I can sew too!

It's fun to watch (scary at the same time) Zoey try and mimic what we are doing. She picks up on things so quickly and does a great job attempting to do it herself. A couple of weeks ago I was sewing (aka appliquéing) a few shirts for her. She now likes to sit in my lap and watch me the machine work. I'll let her hit the start button when it's time. I was done for the day and she climbed up and started "sewing".

For those who don't know much about an embroidery machine, it's has a touch screen where you design and what not.  That's what she is doing when she is touching the black section.

A little sewing.

The past couple of months I have done a little sewing for Zoey.  There is still so much I wish I could make for her or have time to whip up.  Here are my recent finished projects.  All taken with my new camera!  I’m not sure you can really tell a difference between the new and old, but I like to think you can.

Pocket bib.  One of the first times (other than the botch job on the lunch bag) I have use oil cloth.  I still have a lot of this left.

Burp cloths with monograms.   It’s crazy burp cloths like these can run anywhere from $10-$20.  I have more that I plan on just putting fabric down the center panel.

Stroller blanket.  Not the greatest work I have done, but it works. Adding the blanket binding was a pill.

A little sewing.

Last weekend, I got the motivation to pick up a few projects that have been waiting to be sewn.  Sadly I do not have pictures to share of all the completed projects.

The first one up was Lisa’s birthday gift.  I have had it cut out now for about 2 months, but never had the energy to sew.  I was quite please how the handmade bias tape worked.  I was worried I was not going to have enough, but I even had some left over!  I think I will use it as a little embellishment for some bibs. While I will say, I like making my own bias tape, I still have some practicing to do before I will sign off on pre-made tape.  It’s a little harder to make sure you get the underside sewn together and it’s not as “crisp”.  I did not take a good picture of the apron before giving it to Lisa, so maybe Lisa will share a picture wit you. 

Another project I have had cut out for a while now is a pocket bib made from oilcloth.  All I had to do was sew the bias tape around it, add the snaps, and attach the pocket to it.  Hard to believe it will “big” enough for a little one.  The neck opening looks so small. 

A few weeks ago Heirloom Forever was having their summer sale, and I picked up almost a yard of white with lime green polka dots (that really soft fabric, you know the one that is fluffy, but I cannot think of the name right now) to make a small blanket out of it for the baby.  My first time using blanket binding and it was a little challenging.  I still need practice with it as well.  Overall it turned out to be a nice simple blanket.  I don’t think the baby will notice if it’s the neatest sewing.

I still have several more projects to start and complete before the end of the year.  I really need to just sit down and make myself do them!  Before long, I’ll be starting on a stocking (don’t worry, I’m not worried about having it done before this year.  Even if the little one is born before Christmas, I don’t think I’m going to worry about it.  I’ll let next year be it’s first Christmas (so I say now.). 

Let’s play a game!

Below are a few of the upcoming projects I would like to start and finish. What do you think the theme is?

Memory Game
Daisy chain ABCs Crewelwork Sampler
Quite book
Happy Stacker Ring Toy
Blankets
Room Ideas

I’ll post the answer later for those who do not know!!!

Here, there, everywhere.

I have been a bad blogger lately.  I mean well, I just do not sit down and put fingers to the keyboard.  I probably should break this down into different posts, but I like making a long one! :)

There has been a lot going on over in our neck of the woods.  February we celebrated Emma and Brian’s birthdays.  This year everyone came to us to celebrate.  It was nice having Mom fix lunch and everything else for us.  DeAnne did another amazing job with Brian’s cake.  For those who have not seen it yet; here is his iPod cake. Although his is silver, DeAnne figured a silver/gray cake would not be very appealing to eat.  She had all the details of the iPod included.  I’m not a big fan of fondant, but I do like DeAnne’s.  She makes her from scratch with marshmallow cream and powdered sugar. How can you go wrong with that?  The ear buds were very neat in that she had the shape and everything down to a T.  I still do not fully understand why she does not do these for people.  She could make a killing off them! 

For Emma this year, we all chipped in to get her a Nintendo DS.  She was very excited when she opened her gift, but she is her daddy’s daughter, she does not show excitement much.  Daniel never shows excited about anything.  Emma was grinning from ear to ear when she opened her gift; which I took as a good sign she was excited.

