Cynthia Shaffer

Corry and Dylan

Just a few photos of my oldest son Corry and his girlfriend Dylan ... all dressed up and heading out to the homecoming dance. Notice the corsage and boutonniere I talked about in this earlier post.

 Sooo cute don't you think?

As it turned out, I was taking Flora's painting class while my husband was snapping away here, hence the slightly silly photos!

I'm not kidding here ...

I don't think he snapped a single photo of them looking somewhat serious.

And apparently they were just killing time here and making each other crack up over absolutely nothing. 

Really! Now this is a proud mom moment!

And of course as it would turn out ... Corry has a broken finger, just like last year, same time, same place ... oh wait, of course ... it's football season!

Oh my how I love these kids ... so comfortable in their own skins and having sooo much fun during these last few months of high school! 

Soldering : : My First Attempts!

Had a little impromptu crafting night with a friend and here are my first attempts at soldering. Ok so, don't look too close, I know the tape isn't lined up even and the jump ring is leaning  slightly off to the  left side, but I Love It!

Thankfully  the trend in some soldering circles is this messy kind of chunky look ...

Because without much experience here, chunky and messy is what happens. It is definitely something to experiment and play with and, learning a few tricks of the trade will help.

Still playing here and as you can see, the sky is the limit. Truly there are no limits to the things you can solder together or in-between a couple of pieces of glass. 

How fun is this? A  little free motion stitched and quilted piece I sandwiched between some chunky glass I bought way back when.

So from the looks of my soldering station you would have thought I'd been dong this for years ... no, no ... You see a few months ago a friend of mine (Laurie Crutchfield) passed away and she was a crafter like none other. There really wasn't a craft that she had not tried and mastered. Her friends had a private  sale of all her supplies and so I helped myself to all her soldering supplies. Oh, and bunch of other stuff including bags of yarn that I used here. 

Happy Soldering!