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OMG! I’M SWIMMING IN YARN……

August 9, 2009 by jd wolfe

I’ve just learned that my beloved mother in law is coming to stay for several months.  Have to make room for her.  Seriously.  What to do with all the yarn/books/hooks/magazines/print outs/etc in the ‘yarn room’ that will be her bedroom?  I’ve spent the past TWO days – no kidding, hours and hours – organizing, boxing, winding, cutting, sorting, etc this mess.

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Does it help to know that I have ADD?  Does it help to know that I’m a rotten housekeeper?  Does it help to know that I’ve been working way more hours lately than my supposedly part time job usually calls for?  Does it help to know that much of the stuff in this room was given to me?

No!  None of that knowledge is either an excuse or a solution to this mess.  So far, I’ve sorted and boxed many skeins of yarn, way too many computer print outs of patterns, and an astonishing number of UFO’s that have simply been abandoned.

The ADD part for an adult who is supposed to be the main housekeeper is this:  If I can’t see it, I don’t know I own it!  Well, I know in a vague way that I own lots of yarn, patterns, hooks, etc.  And, I may recall in a more specific way that I have lots of red and black RH yarn.  But, for the life of me, I cannot tell you -even having recently culled through this mess – if I have enough of anything to crochet a sweater or if I have a G hook in rosewood or even if I have a pattern for a Christmas doily.  I’m sure I have all of the above, but I don’t KNOW it.

So, forgive my mess and know that it will be to the advantage of my readers that there will be lots Lots lots of contests soon to receive the overflow of my yarn trove, hooks that I’ll never use, and duplicate pattern mags and books.  Don’t go far.  I’m gonna unload these things over the next few months and you’ll ALL have a good shot at winning some.

Note:  In the interest of full disclosure, the picture above is from an LB blog.  I CANNOT find my camera in all this mess.  Surprised??

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Make Day and Night Floral Cards with the Same Stamp Set

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I love a versatile stamp set, I know I’m getting my monies worth if I feel like I can create many different types of cards with the same stamp set. Anna is sharing a terrific way to get two very different looks using the same floral stamp set from Hero Arts for daytime and nighttime card designs. For both cards she heat embossed the flowers onto vellum paper using white embossing powder, die cutting them out. For the day card she colored on the *backside* using Zig Clean Color markers, for the night there’s no coloring. She die cut an oval from white cardstock, inking and splattering the opening for the night card and used the plain oval for the day, adding a die cut floral background behind it. Each card also has a heat embossed sentiment.

Visit the Hero Arts blog for more photos and to watch her video tutorial.

-Heather

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