My Newest Valentine...

What a delightful surprise to receive an envelope this week from my friend, Wendy at The Frog Palace!

 I opened it to find a fun pink-theme Valentine.

Wendy used part of a dictionary page and made the

definition of "pink" the focal point 

Then, she added cutout leaves and a pearly pink button.

(Here's her blog post about all the Valentines she created.)

 Then, she added lots of fab-u-lous vintage buttons and 

a length of vintage trim (see top photo).

See those soft pink buttons? They're my favorites, but 

I love all of them. Remember that Handsome frequently

calls me "Scrooge McDuck" when I'm playing in my buttons!

Everything surely brightened my day, and I couldn't 

stop smiling at her generosity and thoughtfulness.

Thank you, Wendy!

You've got my creative juices flowing, and I can't wait to play!

You'd giggle to see me dancing a little happy dance. 

I'll hope you'll visit her blog and leave a note for her to read.

There are emergency travel plans in my near future. I'll know more later today, and I'll tell you more on Monday. Your continued prayers are appreciated.

A Corgi Valentine Card...

Note: In case this post looks familiar...It originally appeared on Monday, January 30th, until I realized that the 30th was Memory Lane Monday for January. (Ironic, I know. I forgot Memory Lane Monday!) I got MLM posted later that day, but moved this post to today. I now return you to today's blog post...

I got involved in a Valentine swap with one of the corgi groups on Facebook and decided that my swap partner will be getting a handcrafted card from me. Tag agreed, so a corgi card it shall be!

This is what my partner will see when she opens the card. Tag's sweet face. Then, when she opens the card...

here's the fabric card she will find. She has three corgis, but she has a few other pets, too. (Non-corgis and a cat), so I put a corgi, three corgi hearts and another heart to signify all the rest of her furry friends.

The back of the card is a paw print on black fabric, and I finished it off with my corgi label and our signatures. It's already on its way to her, so I hope she likes it!

I worked on Farmer's Wife quilt blocks all weekend, but I won't be sharing them until the official start date. I love how they're looking now, and on February 1st, I'll share photos of the blocks, as well as some of the pointers my quilt shop quilt "gurus" shared with me to help make them fabulous.

Today's post is number NINE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT. Two posts from today will be Number One Thousand! Any ideas for what I should give away? I'm thinking, and open to suggestions. Just leave a comment if you come up with something that might be fun.

Tag will be here tomorrow for his post, so I'll be back on Wednesday to launch our Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt QAL. See you then!

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