What do I do on my days off?

A friend at work this weekend asked me ' Marsha, what do you do on the days you don't work?' Hmmmm........well, I try to swim 3 days a week, I watch my grandson on Tuesdays, the usual minor cleaning, laundry etc., guild stitch ins and coming up to lots of publicity and fundraising activity for the guild, and oh, I don't know, but here is some other stuff I do.

My daughter, Dana, and I went to a Stampin' Up 'Stamp A Stack' on a Friday night not long ago. We made two of each of the cards shown below. It's a fun evening. We learn new techniques, someone has everything ready to go, the paper isn't spread out at our house and we walk away with a new bunch of pretty cards. I need to get busy and make some fun Halloween cards.

Then here is one of two batches of 'Triple Gifts' soap I made. It has gold mica sprinkled on top for extra special sparkle. I belong to the OhioSoapers yahoo group. Most years there is a swap in the fall. We have no theme this year so I decided on a Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh soap made with three butters (cocoa, mango and shea). Double the triple gifts. Should be awesome for winter dryness.

Then here is a Christmas ornament I finished stitching. I can't decide which backing to use. The one on the left has a delicate, subtle, leaf pattern and the one on the right is a white on white pattern. Have any comments?

I've been looking at laying tools for a while, but they seemed expensive. Then I saw on mainely stitching's blog, http://mainelystitching.wordpress.com/, her new laying tool. Went to Etsy and voila! Perfect. I used it on this Christmas ornament to get the ribbon to lay right. So visit, silverWares at etsy.com if you are interested too.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23899471

I'm not showing the whole ornaments yet, as someone may be peeking.
So, that's some of what I do. Course, this blog fits in there too. And have you noticed that I like sparkle? Emily, the Stampin' Up friend knows that almost every card I make has to have glitter or something shiny on it. What's up with that???

So that's what I do on my days off and even the days I do work since I don't clock in until 2:30. You can get a lot done before 2!

Marsha