These prints over at HappyTownUSA are awesome! I love silly sentiments and the vintage toys and fun photography makes me like them even more.
I’ll resist the urge to post all of the prints and make you wander over there to see them, it’s well worth the time for the chuckles you’ll have. Heck, you might even make a purchase!
At the Creativ Festival I met this lovely lady with an amazing product! It combines a who lot of things I love into one fun product. It’s a DIY craft project, it’s earth friendly, it’s cute and you can keep it or give it as a gift! The patterns are printed directly onto the 100% organic cotton (it’s really soft!) and all you have to do it cut, sew and stuff! All you need is a needle/sewing machine and thread. It’s brilliant. Fun for a veteran crafter and easy enough for a newbie.
Not only is Berene a wonderful lady, when I asked for a card and mentioned I would blog about her items she asked if I would take something and host a giveaway. Free stuff and fun, there was no way I could say no. Sooooo I picked something I thought would be fun for the upcoming holiday season, or even for a special valentine.
So here’s the deets, head over to the Happy Sew Lucky site, to see the different products and then click her Facebook to place a comment about their fave kit. EXTRA ENTRY if you come back here and tell me what you like the most about her awesome products too, so I don’t feel all lonely like.
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Ok, I can spill the beans now, the cat is out of the bag . . . insert other silly saying here. Mollie of Wild Olive and I have been busily working on a project together. I had this great idea to make a cloth memory game, something that would last a while and be special because it was handmade. I sat down to sketch out some ideas when it occurred to me that she could make drawings waaaay cuter and better than I ever could, so I sent her an email and asked if she’d like to be part of a collaboration. I was thrilled when she said yes.
As I’ve said before, I’m not familiar with a graphics program, nor do I understand the magic behind making PDF patterns (both on my To Do list I might add) so I figured teaming up would solve those problems. I had the idea and did the sewing, instructions and photos and Mollie added her fantastic designs and technical know how. The PDF is for sale in my Etsy shop, as well as Mollie’s where you can check out her other fun embroidery patterns.
Posted in embroidery, kid fun, sewing, tutorial-ish
Tagged embroidery, game, pattern, PDF, sewing, soft toy, wild olive
While wandering the festival I happened upon this lady’s lovely booth full of all sorts of fun modern fabrics. Mad About Patchwork is in Ottawa, a city I love and miss.
On her blog, Pam did a 7 weeks of Christmas challenge and she found a bunch of neat tutorials and projects and then made them using Colorful Christmas by My Mind’s Eye for Riley Blake, with great results. She whipped up a selvage needlebook coasters, little trees, tiny totes, placemats, a tree skirt, and a table runner. Check them out over at her blog.
Here are the fat quarters I picked up at her booth, only a few since I was trying to curb myself and slow down before I wouldn’t be able to walk for all the fabric I was carrying. Plus I wanted some pretty prints that would be easy to match up with other stuff.
Posted in sewing
Tagged christmas, coasters, needlebook, placemats, riley blake, selvedge, table runner, totes, tree skirt
We sure did, it’s so much fun having little ones to take around and teach them the wonder of this fun little holiday. Nate was still pretty confused through it all, knocking on strangers’ doors, getting things to eat, in the dark, in funny clothes . . . I could almost hear the little wheels in his brain spinning and trying to digest what was going on. He wasn’t impressed with having to wear a costume either, mad at putting it on, madder when we took away his train he carries everywhere and his suckie, and furious when I tried to get him to wear the hat. And I’m sure I’ll get in trouble for the whole ‘sibling matchy type outfits’ when he’s bigger. Oh well, they looked cute so it’s all worth it!
Posted in kid fun
Tagged darth vader costume, halloween, kids costumes, r2d2 costume, trick or treating
So there’s this whole obsession with 1930’s fabric for quilts. While at the Creativ Festival I couldn’t resist picking up a . . . few fat quarters. I looooved these prints and the jelly roll thingie, which I have no idea how I’m supposed to use but I’ll figure it out.
