The other day while I was browsing thru a book in my collection called "Pockets, Pullouts, and Hiding Places", I came across a design for a simple flip book I wanted to make. Since My Etsy has been pretty busy this week, I thought I would take today off as a short break from carving stamps and make some art. In preparation for today's dedication to the creation of art, I stayed up until 1am cutting and assembling the peices for my flip book. Early this morning I arose, made a pot of coffee and sat down to go over my ideas. At first I had thought to make a scrapbook style book documenting my dogs' trip here to SC with me. I planned to call it"How I spent my summer vacation", and I would fill it with cute little pics of my dogs Isabella, Loki, and Princess. And Maybe my mother's dogs would make a guest appearance here and there.
Well, the plan has changed a little bit. I started a page showcasing Loki and the theme was derived from a newspaper clipping advertising 'All You Can Eat Pancakes 99 cents". I thought to make a caption that read "My mom's Pancakes Beats I-HOP any day". I liked this theme for Loki since she is an obsessive FOODie and will eat practically anything.......and she is very vocal about it if she doesn't get what she wants.
I pulled out the paints and papers and started on the backgrounds. When I finished painting the basic elements for 5 pages, I printed out the pics I had already chosen for the project. While I was waiting for the pics to print I browsed a few of the sites I frequent and noticed that last week's theme for Sunday PostCard Art was Numbers..........HMMMM, I thought since I already had the 99 cents on there I could go a little further and turn this book page into a Postcard. It was the right height and I would just need to add a border on each end to make it the right length. One thing led to another and I can honestly say I am pleased with the results.
I have decided that I am even going to type up and print my HomeMade Pancake Recipe and glue it to the back. Maybe then I will send this postcard to my daughter along with a dogbone cookie cutter to use as a mold for making her own little doggie some super yummy pancakes for breakfast!
Debi:)
Here is my entry for today's theme titled ; Crowns and Cake!
The Pattern for this little pincushion can be found here for easy printing. Happy Knitting!
I felted this pincushion by hand under SUPER HOT WATER (my mother has her water heater turned up as high as it will go......I found that out the hard way. But my hands survived and the pincushion felted fairly well. 
I decided to use velcro for the closure since it will make it easier to secure one handed, and it is easily adjustable for a larger or smaller wrist. 
I am taking custom orders for these on MY ETSY if your are interested!
I found a SUPER CUTE dishcloth pattern on ravelry that is made to look like a tiny cabled sweater....Cabled Sweater Dishcloth Pattern
Both of these projects inspired me to create my own pattern for a dishcloth. But then I went a little bit further and decided to make an entire spa set. I started with this Cabled Soap Saver and am knitting a matching headband and face cloth to complete the spa set. I will be writing up the final patterns this week and posting them here and on Ravelry.
