Card Making Tuesdays

I took my first ever Stampin' Up Card Making class yesterday at the house of a fellow knitter.  She is a Stampin' Up demonstrator and gives classes at her home at least 3 times a month.  I was so impressed with all of the inventory she had but more so with the knowledge and the amazing teaching ability she has.  Hmmmm?  I wonder is this has anything to do with her being a retired school teacher???

She had each of our stations set up and fresh popcorn popped and met us at the door to welcome us to her home.  I had visited there once before and felt very welcome by both her and her husband and was again met with that same warm feeling.  

She had our kits pre-made an ready for us to get right to work.  Three kits, three different layouts and two cards in each kit.  She had a premade kit/card ready for us to use as a guide and walked around to each of us for personal one-on-one attention.  I will definitively be returning for future classes!  Thank you Card-Teacher that Knits.

ok girl - you are turning this into a food blog...NOT!

ok - I am having to stop myself - I am doing it all over again.  I had another blog for about 3 years that was supposed to be about all of my loves.  Basically what this blog is going to be.  The other one turned into more of a just quilting and knitting blog and all my other passions kinda got lost in the mix. 
However, after reading my last post tonight I see that it is turning into a food blog.  Soooooo here goes - here so some of the things I love to do.

I love to quilt

and quilt

and quilt

I am learning how to make cards

I loved this one

with a tree and presents

before all the finishing touches with ink edging

need to still add presents or more to the tree

one for a grandchild

still wondering what else it needs

grow plants of any kind...

Christmas cactus

Houseplants

build and paint birdhouses

of all colors...

and styles

paint ceramics

scrapbook

which requires tools

and tools

and paper plus I made the totes and purses on the door too

study and use all types of softwares

dabble in photography of all the birds that come to visit

the feeders at the window of my studio

some even in flight

some just sitting and resting

some in the tree waiting their turn

while these are having seconds.