I found an old rocker in the dumpster and decided to rebuild it.

I took this...



and made it look like this.

Thanks, everybody.

Ok, here's the copper coiled earrings.  This is just another experiment.

Well, I seem to not be able to keep up with this forum, so here's my first of my 50 projects.  These are my practice pieces on my scroll saw.  They are all walnut on maple ornaments.  No paint or finishes.

Ok, I know this is an old thread, an old swap.  But what happens when you wait for a package, and it finally arrives?

I received today from my old swap partner, S is for Summer.  She must have known that I was having a bad day.  This came at the right time.

Here's the entire package.



A dream catcher.  Just perfect with all the colors of the rainbow.  My favorite color.



Next, a hand embroidered tote bag.  I love what this says, and I never seem to have enough tote bags.



Also, a felt pouch that has also been hand embroidered.  This must have taken hours to do.  Perfect for my small projects that I work on.



She also sent me two small craft kits that I will do in my down time, plus a card that sang to me when I opened it, and the best of all, a copy of Sue Henry's Degrees of Separation.  This was personally autographed to me by the author, who happens to be one of my favorite authors.

Thank you so much for an awesome package, Summer.  I wish you all the best.

I gave up on my 50 list awhile ago.  Some of it was unrealistic anyway.  Now I'm just having fun.

In the process of cleaning my craft room, I decided that I needed to unload some of my paper.  I either had to throw it away or make something.  Guess what I decided.

I found the patterns for these baskets in an old pamphlet.  Had to try it.



The vase in the middle is wallpaper, and the two baskets are made from old Christmas cards.

Ok, installment number 3.

Just another ticket bowl.  I made this for the fourth of July.  It has six white stripes, seven red stripes and 13 stars around the border.



I made these cars to sell at a local craft show.  I made 40 of them and sold all of them.  They are tiny and I call them pocket cars because they fit in a kid's pocket.



And another floppy disk project, a picture frame.  This was supposed to be a rainbow, but my granddaughter made off with the only purple disk I had.  So I fudged a little.



I haven't had much time for browsing the thread, but from what I've been able to look at, everybody is really busy and getting some awesome things done.

Thanks for the comments everybody.

Ok, here's installment number 2, my canning.

Watermelon rind pickles.



Plum sauce.



Lemon cucumber pickles.



I also have dehydrated and vacuum sealed tomatoes, leeks and carrots, but I don't have pictures.

Ok, so here's where I've been.

My garden cup has runneth over with goodness.  the gophers tried to claim it as their own, but I beat them to the punch.

I grew tomatoes (five varieties), carrots, lettuce, spinach, arugula, strawberries, onions, garlic, leeks, potatoes and Cherokee red beans, plus plums, cherries and apples.  I haven't picked apples yet, and the birds got most of the cherries (our first harvest was small anyway).

Here's what I did get.

My first leeks.


Nantes carrots, lots of them.


Strawberries.  Tri-stars and quinaults.  I started picking them in June and I am still picking strawberries.  I have flash frozen five and a half quarts, so far.


Then I decided to take my onions and garlic to the fair, to see how they would stack up against a whole community of farmers. 

My garlic took first place in its catogory.  the plate that these are sitting on is a standard dinner size plate.


This was the surprise of the day for me.  These are common yellow onions.  No big deal from my point of view, but they did get rather large and were very pretty.  I took best of show over all of the other veggies in the entire fair!  And the prize was from the Master Gardeners, even.  I also built the basket that they are in. 


I will be back later with some of the other stuff.  Enjoy!

Wow!  Gone for three days and this gallery is totally out of control.  I am loving everything here.  I can't even begin to remember all of the lovely things that I have just seen.  All I know is that when I get caught up, I'm going to look at this gallery again and fill up my wists.


I received from aloralorra a couple of days ago, and I'm just getting around to posting.  Sorry I'm so slow here.  She sent an awesome package.  See for yourself.



Crocheted hat with ear flaps (perfect fit, too), dishcloth (I never have enough of these), and the cutest ami acorn.



Closeup of the acorn.  He already has a place of honor with my rainbow pi and my rainbow owl.



She also sent some great looking jewelry.  A steampunk necklace, another necklace with a celtic knot tied into it, and a teddy cell phone charm.



closeup of the wings on the steampunk necklace.  This was repurposed from her high school watch and a key that she was saving for something special.



And all the jewelry came in this cool bag that she repurposed from a pj top.



And the last item, crafted and not crafted combined.  This tiny weaving loom for making blankets for my miniature house, complete with a miniature blanket that she made with the loom.



Thank you for my wonderful swap package, Marla.  I love everything.

Hey, pixieval, that turned out really good.  I love the hair.

Here's my contribution for the week.  I made an attempt to do an XO game with storage spaces for the pieces on the side.