Here is a card and a little pincushion I made for my mom for her B-day. The shoe was my daughter's, and the fabric came from an old Christmas dress of hers that I have long since re-purposed. I just wanted to share!

More shameless bragging- My daughter won gold on the floor exercise at the state championships, level 4. She seemed a little surprised that many of the "big" girls gave her heartfelt congratulations. I told her that a lot of people get to move up in levels without ever "winning" a state!

It was a nice way to wrap up level 4. She has one more meet at level 5, and then our season is probably over (maybe not, but we'll just have to see how she does)

Here is the Valentinte I made for my DH. the heart is cut out of close to cocoa card stock, with a black shadow. since I accidentally got some glue on the shadow, I dusted it with copper pigment powder. I thought this would be good for the BBTB challenge. The background paper is patterned, I'm not sure you can tell from the picture. It is a sort of damask tone on tone. Even hubby said 'beautiful card"!

Clank Clank! We Have medals!

Here we are coming home from our meet in New York.

The picture of the girls laying on the mats is after the meet while they were waiting for the awards announcement...it had been a long day, and most still had to spend 4 hours in the car heading home. I can't tell you how nice it is to have a pilot in the family!!!

Sabrina won 5th on floor, 6th on vault, 4th on Beam, and GOLD on uneven Bars. She's been chasing that one for the whole season, so we were very proud to see her up there on top!

She also won third place all around, which is the picture of her on the podium. Sorry they are so grainy, my little Kodak can't deal well with distance pictures indoors. I also put in a picture of Sabrina with her head set on inside the plane, and one of the sunset we saw, just before landing on the way home.

gymnastics stuff

My daughter competed in her second meet of the year yesterday. She picked up a 4th place all around, which was pretty nice, but she is mad at herself, because she let things get to her. It was really cold in the gym, and a lot of girls has less than stellar performances, but the ones who really shined were the ones that were able to block everything else out and just do what they knew they had to. Perhaps I should learn to apply that idea to things in my own life!

I made several items for the gift shop at the meet, the most popular were gymnastics themed notebooks. I will post a few here, but if you like them, there are more on my etsy shop.

I suppose I should mention that my etsy store can be found here

I finally did it! Not only do I have a blog, but now I have a shop on Etsy! I'm so excited! I have a lot more to post on there, but here are a few examples. Now if we could just get some warm weather so I can go back to taking pictures outside...taking jewelry pictures inside is really difficult!