Saturday, February 26, 2011

Maryl's Bday Celebration - Workshop w/ Connie Stuart

Today, we celebrated my sister Maryl's birthday. 
Connie Govea Stuart held a private workshop for us at my sister Frances's house. The project today was a vintage purse with charms.

It was a unique project that was so much fun to make. We cut, glued, sewed, stuffed, punched, colored and then some. We all had a great time together!

Opening presents was one of the best parts of the day too. Maryl got some amazing gifts - many handmade projects that were so creative. 
These are the two braclets I made for Maryl. I let her pick one of the two. This one was made from some of the Jill Schwartz Vintage Groove pieces. I packaged it so it hardly even looks like a braclet!

 This one I made from vintage charms, ribbons and buttons. I packaged this braclet to look like a pinwheel.

Maryl picked the toy charm braclet. What a fun day we had!  Thanks for hosting a great party Frances and Connie, we loved the purse project. 

5 comments:

  1. Wow! What an unbelievably FUN birthday! Thank you to ALL my great sisters (including Ruby & Connie (CGS); our adopted sisters)! You guys are all amazing and I feel truly blessed!

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  2. think this party has to top them all...great project, great food, great instructor and loads of laughs. love how everyone's paper purse turned out.

    connie, you outdid yourself w/ the packaging and the hand designed bracelets...cm would love how you used her stamp for the packaging.

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  3. What a fabulous day we had crafting w/CGS & celebrating Maryl's bd w/a yummy lunch. Totally amazed at all the handmade gifts & now looking forward to my bd again to see what you guys will come up w/next (darn, too bad I just had a bd & will have to wait another 11 mos). Oh well, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait. F

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  4. Thanks again...Fran,I'm moving in.
    Would like a rain check on Paradiso
    near by Mr. Sato ha ha I checked the Menu
    Connie-i just knew the packaging online would not do justice...SO much better in person.
    cOnNie

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  5. p.s. Did anyone else go make a Chinese Chik'n Salad, inspired by Ruby? cuz i did :]

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