Top trio is from Hamel’s Fabrics and the bottom stash is from Garden Thyme.
Then here’s the other things I picked up that are just fun really, not 1930’s ish.
First haul if from Sew Sister’s Quilt Shop in Toronto. I also had no idea just how many cool quilting shops are relatively nearby.
This fun stash if from Country Concessions. I plan to use it for crayon and car cozies, and the fun Dick and Jane print will be my ipad cover (once I save up enough to get it).
Here’s the neat prints I grabbed at the Quilter’s Palette booth. Again for fun kid projects.
Last one, I said there were many, is from the Quilters’ Line. More fun kid themed things, and some woodgrain because that’s just cool.
I’ve slowly been growing my craft and sewing book collection since starting my blog. Right now I’ve got many, some I haven’t even really looked in yet, let alone created something with. But that isn’t stopping me from dreaming about these 2 gems.
I really, really want Amy Butler’s new book to fuel my bag addiction and stick to my promise that I can only have a new bag if i made it myself!
Click the images for a link to read more, or spend your money if you’re in Canada.
Posted in crafty books, sewing
Tagged amy butler, bags, elizabeth hartman, patterns, purses, quilting, sewing, totes
The first time I ordered from MOO it was for free business cards with an offer they had on Etsy. So I got 50 beautiful business cards for free. I loved the quality of them, they felt great and the picture quality was amazing! The second time I ordered with them I was heading to my first craft show and wanted some minicards to use as price tag type things. I let my order sit in my browser for ages and when I finally got to actually finalizing the order. When the confirmation email arrived it said the cards would be here Monday the blahblahth. My show was on the Saturday. In a panic I sent an email and asked if they could do anything to help, or could I upgrade to the express shipping. They replied quickly and bumped my shipping to the fastest one at no additional charge!
About a week ago I ordered another pack on mini MOOs late at night, it was nearly midnight. When I woke up the next morning I had the MOOsletter in my inbox with a special offer in it for free shipping on mini MOOs. I groaned and sent an email asking if there was anyway to apply the discount code to my order since it was only placed a few hours before. They hooked me up with a quick reply and a refund! So I love MOO.
Today there was an offer for MOO stickers at 35% off. I’ve been thinking of ways to brighten up my packaging for shipping and these will be perfect for that, as well as sticking on my plain brown paper bags I use at ‘in person’ shows! I’m so excited. Above are the images I used, you can upload a ton of images, 1 for each sticker if you wanted. Otherwise it just does the math and figured out how many of each image you’ll receive. So I put MOO in the super cool category and wanted to share.
Promo code is PEFC7Q and the offer for 35% off stickers is on until October 31st.
While browsing Halloween costumes, in an attempt to talk Wesley out of being a garbage man again, he saw a Darth Vader mask and cape and decided that was going to be his Trick or Treating get up. I approved. We didn’t buy the whole outfit type costume because have you seen the price of those things?!! Not to mention the terribly quality of them!! I figured I can’t make the mask so that’s ok to buy, and having the cape is just bonus but I can totally make him some pants and a shirt to go with it.
I googled images of Darth Vaders chest plate part to get an idea of what I had to rig up and came up with these sketches.
Then I went to Michael’s to take advantage of the 2 for $7 T-shirts they’ve had on sale lately. I grabbed the smallest youth size, they’ll still be a bit big, especially for Nate but great if they end up wearing jackets underneath. I cut up felt and stitched it to the front of the shirts and came up with these.
I made some of R2’s pieces gray when they should really be white but I thought this way it shows up better. I also still have to finish his hat, which is really his gray winter hat with felt pieces attached. Wesley already wanted to wear his T-shirt. Can’t wait to see them all dressed up and standing together. My mom made me some awesome costumes when I was little, fittingly one was Princess Leia. So, am I going to get in trouble later for making them costumes that go together?
Tagged applique, darth vader costume, halloween, r2d2 costume
Wild Olive and I are going to tease you. We’ve been working on something together for a while now and we’ll tell you all about it on Monday but why not give you a peek now?
