There is a wonderful relatively new site for posting great things and saving pictures called Pinterest!
If you are not on Pinterest you need to get there!
That is if you care anything about saving things you find on the Internet you think are cool and would like to go back to again.
Want to know another cool thing?
Well I am going to tell you anyway!
Because Pinterest is so VERY cool they fixed to where you can have people follow what you post!
So if other people are finding cool things you are not you can find what they find!
While I haven't fished around on there enough to post my own pics (to come soon) I use it at least two or three times a week and I am sure as I get used to it being there it will be even more!
If you are a crafty person like me you can get a lot of great ideas for things to make that you haven't thought of yet or many times I see something that will spark me to think of something completely different that I go to work on!
So if you want to look for me on Pinterest you can find me at http://pinterest.com/candielous/ I have a few things on there so far and plan to have many many more.
It is a work in progress. So you can set up an account now and add me and come back to see what new I have added.
I am actually going to go back and try to pin some of the pictures I have already posted so people can pin those to their accounts!
The one thing you need to know about Pinterest is that you have to either know someone on the site already or you have to request an invite from Pinterest. I hear there is a waiting list but I am sure that process doesn't take that long.
It's something you are sure to like! You'll see I promise!
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2011
Friday, September 24, 2010
A love that grew from color
As always I have found something new I want to try! I have addictions! We all know we have them but you know what they say. Half the problem is to know you have one...or something like that. Well I have an addiction to color! Lately that addiction has reared it's ugly head in fabric. Yard after yard after yard! Red, yellow & blue! Oh, and any other color those make. HA...laugh with me because we ALL know those three colors make ALL the other COLORS!!! See the delima???? It's sad really it is an addiction that has been passed from my Mother to me! "Thanks Mom!" So long story short and realizing I do indeed have a problem and needed a way to deal with the surplus of that problem I started quilting!
Let's just say I have found a new LOVE! It started about a two or so years ago when a friend of mine was expecting a baby (she turned out beautiful I might add) and I started thinking about how it would be great if I could make the baby something special. While I didn't get to make her a quilt before the baby was born I was just too fresh into the hobby. However, she did get a stack of bigs and burb cloths handmade of flannel just in time for the baby's arrival. She says they worked great and so did the next friend that had a baby when I gave her a stack very similar. They came to be known as the "Candie Bibs" lol. For whatever that is worth I think they were well liked an used!
I digress...so I started quilting about that time and was a little frustrated at first but grew to love the hobby as my skills developed. I find myself a little over two years, give or take teaching others a craft I have just recently learned myself. It is always so great to be able to pass on something you have learned to someone else! I think I was always meant to be a teacher! I love the look on people's faces when they have that Ah Ha moment! There is nothing else like it! Kind of like when you hand a kid an unexpected present, their eyes get as big around as saucers! WOW you are giving me a preset just because????
I finished the quilt I started yesterday. All I lacked was the binding. This is the one I am proud of, not the most per say but in a way I suppose I am. I made the whole thing myself, even the quilting! And what will happen to it? I am giving it away as a Christmas present for that second baby in this story! I hardly ever keep things I make. For me it is the joy of making something for someone else that means so much. I like the making and the giving. That is my reward. I used to feel guilty for giving handmade gifts so much until people started telling me to never think that way because when I gave away something I made I was giving away part of myself because it took my time and effort to create that item for someone else. They always tell me it means more if you take the time to make it rather than throw down a credit card and buy something. So guilt no more! lol
I will take pics of that first quilt soon but until I am able I will post a couple others I have recently completed. All but one, the "Blue Jean Jesus" has been on display at the local library. "Jesus" will be there later in the month of October.
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Let's just say I have found a new LOVE! It started about a two or so years ago when a friend of mine was expecting a baby (she turned out beautiful I might add) and I started thinking about how it would be great if I could make the baby something special. While I didn't get to make her a quilt before the baby was born I was just too fresh into the hobby. However, she did get a stack of bigs and burb cloths handmade of flannel just in time for the baby's arrival. She says they worked great and so did the next friend that had a baby when I gave her a stack very similar. They came to be known as the "Candie Bibs" lol. For whatever that is worth I think they were well liked an used!
I digress...so I started quilting about that time and was a little frustrated at first but grew to love the hobby as my skills developed. I find myself a little over two years, give or take teaching others a craft I have just recently learned myself. It is always so great to be able to pass on something you have learned to someone else! I think I was always meant to be a teacher! I love the look on people's faces when they have that Ah Ha moment! There is nothing else like it! Kind of like when you hand a kid an unexpected present, their eyes get as big around as saucers! WOW you are giving me a preset just because????
I finished the quilt I started yesterday. All I lacked was the binding. This is the one I am proud of, not the most per say but in a way I suppose I am. I made the whole thing myself, even the quilting! And what will happen to it? I am giving it away as a Christmas present for that second baby in this story! I hardly ever keep things I make. For me it is the joy of making something for someone else that means so much. I like the making and the giving. That is my reward. I used to feel guilty for giving handmade gifts so much until people started telling me to never think that way because when I gave away something I made I was giving away part of myself because it took my time and effort to create that item for someone else. They always tell me it means more if you take the time to make it rather than throw down a credit card and buy something. So guilt no more! lol
I will take pics of that first quilt soon but until I am able I will post a couple others I have recently completed. All but one, the "Blue Jean Jesus" has been on display at the local library. "Jesus" will be there later in the month of October.
ttfn
clc
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