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May, 2010

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Embroidered Tee for B-day

I purchased this shirt back in the Spring of ‘07 from Walmart. I think it was around $3.88. You can’t beat that! It was cute without anything on it. I added this princess crown applique and added her name using Embird with Font Engine. I also added the number 7 inside the circles on the top of the crown. This was for her 7th birthday. Just something for Autum to wear to school. She loved it. I just wish I didn’t embroider it so high on the shirt. Oh well. Thanks for looking!

By the way, the original crown design came from Ann The Gran for FREE. The fabric for the applique came from Joann’s.

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Yoga Bag

Back in the Spring of 2007, my friend ask me to make a yoga bag for her. I had never done one before. I got the pattern for the bag itself (just cut 2 for a liner) from Wild Ginger. This is a free pattern maker program. You print the pattern out on your printer. I got the embroidery design from my favorite Sew forum site!! Thank you Augusanta!!

The pink denim is from Joann’s and the polka dot is a Michael Miller fabric from a local Quilt Shop in Vegas. I had to figure out the zipper pocket. She wanted a pocket on the front, but she wanted it to zip. So a few “frog stitches” and it looks good.

Thanks for looking! And go check out Wild Ginger!!

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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Happy Hair Day!

My Fav-or-iT Hair painTer lives in Vegas. She was the first one to color my hair and she totally RoCkS!!!! Not only is she fabulous, but she was also very generous and gave me a huge discount. I always left with hair that I loved! I miss her. To show my appreciation, I picked up this beautician apron from Sally’s Beauty Supply Store and embroidered it. She really liked it. It was fun to do.

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Monday, May 17th, 2010

Bibs, and Burps, and Babies, OH MY

Lots of friends means lots of babies! Here are just a few bibs, burp clothes, and paci clips when I was first starting out. My favorite back then was “updog”. I made that for a friend who loved The OFFice. I remember when I posted it my favorite sewing forum, in the free downloads, I got a ton of questions about it. :) Some of the ladies kept asking what it meant. I should post it in MY free section on this site. I think I’ll do that this week. Oh and that one about myspace. Does myspace still exist? That one was for my cousin and his wife. LOL

Haha…this was for one of my gorgeous friends. She adopted a little boy.

And this was for my gorgeous friend’s hubby. Well, for their adopted son.

I made a bunch of paci clips too. I loved making these. Not sure if any of them got any use though.?? I made like 3 or 4 of them for my Riley Bug before she was born and I don’t remember using any of them. Mostly because she didn’t really use a paci. She barely uses it for sleeping.

Thanks for looking. Feel free to leave questions or comments. :) Bloggers love comments.

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Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A Gift for Cierra

Lexi needed a gift for one of her school friends. We loved going to Cierra’s b-day parties while we lived in Las Vegas. They were soooo fun! They were over-the-top kind of parties and the kids always had a blast. They have a pool, and it’s Las Vegas, so we went with a flip-flop theme.

1) Tote Bag purchased from Joann’s with 40% off coupon. Total $1.93
2) Towel purchased from Anna’s Linens. Total $5.38
3) Flip Flops from Old Navy. Total $2.50
4) Water toy from the $Tree. Total $1.08
5) One roll of ribbon from Joann’s with 40% off coupon. Total $1.80
6) Fabric for applique. Total $1.50
I had the Koozie and thread and stuff.
Grand Total $14.19

I remember looking at Cierra’s cute face while opening this gift. It was priceless…until she opened her next gift, which was a digital camera! Nowthat was priceless! :D

I went to the website where I got the flip flop design from and the website no longer exists. :(

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Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A Post

Wow, I haven’t blogged in so long that I had to actually log in to my account. So much for the “remember me” tab.

I’m not a writer, I admit it. But I love this blog so much. I love sharing my projects with you and I love inspiring you to try something you’ve never tried before. I would say that I’m not sure if anyone actually reads this blog, but to be honest, I check my stats almost everyday. Is that pathetic? I find myself thinking, especially during my long commute to work, about my next project. I can’t wait to share them with you. Sometimes I struggle with how to spend my time. “Do I sit down and write a blog post or do I start my next project?”

Decisions! Decisions!

