July 2008

well looky what we got here…

my fabulous friend that just so happens to be a professional quilter brought back my katie quilt! i’m binding it this weekend!!! oh and see these plates? yeah they are alright, someone was cleaning out their closet and didn’t want them any more and asked if i wanted this little plate rack and the the […]

shop::stocked

it’s all done…for now…i’m still making more of the holly hairclips in different colors and sizes…but that’s all i got for now…hope you like it. check it here

please tell your friends…

mountain standard time… please please please tell your friends… if you put this picture with a link to my blog on your blog, comment to me with a link and i’ll give you 10% off your purchase! or if you don’t even want 10% off and you just want to be extra nice to me […]

mad about yo-yo’s, red, and turquoise

well my HOLLY girly bags are coming along quite nicely, i’ll definitely be making the deadline i made for myself of wednesday at 2pm to stock up the store with the handbags. this weekend has been spent making yo-yo’s like a mad woman, and playing outside with the boys and the little one. oh and […]

i made everything you hate…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY G.I. JOE HUSBAND! we made the dinner you hate the most, spaghetti, and for your cake we made a triple chocolate with chocolate chips… death by chocolate kind of pie…because you hate chocolate, we figured you were kind of sad that you couldn’t spend your special day with us eating your special dinner […]

GASP…what is this?

something i planted is actually going to be edible! the starts of my veggies sauteed with meals from my own little garden days are coming soon!

so happy to introduce…

okay here she is…the HOLLY (get it because of the hollyhocks that inspired me to FINALLY make her real instead of just in my head) she’s so darn cute, and she’s coming to you in myetsy store next week…but not just in blue…in pink, brown, green, yellow…and when i go through all of these fabrics […]

so pretty…

okay so here it is…NO I DIDN’T make that one…but i’m making one sort of like it…in light blue…so hopefully it’ll look like that but in light blue minus the bow. um i sew for the boys too! but can you tell i’ve been waiting for a girl all my life?

my working conditions…

so here’s the idea…not in the right fabrics cause i did it while the kids were awake. i thought i would show you my less than perfect behind the scenes working conditions… every time i get on my chair to start sewing, it’s like she has radar… gets up on my lap and makes things….interesting […]

buggy barn quilt

so here’s the buggy barn “stars and stripes” that i’m entering into the fair. and it wasn’t till someone mentioned that they hoped that i would win a ribbon…that it actually dawned on me “oh yeah people are going to be JUDGING this thing” and i quickly started to have the feeling that i wanted […]

another drab to fab

found on my little excursion this last time at the second hand store for $1. all painted up (with the never ending red spray paint… seriously its ’cause i’m trying to use it all up before i buy a new color isnt it?) still thinking of painting the tops of the bottles red…(to use up […]

my google ads…

tutorials

okay i find it hysterically funny that my ads ( i don’t pick what they are mind you) go from crafty things like “charm pack sales” and “fabric stores” to ones like “elk hunting 6 X 6 $3995” but my favorite one is the free elk ringtone from verizon i couldn’t make this stuff up […]

hollyhock inspiration

planted these babies last year, and they didn’t come up…wasn’t surprised because usually things that i plant from seed don’t work…but hello this year they had a different idea! i first noticed that the leaves were coming up in the spring and i thought to myself “ha, that’s funny, i didn’t pay ANY ATTENTION to […]

great second hand finds

while my mother was here this past week, the plan was for me to “get away” for a few days with a friend and do…anything. so of course that included some second hand shopping. i would of liked to stay the whole time that was originally planned, but the kids being sick was not foreseen […]

i got an award…

my first one i’m sooo proud! thank you to nicole at our cozy nest. i don’t know all the rules but i ACCEPT! been taking care of sick kids but not the whole time while my mom has been here. i did get to hit a few second hand stores and antique stores…i’ll post more […]