For Valentine’s we stayed home.  This is the first year since we have been dating we did not go to Clarksdale.  While I love going, we have saturated everything there is to do there.  Instead we had a quite evening at home.  Brian picked up my favorite pizza from Pizza Factory and we at off the wedding china and drank champagne out of the crystal.   It was quite fun eating pizza and staying in.  I love my china and really should get in the habit of using it more.  One thing my mother taught me (even thought she doesn’t practice it much) is to actually use your china.  Why wait for a “special” occasion to use it?  For dessert, Brian bought me petit fours as part of my Valentine’s gift.  This is actually all I asked for. I LOVE petit fours!  It’s a good thing they are such a pain to make otherwise I would be making them all the time!

The week after Valentine’s we had a beer tasting of the beer Brian brewed.  For Christmas, I got him a beer brewing kit.  Now, it was no where near involved as Michael’s (see Casey’s blog for his process and her 100th post!), but he enjoyed it.  I did not think to take pictures of the process, but I do have one of all the bottles (we went ghetto and used water bottles) before we starting drinking them.  Do not fear!  We use pints to drink out of.  We were nuts to not taste the beer before we let anyone, but we did it.  I was so scared of what the beer would taste like and that it might be flat. Let me be the first to say I was pleasantly surprised! As you can see it’s a light amber brew.  I believe it was called a pale ale, but it’s a little more amber than most pale ales.  It had a nice citrus taste to it.  We did discover that home brews do tend to have a higher alcohol content.  For some reason that never crossed my mind!

I completely forgot to get a picture of Brian with a pint of it, but I do have Meredith enjoying a glass of it!  

By the end of the afternoon, all the beers were gone!  I do believe others thought it was drinkable too.  I cannot wait for him to try his hand at a different brew.  I would love for him to get the hops and try it all from scratch at some point!

 

I have not been sewing much this month; seems like too much as been going on for me to sit down for a couple of hours to sew.  I did though finish my lunch bag.  Please do not judge me or look closely at it.  This was my first time making anything like this so it does have PLENTY of mistakes.  I am looking forward to making a few more.  Even with all the mistakes it turned out pretty well.  I just need to pick up some clothes pins to use to close it. 

I have some of oilcloth left over so I plan make a few of those pocket bibs.  I’m looking forward to seeing how they turn out.  I really like using the oilcloth.  There are so many things that can be made with the oilcloth.  I have seen a few placemats that might be fun to whip up.  Speaking of household items, I picked up a few new pattern books the weekend my family was in town.  One is full of retro aprons (I have become in love with aprons) and then one is different types of linens; napkins, placemats, shopping bags, dishtowels, etc. 

A week from tomorrow we are heading on vacation for one glorious week! Saturday through Wednesday we will be in Pigeon Forges with my family.  I have never been to the mountains; so I am looking forward to a little mountain getaway.  It will be so nice to get away from everything and just be enjoying the scenery.  Wednesday thought Saturday Brian and I will be in Asheville.  We decided to find something near Pigeon Forges for us to finish out the week.  Neither one of us have been to Asheville plus it is only an hour and half from Pigeon Forges.  We plan to tour the Biltmore and winery, take in a Brew Cruise, possible ghost tour, St. Patrick’s day fun, and much more!  I’m looking forward to a relaxing week away from everything. 

I am getting the itch to pick up a cross-stitching project.  Not sure what I want to do, but I do have few patterns to choose from.  Maybe next time I’m in Alabama, I’ll pick up some fabric and start one.  Right now at night, I’m working on another baby blanket.  I just started a random one to have something to do while watching TV (I’m the type who has to have something to do while watching TV.  I very rarely just sit and watch TV; I feel like I’m wasting time if I do not have something to do.).  Turns out this one will be for our good friends Tyler and Whitney!  They just found out they are having a boy; I knew I decided to do a blue one for a reason. :)

Oh!  For those who haven’t heard (and this shows you how bad of a blogger I have been) I got a promotion last month!  I’m uber excited about it and have been going none stop at work.  I am still in the same group, reports, I am just now the manager. Hopefully soon, I will find a new hire to replace me.  I am in need of more help. 

Kiss the cook!

Here’s a quick shot of Brian modeling his new apron.

A little sewing going on.

This month I have spent a lot of time sewing.  I am really enjoying learning how to do more things while sewing.  One of my goals for this year is to make several projects out of my Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts (MSFSFC).  I can’t wait to share with you what I make from it.

