Birthday Bag

Sent my sister a little purse for her Birthday in January. I was in such a hurry to get it done and in the mail that I didn’t remember to take nice pictures with a real camera (not my camera phone). Oops. I only had these cuz I wanted to show it off to someone.

It’s got a heavy brown polka dot fabric that for the outer and a smooth floral paisley-ish fabric on the inside. I pleated the outside of the bag and added a re-enforced handle, magnetic snap, and inside pocket to the bag. Finished with a decorative tab with buttons on one side.

Definitely didn’t come out perfect but came out good anyway. She claimed that she loved it :)

 

Hey Susan if you happen to read this and have any cuter pics you should send them my way! Lemme know if you’ve used it yet :)

I’m still here

I have been up to a few things. A {long} while back I started work on my front living room in my house.  It definitely took me waaay too long to tackle it, but I’m glad I finally did.

This is before we moved it. Not terrible, right? Well if you were to look close there’s random hooks in the cieling, nails in the walls, those curtains are nasty, and there’s a super old wallpaper border around the ceiling. the ceiling is painted the same as the walls, and the room has probably been that odd green color for probably at least 30 years. It was bearable…

After moving in, taking down that wallpaper (that old glue was ridiculous to get down! All the commercial strippers did NOT work, I finally made up my own which worked well. Prepping the walls definitely took longer than the painting), I painted and then made curtains. I also made my own curtain rods because I couldn’t wouldn’t afford to spend over $100 in rods for 2 windows (the big one is 12 feet long). Why didn’t I reuse what was there? Because they were 4 different random rods taped and nailed to the wall LOL.

I got the curtains up just in time for Christmas…

I like how the curtains and the rods turned out. I think the rod looks good, not like something I threw together.

 

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The latest project I was working on was gifts for two mamma’s to be that I work with. They are both due the first part of February with their first little baby boys. I had a little baby shower for them for work people and it was a blast. I didn’t get a ton of pictures because I was so busy getting it all set up and going.

Reese’s peanut butter cupcakes (that is peanut butter frosting, not cookies on top!), and Lemon black raspberry cream cupcakes.

These are delicious caramel peanut butter mini popcorn balls with chocolate butterscotch drizzle.

We also had a veggie and fruit tray, little smokey’s, and lemonade.

I think the highlight was the Hot Chocolate bar, which I sadly didn’t get any pictures of-it really wasn’t dressed up all cute but I had 2 crock pots-one with Hot chocolate and one with White hot chocolate (both from scratch-no powder mix-they were delicious). Then we had a variety of ‘toppings’ to add in such as mini chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, caramel sauce, crushed peppermint, whipped cream, etc. I think everyone went back for more.

We played a few short and simple games that turned out fun, and the mom’s opened their gifts.

I spend many hours making my gifts for them:

In my rush to get things done I didn’t take any good pictures of the quilts with my good camera. Oops. Oh well. I did everything from choosing and cutting the fabric, piecing them, and machine quilting and binding the quilts. They are far from perfect but for my first two quilts I am happy with them. I think the mom’s liked them too and hope they can use them. I wish you could see the white fabric isn’t plain-it does have these tiny white polka dots on it.

What’s next? I’m not sure, I have a handful of sewing projects and others in mind-so I guess we’ll just have to see!