I made a Father's Day card for my mother's husband.
It was fun. I used some Stampin' Up stuff and made a decent card. I have to get the card done early as I'm leaving next Wednesday for the June retreat in Phoenix. It will be a fun time with friends. We are planning visits to The Fractured Prune and The Attic.
I stitched the tag that goes on the end of the tape measure.
I love the cherry "o's". I made a mistake and stitched the nun stitch around the edge first when I was supposed to do it after and attach a lining. So I'm having to figure out how I want to back the tag and have it still look nice. We'll see what happens. I really want to stitch the little bag next. I love the sprig of cherries on the front. I should finish the Just Nan mouse though. Which one usually wins when you have a "should" and a "want"?
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Amy, I don't know whether you like poetry, but your question brought this Ogden Nash poem to mind. I discovered it one week when a) my parents were coming and I needed to clean house and b) I was working on a really exciting quilt. What do you think? I finished the quilt first and named it after the poem. :)
ReplyDeleteKind of an Ode to Duty
O Duty,
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
Why displayest thou the countenance of the kind of
conscientious organizing spinster
That the minute you see her you are aginster?
Why glitter thy spectables so ominously?
Why are thou clad so abominously?
Why art thou so different from Venus
And why do thou and I have so few interests mutually
in common between us?
Why art thou fifty per cent. martyr
And fifty-one per cent. Tartar?
Why is it thy unfortunate wont
To try to attract people by calling on them either to
leave undone the deeds they like, or to do the deeds
they don't?
Why are thou so like an April post mortem
On something that died in the ortumn?
Above all, why dost thou continue to hound me?
Why art thou always albatrossly hanging around me?
Thou so ubiquitous,
And I so iniquitous.
I seem to be the one person in the world thou art
perpetually preaching at who or to who;
Whatever looks like fun, there art thou standing between
me and it, and calling yoo-hoo.
O Duty, Duty!
How noble a man should I be hadst thou the visage
of a sweetie or a cutie!
Wert thou but houri instead of hag
Then would my halo indeed be in the bag!
But as it is thou art so much forbiddinger than a
Wodehouse hero's forbiddingest aunt
That in the words of the poet, When Duty
whispers low, Thou must, this erstwhile youth replies
I just can't.
Great progress, and the card is nice too.
ReplyDeleteI say the JN Mouse wins!! :)
Marilyn
Oh Fractured Prune is so yummy. Was at the Attic a couple years ago for a retreat and we went to the Fractured Prune. Yummy
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