I have new pictures of the pcs I have received and new ones I have made.  I am actually having brain freeze.  I can’t come up with any different ideas.  I joined up for the next swap which will be dragonflys at least that will give me a direction to start at.   Well, here we go these pictures are for entertainment and for you to enjoy.

So, these are the pcs I have received so far.  Isn’t amazing how different they are?  It is great to get the pc in the mail.  A sweet little present just for me. I really need to get back to quilting.  I bought some nice Christmas fabric at Patches, in Mt Airy.  They are having Christmas in July.  I guess that wasn’t a surprise to hear.  It is such a common thing for stores to do.  I thought ahead and brought a pattern I already had so I knew how much fabric to buy with out going overboard with my money.  I was quite proud of myself.  I usually just buy this and that and in the end there isn’t enough of anything to make a whole quilt.   Now I need to make the quilt.

These are 3 of the post cards I received from the PCS.  Look at how different they are, WOW.  They are pretty cool in my book. They are from Judy in IA, Kris in MN and Linda in WA.   I am going to try some embroidery on my next batch (machine embroidery) along with the patchwork.    

So far I have managed to get my sewing supplies (machine,iron,board, materials, etc) out of the dining room and back down to my sewing room in the basement.  It was a lot easier taking everything up the stairs over the course of a couple of week.  I hate to clean!!!!  Now  my sewing room( as you can imagine )is a total disaster and I have to arrange everything again.  maybe I can take a couple of weeks to put it back together.  Not one of my better ideas.  

I am going to get back to working on my PCs, so next week I can surprise someone. 

I’ll write that down in my notebook so I don’t forget LOL

   I have just added 3 more postcards for my swap.  I love making these little works of art.  It takes my awhile to come up with an idea, but after that it is quite simple.  I need to find the quilt I was working on it now under a very large pile of scraps I have been cutting for the postcards.  Oh well.

I had a good afternoon.  I went to Toni’s house and she taught me how to make a postcard for the swap I have joined.  This is my first postcard I guess it turned out okay.  She also taught me how to paper piece,  we used a circular coffee filter as the paper.  The shape turned out sort of like a fan, I thought that was pretty cool and easy.  

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

I am so happy, I found my camera!  Now I just have to wait for the battery to recharge and I can show some pictures.  I signed up for the Miniature Booty Swap Round 2.  I like doing the little quilts.  I guess the 1st quilt got lost in the mail, I never heard from my swapper.  I guess I should say I’m sorry if she never received it.  I’ll hope for better luck this round.   I am also going to do a Quilted Postcard Swap.  I have   never done this before.  Like the Mini Booty Swap I’m sure I’ll learn something new about this technique, too.

Well, I don’t have any new pictures.  I’ve had a busy week.  Baby-sitting for my grand-daughter (Olivia)on Monday made me very sore one Tues. Tues also had a dr. apt. Hubby and   I  took the 2 younger boys and we went to Strasburg PA to the RR museum. We stopped at The Quilt Block,quilt shop and I bought material to make my son a new quilt for his bed.  We then proceeded to Picca’s Pizza somewhere near Phili.  We drove around Upper Darby,that is where my hubby is from. and then the very long drive home. (3 1/2 hrs.)  Thursday we went to see Indiana Jones it was great !   I started to get a cold and boy oh boy is it kicking me but good.  My hubby is  in Fla at our nephew’s wedding, Clearwater Beach Marriott Suites @ Sand Keys.  

I really hope by tomorrow I can get some sewing done.  I haven’t done any sewing since last weekend while Toni was here.  She can get a lot accomplished in a short amount of time.   We worked in my dining room and I was able to get quilting done on  a project I started awhile ago.