I was away for a few days

For all of my friends in the USA, Happy independence Day! It's my favorite holiday, followed closely by Thanksgiving. We don't have any significant plans. Chris has a friend visiting to go fishing and I'll be quilting and playing with my new Cricut machine. I have to get comfortable with it before Ella arrives for "craft camp" in 2 weeks.

Today I'm sharing what I was actually doing the past 3 days. My posts were a collection of things I had finished/worked on the past week or so and just had not posted yet.

I was at the river playing with my best doggie, Ouiser, and visiting my best friend. it was great to get away for a few days. She's beautiful and still has a little puppy craziness in her. It was fun. But it wasn't all playing with Weesie.

On the project front, Anne worked on the coolest project ever. She loves denim jackets and buys them at thrift shops all the time. She's been wanting to make this one for a while and it turned out great! She got the embroidered organza at a high end fabric store here in Richmond and it's just perfect for this treatment.

Here's the front. You can see that she scattered some fused butterflies after she finished sewing the inserts.
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She also gave me Cricut lessons!

I cut my first image on freezer paper to use as a painting mask.
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She bought these plain rugs at Walmart for me to play with. She likes skulls and skeletons so I made this one for her.
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Then I made this one for the guest house. Our friends are moving in for a few months while they search for their next house.  I learned that spray painting doesn't work so well. Even with it taped off there's overspray. Stippling will work best but I'm quite happy with this result for my first try.
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We had a storm Sunday night and Monday was absolutely perfect. I sat outside with some yarn and a hook for a while and watched the river.
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before I arrived she had put out her crab pots so Monday night we had my favorite dinner.
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The short visit wrapped up with a perfect sunset. I'm back home and got my Cricut set up and will be playing with it a little today and more this weekend.