Laura Sheaffer and I have some good girlfriend’s get togethers, and this one was no exception. We know how to party, and by party, I mean feast, craft and laugh!
We ate at our favorite restaurant from college, twice, and found a new cupcakery! We worked and played in polymer clay, we took a quilling class from my sister-in-law, Pam McLean, and made new friends!
Oops, I almost forgot, we shopped!
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I didn’t like the first set of mirror images so I sliced one again and made another bead that I sliced into two beads.
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The other half I played with, rolling and cutting cabochons and different sized beads.
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The last one, lower center, got smushed and rolled too many times. It started to get “muddy.”
Laura’s Natasha bead looked like a wolf!![](https://karlakrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_2297-1.jpg)
That was Friday. On Saturday, we traveled to nearby Elkin to take my sister-in-law’s quilling class. This is my multi-talented sister-in-law, Pamela McLean. You should hear her sing!
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Laura made a new friend, Babette.![](https://karlakrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_2310.jpg)
Did I mention, we shopped? Michael’s had their green label beads 70% off, and I couldn’t resist, as usual. That makes them ~ $1.80/strand.
Those big wooden beads will hopefully be bases for polymer clay “veneers!”
I also bought some cookie cutters and a fondant mold to use with my clay!![](https://karlakrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_2320.jpg)
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