3 out of 5 isn’t bad

now 50% of my children are puking and i’ve slept probably oh 2 hours total and not consecutively but i did manage to make 3 out of the 5 doll blankets that i had planned to update to the shop. so i will hopefully find some time to update this morning. i’m forcing myself to […]

tutorial:: no sew ironing board cover

what you’ll need: enough fabric to cover ironing board, a pencil and a hot glue gun. so this was my ironing board that i use ALL the time…pretty hammered and kind of ugly i flipped it over and with a pencil i traced around the ironing board, i then cut out it out leaving around […]

and the scraps go to…

tutorials

so i cut up the names that were entered and i picked out randomly from the pile…and brandy from “a little glimpse of us” you get to have my scraps and lisa from “celebrate creativity in all it’s forms” gets the charm packs! thanks for helping me organize my life a little more by taking […]

my laundry pile has exploded

monkeys swinging from vines and landing in mud… building volcano’s with actual “water lava” explosions…( i swear they are going to have some AWESOME memories growing up together) this is what the boys did all day yesterday. oh and making a mountain of dirty laundry that had to be hosed off before it went into […]

a very good saturday indeed!

the little one played with her new toy food that i found this morning at the garage sale before i started working like a madwoman on little doll quilts…which by the way 3 down 2 more to go. hopefully all done and bound by monday sometime. did i mention my mom’s coming? oh yeah my […]

little chair before and after

remember the little chair i got for katie’s room for 50 cents? some spray paint (i know red AGAIN, i’m trying to use it all up before i buy another color) cardboard to hide the hole… batting to make the chair pad… i then hot glued the fabric on the bottom of the cardboard and […]

small town signs

We are rapidly approaching fall here. Yes, i know what you are saying “WHAT?! Its’ july crazy girl!” but let me explain…out in the middle of nowhere things are done…differently. You all are still frolicking around going to water parks sipping lemonade…here we’re talking about cords and hunting licenses. here are the sure tell tale […]

simply scrumtious scraps giveaway

if you read my little sidebar “to do” list you would see that i’ve been “organizing” i started with the kids rooms and now i’m moving into my craft area…i’ve been blessed that i have a business that “makes” me need to buy fabric. been doing the stitchery business thing for 5 years now, and […]

i heart this plate

found at the thrift store for $1 i’m going to do a giveaway later on today so come back soon.

amy butler’s barcelona skirt…

holy tarnation!!! i did it!!!! i followed a pattern and i made a skirt with a zipper in it!!!! (the skirt was made from the thrift store find sheets that i got for $1) if i wasn’t a good girl who goes to church regularly i would be swearing like a drunken sailor out of […]

i found her…

i decided to stop by an antique mall on my way home from the weekend celebrations. yes i took all 4 monkeys in with me and just as my nerves were about to be too much to handle with all the “please don’t touch that!” “you are going to break something!” and “i swear if […]

last of the 4th pics…and house stalking

this one is for all my friends who have little girls that would of looooooooved to of been there in person to see miley (yeah we’re on fist name basis now) this is the new house that i like… okay lust after…its a little on the “too big” side for me (too much cleaning on […]

our weekend up at the cabin…

jake’s family has a cabin up in little cottonwood canyon and it’ tradition to go up there and eat together as a family at least once a summer… my favorite part of the cabin is the vintage kitchen! it’s soo nice and cool up there when it’s super hot in the valley the view from […]

its too bad…

that of course my 5 minutes of fame has to be a picture like this in the salt lake tribune…i had heard that i was in the newspaper…and when i saw it i was like “of course” and then i was happy that no one i knew in my small town would be seeing this […]

freedom banner

yesterday i started packing for my stadium of the fire excursion…and i got all patriotic that i had to make this banner. i was inspired by this post and added the word “freedom” to my banner. the project was easy and fun and i did it in an hour (while the boys were outside playing […]

fast easy decorating

i first saw the fabric in a hoop on soule mama but now it seems like it’s everywhere. so i decided to do it as well. what i love about this is that you can change the fabrics for the season and it’s an instant change to the look. cheap, easy, and super fast…my FAVORITE […]

dear crystal light…

tutorials

its not you its me…and i don’t want to entirely give up drinking you because you taste good and replenish my thirst…but you don’t do for me what my beloved diet dr pepper does…keep me awake. now you see i have 4 little kids and my husband is gone for a while and i can’t […]

summer quilt::part 2

i still have to hand bind the beast but i think i can do it in two nights…after the kids are in bed. i’ll pop in a few good movies and give it a go…what do you think?

summer quilt…

um this thing is going to be gi–normous! i wanted all of us to be able to fit…pretty sure we’re not going to have a problem. on the agenda today: 1. finish quilt top and get it to fabulous friend that just happens to be a professional quilter 2. clean house and start packing for […]

confession…

oops i forgot to write : p.s. i still need cute sationary