Pi Phi Crafts - May 2012

Our last offical meeting was at the end of May.  We had a potluck dinner at a members home in the San Jose hills - gorgeous place with an amazing view.  Here are a few of the things I had made specifically for this!

View from front door.  The hills surround 360 degrees.

Book Ornaments: actually 3-D mini-books for the women who organize our 4th grade reading program.  They are about 3x4".

Wrapped present with handmade tags.



Earrings: made from cabochon beads glued to stud posts. Also added a Swarovski crystal to the middle of each flower & coated each bead with a diamond glaze.  FYI  - our sorority flower is the Wine Carnation.



Wrapped earrings.  Tags are slate with white paint pen.

The scroll attached to the sparkling wine includes 6 different Mimosa recipes.  Handwritten with stickers.

Friday Nite Happy Hour

I cannot even recall the last time I went out for any Happy Hour?? 

There is a group within the Pi Phi club called the "Young Alums", or those who still go out to bars every weekend :)  I decided to check it out, so I was at Rosie McCann's - obviously a pub-type bar - at 5:30pm, and had some drinks and apps.  I had a good time, and do enjoy these girls.  Of course they are all nice, and have diverse careers, and they all laugh at my jokes, which always gets an A+.  I cruised out at 9:30, which my mother reminded me was the time I usually left to go out back in the day.  Thanks, Felicia :)

I am the OLDEST young alum by like 5 years....hilarious.  They did think I was in my early 30's, but only because I am so immature.  Sorry about my crazy eyes - I tried to fix them, but no go.  I just look Special (Ed).

Oh, the bar is in this crazy outdoor upscale mall place called Santana Row.  Here is the link if you want to check it out.  Santana Row

Pi Phi Baby Bank

This is a piggy bank I painted for one of my sorority sisters who just found out she is pregnant.  Our sorority colors are wine and silver blue, and our symbols are arrows, angels and carnations.

I think this turned out pretty cute - I had purchased a bunch of these small banks at the $1 store, and they are eaily painted with acrylic paints, and then I applied lots of varnish to make it shiny.

.....and HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Relax in Your Slacks, Honey!

This excellent advice was written in a note to me from Chrissy's mom, and I think it is my new motto!!  I've used it out a few times, now, and have gotten great reactions from it!  Always smiles, and ususally a chuckle, too.  Thanks, Bootie, for being a great pen pal!

My fantasy draft took place last Sunday, and the NFL gloriously started on Thursday night!  I just have to make a few tweaks here and there, and hopefully I'll have a great season.  I am so excited to watch the Eagles this year, and am hoping against hope that they can go all they way. 

Finally, I did something that I should have done a long time ago - I joined my local sorority alumni club.  I went to a Meet and Greet on Wed. night at the home of a woman who actually went to Old Dominion, too!  It is a great group of ladies, all ages, and they get together at least once a month,  if not more.  I felt very at home - I was so nervous driving there, like a teenager on a first date!  I am looking forward to next Thursday, which is the first official meeting.  After the ladies heard about some of the things I make and do, I was put in charge of making the nametags - 80 of them!  I am totally excited, and can't wait to get my laminator fired up!  Like I said, I should have done this a long time ago!  Here is a pic of us - don't you just love my devil eyes???!!!

Ok - that's all for now. I need to shake the sinus + upper chest infection I got going on.  I love Cali, but everything is in bloom ALL the time, so your allergies are always doing something to you.  
Later, peeps!