When the Shaffer Sisters asked me to participate in their Family Photo Stitched With Love, I responded “yes” without hesitation. They’ve been guests here when I ran the Lost Arts of Sewing series this May with an adorable embroidered vintage style dress. I thought through the handmade items I’ve made for my daughters Arden and {…Continue Reading}
Thanks for coming to the party! Feel free to display the button if you were featured! Cara at Craft Dictator created this cozy and cute convertible pallet bed. Sorry, I tried, but I couldn’t carry the alliteration any further! Marni at Haberdashery Fun came up with the perfect gift for a food blogger with a {…Continue Reading}
I’m posting over at The Girl Creative with a super simple transformation of one of those Melissa & Doug wooden trays into an organizer for my sewing table. ** Edited ** Looks like my post at The Girl Creative will be live on October 22nd. Be sure to check it out then!
I imagine with a title like “A Public Service Announcement About Cutting Safety” you know where this is going. Yup. I cut myself with a rotary cutter. Badly. I’ve been excitedly preparing to make hubby Dave a Negroni shirt from Colette Patterns. On Thursday evening after the girls were in bed I was getting my {…Continue Reading}
Are you ready to link up? Bring it on! We celebrated Hadley’s 2nd birthday and I saved money on custom invitations by designing them in PicMonkey. So easy and cute! Here we go with Thrifty to Nifty Thursdays! Are you taking thrift store finds or items you’ve had laying about the house and remaking them {…Continue Reading}
We celebrated Hadley’s 2nd birthday with a fairly loose interpretation of a cheese mouse theme. She loves the mouse from the Tinkerbell movies named Cheese, so it seemed like a good theme to follow. I created the invitations on PicMonkey using a photo from our summer vacation. Since Hadley’s birthday falls during 3rd quarter closing {…Continue Reading}
It’s that time again! Copy the html for the button if you were featured: Katie at The Crafty Blog Stalker shares how she used an adhesive dry erase product to create these thrifty and useful cubes. Julia from It’s Always Ruetten ran a series called Six Soups September and this slow cooker Pizza Soup looks {…Continue Reading}
My funny, quirky, opinionated, pony skipping Hadley. You do nothing halfway. From the moment you wake until the time you drift off to sleep, you are either the picture of happiness with your double dimples and contagious giggle or shrieking “notankyuu” as fast as you can while waving your little hand frantically! We went berry {…Continue Reading}
… and the winner is… Maegen! Shannon has already sent you the digital pattern so if you haven’t already seen it in your e-mail, let me know!
Is it beginning to feel like fall where you are? I love this time of year except that it means winter is on its way. The SewFab e-Pattern Sale is the ultimate in thriftiness – 26 patterns for $29.95!! Many of these patterns would lend themselves nicely to refashion projects which would make them practically {…Continue Reading}
