My UPS man is my hero...

My UPS guy came by yesterday and now it looks like Thirty-One exploded in my living room yesterday. A lot of ladies were excited when they saw me post it on Facebook. Will be making deliveries today.

I know I was beyond excited to get my new bag. I am in love with the little chick icon. This is the Go To Tote which is my favorite bag they make. I am going to use this for our National Conference this year. 

That was one of my free products. The other one was this adorable wristlet. It matches really well with the purse.  

Since I had the red and blue theme going, I went through all my makeup mini zipper pouches and found a red one to go with the new ensemble. This will be my new favorite out and about products. I am loving them all. 

Funny thing about the Chick. If you select one line of personalization, it goes right across the middle of the chick and you can't really see it good. A friend of my suggested two lines with the asterick just to see what happened....and WAH LAH! A chick with a hair bow.  And check it out, my font I chose, makes it look like the dot on the eye is on the stomach. Oh wow! My birdie has a bow AND a belly button. LOL. Have an awesome Wednesday.

Top 10 Tuesday

My Top 10 List is things I would eventually like to find at a good deal...

The rare penny...

We all have tons of pennies just popped up in random place around the house. The bottom of a purse, the washer or dryer or even the floor of the car. I am forever finding them laying on the ground.

Yesterday, I was carrying wristlet that had a magnetic snap holding the two sides together. When I went to change back to my billfold, I found a penny stuck to the magnet. Which is weird since pennies are not magnetic. 

I pulled it loose and it was an odd color. More a grayish metallic instead of copper. It happened to be a wheat back penny. So I thought, "What in the world?" 

I immediately went to google and there was a ton of information. It turns out the 1943 penny is magnetic because during the war they needed the copper for something else so they made pennies out of steel instead. Now, there was a batch of pennies that got made by mistake with copper in them in 1943 and they found out what was going on and stopped that run. Therefore, my (what I thought would be rare) steel penny is actually just a run of the mill penny. It is worth about .25 cents simply because of it being what it is. Had it been ordinary copper like all other pennies, I would have been much happier. One sold recently for $1,000,000.00 at a coin auction.  Leave it to me to have the one year of penny that was steel which made in not valuable, even though it is still a little rare. 

Sunday songs

Friday Foto Friends

Friday Foto Friends

I love watching the storms clouds roll in. 

Craft Time

My upside down life is finally through with the move, the organizing, VBS, wedding showers and all the other things that I've been caught up in. Now is the time of year I turn my mind to crafting. This year I want to make some items to give as gifts to friends and some to keep for myself. My #1 favorite thing to make is plastic canvas boxes and coasters. They are super easy, don't take long and the best part is I get to use yarn! My favorite one I ever did was the red, black and white box for my pastor's daughter. This is my craft bag for my plastic canvas projects. I got this over 6 years ago when I hosted my first Thirty-One party and I have used it ever since.

I usually have two or three projects going on at one time. I recently finished this one, but forgot to take a pic of the finished product. 

I've been working on this one awhile. It is bigger than I normally do so I have been working on other things in between my time on this one. 

These are some of my favorite coaster patterns I have done. I love the blue and yellow. I just use variegated yarn and the patterns comes out different every time. 

I like this easy pattern, but haven't made a coaster set yet. This may be my next project. Love the idea of two colors. I could change colors for each person I make one for.

I also love to make no-sew runners. These are so much fun and you just pick your material and the size you want. A little hem tape and an iron and you are done in about 15 minutes from cut to finish.

I made a bunch for Christmas one year. Here is one I did for my sister.

On a side note, when I was looking for the picture of the one I made her, I found this picture of her tree. Sis, I need to know where you found this skinny tree. I may go this route for Christmas this year. 

I also make throw pillows from place mats. My sister taught me how to do this. She buys her place mats from Dollar General because they seem to work the best. Use a seam ripper to open one end and stuff it. Then close it back up with thread and needle. These were hers that she sent me a picture of.  

It was close to Christmas last year when I got this picture. By that time my Dollar General was about out of placemats with Christmas theme. But I did find a cute snowman and gave it a try. It was only $2 or $3. But it turned out cute for my first try.

So there you have it, three ideas for quick, easy crafts that also make great gifts.

Hump Day Humor

Many of us had a three or four day weekend, worked one day and now it is hump day and we are already on the downward swing for the week. Here's some things to make you smile today....

Happy Wednesday!