Month: October 2009

Fun with a sweater:

I started with this. a 100% wool JCrew sweater, sized adult M, $6 at a local thrift store. I LOVED the fair isle on the top, but assume the sweater was donated because of these hideous elbow patches? close up of the fair isle… so I cut it up to make the bean a pair […]

My night:

Lots of strips (Twice Broken Dishes quilt blocks); a wardrobe refashioned pair of pants for the Bean, a pair of turquoise double knit pants for the Bean, and a turquoise double knit raglan t-shirt for D.I want to go to bed, but the Bean is awake and crying in her crib, and I’m trying to […]

Bean Butt!

Every cloth-diapered baby needs a pair of argyle wool soakers, right?this picture doesn’t do the turquoise justice, it’s an amazingly vibrant color. I’m doing this purply-brown color as the solid diamonds, and then I’m going to do kelly green duplicate stitch to do the thin diamonds across.then the legs will be the two main colors […]

Jam jar labels

I love home canning… I’ve posted lots of pics over the past few months of my adventures… so I thought I’d take a minute and post the BEEEEYOUtiful labels my wonderful husband made for me.they’re all saved in photoshop so I can go back and put in new dates for future batches… we also made […]

I LOVE CLAUDIA, (and blogland in general)

so last night I was feeling a bit discouraged, and posted about it, and when I woke up this morning, I had a comment, from the most brilliant and wonderful person: Claudia W. thank you. Claudia, you are my angel for the day. because, of course, you were right, I just needed to use my […]

More stamping fun

I looked at my favorite fabric store for some jelly bean fabric (tomake a party dress for the Bean), but the closest they had was eitherpolka dots or m&ms. So, having gotten Printing By Hand for my bday,and having already carved some jelly bean stamps for the invites, Idecided to make my own fabric. D […]

sewing machine withdrawl…

I took my Bernina Artista730 in for service, I’ve sewed like a million miles on that poor machine in the 2.5 years that I’ve had it. I’ve been putting it off because I NEED a machine daily. it’s my stress relief, my adult time, my unwinding and completing my day. Maybe there are toys scattered […]

My rant.

Ok, I totally get that not everyone has the time or desire to bake, but even in this crazy super-speedy world, sticking m&ms on a tube of refrigerated dough cannot possible be called a "recipe". Free or not.

Fun with embossing!

My baby's 1st birthday party invitations. I'm embossing the jelly bean stamps I made a few days ago. I'm super proud of the way these are turning out. If I were doing it again, I wouldn't stamp the words, I'd do those on the printer, like the insides, and just do picture stamping, but live […]