Found myself some more fun online! Went over to Pepperberry & Co and saw there was a need for pattern testers! I thought it might be fun and of course there’s some free perks involved for playing along. I’m so happy to have been assigned the ipod/iphone cover thingie. What a coincidence i just got an iphone about 2 weeks ago! Can’t wait to get started on it.
Thanks for the opportunity Sandra!
Last night I sewed a girlie rag quilt together. Since I have 4 boy sort of themed ones I thought I should make some more girlie ones before my show on Saturday. So I made this neat one with pinks and purples and cute little owls.
I plunked it on the kitchen table to remember to snip it today and, as it was very late (much like now), I turned off all the lights on the main floor and was about to go upstairs. Then I forgot something and came back into the kitchen to get it. At first I thought my eyes weren’t adjusted to the dark or something but there on the table where all these little green circles! When I walked closer I realised it was the eyes on the owls! Apparently it’s glow in the dark fabric!!! I bought it almost a year ago and didn’t remember that at all. So it’s a pretty cool quilt.
Sorry for the plain photos, Picnik is acting wonky and I’m tired.
So I’ve decided to dedicate Fridays to sharing all the creative people I’ve found as a result of this blog endeavour of mine. I’ve got a pile to work through and I’d like to start with Blue Calla. Met her at a little Mommies night out thing a few weeks ago and, thanks to my weakness for all things tote/purse/bag related, I made a purchase. Here’s the wonderful little number I bought.
She uses such nice fabrics and the patterns are very stylish. I’ve been using the bag since, almost everyone comments on it. I learned from my Hot Butter purchase that people like fun one of a kind bags and usually ask, “Did you make that?” so I grabbed a bunch of her business cards and I’ve been giving them out when people ask!
Here’s some more of her great stuff. Find her on Facebook where you can see her entire fabric selection!
So I signed up for this swap at SewMamaSew and it was too fun! First I got to dig through my ever growing stash of fabric and find some things I thought other people might like. THEN envelopes with fabric started to arrive!!
So fun! Tanya was playing along too, she sent me the fun aqua colour fabric that reminds me of those sparkles in 50’s counter tops. Kristin was a super star and said she was decluttering and sent 3 fat quarters!!!
Wesley got some mail today an envelope full of stickers from his friend William! There was homework assigned as well. We have to mail stickers back to William and to another boy, THEN we get to pick 6 friends and send some stickers. They’ll do the same thing and send stickers back to us and 7 other children. Wesley was super excited about the stickers he got today, I can’t wait to see how he reacts as mail starts pouring in for him!
Wesley has 2 friends he wants to send stickers to and I thought it might be fun to find some new friends. So if you have a little one in your life who would appreciate some free stickers in the mail, and like putting together some envelopes for other children let me know you’d like to play! I’ll take the first 4 replies. Leave your email, or send me one with the name and address and we’ll send them out over the weekend. Anyone can play no worries about postage, as long as you don’t mind mailing back to Canada.
I exploded everything I’ve been working on for the past bunch of weeks onto the kitchen table Friday night to impress myself with my industrious creativity. Check it out!
So are you impressed with my industrious creativity? I sure was. I thought it would be 100 things but when I checked my inventory list it was just over 80, still impressive. Then I packed everything up and enlisted my husband’s help in getting all the sticky a-straw-was-here patches off the juice totes while we watched Glee, Modern Family AND The Office. Yeah, it took a while. When we were done it was almost midnight and I opted for some sleep instead of trying to get one more thing done.
The show was fun, I met some nice people and saw some neat crafts. Some people made suggestions for items of modifications to my items which was cool. The juice pouch totes were my best seller, a little boy picked one out for his mom for mother’s day, it was cute. A lady approached me about being in a show strictly for upcycling items so now I’m thinking up new ideas to expand my inventory to include more than tea cup pincushions and juice pouch totes. My photographer friend Joanna took a pic of our tables, I’ll share them once she recovers!
At the silent auction I bid on Joanna’s friend’s sock monkey sweatshirt and won! The creator is Robin and she makes super cool and nifty sock animals.
Apparently the traffic wasn’t what is should have been and some of the other vendors were upset. It was slower than last year so vendors who had been there in the past were a little disappointed. But I had a fun day out, met neat people, got some new ideas, hung out beside my friend and had some me time away from the kiddies.
When I woke up this morning I didn’t want to even look at crafts let alone do one . . . . but there are these rag quilt squares all spread out on the floor downstairs and I think I hear them calling my name . . . .
