Another Sale

Yep, you read the title right.  Another sale is coming to the shop soon.  I know I mentioned doing a tutorial (and I'm still planning on doing that soon!) but after we got home I got sick, then we had company, then I was sick again and then my husband left for a few weeks and I am not feeling well again.  So, needless to say, it's not been super fun around here.  I wanted to sew but just did not have the energy.

With all the time I've spent laying around and sulking because I can't get around and sew and craft and even do the stinkin' laundry I have also noticed that I have an overwhelming amount of fabric.  Seriously, I do.  It's no joke.  I need to get rid of it.  Fast.  Or it might ruin my marriage.  Well, it probably won't ruin my marriage, but it will sure make my man happy.  I'm talking smiling all day because everything is right in the world kind of happy.  I'd like to see that, so... I'm selling a lot of my fabric.  I have quite a few already listed on my etsy shop but I will be listing more, LOTS more over the next few weeks.  It's going to be nicely priced.  I have to get rid of it.  So take a look, and then take a few more looks over the next few weeks and tell all your fabric-loving friends and then buy some.  Please.  I beg you.  My husband begs you.

Still in Arizona

Well, we are still in AZ.  The drive down was long but still fun.  The boys always seem to do so well on long drives.  Part of it might be that I always pack plenty of things to keep them busy.  It also might be that we tend to do a lot of the driving through the night so they get to sleep a lot too.

And I know how boring a post without pictures is so I promise I'll get some pictures posted soon.  Tomorrow we are going out to a town called Oatman with my grandparents and Aunt so I'll get some pictures of that.  It's a neat little tourist town.

I hope everyone's week went well! I hope to be home by next week and crafting away again.  I have a few new things I'm wanting to try sewing up so be prepared for some new tutorials in the next few weeks.

A New Year and a New Sale

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year with their loved ones.  We had our little guys in bed by 9:15 and then me and the husband mostly snoozed through the ringing in of the new year.  I did decide however, that the New Year warranted a generous sale in the shop.  30% off seems good.  Through Jan. 15th.

I have made a few new things and added them to the shop last nite.  Reusable snack and sandwich bags.  They are very neat!  I'm excited about them.  Please stop by my shop and check them all out.  There are many different colors and fun prints.  Here's a peek at some of them.

This one is one of my favorites.  I love the lazy little bee pattern and it makes me think of spring.  As much as I love fall and winter (and that's a lot!) I start really missing my garden and listening to the birds while I sip tea in the morning.  This one is a mini size snack bag.

And how fun is this print right? I could not resist purchasing this fabric.  I'm a sucker for super cute gnomes.  I used up all my scraps of this fabric so there are currently two of these available in the shop and that's all I have! Perfect little size for pretzels or mixed nuts in a child's luchbox or take it with you to the office.

Here's an inside view of this one.  I made all of these bags with a fold-over closure (just like the old sandwich bags from when I was a kid!) and I love it this way.  There's no velcro to gather crumbs.  No snaps to mess with.  Just a simple flip and it's closed, secure and ready to go!  It also makes it very easy for little hands to master opening and closing it on their own.

I love this green scrollwork fabric.  Can't remember where I picked it up or  who made it.  It was just a fat quarter and there was no info on the selvedge piece.

And since yellow and grey seem to be so popular right now, I thought I'd whip a few of these up too.  

Be sure to check them all out as well as everything else in the shop.  I have some precuts listed, a few scrap bundles (more on the way late next week) and lots of quilts, mug rugs and table runners.  With 30% off your total, there's quite a few good deals to be had in the shop.

I'll update here on the blog periodically with more new goodies going to the shop.  We are driving down to Arizona later today (we being me, Jake and the boys).  My grandma has been in the hospital and recently went home after having several surgeries on her heart.  So, we are on our way down to visit and help out for about a week.  I will leave the shop open, but please note that nothing will be shipping until around Jan. 10th.  On the plus side, this gives you more time to shop and buy and when I arrive home I will combine your orders and refund the extra shipping.

Happy New Year and Blessings to you and your family in this bright, fresh new year!

A Shop Sale

Quick note to say everything in the shop will be 30% off through January 15th.  I will be adding lots more handmade items as I finish them and have many different scrap bundles in the works right now.  I will be posting new goodies throughout the sale so please keep checking back.

I will try to update the blog with new items before they're added to the shop so be sure to check back here too and get a sneak-peek at what's showing up in the shop.

Enter code: BIG30 at checkout to receive your 30% off discount.  Applies to anything in the shop, even sale items!

Happy Holidays!

