Love Buzzard's Crafts & Life

I finished the second quilt last night and then decided to try something different with the third one.  It did not work out as I had hoped so it goes into the UFO pile until I can decide how to make it work.  Unfortunately I did not get any sewing done today.  I have another method that I am going to try and if it does not work either, then I will stick with my tried and true method even though it requires twice as much batting.  But it does make for a fluffier quilt, which is fine, and the kids just might like a quilt with more batting.  I still plan to make at least one quilt a day and hopefully this first week I have gotten the bugs worked out of my plan and next week can really get down to business.

Today when I was finished at Wal-Mart I drove across the street to Dollar Tree to buy items to help fill the twelve shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child that I am doing this year.  I decided around Christmas time that I am going to do twelve boxes this year and I can do it if I will buy several items each month which will cost around twenty to thirty dollars.    I am keeping my eyes open for tee shirts on sale for one or two dollars.  Last year I found Faded Glory brand for one dollar each.

In January at Dollar Tree I bought small notepads that come three to a package and rulers.  I almost bought twelve boxes at Dollar Tree for a dollar each but later I was at Wal-Mart and they had six boxes grouped together for five dollars so I bought two packages.  Hey that two dollars saved will buy at least two more items.  This month I bought coloring books, pencils, rubber balls, combs, glue sticks, and jigsaw puzzles.  I was able to buy more items this month for I bought things that were two, three, four, or twelve to the package.    I am really having fun doing this and it is the only shopping that I like to do these days.

I learned in early January that the four boxes I filled last year went to kids in the Ukraine.

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