Good Grief Girdie's blog

yard beauty.........

A little bit of color and oh some fresh peanut butter cookies..........it's been a long time since I have baked a batch of these but when I asked my husband about baking them he was all in!

 

Happy Tuesday everyone..

is it too early...........

Is it too early for a little peek for some fall classes........this one isn't quite finished but hopefully will have it finished and a class date ahead..........just so you know I am not really ready for fall but classes have to be thought of and planned a little ahead........

 

Happy Monday ........have a great week

 

I am still taking a few more orders for friendship books......they have been so much fun to make........ I will share a few photos after they have been mailed off and received from those who have ordered them.......email me if you are interested at jpeter@cox.net

my friendship book

This is my friendship/2021 summer book........I decided to journal this summers events....here are a few pages below.......

So there you go.......just thought you might like to see how I have used my little book......

inside the bag.........

was this......

My dear donut eating friends birthday was last week so we went to get donuts this morning and I gave her this Japanese Rice bag.....and a little friendship book was inside.......(my newest thing to make! ) Inside the book is all kinds of ephemera and things she likes, like flowers ( blue bonnets) farming, birds, red white and blue, children, dogs, cowgirls, funny sayings and just fun little things I thought fit her personality and favorite things.......I won't show you all the pages but here is just a few.......

 

Anyway it was fun to celebrate with my donut eating friend and catching up.........

 

I hope to have some more of these friendship books available to sell soon. If anyone is interested  email me at jpeter@cox.net........these can be personalized ......and a fun gift to give or maybe just something for yourself.....there are many places for you to use as a journal to write , pockets and tuck areas to hold just about whatever you want.....  add photos, and even add more fun things you might have .........

 

Happy Tuesday and remember " Do something creative today".........

 

Modern Japanese Rice Bag......

this is the pattern.........below

A fun and fairly easy bag to make..........I have had this for a few weeks and cut out 3 different ones but have only finished one and this one is spoken for as a gift...........

the inside

this is the bottom.........

Hope you are having a great Monday.........have a great week......

happy 91st birthday.........

Over the weekend we celebrated my mom's 91st birthday..........she just wanted to go to lunch to celebrate..so we did......I was going to have some of her friends over for a luncheon but she just wanted a small celebration so the 4 of us went to lunch and it was perfect.  I guess at 91 you can do what you want and so we did exactly what she wanted...Happy Birthday Mom! Still going strong at 91.................if we all could still be going like this at 91...........

happy friday....

 

HAPPY FRIDAY..................enjoy your weekend!

making tags in the evening........

Lately in the evenings when we are watching TV I am not in the mood to do much except mindless type things, if you know what I mean....making tags is so much fun and there are no rules , wrong or right way to make them....just gather up a punch of photos, ephemera, scrapbook papers, old papers, cut outs and anything you can think of to glue on a bunch of tags and start creating .....on these I even did a little stamping to make them look really old and a little ink around the edges to add that extra distressed look.....each one has a pocket at the bottom to hold something that can have a written note or whatever you want to add to make it a little more personable .........I am not completely finished with all of them but just thought I would throw an idea out to you and maybe on these long summer evenings when it's to hot to go outside and you are stuck inside watching tv you might want to try and make a few............have fun!

hope the rest of the week is a good one.........happy tagging!

butterfly class........

I rarely do a selfie but .........here is what we got.......

A small class with a cancellation or two but we had a great time and the girls did an awesome job on their butterfly book ............

Can you believe I have Butterfly china........since we were having lunch I pulled these out to use....I also found some butterfly napkins in my napkin drawer......

 

We ended the afternoon with a piece of Coconut cake.......

Thank you girls for the fun Friday all day class sitting around my table creating some fun art........this was my last all day class for the summer......maybe sometime in late August early September I will offer some night classes.......Since I am teaching a couple classes in Waco I am taking a little break here is July.......hope to get some other things finished up that have been unfinished for a while.......

 

have a great rest of the weekend........ 

Waco in July.............

I am so excited to be teaching once again at one of my most favorite Paper Stores ever........The Paper Crown in Waco Texas.  Friday Night July 30 from 4-7 this Family favorite recipe journal....something to store all of your favorite recipes ....Also a fun idea to bring a favorite recipe to share and we will have a way to copy them for everyone to take as they leave.

 

Saturday July 31 10-1 will be a Bird Pocket Journal with some fun techniques and interesting ephemera to add .....

So if you are interested in these classes you can call the Paper Crown Waco at 254-224-7436 to sign up for these two classes.  I know the classes are limited and the cost for each is $ 45.00....I am really excited and hope to see some old and new faces.....see you at the end of the month.....and Thank You Cindy for inviting me to teach!

 

Happy weekend to all of you and thanks girls for coming to class today........we missed you Nan!