Trio Giveaway

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You know how I frequently ask you guys for a second opinion? I don't need no stinkin' second opinion on this one - I love how this turned out! How freakin' sweet is this with the hearts, flowers and happy dots??

I wanted to make something special for my free giveaway for this weekend's craft show. (Also known as my cheap ploy to gather names for my mailing list. I state this on the drawing slip - omitting the words cheap ploy.) I also needed something of around $10 value to give to the organizers as part of their fund raiser shop hop raffle. So I made two of these sets - greeting card, Sticky Notes and magnet.

Naturally, they turned out so adorable that I wish I had lots more. That's a rubber stamp from Outlines Rubber Stamps, my most favoritest stamp company in the whole wide world. So last night while watching TV, I cut out a stack of stamped pieces. I've stitched the center element in other colors too, but I'm so in love with navy, green and white these days, it's hard to get away from it. I wonder if that means I'm officially out of my turquoise phase?

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I got lots done yesterday but have a few more things to finish up this morning. One of the things I worked on yesterday was to try painting some 8" x 10" frames I'd gotten from a fellow Freecycler a few years ago. They were natural wood and I wanted them white, so I could fit them with the pieces of sheet metal Simon kindly cut for me, to display my magnets. My intention is to hang them on my black shutter bifold door. One side is for framed art (I framed 4 new paper quilts yesterday) and the other side will be for magnets.

I sanded the varnish off the frames and spray painted them with a white primer. I have spray paint of every color under the sun - except white, it turns out. But I had ivory, which is close enough. The wood grain was still showing through, even the ivory. I could have sprayed another coat of primer, I guess. But I decided I didn't want to deal with it any more and possibly still not be happy so I ended up going to Target and buying some inexpensive frames.

I was so proud of myself for my "free" solution with the Freecycled frames and the paint I already had - but I knew if I had to sit there for 2-1/2 days looking at grainy-not-what-I-wanted frames, it would drive me batty.

Target only had 4 frames of the kind I wanted, not 5, but good enough for now. I was going to throw the Freecycled frames out, but now that I think about adding another coat of primer first, I may give them another shot after all.

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Simon will be going with me this morning to help me load stuff into my booth. Then he can leave and I'll stay to set up. I figure I should be home noonish, then leave to go back around 4:00. The venue is at Rochester Institute of Technology, 29 minutes away according to Mapquest.

(See Gretchen? I've got my own personal day laborer too!)

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I still haven't figured out the solution to fixing my camera. But I had a brilliant thought in the shower this morning. Steve's printer is fairly new, an all-in-one type, so it probably has a memory card slot that's the right size for my camera's memory card. Turns out - no, it doesn't. But I plugged my camera directly into his laptop - and voila, my photos are retrievable! So that will be my work-around until I can figure out a more permanent solution.

I've been thinking that I wanted to get my camera fixed before vacation in July, but then I realized I want to take pictures today too. I'm still puzzled as to the problem, but happy to have a workable solution.

And I'm off to do some last minute printing.

Friday, June 5, 5:00-8:00

Saturday, June 6, 10:00-8:00

Sunday, June 7, 10:00-5:00

Genesee Valley Quilt Club's Garden of Quilts

RIT Gordon Field House

One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603

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