My Hand-Sewn Ring Bearers Pillow

Creating my own wedding accessories  has been a bit stressful, but very rewarding when they are completed. I am having a peacock color wedding, (minus the peacock feathers since my friend has  convinced me they are bad luck,) because my fiance has green eyes and I have blue. I found this beautiful satiny fabric at joanns and after a great sale took home 2 yards of it. This fabric was labeled as a tie dye even though I think that doesn’t  do it justice.Swirls of chartreuse, teal, royal purple, cobalt blue and emerald green

with small flecks of gold flake

I took a 19” x 24” rectangle piece of fabric and after pinking all edges sewed the 19” edges together with a 1” seam, to make a tube. I then made a  drawstring  on both ends, stuffed them then drew the two ends tightly.

I took two matching, mother-of- pearl flake buttons and attached them with the cord to cover the small gap that cinching it created.  I then stitched the two buttons together  with ribbon  to hold the top and bottom together. I also took 1/8” ribbon and made a tassel and attached it to the bottom

Its final dimension is 4” high with a 8” diameter

Valentines Orchid Show

Every Valentines day week end my fiance takes me to a local orchid show, while I love all these beautiful exotic blooms, it is the amazing scent of orchids  that  pours out of the entrance  that I remember the most.

 I have been so incredibly busy planning my  diy wedding, It was so nice to put all that aside and enjoy  a quiet moment of tranquility… I just wish I could bottle the scent.

Versatile blog award

I have been nominated  for a versatile blogger award by Lacartera. http://lcartera.wordpress.com    Thank you so much. I have looked at many of the blogs that I follow to find the 15 nominations I am to nominate , it was very difficult with so many great ones out there.

Our shabby Nest http://ourshabbynest.wordpress.com/

Now Here http://beautifullittlefool89.wordpress.com/

Stigmastylepistil http://stigmastylepistil.com/

Growing Grace Farm http://growinggracefarm.wordpress.com/

Vintage Cordelle  http://cordellevintage.wordpress.com/

erinsbackyardfarm http://erinsbackyardfarm.wordpress.com/

curls n skirls http://curlsnskirls.wordpress.com/

homesweethomemade http://poindextr.wordpress.com/

The little pomegranate http://thelittlepomegranate.wordpress.com/

Crafty Suburb momma http://craftysuburbmomma.wordpress.com/

Maniacal medievalist http://maniacalmedievalist.wordpress.com/

Vintage Loving gal http://vintagelovingal.wordpress.com/

Miss fairchild charm school http://missfairchildscharmschool.wordpress.com/

suburbanhomestead http://suburbanstead.wordpress.com/

judiannscrafts http://grandmajudiann.wordpress.com/

Please forgive me if the links above do not work  I have spent hours of   trying to figure out how to them to

According to the rules here are my 7 interesting facts about me

I collect antique toasters

I was Bayfield Colorado’s 4th of July queen 1990

I have been inside one of the largest marble quarries in the world ( very cold )

I’m pushing 20,000 achievement score on xbox live

I have hundreds of vinyl records

My favorite singer is Edith Piaf

My favorite author is Jack London

Thank you  everyone who follows my blog, I hope that this years will be even better.

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Black and White Damask Apron

 The second apron I made as a Christmas present was for my sister in law. I made it fully lined in this beautiful black and white floral damask, with a comfy elastic waistband  and 3 rows of lace 2 black and 1 white  trimming the bottom.

I added a coordinating side ribbon and a strip of black glitter ribbon across the bottom for a little sparkle.

Then a pocket that I matched up to the pattern, so it wouldn’t detract from the skirt like look I was going for.

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This was one of my favorite aprons so far. It was a hit at Christmas

Beer-Garden Girl inspired apron

This Christmas  I handmade  most of my presents this year.  While it was stressful and exhausting It was well worth the effort. Everyone was very happy, This fully lined apron I made especially for a Sister in law, it reminded me of a beer garden girl so much I wanted to give her two pint mugs to go with them.

The Brown fuzzy Trim I added was my favorite addition to the apron, it went really nice with the cream eyelet lace. I used four small bows on each end of the side ribbons  that I attached   with the herring bone stitch ( which  when used that way reminds me of fish net)

 I have always felt that having an apron tied around the waist to be uncomfortable, so I started about 7 aprons ago making them with an elastic waistband my mother who is very tiny, loves them since they don’t slid off of her frame.

Adding the pocket was difficult to line up the pattern with out wasting fabric but I succeeded, you can hardly see it, I don’t think the recipient even  realized it was there .

152 quilt piece pick-up

After 3 days I had really gotten the hang of it, made a few more than I intended, Id rather have too many though than not enough

paisley-metallic fabric for quilt

 I love these fabric pieces I bought Stax bundles and added the green paisley and the middle piece left over from a beer garden skirt I made, its kinda hard to tell but there is a silver metallic running through the Stax bundle. I am planing a rather large square quilt, to showcase  the top right corner paisley.

I have been unable to do much for a few months thanks to a back injury, I have spent this time  collecting fat quarters on sale, and organizing my craft room ( ill share a photo of that one day ) and practicing my embroidery and knitting from the safety of my bed. I have many many plans now  and hope to belt out a number of projects in the near future.