Well a Merry Belated Christmas to you all and Happy New Year!

It's been busy in this house with all the gift making and giving and cookie baking and eating.  I did manage to finish our stockings in time for Christmas.  The boys loved theirs.  I haven't managed to get a good picture of them yet so I'll post pictures of them later.

We went up to my best friends house a week before Christmas and the kids all got to make a Gingerbread House or a Train.  A picked a house and O picked a train.

This is a picture of all the kids houses.  They all did such a wonderful job!

O's train.  Looks more like an old Chevy truck than anything, but he loved it.

A's house in progress.

Then we actually got some snow a few days before Christmas.  Of course it only stayed a day or two.  That's a decent time for us here.  The boys made sure to enjoy every last bit of it.  There were snowmen with Grampa, snowball fights, mini snow-people all over the yard and then just laying in it when they were too tired to do anything else.

An excited little guy.  First chance to get out in the snow. 

And an excited big guy.

 We also got a bit of snow on Christmas Day, which is the first time that's happened since we moved here 3 years ago.  It was a wonderful Christmas surprise for all of us.

Hope your Holidays were filled with love, peace and family.  Wishing you all a blessed and wonderful New Year.

Potholders & Trivets & Quilts, oh my!

So as promised, here are some pics of what I have been finishing up lately.  I'm almost done with all my Christmas-y projects and am excited about that fact.  I don't usually finish everything I've decided to make.

This set of potholders is being shipped out to a family member.  

These are probably one of my favorites so far.  I really love the colors.  These are a set of potholders (the yellow) and a grey chevron stripe trivet (hot pad).  Also a gift.

This set of potholders is being shipped out today to another family member.  I just finished this one and the following one yesterday afternoon.

And this one is reversible.  Again, another gift to be shipped out today.  Surprised?

And here's the other side.  This is my favorite side.  I do love a good stripe though.

And lastly, another potholder set gift for some very dear family members.  

Phew... I'm a pro at potholders now, just sayin'.  I have a few more sets to make before this week is over then I'm going to try tackling some stockings.  I've never made stockings for us in all these years.  Seems wrong.  I spend so much time making things for other people and for my shop and have very few things that I've made for my family.  So, this year, I'm attempting to make us some.  I'm not sure I'll finish them (at least not all) but dang it I'm going to try!

And lastly, here's some photos of the boys with their Christmas quilts I made for them.  I think I posted about this already, but really, can you blame me for doing it again? I mean, look how cute they are!

I loved making these quilts for them.  They loved receiving them too.  Warm from the drier and ready to snuggle into and watch a Christmas movie.  They fit on the beds very nicely too.  A's is mostly red since he just loves red and O's is mostly blues since he loves blue.  I have to find the pics I took of the backs and then I'll post those.  A's back is all red and O's is all blue.  They were quite excited about the backs.

Anyway, I'm off to have a cup of tea and get ready for another marathon day of sewing!

A Quilt for My Bed

Well, I have been working on this quilt as I collected the fabrics for it and have finally finished the top!

Isn't she lovely? You see the one bottom corner on the left here where there is just a solid rectangle of grey? I used up every single little scrap of my fabric for this quilt and rather than buying what would end up being more than I needed for one block, I decided to just put a solid block in there.  I think it looks nice, and you don't really even notice it when the quilt is all laid out.  

These are all fabrics collected from Anna Maria Horner's fabric collections.  There is quite a lot of LouLouThi in here, as well as Innocent Crush and a smattering of scraps from her older lines. 

I just love how alive this quilt is! There's so much color and texture in the fabrics and the grey gives your eyes a quiet place to rest.
This was originally going to be a large lap quilt for me to snuggle under, then I realized it was more of a twin size and before I knew what had happened it turned into a Queen size.  I think I better get it quilted before I pull it out and it's morphed into a King size.  Yikes!

Sorry that the pictures aren't the best.  I had been waiting for a sunny day (I know, a sunny day in the middle of a WA winter?) and then finally decided one night to just take the pictures.  I really wanted to share it.  

So... normally I do my own quilting on my mother-in-law's long-arm machine.  It's not set up to handle a Queen size quilt though, so I'm debating whether or not to rent a machine at our local quilt shop and do it myself, or send it out to my sister-in-law and have her do it.  While I do enjoy the quilting process, it sounds kind of fun to have someone else do it for me.  It's been a long time since I've had anyone do my quilting.  I suppose it will all boil down to money.  This will be waiting until after Christmas I'm sure.

Check back tomorrow as I have several more goodies to share with you all.  Happy crafting!