On my Honor......

Any woman who was a Girl Scout as a young girl will probably finish that saying without even having to think about it.
I found these at that Vintage show that Emily and I went to:

Girl Scout books from the 1940's! One of them even had a receipt in it,

50 cents! Can you believe it?

The 'Leadership' book has an interesting first page:

It's a reminder that everything was effected by The war. Rather sobering and thought provoking, I thought.
While I haven't really read either of them, a few things caught my eye as I perused them. I love the word, perused, don't you?

"Free time with nothing interesting to do leads to boredom, mischief, or unhappiness."

True, however I don't know of anyone who sat by garbage cans when they were bored.

And suggestions for solving boredom derived mischief:

Why "Constructive leisure-time activities" that "develop resourceful and responsible young citizens" of course! Just look at how happy those formerly unruley girls are working in nature. Working out in nature, away from smelly garbage cans makes me happy too.  Overall it's pretty good advice for everyone. If you have something creative and active to do, you won't be bored.

PittiPat and I were talking one time about our quilting projects, current and future and realized that neither of us has ever once heard a quilter say she/he was bored. Never. Not once.

I thought this was interesting:

The sentiments are good, however the whole calling and answering thing kind of wigs me out. Very, ummmmm, conformist? shall we say, to put it nicely.

And last, but certainly not least, the oath:

I love the Celticky look of it. A lot of thought and creativity went into this design.
Speaking of Girl Scouts, this is the bag I made to give to the girl who sold the most cookies in her troop. I just think this fabric is so stinking cute!

Look at that raccoon, isn't he adorable?

Vintagy goodness and Plaid HEAVEN!!!!

In the next installment of the fun Vintage Clothing and Accessory Expo that Emily and I attended a few weeks ago...

A lovely 1960's embroidered circle dress w/roping thin on the back.

A quilted dress from I can't remember when, but I'm pretty sure it was pre-80's. I think it looks like a bad beadspread personally.

And finally, my all time favorite booth -

PLAID HEAVEN!!!! (that's my name for it, not theirs.)

 

Love the mini skirt!

I think this would be a great Christmas outfit

And the Pies de Resistance: GREEN PLAID SLIDES!!!!

I totally wanted these, but they weren't my size.  Seriously, aren't they fabulous?!?!?!

Swapping

I participated in the Swap til You Drop mini quilt swap Flickr group in February. The theme was "Love is in the Air". My partner was Lollydo . She made me this absolutely adorable snail mini.

  
She checked out the items that I marked as favorites and based the mini on those, as well as my information that come February I really like red and pink combos to brighten a dreary month.
I think it's just the cutest thing. I totally love everything about it. It has the embroidered snail w/the chenille shell, the red, pink, turquoise combo. And the plaid circles! Have I mentioned how much I love plaid!

The back is really cute also. Look at how wonderful the MoMo 'Wonderland' patchwork looks with the embroidery on it. I hung it on the flipper of my overhead cabinet at work. It makes me smile when I look up from my computer screen.

This is the mini I made for Lollydo. She has 3 dogs that she just adores and told me that she likes orange. I used a photo that she had on her blog of her dogs looking up at the camera after emptying the toy basket.

I used a sharpie marker and outlined the dogs on the back of the paper. I then traced it onto fusible web and used solid black for the dog's silouettes. I quilted in their features w/grey thread.

I used the amzing floral for the top because I thought it looked fabulous with the orange. The bones are the "Love is in the Air" part. I wanted to have the side of a person holding a bone silouette on the side, but couldn't work it out to my satisfaction. 

I used the orange plaid on the back. I think it looks pretty great on the back as well. Don't look too closely at the quilting though.

I thought I was having tension issues, but it ends up that I hadn't pushed the 'feed dogs down' button all the way over, so I was really fighting the feed dogs the whole time I was free motion quilting.

I'm rather pleased with it, and I think Lollydo is as well.