Craft Sat

We will be having a Super Craft Saturday, May 2nd from 10 AM to Noon. With Soup and Salad Lunch after our crafts. We have a total of 7 classes to choose from plus we will be having a short exercise demo before lunch in the Cultural Hall.

Here are the crafts:

Baby Bows


Portia Walker and Holly Platt will be showing you how to make a variety of cute bows:
Basic Bow $1
Figure eight with flower $1.50
Infant head band $2
Flower on Clip $1
Double ribbon bow $2


They will be bringing you ribbon and flowers - you will need to provide your own buttons and shiny bangles if you want them.


Word wood blocks



These are 4 x 4 wood blocks that you will paint then decoupage the front with paper, you can then either cut letter out of different paper or bring chipboard letters. You can also add ribbon around the block to hide any folds in your paper.

Cost is $3. this is for the wood block (tell us how many you need) and for the shared cost of the decoupage glue, foam brushes, and spary Acrylic sealer.

You will need to bring your craft paper, 2nd sheet of paper for your letters (or chipboard letters), a small can of paint or paint spray (color to match your paper) and Ribbon.

I need someone to take charge of this project - please call me to volunteer. Everything is already set up, but I will be in the Relief Society room with the sewing machines and the knit project.



Emergency Preparedness Bag



This bag was designed by a RS Enrichment Leader after the Northridge Earthquake. Even though many people have flashlights by their bed, after the earthquake struck, nothing was where it had been put. Flashlights were flung across rooms. Glasses that had carefully been placed on nightstands had fallen. It was 4:30 am with no light. No way to look around for items.
She had come up with this as an easy way to confine those items in an earthquake. By just taking an old platemat and an old washcloth she had constructed this hanging storage bag. In the compartments were a flashlight, reading glasses, and a whistle. The whistle is for an emergency - if your roof came down on you, you should be able to reach for it and use
it to call for help.

You will need to bring a sewing machine if you have one, a placemat and a washcloth. There is no additional cost for this, you will be bringing everything you need with you.


Knit handbag with Bamboo handles




Knit/Sew this cute handbag with bamboo handles.

You will need to knit a piece of fabric at least 10" wide x 20" long. The wider your fabric the more you have to gather onto the circular handles. The longer your fabric the deeper your bag. If you choose a loose knit stitch or a funky yarn you may need to line the bag with fabric to make it stable.

You will need to bring your knit fabric at least 10" x 20", a piece of fabric the same size as your knit piece, and a sewing machine if you have one.

There will be an additional charge of $5 for the bamboo handles.


Seed bead Swarovski Crystal Necklace & Earings




Stephanie Dickerman will be showing you how to bead this necklace and earrings.

It's easy to do, it's just one long string of beads. You can choose a green pack or blue pack of beads.

Total cost of the project is $10. for the complete kit. Last day to sign up for this project is April 26th!!

Magnets



(I borrowed this picture from this etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5046971 )

The one's that Jean makes are mostly pictures. But you can put just about anything in the Resin.

Jean Ginther will be showing you how to make these cool magnets. This is a free project, but you do need to sign up!


Dessert Cooking class

Lisa Caress will be demostrating how make cream puffs and éclairs and filling them with different flavored puddings and
whipped creams. That we will have for Dessert!

April fools - We hope not!

In our quest to figuring out how to pay for college we did a search for scholarships, we told everyone we know "Stephanie has been accepted to Cal Maritime Academy". People are very forth coming about giving you information to apply for any and all scholarships they know about.

I've been a member of the Ladies Auxiliary Verteran's of Foreign Wars, and when I told them they gave us lots of information, Stephanie applied to all those that she qualified for. One was a Patriotic Art Contest, now that's where my child excels!

They allowed Photography and well that put her at a great advantage! So today Our Auxiliary President Mary Ryser comes over to the house, and tells Stephanie that she has won in the whole District, and that her picture is now going to State! If it wins in CA then it goes on to Nationals, there is where they will be giving out Money, $10,000 for first, $5,000 for second, $2,000 for third, and $1,000 for fourth.

So off goes her picture - and we hope it's not an April fools! Good luck Stephanie. She took all those pictures, and brought them together in photoshop, the caption says 'Loyal till the End'

LA Fabric Trip

I walked into the office this morning and turned on the computer as the computer is booting up the power goes out. Great! I go check the brakers and everything is fine. Then all the people start walking out of there houses to check there brakers and thats when we all looked at each other and realized the power was out on the whole block. I get on my cell and call the power company, and there automated message said if you live between such and such a Tree crew damaged some wire's and the estimated repair time will be 1 PM. Great! Great!

I can't work with out electricity, I don't have a phone (time warner cable phone), I can't run the computers, I can't burn CD's to build product, I can't answer emails, I can't process Credit Cards. I can't do anything.

So my first thought "A Friday off - LA Fabric run!!"

