tools and set out to restore my classic loppy sweater...
An hour with a couple of dull razors and a sweater shaver ... and **tada** an awesome restored classic sweater... and loads of fuzzy stuff to gt rid of ...lol totally worth it ; )
Halloween is just around the corner TOTALLY LOVE halloween....I donated or threw out all my decorations last year, wait...I keep a few things - my awesome furry spider and my lamp, I made the lamp about 20 years ago and will never part with it I can't wait to pull it out each year.
I will take some pix and post later this week...it has been one heck of a week and I am off to bed...
Back to chat soon....
Sherry
with Valentines being so close I have been making heart projects like crazy, it also seems I have been caught up in pink and brown moment. My latest project I just finished is a heart wall hanging, not to sure what I am going to do with it now that it is done lol, but it was fun making it....used the serger for all the piecing , added the hearts with my sewing machine, then hand quilted around the hearts and squares and the binding. 
I love Halloween..I love all the decorations and seeing the creativity of the kids and their costumes....we started thinking about making decorations for this most wondrous night....in August....Ripley and I headed out on an adventure one beautiful Saturday morning with a list containing items such as wood turnings, candle sticks, candle holders and knobs/finials....anything really with a nice shape...Ripley is awesome at finding little treasures...she is awesome to take on a treasure hunt. it is like she knew exactly what I had in mind... after a few hours we had all that we needed to get started on our alchemy scene...BWHahahaha! oH!! and we headed to Home Depot for a can of flat black spray paint.... almost everything was painted flat black a couple of pieces were painted with a satin finish for a little variety....we started to put everything on display last Sunday...I could not wait for Thanksgiving to be over....
Well!! enough with the whining and complaining!!! .
I did manange to get one of my small projects finished - I made a small family plaque. I really love all the gallery wall projects that have been appearing out in blog land....I used the frames that I had on hand so they did not line up perfectly I sprayed them all black then I painted my little plaque and played around with the layout a bit and **tada**one gallery wall--that is almost finished...lol I still need to print a few more pictures, just can't decide which ones I want to print yet....they are all so darn cute....lol 
