Inspired to finish

Monica is always finishing things....almost daily! Love to see what she has finished, and today she inspired me. Monica, Carole, June and I are working on a wool applique block of the month. The base is cotton fabric. Since "I am not a quilter" (imagine hands in front of me as I say this!) I took the fabric to mom's house (who is a quilter) to cut out the squares and borders. I even took...borrowed...an artbin to house the project. On returning to my home.....my new artbin with my project were at mom's house...ughhh. Needless to say, will make trip to get said artbin and see her again. But today, Monica posts her picture of block #1.

Since I don't have my block, I figured maybe I should finish a couple things that were close. Here are 2 of my wool mats that are finished. I also put the cow charm, for mom, on this lovely group project that we did in 2009. That's been sitting on the table for a while now.

On the paper side of things, did finish decorating a book that I took with Nancy. I've discovered that I love making my own books. May not always have something to do with it, but LOVE the process. This book has lots of fold outs and telescope pages that pull out. We mixed and matched our own paper, Nancy did hers in Patriotic and I happened to have some of the same paper...imagine that. Funny thing is, I don't have any pictures to go with a Patriotic theme, but love the way the red, white & blue go together.