Another Day, Another Calendar Page

Another day, and I have finished the month of May. I have no idea what the play was about or why my sister was a nurse. In my mind I had confused the play with "Guess Who's Coming to Diner". Couldn't remember a nurse being in that one, a was disappointed Sidney Portier wasn't in any of Sis' pictures. But taking clues from the photos I did have, I managed to weave this page with materials on hand.
As soon as I have this calendar finished, I have about 18 gazillion other projects vying for preeminence - my grandson's already belated bithday gift is already top on the list.
I'm thinking maybe tonight I'll do June: Father of the Bride.

Back On the Crop Circuit

It's been eight months since I blogged, but it has been a year since I cropped! I love to scrapbook, but since we moved a year ago, I've had no one to scrapbook with. I guess you could call me a "social cropper." None the less, my sister has just celebrated another decade and I wanted to do something very special for her (beside send her an expensive glossy purple purse). She is very talented and has found her niche in community theatre winning an award for Best Supporting Actress in the Atlanta Georgia area. (You go girl!) I got this brillianto idea of putting together a calendar for her to keep track of her rehearsals, performances, and cast parties using pictures from the shows she has done. So far I have four calendar pages. It's not exactly pin-up quality, but it is certainly as diverse as her talents!
This page is April. Sis won the Best Supporting Actress trophy for her role in Butterflies are free. I love that no-nonsense pose that is portrayed in the bright yellow and soft pastel hues of this fluttering butterflies. Her very first role was of a nun in Sound of Music. Look at that sweet smile. It's the countenance of innocent goodness. Sis has the remarkable ability to accurately portray herself as the character in costume.
I chose Brigadoon with it's Scottish appeal in honor of Bobbie Burns Birthday (author of the lyrics to Auld L'ang Singe) which is Jan 12th two days ahead of Sis's. In the show Sis played a candy maker.
February was easy: Mardis Gras - the perfect setting for Murder Wears a Mask, the only one of Sis's performances I every got to see. She plays the wife of a victim, a posh pushy lady accused of her own husbands murder (the poison is found in her purse). It was a fun page to do because I had already done most of the work as a scrapbook page in my own collection. In fact the page is pictured as part of the calendar!
My friend Denise went with me to Georgia to see the play. And seeing this page relives the great time I had with Denise visiting Sis and her family as well as how much I enjoyed the dinner theatre...which was a hoot!
March was tricky. I knoe nothing about the play or the character Sis played in it. All I had to go by were the pictures she sent. Murder of St. Christopher's - of not at. So after I surprise Sis with this calendar, I'll have to ask her what the play was about.
Tomorrow I'll work on the next couple of pages. Hopefully, I'll have the line-up complete and ready to send by Friday, Lord willing.
It's just good to be back scrapbooking again. Hate scrapbooking alone, but until I find a partner or co-croppers, I've got these "dates" to keep for Sis. The next project is the French Files, and then I have to work on my Seventh Day House Stories books.
Great to blog again.

Mantles for Missions

Ok, so it's been a thousand light years since I blogged. Haven't entered anything since the Arc de Triumph. That's a tough one to follow. I've been out of the loop off my feet for almost three months. My horse's daddy tripped with my dear friend riding him. She went over his shoulder and he went down on my leg! I'm back on my feet but it will be awhile before I'm back in the saddle.
Having time off - literally - has given me a break - also literally - to work on my novel which I started over 30 years ago, cross-stitch, make five red flannel Christmas stockings, and crochet a prayer shawl for my very dear friend Jennifer (the same friend that was riding my horse's daddy). Her mom was a wonderful help by driving my car back from Marshalltown since I was doped up on morphine for pain and laid out like a corpse on the back seat of Jennifer's van. Jennifer said her mom liked the color apple green. So I prayed to the Lord to help me find or make something appropriate in apple green. The next day I was in Hobby Lobby and there at the counter was a customer who was wearing a beautiful apple green crocheted fashion scarf! My mouth was a rush of questions: Did you make that yourself? How did you do it? How many stitches did you cast on? Did you use a single crochet or double crochet stitch? What hook size did you use. She was most agreeable to rally back the answers and added, "I bought the yarn here and it's on sale now." Oh God bless this dear lady! I bought the yarn, made the scarf, and returned to Hobby Lobby for more yarn the very next day! Upshot is I've made seven different scarves in addition to the one I am giving as a gift and I'm selling them for $10 each. $2 buys more yarn, and the remaining $8 is being sent to a little Church in Marshalltown that had all of its antique stained glass windows vandalized. .
So, if you know of anyone who would like a beautiful, hand-crocheted fashion scarf that will help a tiny congregation, please let me know. It only takes me a couple of hours to make these and I don't want to quit until I have at least $100 to send to the Church.
Oh, and I'll try to remember to blog tomorrow. God blessed me to pray God bless you.