Fabric Friday

I saw this over at Rosebud Quilting and knew I had to join in, but I had to wait a whole week and then I almost missed it. But here is my fabric. There is a spot in the corner of my room where finished projects sit until it is time (birthdays, Christmas, etc...) to reveal them. The corner is getting very full right now.

This one is for someone in the middle, who loves color. I love all the color, too.

This is for someone very little who, I think, will get the most use out of these. And I absolutly love how it turned out!!!! I can hardly wait for the big day and have to stop myself lots of times a day from giving it out early.

I really can't say what the others are in case of prying eyes, but this one I can. It is a pile of very soft and warm fleece that is almost made into two snugly skirts for church. My girls' (and mine) legs get cold walking to church this time of year so I love fleece skirts. (oh, and they do too)

Enjoy your Friday!

Sew Happy..

A few weeks ago we went down to St. George for a wedding. I was looking forward to doing a bit of shopping. Well, the only shopping I got to do was a quick trip through the D.I. (a thrift store). I spent the rest of the trip in the bathroom. Sara, Tessa, and I took turns being sick. It was not a pretty sight!! But at least I didn't have to clean up the mess. =>
But I did pick up this beauty at the DI. So I guess it wasn't a complete loss. Yeah!!! Doug squeezed it in with all our stuff and even more stuff from his parents. I am so glad we have a big ol' burb!!! He even set to refinishing it for me. Isn't is beautiful!!! I love it. And the machine that was in it works great too. It is an old Singer 600, with a knee control instead of a foot control. Kind of cool. I did clean up my sewing room to make room for it and it fits perfectly! I love all the drawers. I have a good hubby, don't I!!!!

Happy, happy, joy, joy!!!!

Faries are everywhere...

This year at Halloween my house was invaded by faries. Five of them to be exact. My girls were the faries from the movie Tinkerbell. Funny how that worked out. So they spent the night before running around at a school dance and then all day Sat. in their cute little farie costumes. Yes, I made them, but not the wings. Sara did add all the orange to her wings. They were just white. But I was very pleased with how they all turned out. Erica's costume had a cute little tutu to go with it, but she wouldn't have anything to do with that. Oh, well, at least she loved the wings. She loved running around in them. It was so cute!!! It was actually warm-ish, for us, here. We had a church party in the afternoon, then went trick or treating, then out to dinner with some friends. It was lots of fun!. Sorry the pix are so blurry, my camera isn't talking to me anymore.

Amber, Tessa, Clara, Sara, and Erica

Erica is now running around too fast for everyone else.

Yes, I won....

Here are pix of Erica and the outfit I won from over at Sewing Dork. You have got to go check her out. She is so fun and makes the cutest things for her little girl. I love her no rules sewing. I was also very excited to get her package from a give away she had! I wasn't expecting it for a little while longer. I love getting packages earlier than expected!!! She sent me a knit top and a cute skirt. Erica has been running around in it all day. The other girls were very jealous that there was only one and they tried real hard to squeeze into it. But alas, it is all Erica's. Thank you so much, Cynthia!!

Too Cute!!

I came across this pix when I was digging others out for my kindergartner's Birthday book. They get to take a book full of pix of themselves and then share it on their Birthday. But I found this old one and had to share with everyone. It is a too cute shot of Amber and a cousin at a family reunion. Those faces are just too adorable!!! Enjoy!

Why I sew, or how to boost your self-esteem

If you sew all that you need is one little girl who gets sooooo excited when ever you make her something new. This keeps you motivated to buy more fabric so you can sew more for her to keep her saying "you're the best mommy in the whole world!!!" (does that count as bribing???) Hearing that makes it all worth it!!! That being said, I have 5 little girls who all say the same thing when I make them something new, (well, okay, just 4, but I know somewhere in all that babble the youngest is saying "you're the bestest mommy in the WHOLE world!!") That is what keeps me sewing or at least how I justify all my fabric stash. I have got to make a lot of fun new stuff for school and now that Halloween is coming up I have a whole new reason for getting more material. (I can stop at any time.) The girls are all going to be fairies this year and so I got to get lots of pretty, shiny, bright colors and I can't wait to get them made. Then I can hear them all shriek and say what a great mommy I am. (my self-esteem is just fine, thank you)
I must though that I am loving this whole re-fashionist faze that is going around. Everywhere I turn in the blogging world I see another idea of how to remake something into something better. I love it!! I have made several more little girls tops out of the men's dress shirts and even hacked apart a couple of onesies to make them into little tops for my too tall baby. It is lots of fun to take something un-useful to us and make it into something spectacular. That, and I love telling my hubby how I made something cute and didn't have to buy any new fabric. (that makes him shriek and say, "you're the bestest mommy ever!!")
And isn't that what domestic bliss is all about?!!!

August sewing

First off this is what happens to your baby when the older girls are playing with makeup and she won't keep her eyes closed. The uni-brow and pretty colors around her mouth. My poor baby.


But I have been sewing up a storm since we got home this summer. Scroll down to next several posts to see what I have been making. This is just a few of them that I could round up to snap some pix of. I have been having fun, hiding away in my sewing room and using up all my stash, so I could go buy more, while the kids run wild through the neighborhood. I love our street.
I also now keep the laptop in my sewing room so I can read through all the sewing blogs when ever I want. I also found a couple of sites that have some really great free down load patterns and tutorials. Oh, that reminds me, I don't have a pix of the really cute skirt I made from one of those sites. I'll get one and get it on up here. So now you can scroll on down and see what I have been up to and I will try to be better with the postings. Happy viewing.