Quick little something..

Here's a quick little snippet that I whipped up using my cricut, some elmer's, a $0.75 tile, and a hand-me down trivet from my granny. I think I'll put it behind my stove!

Christmas already?

Yes, the Christmas fever has hit me. I saw this entry on the blog called nannygoat that I keep up with. And since it was dollar-tree cheap, I decided to give it a whirl myself.

My Masterpiece:

It's super-easy and pretty dang affordable if I do say so myself. I think I may just have to make some to sell or give as gifts... :)

Embellished Shirt

I had a cute idea to put those little fabric yo-yo's on a shirt to spice it up. Turned out pretty cute!

All I did was make the things, pin them to the shirt in a way that looked right, and then sewed around the edges of each one.

Below is a detail close up of the yo-yo's.

I used the Heather Bailey tutorial to make the yo-yo's. You can find it here at her blog's website. While you're there, you should probably check out the fabric she has because it is my absolute favorite that I've seen out there.

Hope you like it!

Ta-Dah!

Finally. It has happened. I started a quilt in February for my sister-in-law's graduation gift. As the months went by and my sewing showed itself not to be up to par, graduation came and went. So... I decided to make the quilt for a friend's wedding. Then, the wedding came and went. And because of all of my mistakes, the pieces just kept getting smaller and smaller.

In July, I found out my brother's wife was pregnant. I decided that my small little quilt would be perfect for that baby boy! I worked and worked and finally made some progress. But the ultrasound had a different idea-- the baby is going to be a girl, and blue and yellow just won't do.

I decided to finish anyway. I was almost there right? So I sewed for several hours last Saturday and finally got to finishing the edges. That was all I had to do. And wouldn't you know it, the sewing machine chose that exact time to start eating the thread and doing some wierd bobbin thing. I was so sick of seeing this dang quilt that I prayed to God to just please let the machine work. I said that I would give the thing to a women's shelter if that's what He wanted. And believe it or not, that's when the machine started to work. So I guess that's where this sweet little baby blanket will be headed.... charity!

I hope whoever gets it thinks it's as cute as I do... !

Halloween

I absolutely love Halloween. I love the costumes, I love the candy, but what I love most of all are the decorations. Here is a snippet from Andrew's and my Halloween. Andrew carved the plain-jane orange one and I did the white one with polka dots. The trick-or-treaters' parents gave me lots of compliments on it! My favorite trick-or-treater of the night was dressed in a Harry Potter quidditch out. Too stinkin' cute! It made me want to have kids... but I think I'l wait just a little longer!

Just a peek at my curtains

I know this isn't much, but I made these sweet little curtains for the craft/computer room awhile back. I got the wild looking fabric in a discount bin at IKEA. It's pretty neat because when the sun shines through the window, all of the colors look like stained glass. :)