Melissa and Deedee came over tonight for a High Octane Super Crafty Fun Night to finish up a bunch of projects/items for her upcoming fundraising sale which will be held next weekend at her hometown church in Waterloo. We got A LOT DONE!!! What a productive evening!
We finished 6 Valentine-themed 100% cotton kitchen towels. I didn't take a picture of the final flourishes but we rolled them up and tied them with magenta metallic chenille stems.
We got some assembly line action going and started and finished 9 reusable rice-filled microwaveable heating pads. These are 12" x 12" with 6 compartments stitched in and filled with regular old long grain white rice. You nuke these in the microwave for 1 minute at a time and they are a wonderful source of moist heat for your aches and pains. We used almost 20 pounds of rice when all was said and done. The neon green and Valentine ones were originally scrub tops that went wrong because of incorrect thread tension from my old and retired sewing machine so we did some environmental re-using and re-purposing!
Deedee and Melissa had previously worked on over 20 sets of coasters made from glazed tiles and stickers. They finished them off by applying felt circles to the bottoms and tying them into sets with ribbons.
They had also made SCORES and SCORES of bath bombs and tonight packaged and labeled them. These were my favorite items from the evening! I can't brag enough about bath bombs, especially at this time of year because they make your skin feel and smell SO GOOD! The only warning I'll give about these is that you can't shave your legs in bath bomb water or you'll have a hairy ring around the tub and that you have to take great care when stepping out of the tub with these or you can slip.
And throughout our activities, we sustained ourselves on a pasta and crab meat salad that I was particularly proud of! My lower oven element went out yesterday. I had originally planned on making cheese stuffed pasta shells to feed us but this was a good substitute!
We finished 6 Valentine-themed 100% cotton kitchen towels. I didn't take a picture of the final flourishes but we rolled them up and tied them with magenta metallic chenille stems.
We got some assembly line action going and started and finished 9 reusable rice-filled microwaveable heating pads. These are 12" x 12" with 6 compartments stitched in and filled with regular old long grain white rice. You nuke these in the microwave for 1 minute at a time and they are a wonderful source of moist heat for your aches and pains. We used almost 20 pounds of rice when all was said and done. The neon green and Valentine ones were originally scrub tops that went wrong because of incorrect thread tension from my old and retired sewing machine so we did some environmental re-using and re-purposing!
Deedee and Melissa had previously worked on over 20 sets of coasters made from glazed tiles and stickers. They finished them off by applying felt circles to the bottoms and tying them into sets with ribbons. 
They had also made SCORES and SCORES of bath bombs and tonight packaged and labeled them. These were my favorite items from the evening! I can't brag enough about bath bombs, especially at this time of year because they make your skin feel and smell SO GOOD! The only warning I'll give about these is that you can't shave your legs in bath bomb water or you'll have a hairy ring around the tub and that you have to take great care when stepping out of the tub with these or you can slip. 
And throughout our activities, we sustained ourselves on a pasta and crab meat salad that I was particularly proud of! My lower oven element went out yesterday. I had originally planned on making cheese stuffed pasta shells to feed us but this was a good substitute!
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