catching up

Should I blame my injured finger for not having blogged lately? or just say that it's been a busy month or two?

I made a quilt for my niece Eliza...

and nephew Max...

We went to Utah for a week and enjoyed time with family and cooler weather.

I made a pillow for an auction at church and had an incident with a rotary cutter that required nine stitches - ouch!

I'll spare you the photos of my mishap if you'll be patient with my blog posts being way past due! ;)

Easter Attire

I don't usually sew clothes for the girls for a few reasons...
1) whatever I make, I have to make THREE of
2) they keep eating and growing, so eventually it won't fit (their dolls, on the other hand, never outgrow what I make for them - how considerate!)
3)... well, i can't think of any more reasons, but those two are big ones

But Easter was coming and I wanted to do something special for them. Plus, I needed to use the 2 yards of floral fabric I had to make me feel better about all the quilting fabric I've purchased lately.

So here they are... Emily & Vivian got Edith twirl skirts and Anna Claire's is the Oliver + S ice cream dress. Those skirts required a lot of gathering! 472 inches of it! phew! And of course, I didn't start sewing until Friday morning. It's an Easter miracle!


Hopefully they won't all have growth spurts next month.

a chair lift

okay, I give in.

Lisa - you can stop bugging me now. I have a blog. But don't expect great writing. Just some plagiarized crafts like this chair...


Inspired by All Things Thrifty, I have been wanting to spray paint some ugly furniture. Usually I can't see the potential in that stuff. I found this chair at Savers in December for $15. I loved the straight lines and could tell it had seen more than its' share of bottoms. I primed it and decided to paint it Krylon Bauhaus Gold, but it wasn't so lovely. so I switched to Krylon Ivy Leaf. But the paint dripped and cracked. I sanded some of it and ignored the rest. THREE cans total. Then I found fabric I loved, but it was $40/yd! So I got something for $3 at Wal-mart. hated it. Compromised with something geometric for $7/yd. My dad cut some plywood to replace the caning. Cue lame staple gun. One out of every eight staples actually went in flush with the plywood. But here it is...

and I love it!
(even though I can see some bauhaus gold peeking through here and there).


Here is my next project:
This will replace the bookshelves in the office,
which will replace the kid's plastic storage shelves,
which will hold food storage in the garage.

But I'm not using spray paint.