I try to only devote my time to my “hobbies” after Riley Bug has gone to bed. So that gives me about 2 hours (at the most) to play. I am usually upstairs in my “craft room”. I have my favorite things in there here. <– Seriously, I have always wanted to do that, you know, the crossing out the word thing. LOL Anyway, my favorite things in here are:

My Embroidery/Sewing Machine
My Serger
My Cricut
My Computer with all of my fun Software
My Cutting Table

I have to thank the Hubs for letting me have this room all to myself. <— I almost used the crossing out the word thing again, but thought it might be overkill. So it is supposed to by my craft room, but with all this fun stuff in here, how could I keep it all to myself? I love when my daughters are in here hanging out with me. Lexi could probably teach me a thing or two about the Cricut. She has used that thing for more school projects than I have all together. Riley Bug is curious and always finds a drawer to empty while hanging out with Mom.

Well, this is just me trying to give you a little glimpse into my blog mind. I promise, from now on, no posts without pictures. Pictures are much more fun.

Speaking of, just wait till you see what I found off Craigslist…for FREE! It’s currently sitting on my back patio, freshly sanded. And, I can’t wait to show you the awesome designs that I did using Embird. Love that software! I can’t show you yet, because they’re for a special Mommy who is about to have a baby. Hopefully I can get my machine serviced so that I can whip out my projects before the baby comes.

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.
hugs

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Monday, May 10th, 2010

Entry Table

After dropping Riley Bug off at Aunt Sara’s house, I saw this poor pathetic table hiding under a bunch of junk at a garage sale. It had this cute little sticker on it’s nose that read “$5″.

“I’ll take it!” She had it loaded into my van before I even paid her. :-)

I sanded it all down with my palm sander. Wasn’t in love with the knob that came on it. I was contemplating whether to go find a pretty crystal looking one. But just you wait and see what I ended up doing.

Here it is getting a fresh coat of paint. See that blue tarp? My sis-in-law loaned it to me like 2 years ago. I wonder if she knows it’s still missing?

I needed a “backdrop” to spray paint the little knob. So I grabbed this drink holder from Hubby’s trip to In-N-Out. Mmm. I just screwed it on and started painting away with my Rust-Oleum, heirloom white, in satin. Loves it! I gave it a couple of coats.

Here it is all done! I put it in the entry way, near the front door. Please ignore the old old tile and the gross cheap paint. We’re renting.

Here is my favorite part! The drawer knob. After spray painting it, I added a monogram. I used my new-ish cricut and cut a “B” out of contact paper. I applied the contact paper to the knob and then just took a SHARPIE to fill it in like a stencil. I love how it turned out!

Now I don’t know if I should leave it as is. Or, should I sand it down and shabby it up? I was thinking that I should just leave it since it has a more contemporary, straight line, look. What do you think? I know, I know, you’re going to say to sand it and see how I like it and then paint it over if I don’t care for it. You’re right. Maybe next weekend. :)

I don’t have anything pretty on it because this is where my purse lands after I come through the garage door. Guess I should have put some flowers on it for the pictures though. :/

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Random Embroideries of the past

Ran across some pictures of things that I embroidered for others. I didn’t feel like doing a blog post for each of them on their own, so I decided to put them all together. This would be a great time to thank you for actually stopping by my blog. I appreciate it!

birthday shirt for foster daughter

Pony ‘O’ made of a covered button and then attached to a pony ‘o’

apron for brother

cell phone holder for sis-in-law

bib

wash cloth for foster daughter

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Strawberries

I know what you’re going to say, I totally cheated. Okay, I did, but going to the store and picking out 3 potted plants of strawberries (that were already sprouting strawberries) was a big step for me. It was such a nice day and 20 month old Riley and I were spending the day together. It was too warm to be cooped up in the craft room all day.

The guy in the nursery was so helpful. He told me what to do and told me what to buy. We had the PERFECT spot for the new plants.
Of course now I want to go and dig up that middle plant and move it to the left a few inches. I probably would do it if I didn’t think it would do any harm to the recently transplanted plants.

I would like to thank my Dear Friend Monica!! She was my inspiration! Hey Mon, next time, I’ll start with seeds, maybe. I wonder if this what it’s like to bake a cake from a box? ’Cause that’s what it feels like.

Oh, and Riley’s missing her shorts because during her nap, I made her a few pair of shorts and we were trying them on. I knew that we’d be playing in the dirt and never put her other ones back on. And now you know, the rest of the story.

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