I needed fabric for a wedding dress and a prom dress. I always park near Broadway and 9th (because that's where the LA Mart is! I love that place even if they don't let me in) Then I walk down 9th. I always look and inquire along the way but I always end up at Sal Tex Fabrics:

Corner of 9th, and Wall:



432 E. 9th St - Suite 4, Los Angeles, CA 90015 - 213-623-1447


With my friend Rosa:

She has all the satin, sateen, velvet, lace, embroidered fabric, illusion, netting, and linings in every color I've ever needed and if she doesn't have it - she'll go find it and bring it back to me. She gives me great deals! I won't give you prices but even the first price she gives is a good deal - then I look at her funny and she brings it down, then I look at her funny again and she asks me how much I'll need then she'll bring it down again.

This is what I brought back for the wedding dress:



The beaded french lace was $49.95 at Joann's - My gas there and back plus the price of one yard of Frech lace was $50. - I bought 4 yards of Beaded French lace. So just in that fabric alone it was worth my trip.

This is what I brought back for the Prom dress:


The dupioni silk was $10 a yard.

I'm sure that if I would wander further into the fabric streets I might find stuff a dollar or two cheaper but after 5 years of the same routine everytime I go to make a dress. I'm ok with my prices, and I don't pay any shipping, and I can see what color it actually is!

I made something - I made something

Oh man life has been just way to busy, I haven't had a chance to finish any of the gazillion projects I've started. It's probably because I'm now in a 10 X 12 bedroom instead of a two car garage, man I miss having a garage for an office, I wish I could rent someone's garage, as I'll still be at my Mother's house for a while. Until we get used to figuring out college payment schedules.

But any who I made something! I love bags, any shape any size. What's odd is that I don't use them other than on Sunday. Hum, there's got to be something behind that - but I'll leave that to for the therapist!

Monica did you come up with a name for our bag?

This is what we will be sewing for sewing group on Sat March 21st. 10 AM Indio church building.

Stephanie's Graduating

Wow, my child is really graduating from High School and going off to college. The deadline for the Year book adds was due while we were in Seattle, but they let me squeeze it in anyways. I love nice people!

I'm running out of time, I don't think she's ready for the real world. Heck there isn't anything real about life in the Barton household.

Well at least she picked a career path she nows well - the Ocean, because of the Ocean (ie. Navy) she has had more homes than any child her age. So maybe she is ready for the real world.

I know I'm not ready for the real world bill! First due date is May 1st. She hasn't graduated Yet, and I'm already paying.

Any ways! Congratulations - child of mine - it was a little iffy there for a while!



wow that picture looks bad - it didn't look like that in Photoshop!

NASA - Jet Propultion Lab in Pasadena

When they told me I had to do a science with a lab in order to get an AS degree in Fashion Desgin - I almost didn't do it, I was going to stick to my Certificate. I hate science I don't understand it, I don't like cutting into slimmy things, and I don't like playing with beekers and chemicals. When they said "you can do Astronomy that has a Lab" I was so happy!

I had a great teacher, the Labs were awesome - we would drive just outside the San Diego City limits, and could look south and east. The one thing I love about the desert is you don't have to drive anywhere - zero light pollution - the sky is clear year round.

I had no clue that there was a NASA center in Pasadena - I found out that there name is missleading. They have never worked with Jet's - they came up with this name for the center back in the 30's when they were dealing with Rocket's - and because they wanted to be taken seriously they called it the 'Jet Propultion Lab' instead of the 'Rocket Propultion Lab' because the word Rocket at the time would bring up images of a futuristic 'your crazy to believe in Rockets' attitude.

They don't play with Rockets anymore - Our local center builds all the Robots, Satelites, and Rovers. All the cool stuff.

There was high security to get in. No there is no T-rex on the other side.


We go to visit the Space Flight Operations Facility - this is the room you see on the TV with all the people jumping and screaming when everything goes right! This is where they track all there currently working satelite's. I didn't know that Voyager is currently so far away that it is almost to the end of our universe and looking for the begining of the next!




It takes 12 hours to send it a signal and 12 hours to get the answer back. Even with a 70 Metter diameter Antena! Simply Amazing!



The count down screen for Keepler was on the screen while we were there, it lauched before we could get out of traffic and make it home! I think I want to move to space!




They are building a new robot - called the Mars Science Labratory - scheduled to launch in 2010. The Mars Rover's mission was a 6 month mission - it is now 2 years later and still alive and collecting data and information. They are hoping that it will still be working when then launch the new one. They didn't allow flash - so I had to autofocus. One shouldn't autofocus when your blind and not wearing your glasses - what looks good to you doesn't to others.

We got to look into the clean room where they are building it.


There is also a museum there. This is Cassini (I hadn't heard about this mission) but it's an awesome looking robot. It's collecting data around the rings of Saturn.









Here's a model of Voyager. It has a Gold 'Record' on the front of the base, that is a time capsule. We have given information, data, pictures, to whatever life out there that will find it - or even our future generations - that may find our space debrie. All these robots basically become space trash when they stop working, as they are all one way missions. We can't afford to go retrieve them.