Cloth and Sandwiches

FH and I spent parts of this weekend trying to clear some of the natural detritus from the yard. After I tore up my shoulder and back, I obviously couldn't do yard work and he was too busy trying to keep up with the indoor chores and working full time. So now we're playing catch-up. One thing we wanted to do last fall was lay down landscape fabric in the beds that didn't have much growing in them to cut down on the weeds. We finally got to start that job today!

The lowest bed is waiting to see where the hostas are going to pop up. Then we'll work around them while they're small. There's a whole other set of tiered beds like this that needs work on the other side of the deck. Not to mention the giant bed of lilies that turns into a jungle come mid-summer. But it's a start!

Remember that air dry clay that wasn't Model Magic? I tried playing with it last night to see how well I could sculpt with it.

It's difficult to see, but there is a crack that goes clear around the tree trunk about halfway up. Methinks this clay's not meant for finer detail.

And then quilt sandwiches. I now have many sandwiches ready to be quilted: 2 large lap/full-sized quilts. 2 baby quilts, diaper bag panels, and 2 runners.

I actually missed the picture of one of the larger quilt sandwiches, but you get the idea, I'm sure.

That's it for this week. Hopefully I'll get finished with some minis in the coming week. I'll probably be inside working on them tomorrow since it's supposed to rain/snow/sleet tomorrow. Ugh. I think Mother Nature must be going through menopause or something. Anyways, ttfn!

Cleaning and Planning

I've spent a good deal of my time over the last week writing. As mentioned before, unless I use a piece of my written work in a project, i.e. 'Paint the World,' I won't be sharing it here.

I did get two baby quilts and a diaper bag sandwiched, but no pictured there.

What I can show you are some interesting cleaning and planning, plus a couple of older projects that haven't been shared yet.

Firstly I did go get real Model Magic at last, so I will have some slice-able white sandwich bread in mini again soon.

Secondly I cleared out the old mini bottles of perfume I was given as a little girl, not that I wore any of it, and cleaned up the bottles for use in minis. The actual perfume was poured into paper bowls and set out to let the water and alcohol evaporate. When just the oil is left, they'll be thrown away. Don't worry about the paper bowls. They're being held in place with rocks.

 The four larger bottles still need emptying. I'm going to have to figure out how to remove the atomizers without hurting myself or the bottles. For now They have a brief reprieve.

Finally, here are a couple of tabletop gaming figure I painted for FH a while back. Technically only the first guy is finished. I only have about 7 hours into the second guy and he's barely halfway done. The pictures don't do either figure justice.

Here's the first one.

And the second.

It's time to get back to work for now. See y'all next Sunday!