Back before Christmas I picked up fabric and a pattern to make pj pants for B and I .  During Christmas I had Mom help me work on B’s due to I wasn’t confident to work on them alone.  With her helping and showing me a few things, B’s pants turned out well.  This past weekend I cut out and sewed my pair.  I love them!  They are super soft (we both picked out flannel for the winter) and comfy.  I look forward to making light weight cotton ones for us this spring/summer.  I think I might try to modify the pattern some next time around.  Wish me luck! 

About a week or more ago I 99% completed my first project from MSFSFC; an oilcloth lunch bag.  Sure I didn’t really need it, but I was dying to use oilcloth and who doesn’t need a cute new lunch bag.  All I lack on the bag is topstitching it, but I’m not sure how to start on it.  In a couple of weeks when Mom, Dad, DeAnne, Daniel, and the girls come to town I’m going to get Mom to help me on this.  I didn’t do so hot on the first try, but I will be making more of these. I really enjoyed working with oilcloth and am looking for ideas of things to make from it.  There is a child’s apron that I might just have to make for the girls and then those pocket bibs for my dream of an Etsy shop. :)

I learned how to make a couple of new things over the past 2 weeks. I have always wanted to learn how to appliqué.  There are so many cute dishtowels, pillows, towels, shirts, bags, etc. I see in all shops but have a hard time paying when I know I could sit down and do it myself.  It seems so hard, but in reality it’s not at all.  Mom showed me the basics over Christmas to help me get started.  Last week or so, I gathered up the supplies I needed to try out appliquéing myself. The first attempt was a heart dishtowel for Valentine’s Day.  I made a few mistakes and learned what not to do next time, but all in all it turned out fine.  I also made a heart hand towel too.  I don’t have a picture of it on hand, but I’ll try to remember to take one to share later.  The waffle dishtowel did cause a little problem when stitching around the heart.  It would catch and just stay in place instead of gliding alone.  With practice, I should be able to master using this type of towel since I do love how it soaks up water.  I plan on doing a shamrock and Easter egg one for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. Maybe one day I will be able to make the gorgeous towels I see in all the stores! 

The second technique I learned this week is making my own bias tape.  Who knew it was this easy to make your own!  Bias tape allows for a quick clean finish on items instead of having to hem everything. I use bias tape on all the aprons I have made so far.  For Christmas, I got a 1/2” bias tape maker in my stocking and I picked up a 1” maker the other day.  I learned my lesson on this one too.  It’s not like the pretty double folded bias tape I have been buying; it is single fold.  I first made the 1/2” bias tape without really realizing that it’s not going to work for me like I was expecting.  Now I need to think of fun projects that I can appliqué using blue bias tape!  Last night I finished making 1” bias tape that I can fold in half to make my double folded 1/2” bias tape which is needed for my current project. I know it’s not as crisp as bought, but it’s sure is fun to make and adds more care and love to a project. 

On another note, I’m ready for SPRING!  All this cold, rain, snow is getting to me.  I’m ready to enjoy a spring day!

Stockings

I was so happy when I finished our stockings.  I hope these pictures give you a little more detail on them.  I cross-stitched them and Mom sewed them together for me.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One more on the mantel!

Montgomery Christmas

Every year we get together for Christmas with my Mom’s side of the family.  It’s one of my favorite times, I just wish we didn’t always seem to have some place to be that night that we have to rush home afterwards.  It’s harder for every one to be there with all the grandkids married with kids of their own, but it’s still a good crowd.  This year we have 4 new babies (my little cousins are now having babies!!!) in the family. I have not seen any of the new ones in person, so I was thrilled to get to play with them.  Marcia and her family (who’s husband I have not met before, she lives in Colorado) were there for the first time in years.  It’s so odd seeing my little cousins (who I remember being born) having a baby of her own!  Micah is a doll!!  (Sorry but I sucked at taking pictures that day.)  He is the oldest out of the 4 new babies.  Next up is Nora, Michael’s newest one.  Nora looks just like a Montgomery with those dark eyes.  She favors Michael a lot more than Maggie does Jason.  I wish I had gotten a picture of the 3 babies that were there (Sierra wasn’t there with her little (read hoss) Tucker).  Nora is HUGE compared to Micah (he’s a month older than her) and Taylor.  Taylor is the 3rd in line for this year.  She is VERY petite.  In her pictures she does not look that small, but she is teeny tiny.  Tucker brings up the rear this year.  Taylor and Tucker are cousins (i.e, 1st cousins) who are just 5-6 weeks apart, but Tucker looks like he is 10 months old. 

