FIBER JUNKIES MARCH MEETING - PART 1

This month was a very special meeting......

As usual we started off with coffee/goodies/gossip and show and tell.  Gen shared these wonderful layered painted and stamped papers she created on deli-paper.  She's smitten with creating journals and all paper art. Given her talents....the end results are always special.

DRUM ROLL ----  We celebrated Gen's 90th birthday.  I've said so often, we all want to be like Gen when we grow up.  She is skilled at most any sewing/craft category.  She can still probably run circles around all of us....always cheerful, generous, and a great friend!

9 candles - one for each decade....we should all be so fortunate!

 Even though our group was and always will be capped at 6 members....we decided early on to only celebrate BIG birthdays...those that end in 0.  This being a really, really big 0, we pulled out the stops with some gift giving.  Denny made a gift bag from one of her complex cloth creations. 

 ......and filled it with this awesome collection of gel pens......it even had a section of refills for the pens.  Gen was over the moon with this useful gift!

 Knowing Gen's love of paper, Kate gave her an exquisite journal...filled with lovely paper and the most beautiful cover made from handmade paper embedded with flowers.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of each gift....but do want to share what I had made for her by Shutterfly. Gen loves puzzles.....so I had a 520 piece jigsaw puzzle made from a photo taken at Val's 70th birthday (center with blue sweater).  A bittersweet memory because Val passed away at the end of January, but we all agree it was the perfect photo. 

Part 2 coming up next.......