With the profits from a yard sale and the sale of our old couch set we recently purchased a pair of new couches! It’s been on my house to do list for years, so you can imagine my excitement at finally purchasing my very own couch.

To integrate the couches in with the rest of the house, I made a eclectic set of  pillow covers.

I sewed these up pretty quick, all in all, I am quite pleased with them. The fabric was from my stash, so “free to me”, and I just winged the pattern.  Photos are taken by Colton Allen.

Bogle Face was recently commissioned to make a order of 10 Bogle bibs! We’ve been busy sewing, snapping and adoring these little monsters. Before we sent them to their new home, we took some pictures to share, meet the gang.

A big thanks to Colton for taking their portraits.

Spring break is finally here!

I’m still working, but I get to go home “early” (compared to when I’m in school), which means fun afternoons with Miss Etta!

This weekend we finally finished her play tent/teepee.  I got the pattern from here, with some slight alterations. The fabric is from my favorite store IKEA (Thanks Chris!).

As you can see she is thoroughly enjoying it!

While we are embracing this break from school, I am also nervously waiting for June 1st to roll around. What happens June 1st? Well, that’s when I hear back from the Nursing Schools I applied to for Fall 2012 Admission! So cross your fingers for me, while we… wait..wait..wait…

I’m sure the time will fly by, but often it feels sooooo sssssllllowwwwwwwww. Luckily I will be plenty busy with two courses next term (Microbiology and Ananatomy & Physiology II), so my blog posts will be sparse and infrequent at best (your official warning)!

Enjoy Spring!

I love babies, and even more, I love ONESIES!

I personalized a bunch of these little guys for a new neighbor baby, and thought you might enjoy them too! The pictures could have been better…. but you get the idea!

I hit up my stash of Etta baby clothes for the onesies, and the fabric scrap pile for the cute fabric. The mushroom and tree patch fabric is from Heidi Kenney’s design available on spoonflower or maybe still in her etsy store.

I made a fabulous orange polka-dot reversible apron for a good friend’s birthday!

Here I am modeling it, before it got wrapped up and hand delivered with a birthday song!

The reversible apron pattern is from Lotta Jansdotter’s Simple Sewing.

This is the second time I’ve attempted the pattern, and I made some slight changes (wider waist straps and a different type of straps, I also got rid of the gather at the neck straps).

Here is something I was busy working on this past holiday season! All in all I made 3, two turned out awesome… one not so much (I’m keeping the dud).

Felted Scull Potholder/Trivet, pattern from Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet

Before Felting

After Felting

Pretty cool eh? This guy ended up in my sister-in-law’s stocking!

I varied it a bit from the actual pattern, instead of two squares crocheted together, I just felted one square (the first attempt to felt two together came out a bit thicker than I wanted).

A little post Christmas present for myself!

We had a wild and crazy fun holiday around here! I crafted up a small storm after my triumphant finish to the Anatomy and Physiology course I was taking at my local community college. The most exciting fun of the craft storm was learning a new jewelry skill, metal stamping!

I made 3 necklaces with hand stamped pendents for my family and friends. However I managed to wrap everything and give it away without a single photo to document.

Last night I made this little something to dangle around my neck. The wedding ring has been around my neck for some time (my finger shrunk and I can now shake my ring off at will if wearing it),  I think it looks great accompanied by a little Etta pendent and crystal.

Inspiration for my costume came from Martha Stewart (again). The Halloween magazine that came out, that I promised myself I wouldn’t buy, and ended up buying after the third “in-checkout line-reading” and extreme sadness that followed when I wasn’t able to bring the magazine out of the store with me!

So.

What intrigued me in those pages?

Some fabulously felt butterfly wings!

After many hours of shopping, cutting, sewing and finally stuffing. The wings were made!

Etta was a caterpillar, so we made a nice pair!

She had the cutest little caterpillar legs & tail (although, I’m not sure caterpillar’s have tails, but it was CUTE.

We’ve been decorating and scheming for weeks! This years decorations included spiders, shrunken apple heads and of course, pumpkins, LOTS of pumpkins (squashes too)!

Before Pumpkins.

After Pumpkins.

Finally, no house is complete without a puking pumpkin!

A giant shout out to our master carver(s) for their work with these awesome pumpkins and apples (the shrunken heads)! As always, big  thanks to my hubby for his awesome camera work and willingness to take pictures for me to share!

One of the very last trick or treaters waved her fairy wand and graced our home with the title of spookiest and best decorated house in the neighborhood! A honor we gratefully accepted!

I sewed this tablecloth up during a very long conference call! It’s convenient to have to your home office in your “crafty garage”. Mind you, I was very engaged in the call, yet my fingers needed some work!

The fabric is from Ikea, and I think the total was around $14.00 for two yards, I just pressed the edges and sewed it up!