Instead of doing baby showers for everyone, on their first Christmas everyone gets the new baby a gift.  This year I decided to make someone for each one.  I have been wanting to make these cute little bibs from The Purl Bee for someone.  I used flannel instead of terry cloth due to I waited till the last minute and did not like the terry cloth which was at Wal-Mart.  All in all I think they turned out great!

More new firsts

Remember when I posted about these fabrics?  I finally was able to complete one of the two projects yesterday.  I had another new first for me, cutting out a project with a “real” pattern.  I can’t tell you how many times I have watched my Mom do this.  It was quite fun.

I couldn’t wait to share this with y’all that I just snapped a quick picture of the finished project running out the door.  I plan on “modeling” this for the full affect.  This was a SUPER easy project. I will admit, I was nervous about making something “real” without my Mom watching me.

Apron for DeAnne (Christmas gift)

I thoroughly enjoyed sewing this project.  It was great being able to start and finish this in just a few hours.  I had no idea how long it would take me make it.  I was please to see I could make these in just a couple of hours.  Krista is getting one as well for Christmas, in the other fabric.  I think I might make Mom one too after learning how quickly I can whip it up.  So much fun!

In my last post, I mentioned a new first for me, to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving as well as be in charge of the meal.  Well, guess what.  I learned Saturday afternoon, not only will I be cooking the meal, it will be at our house!  Yikes!  This is good and bad.  I’m glad I don’t have to travel with everything I was going to make and try to cook in someone else’s kitchen that I do not know my way around, but it’s going to be harder to leave for Hartselle when we want to that evening.  Wish me luck!  I’m already thinking about this 24/7!   

A little blanket

Tonight I actually started and completed a project.  Shocking, right?!  I whipped up a swaddling blanket for Claire, Laurie’s little one on the way.

(My camera did not take a good picture.  The yellow is a pale yellow, instead of bright as the left picture shows.)

While I was sewing, Sunni was keeping me company.

Happy October!

Happy middle of October!  I know I say this all the time, but man, seems like time goes by faster each day. 

This weekend my parents came for a short visit.  Friday night was low-key with dinner out at Lost Pizza.  This is slowly becoming my favorite new pizza place.  We watched the Tupelo vs. South Panola game on TV (how crazy is that to see a high school game on national channels); poor Tupelo got slaughtered.  Saturday I planned to take Mom to see the quilt show which was set up at Oren Museum.  I have never been to Oren so I was not sure what to expect.  The quilt show was more of a small display the museum had, but still nice.  We toured the rest of the museum while we were there.  I was pleasantly surprised at everything there.  I got several great pictures of the grounds outside. 

Here are the rest of the photos.

After the museum, we headed over to Heirlooms Forever.  I knew she would like this store, but she LOVED it. She picked up a couple of patterns for the girls.  This store always makes me wish I knew how to sew more and quilted.  I need to get back to my quilts I’m slowing making, but then again what do I not need to be working on! :)  I picked up the fabric for two Christmas presents.  If everything goes according to plan, I hope to cut them out this weekend and work on them.

Saturday afternoon, Brian and I went down to Aberdeen for a blues festival.  The festival was blah in my opinion, but I did have fun taking pictures at Blue Bluff.  I don’t know why Brian hasn’t taken me here before!  I really want to go back and get some more pictures.  I also LOVE pictures taken with Hipstamatic app.  If you have an iphone and do not have this app yet, go and download it NOW.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Blue Bluff.

 

Here are a few “normal” shots of Blue Bluff.

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How AWESOME is this weather?!  I am digging walking up to a cool brisk morning.  Fingers cross it will stay this way for the next two weekends!  I would love to have “football” weather for the game this weekend and for our brunch next weekend.

Now that I have a new sewing machine, I have been putting it to use.  I whipped up a couple of projects (one not 100% complete yet) over the past couple of weeks.  I am in love with my new machine.  While I’m still getting used to some of the features, I haven’t played with the built-in stitches yet, it’s a dream!  It sews through thick fabric like butter.  My other machine struggled through the simple stuff.  My next big project is one for my sister-in-law for Christmas.  I’m hoping I can accomplish this without too many major snags. 

