Barbara G's Page

Doing nothing on this blog for now, but just wanted to wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year! Sorry that I was to busy to take the time to wish each of you a Merry Christmas, but I hope you did have a good one.

Will return again after the new year and try to get busy again.
Hugs, Barbara

This is a picture of the tree that my lace group just finished for the Hospice house here in Kenosha, WI. I don't know how much was received yet from the selling of the raffle tickets, but I'm hoping it was good. We do the tree every other year and collected over $1,300 for the last three trees. With everything being so tight right now, I just don't know yet if we did as good, but I hope so.

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Sunflower Seed Husks.

Yes, that is what this shuttle is made out of along with resin to hold it together and then compacted at really high pressure and yes, it has a very smooth surface. At the end it has a small piece of Mammoth Ivory which is over 10,000 years old that gives it a very nice look. I am now loosing track of how many I have, but something about this one really intrigued me. I love to eat them, but never thought they could be used for something like this to. This was… Continue

When I first received this book which I purchased from eBay, I wasn't to happy with it, but to my surprise it has turned out to be a fun book and the start of my next project. I am going to start making items from the book to show and also add to my 25 Motif Challenge. I will include some of the phots here for you to see. My finished project will not be seen of coarse until I get all of the pieces done. As you can see already, each piece is sometimes used more than once. However, I will only be… Continue

I have been going a little crazy with leaves lately, but I did these two using HDT in size 20 which I got from Marilee at Yarnplayer.com. I also did the stems differently and I like them better to.