Boneyard shawl

About a year and half ago there was a trunk show at my local knitting shop. Shall we Knit? had The Blue Brick yarn company come in for it. The owner brought in with her a shawl she made using this yarn and I loved it. So home with me came home Point Pelee Lace in Quth Nimar colour way. 

The pattern both her and I used was the Boneyard Shawl by Stephen West on Raverly.

 

Male birthday cards for 2021

Between Jan 10 and the Feb 26th I needed 4 male birthday cards for just my family-DH/Son/SIL and DGS, with a couple more by July. As they are all going to different homes except for two of them I decided to make 5 of them the same.

For the sixth I when ahead and used the February/snowman card I made for my monthly card set. I ended up with two for February when I made them. 

I do need to make one more male card before July and found one partly started so my yDGS will get it when finished for his April b-day.

 

2020 Christmas exchange cards

  These are the cards I made for the crafters group exchange cards and tuck ins.

Dies used were from Essentials by Tattered Lace called snow globe 2016

Background paper from the single scrapbook paper at Michaels

Stamps Silhouette scenes--sentimentally yours by Phill Martin

The stamps for the gift card used were from recollections

Ink is from  momento in nautical blue for inside and back of card. For the picture Menento elderberry

Leaves die cut paper is from crafts foil designs paper pack picked up at the dollarama and punch is a Martha Stewart punch which I was able to grab at Walmart.

Flowers in the center are from bridal expressions from dollar tree with a little pastel damask pearl placed in the center. 

The gift tag is from a die set I picked up with a card making magazine from the UK years ago. Paper for the globe is from the same paper pack as the leaves.

Updated planner

I decided to update my planner. The outside was starting to look rough so I made a cloth cover for it. Although I use the planner for planning Christmas I also use it as a planner for my yearly craft list I still when ahead and used Christmas fabric.

While I was updating the outside I when ahead and updated the inside so it's ready to go for this year.

 

 

I was going to make my 2021 craft list  month by month but decided to stick to my usual way of  making my list--for me, birthdays, Christmas, holidays etc. so it was all in one place. However I knew I still needed to do some kind of monthly list to keep on top of it. 

So I made myself monthly cards and decorated them. From there I attached a removable piece of paper onto the back of the cards to make my list so I can reuse the cards. On the paper I am able to write what needs to be made for birthdays etc, what I would like to make for me/my home and a item from my Christmas crafting list I would like to get done and off my list for Rudy day.

The nice thing about doing the monthly card list is that I can put the card in my regular planner as a little reminder of what I need to work on during the month.