Here are the candy corns I’m making for the Halloween garland I’m making.  I think I’m going to place these on my china cabinet since my mantle has fall garland at the moment. (I decorate for both Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving at once since they sort of go together.) I took a picture of the Fall/Thanksgiving table runner I put together, but its’ too plain just to show it. I’ll take a picture of my mediocre table decor tonight to show it off. I still haven’t found a table setup for fall/Thanksgiving that pops for me.

I’ll leave you with a random picture of Lauren and I from the weekend we were last at Mom and Dad’s.

This & That

Not much been going on over in my neck of the woods.

Last weekend we went to my parents’ to celebrate my birthday. It was good spending time with them and the nieces. This time it was a short visit since Brian was in Memphis Friday night with the guys to see Dark Star, but an enjoyable one.

For my birthday, I asked for money to put toward a new sewing machine. My poor “loaner” machine finally bit the dust a month ago. I guess after almost 45 years, it was time. Not sure how long before she got married Mom had it, but she did make her wedding dress with it. I put her in charge of looking around for a new one for me. She found one, Janome DC2010, she thought would be a good machine for me. Then we saw Hancock was having a huge sale and they had a Janome 8050 on sale for half the price of the DC2010. Last weekend we checked out both and from what we could tell, the 8050 had the features as the DC2010, just designed differently. I had to order it due to they did not have any in stock, so Mom and Dad are meeting us for dinner to delivery it to me! I’m so happy I did laundry yesterday, we decided not to go to the game (early games with no tickets makes it hard to hang out with the fam), and plan to clean house tonight so I can spend all day tomorrow playing and learning about my new toy! I’m not used to an electric machine like this one. It will be a learning curve I’m sure. All I need now is for mom to teach me how to really sew so I can start making more interesting things. I really want to learn how to appliqué so I can make more flags for the holidays (my yard flag) and those cute little kids shirts as gifts. I need to get back into my quilts as well. Sigh, too many projects and not enough time. :)

Here are a couple of fun stories about Ole Miss and football.

Oh, have a mentioned how I'm SOOOO ready for fall! I'm actually ready for it to start getting dark earlier; which is so unlike me.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

What’s been happening?

There has been a lot going on in my neck of the woods.  I know I should break up the long post that follows into smaller ones, but I don’t want anyone to miss anything. :)  I hope you bear with me!

Last week, I FINALLY finished and mailed my Pay It Forward project.  It took me a mere 6 months longer than planned, but I did it.  I hope that Lisa, Susan, and Jeff enjoyed their happies!  I hate that I had to change what I was doing after doing one set (I did coasters) due to my sewing machine died and I was determined to get them out before end of August!  Here is a shot of the finished products.

Friday I celebrated my 29th birthday!  Yikes! :)  Brian cooked breakfast for me and his new special coffee, Nutella Coffee.  I was excited to find out he got me a Hobo wallet/clutch for my birthday!!To celebrate my birthday, we had a cookout with a few friends over.  It was wonderful having everyone over for some fun and the weather couldn’t have been more prefect.  I think I have found my new favorite dish to make for a cookout; brisket.  It’s super easy, especially if you take the route we did, and it feeds a lot of people.  We had plenty left over for us to have several meals with this week.  I am already planning to cook a brisket for Christmas supper for Brian’s side of the family (since we host).

Saturday, I was in charge of deciding what we were to do.  Brian gave me too many great ideas to choose from; Oxford, Starkville, Memphis, staying at home, or a water park.  I wanted to do them all, but at the same time I wanted to stay at home.  Before Friday night, I had narrowed it down to Memphis or staying at home, but then Friday night I was leaning toward Starkville to be able to hang out with John and Margaret more.  After waking up later than planned (we stayed up past our bedtime :)), Brian was sweet and went and got us Chick-fil-a for breakfast while I was to decided.  It took me some time, but decided I didn’t feel like driving anywhere even though I really wanted to go to Memphis to play.  We had a wonderful day playing around town and running fun errands.  I picked up a few Halloween decorations too.  I didn’t realize I didn’t have as much Halloween as I thought I did, so that means I get to pick up a few more this year! ;)

Sunday and Monday I relaxed and cleaned some.  Poor Brian had to work while I got to enjoy the day off. 

As promised, I picked up a State banner for Brian.  The Ole Miss one is by far better than the State one. :0  I stand firm in the fact having the State one out Saturday caused Ole Miss to lose. (I promised Brian that we would put it out Saturday if we had it out Friday during the cookout.)  I will have it out Saturday for sure!!

