Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Garden Extraveganza!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sewing Machine Bliss
I can't say I'll ever have all those quilts completed. Part of it is time and money, maybe the other part is keeping the memory of that was moms and she left it the way she wanted it. Maybe not quite thought through yet on what she wanted to do or she was waiting for a new line of fabric to come out to complete the thought. Not sure.
My mom had in recent years purchased a beautiful digital sewing machine, so her first expensive maching sat idle in the closet for years. The digital machine went to her good friend who is still putting it to great use! The old machine I wanted to resurrect and thought it might not as the pedals went missing. But weeks later, my dad found them! Mom's friend, Mary, checked out the machine and said it works great just needs a cleaning. So dad brought it up this weekend!
I am not a quilter by any stretch of the imagination. I wish I spent more time learning from her. But since joining Etsy and finding so many inspirational sites on easy projects, I wanted to get that machine going! I found Amy Butler and her fabrics and designs about a year ago when I was looking for a diaper bag pattern. I have since checked out her books and the design of her fabrics, bags, paper and all of other simple crafts are so beautiful to look at! It reminds of me going to antique shops and seeing old quilts stacked up thinking of who cuddled up in those or who did they comfort?
From there, my inspiration comes from my daughter, who is 8 months and cute as a button. I'd love to make her sundresses and a blankie. I also purchased a handbage off of Etsy that is beautiful and wondered if I could do something like that? Here is a site on Etsy to buy Amy's fabric or a host of other beautiful patterns: fabricsupplies.etsy.com
Asparagus
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Food photography
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sneak Peek
Friday, June 6, 2008
Start and stop, start and stop
(photo from: http://lifeisallaround.typepad.com/)
I found out from her post that they used teal, navy and white top with jean or khaki bottoms. I love the look of this picture as it breaks up everyone with pops of color, not overbearing and they don't look like a generic family. Along with the different color scheme, she made it look a bit vintage with a little help from Photoshop I'm sure. Now to convince 27 other people that this is the way to go..... I still have a couple months. :)
Bringing it closer to home, we're trying to make some adjustments in our unexpectedly growing family. I found this bed idea for our daughter Anna (on http://www.designspongeonline.com/) that 1: my husband really liked a lot, 2: it works with our multipurposed theme we're trying to do throughout our house with the chalkboard back which could be anything and storage/dresser under the bed and 3: it's super cute and we could probably make it (with a little help from dad I'm sure)!
This also reminds me the bed I had made when I was in college for my summer stays with the parents. Because I wasn't home much anymore, I had switch with my brother from my huge room to a tiny room. It had 4 drawers underneath my bed so I didn't have to fit a dresser in there. It worked out well and now my brother, after using it for quite a few years himself, is passing it off to some cousins that need it and will fit on it. :)
Personally, I'm working on a few ongoing projects at home. Nothing as cool as what Jenn's been up to, but I'm repainting a childrens bench (the one with the wrought iron sides and wood slats) a bright yellow to add to our newly landscaped front yard. I'm also hoping to pick up some flower pots this weekend, repaint them the same yellow and place them on our front steps. As yellow seems to be my theme this spring, I'm hoping to repaint our main floor bath a #2 pencil yellow and use an Etsy purchase and other items I'm repurposing for this "remodel" job. I'll post pictures upon completion (don't hold your breath)!
Have a happy, hot and humid weekend b/c we are!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
New Desk
The next project I'm working on is a work table for my studio. I'm using re-claimed wood from some factory boxes that were out on the curb for free! Is there any other way? ;) I'll post pics of the progress so we can see the before & after of my upcycled worktable!