D.U.P. song contest

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers had a song contest, and I thought it might be fun to see what I could do.  It had to be a song about Pioneer ancestors, and I wanted it to be a fun blue-grass type of rhythm.  So here it is on Noteflight.com

http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/b05ba7109c9411d42fcb511a77e625012416b4ab

I got a letter from the DUP saying I am a winner!

Woo Hoo!

 

New Kitchen

Our kitchen is finally done!  Well, we still have to figure out a backsplash, but that can come later.  It looks so beautiful!

The thing that I am most proud of is that I did the drawings for the builder to use! I thought maybe he would take what I had drawn to someone who knew something about drafting or architecture, but he just used my drawings, they were good enough.

Tatting

While I waited for the mess to be over with the house, some of the ladies in Relief Society expressed an interest in learning to do tatting.  I called someone I knew who does that, but she was going to be out of town on the day we needed her skills.  So I began to wonder if I could remember how.  I used to.  I went on YouTube.  You can learn to do anything on YouTube!  Sure enough, I found video tutorials on tatting.  I remembered how, and then I even learned an easier way to do it!  Needle tatting!  It's wonderful!

I made 18 of these little babies for card club and attached them to a simple pink glittery card, and they looked fantastic. Then I made doilies and book marks and coasters. Tatting is fun and easy!  I can teach this!

Busy

I thought I was busy before. I served in the Stake Primary Presidency and had lots to keep track of.  Then the Bishop called me to be the Relief Society President. Now I know what busy means.

We added on to our house, and that has taken a lot of time, even though someone else was doing the work.

 

When the kitchen is redone you have to empty all the cupboards, find a place to put it all, then put it all back when it's done.  I spent months washing dishes in the bathtub because there was no sink in the kitchen. We had to relandscape the backyard because the construction really made a mess. Months of mess.

 

Halloween lights

I made some candle jars for Halloween...

book jewels

Here is another project I got started on - book jewels.  Sheri gave me a beautiful book mark for Christmas one year, and it inspired me to make some.  I had a lot of fun, and used up a lot of beads and thread I already had at home (and I bought more, of course).
I sold some at craft sales, and gave a lot away to my card club, my book club, my D.U.P. club.  They were fun.

Pillowcases

Here is another project I did one year - pillowcases!  I made pillowcases for all of Sheri's kids for every holiday during the year, including birthdays, and even seasons.  They have smaller pillows, not a full-sized one, so a half yard was enough to make each pillowcase.  And all during the year I found cute fabrics for the coming seasons and holidays. Here is a photo of the Valentine's Day cases...

The kids love to sleep on them, and when I go to visit, I sleep on them, too.