Because I'm focusing on "getting things done" and not on "how long did it take to finish that, you've got to be kidding, you couldn't spend the hour to finish over the last month?" . . . . Here is another completed project. At the Roblealto Child Care Association in Costa Rica, our church sends work teams yearly to help with maintenance and reconstruction at their foster care facility. This year I helped the house moms  (each taking care of her own family PLUS 10 seriously hurting foster children) make happy birthday banners. There were a couple empty houses waiting on new house parents, so I took those banners home to finish, and here they are, ready to mail back


The cakes were made based on an idea from Julie's book: Quilted Memories, Celebrations of Life by Mary Lou Weidman -- the banners aren't appliqued and quilted, just pretty fabric ironed on with fusible interfacing. The candle flames are made by drawing on the fabric with permanent markers, then releasing the dye with alcohol : http://iamsusie.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharpie-tie-dye.html