street art with handmade: April Showers Hop Day Eight is Great!!

Thứ Ba, 16 tháng 4, 2013

April Showers Hop Day Eight is Great!!

Yeppers ... Day Eight is Great!

Not only is Wednesday, April 17th my day to share for the
April Showers Mug Rug Hop,
but it is also my youngest DD's 7th Birthday!!

Yay Me ... double time :)

Knowing you all have many wonderful stops to get to today, I will get right to business.

Here is my visual interpretation of "there would be no rainbows without a little rain":

Yes, I could have quilted it more, but i didn't want to cover up the background fabric and until I get an actual working sewing machine again, I didn't want to chance the FMQ work. I think the second picture shows the "raindrops" better. Besides, I like it and I'm keeping it. I dare you to try and take it from me!! And heck, first you gotta find me if you wanted it :) :)

I came up with this design after the first two failures didn't meet up with my brain's expectations. Not wanting to waste the fabrics, I'm sure I'll re-invent their failures into something else besides the scrap heap they now exist in. However, I'm happy with this beauty and it is now in my office cubie bringing me smiles and reminders at work, where more often than not, as many of you know, we sometimes forget there can be sunshine and happiness ... and quilting ... outside the work environment. {{smiles}}
Don't get me wrong, I still really, really like my job, but sometimes my head gets in the wrong hemisphere and a little reminder that doesn't include calories or caffeine is good.

{{Yes! I did just say that!! I want chocolate so badly right now, that reminder is for me!!! hahahaha}}

Please shower the raindrops of your kindness with my fellow posters today:

Wednesday, April 17

Jen @ Quilter in the Closet

Marjorie @ Marjorie's Busy Corner

Elita @ A Pieceful Perspective

Green @ So Sew Green

Mara @ Greco Mara

Wendy @ Why Knot Kwilt?

Gmama Jane @ GrandMama's Stories

Debby @ Debby Kratovil Quilts

Britt-Inger @ Hill Valley Quilter