Website Whoas

Is it just me or has www.quiltingboard.com been on the fritz lately?!

I always check out that site when I'm in need of some inspiration or when I just need a quick getaway.

I have been trying new things to organize my sewing room.

I'll will have pictures later of  what I've been trying to do organization-wise in my room with muh glue gun ;)

ALSO....I have purchased a glue gun!! Yes, yes. I know what you're thinking...oh everyone owns a glue gun!  Well I didn't until last weekend.  This morning I opened it up and BAM! I'm hooked!  I want to glue everything!

I have also been working on planning out my coupon binder!  I LOVE to coupon and I need a more efficient system.

I think that just about covers it for now!

Sunday Shenanigans

Well today is Sunday...already? Where did the weekend go?  I have made a come back from how I was feeling yesterday so I have been trying to get things done that did not get done yesterday.

I already have stuff in the crock pot for pulled pork....which you can find here.  It is so delicious! Even DH likes it, which makes anything even more fun to cook.

Here is one activity I was able to accomplish last night after the dogs went to bed. 
I don't know this for sure...but I am almost 100% positive that dogs are very similar to children.  After my dogs go to bed I make sure to be very quiet because you "let a sleeping dog lie" sort of thing.  I'm sure children are the same way.

I made dinner last night, not the healthiest of choices but it helped with my up-cycling project and cleared space in my freezer.

Take a box of some kind, clearly this is a cheese stick box, but I have also seen this done with cereal boxes and that works just as well.  Measure a few inches up the side, I believe I measured up 5" here.  Then just draw a line to the corner from where you measured up on each side. Cut!

Then cover with some scrap book paper/card stock like I did here, and I added a nice little saying that I found in my scrap book things.  You could also use newspaper (the comics section would be cute), or wrapping paper, or even left over wall paper!!  

You could let your kids join in and make this for their rooms to hold books or magazines (you do the cutting of course!) and then let them cover the box in stickers or they could color pages in a coloring book and glue them on.  They could even glue buttons on!

This project really doesn't take very long to make and there are endless possibilities of what to cover it in as well as what to make it out of or use it for!!  Plus it's very inexpensive :)

When you get tired of one box, recycle it and make a new one!  I'm sure you'll eat cereal again ;)

I am also doing laundry among other household chores today and I have several pairs of jeans to fix and a baby quilt to make! Yikes!

Enjoy your day everyone!!!

P.S.  Sorry if my blog starts to look a little messy, I'm going to start doing some construction and adding tutorials very soon! It will take me a while but stick with me!! <3

Chili Chip Costume!

Hello all!

I am taking a (very) short break from my Financial Statement Analysis project to post my first ever dog costume!

My friend Colleen asked me to make a costume for her sweet little dog Chip.  I was nervous since I'd never made  anything for a dog before, but I accepted knowing this is a task I could accomplish.

Colleen told me her and her fiance wanted Chip to go dressed as a bag of Fritos.  So I did my best and made a little "apron" of sorts, a strap to go around his neck and little ties on the side to go around his belly.

I looked at a Fritos bag as I made the costume, and I used heat-n-bond to attach the letters and then stitched around them to help them stay on in case she needed to machine wash it.

I think it turned out pretty cute.

Thanks everyone!  Later tonight I plan on posting more pictures!

Still here!

I am so very sorry I haven't been writing like I should be!

I have been keeping up with school and work lately and I haven't had time to do much of anything for myself.
I'm sure my teachers conspired against us this semester seeing as how I have a project and/or presentation in every class! yikes!

RIGHT NOW I am loading pictures from my camera to my new laptop (yes, yet again during another college semester I had ANOTHER computer decide to bite the dust on me)

I hope to get to blog either later tonight or tomorrow in between working on my Financial Statement Analysis project.  Luckily I am almost done.

I have several projects completed that I can't wait to share with you!!

Have a wonderful day all!!

Long time, no blog

Hello everyone,

So sorry it has been so long since my last blog.  I have been extremely busy with school and work.  I have been working on so many projects whenever I can.

I promise to post pictures soon!  I have several quilts that are waiting in my "in box" for binding!

Be kind to one another today.

Table Topper!

Oops! I meant to upload a picture of this a week or two ago and I forgot!

Another table topper with the chilis.

This table topper measures 22" square and I adapted it from a baby quilt pattern I found.  I quilted it myself using X's in the yellow and red squares and stitch-in-the-ditch (SID) around the chilis and the black feathery fabrics.

Here's the back, I'm just happy it turned out so cute.

Recently...

Here are a few pictures of things I've gotten accomplished lately..

This pattern is from a calendar my mom got me for Christmas last year.  The pattern is actually red, white and blue and it says "Home" in the middle but I made it into a baby quilt.  I printed off the letters for "Baby" from Microsoft word after I found a font size that was appropriate and I put iron on adhesive on the fabric and traced around the letters and cut them out.  Then I ironed them to the center block and machine stitched around them just in case!  I made this a few weeks ago but I put it away thinking I was going to add a border but I don't think I will.  It still needs to be quilted and have the binding put on.

(Clearly I'm not tall enough to get all of it in the picture haha)

This is a table runner I finished yesterday and MAN did it take a long time.  I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  I found measurements for the mini churn dash in a book I have and went from there.  I quilted it myself using a method I found on youtube.com but that was also very time consuming.  Still happy with it though! (Stood on the bed for this picture hehehe)

a close up of the churn dash and the little bows I stitched on the corners!  It measures 9 3/4" X 45 1/2"

This pattern I actually saw as a picture online and then I decided I wanted to use 5 1/2" blocks and just made a 9 patch and some borders! SUPER EASY! This measures 35 1/2" square.  I've had these fabrics grouped together for a while now and just didn't know what pattern I wanted to use.  I actually finished this a few days ago but it still needs to be quilted and have binding put on.

here is a close up of the purple with tiny white polka dots and the darker purple with the grapes! SO cute!

This is a table topper that I finished earlier before I ran errands!  I love the chili pepper fabric and if you've been following along you'll know that I've used it in several projects ;) and I still have some left!!  The topper measures 15 1/2" square and I still need to quilt it.  The pieced blocks are a disappearing 4 patch and it wasn't as time consuming as it may look!

And EVERYTHING I have shown you today I made from my stash! No cost out of pocket! However, I did run out of thread while I was binding the red, white, and blue table runner and I did have to run out for some more red thread.  Unbelievable, right?  So I guess I was out a few dollars on thread...but it was a necessary purchase.

I think I'm going to take it easy the rest of the day and make a few simpler (but still cute) projects.