My sister has done it again!  Her youngest niece's birthday celebration was this weekend.  Katie asked for 3 cakes this year. (Did anyone else ever get 3 cakes growing up? I didn’t!)  Katie wanted a cleat, soccer goal, and soccer ball; and she got all of them.  DeAnne amazes me on how she comes up with ideas and how to create the cakes.

The cleat!  How AWESOME is this!!!  The cleat is made from rice crispy treats formed into the shoe.  How in the world she formed it I don’t know because I would have no clue on how to even begin to do that.  She then covered it with fondant.

All 3 cakes together!  My sister rocks!!!  If we ever have kids, I can’t wait to see what they might come up with and what DeAnne makes.   

August?

Whew.  Where does the time go?! The end of August is already upon us and I feel like I didn’t see it all.   I can’t even really remember what all has been going on with us this month.  Hmm.  Let’s see. 

TWC (Tupelo Women’s Club) started up this month.  I’m looking forward to being more involved around the community.  Our biggest event is the Holiday Tree Festival at the end of November.  If anyone is interest in attending, let me know!  I will be selling tickets.

Our local Ole Miss alumni group started back up this week as well.  We are hoping to start prompting our annual golf tournament now to help bring awareness of it.  A couple watch parties are in the works as well along with the Pigskin in the Park event in October.  I’m really looking forward to this event; all day of Ole Miss and State football downtown.  The info I have heard on it sounds like it could be a big hit. If you are in Tupelo Oct. 16th come downtown to Fairpark to watch both the Ole Miss vs. Alabama game and State vs. Florida game!

Just as I was getting really motivated to do more sewing, “my” sewing machine starting having issues.  So off to the shop it went for hopefully something nothing major.  Well, it turned out to be major.  Due to the age of it (over 40 years old) it finally started breaking down.  Mom decided it wasn’t worth getting it fixed.  So now I’m currently out of a sewing machine, but do hope to buy one in the next month or so.  I have mom already looking to see what type and model I should get.  In the meantime, when I’m at Mom and Dad’s next I’m going to have to do some sewing on projects that need to be completed before I get a new one.  Too bad Santa already has my gift this year. 

I’m hoping to finish up a project that I have been struggling to complete the past month.  It will feel great to finally get this completed.  I’m a few months behind on it, but it’s better that it’s done than not at all.

I’m really looking forward to next weekend; birthday + long weekend + football = happiness.  Friday I will be one step closer to 30!  We are having a small get together to celebrate.  I thrilled that John and Margaret decided to come down this weekend.  I like to think they came just because it’s my birthday. :)  I am being the good wife and trekking down to Starkville for the State game.  Brian has promised me a fun day is to be had.

Happy Friday!

Oh, Friday how I love thee.  You make the work week all worth it in the end. :) 

The week turned out to be pretty good.  I finally learned that people won’t do their job when you need them to so you just have to let it go.  Patience is a wonderful thing.

I’m looking forward to a fun weekend. Tonight we have a surprise party for a friend and a fun-filled Saturday tomorrow.  I have decided I wanted to hit up a few stores/places that I never get to visit during the week. 

• Farmers’ Market
• Building Blocks in Tupelo
• Dirt Cheap
• Swirlz

Hopefully we will get to eat brunch at the Stables.  It’s been awhile since we had a day like this. 

I also plan to cut out the other 2 blankets and make them up.  Sewing really is becoming more fun. One day I hope to branch out and make something that is not just straight lines. 

Happy Things:

• Fridays
• Surprise parties
• iPod on shuffle; love coming across a song I haven’t heard in awhile
• Cardigans
• Sewing
• Breakfast made by the hubby

Finished projects.

I know you all have been waiting to see what project pictures I was going to post! :)  I finally got  around to taking pictures of one finished project and did another one this weekend. 

Last weekend when  my parents came in town, Mom brought the 2nd set of curtains for the office.  The office is now 100% complete!

Before:

After:

Looks COMPLETELY different!!  I LOVE the curtains!  The fabric a raw silk stripped. 

Saturday afternoon I finally sat back down at the sewing machine.  It’s been almost 2 years since I sewed.  I finally got around to making the Crooked Coasters from The Long Thread.  I still need to trim the threads closer, but I couldn’t wait to share!  These are great therapy since it’s just sewing lines. 

I have another sewing project in the works that I hope to share by end of the week!