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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!

italian sodas..........

About 15 years go or longer I use to work at a Local Coffee shop called The Java Joint.......besides coffee we would serve Italian Sodas........completely forgot about them until the other day I saw on someones blog or an advertisement and thought why not make one........so I already had everything except the club soda......super super easy and so refreshing on a hot humid day like today.......fill the bottom of your glass with as much syrup as you like ( any flavor of your choice, raspberry, cherry, strawberry skys the limit but I like plain old vanilla) then add the ice to the top, add the club soda to about 3/4 of the way and then add the cream or half and half........you can also use coffee creamer if you don't have half and half or real whip cream....I try to get the fat free and little of sugar as possible so I get the sugar free syrup.....stir add a straw a little spray whip cream and enjoy this little afternoon treat!

Hope you are enjoying the afternoon.......try and Italian Soda sometime........

what's on my worktable...........

I have been asked many times where do I get a lot of my images......."The Graphic Fairy"...... they have great images and you can buy a membership and use it all you want......I really do like their format and their bundles.........take a peek at their website and see how many images they do have.  You won't be sorry and if you are like me I use a lot of images in my work and classes. They also have great tutorials on how too's.........

 

recipe:

 

You can tell I have used this recipe over and over.......( on the 7th line it's lemon juice, I squeezed a whole Meyer Lemon)

It's been a while since I have made one of these but always love this pie.....I did whip up real whip cream and enjoyed every little bit......

 

I hope you all enjoyed this long holiday weekend....we sure did.....we even got up in the attic to get some stuff, and let's just say it was HOT......... boxes we haven't been in for over 21 years when we first moved into this house.......but we got it done and so glad we did!

 

A new week and ready to go............see you girls friday for another all day class....................have a great week and remember "do something creative today".........