Finally!

Oh blog, how I have missed you!!! I have been so busy with the holiday and being on vacation I haven't had a moment to blog :(

As promised here are the burp cloths I made for my friends baby shower. I just love the Twilight shirt! Speaking of Twilight I got to do the triple play Twilight viewing with some friends on the opening night of Eclipse. We saw all three movies back to back in the theater! Almost 8 hours of Edward Cullen... Ohhhhh what more can I say!

WTF???

What is this mess??? My sewing machine totally crapped out on me tonight, OK for real it was probably user error!!! I am still trying to finish up my sewing project for my friends baby shower. Tonight the hubby is out and the kids are asleep so its a perfect time to wrap this up, or so I thought. I get my machine all ready, type in the letters and let it do its magic. While I am waiting for the embroidery to be done I start trimming up the backing of another little gift I made, the next thing I know my machine starts to sound like a jack hammer. I snap out of my daze and realize that my embroidery hoop has slipped off of the material and now it is sewing like it's on crack, not just any crack the serious stuff as you can tell by my picture!!! No big deal right, one little hand made gift down the drain. Not so much see these are going to be a set of 6 but I already messed another one up the other night so I thought hey a set of 5 isn't bad. NOW A SET OF 4, I can't live with that. I am going to have to go buy more supplies and make it right before next weekend. Moral of the story, don't let your sewing machine do drugs, or make sure you put the embroidery hoop on correctly before you start sewing!

Crafty

Sorry for my absence this week, I have been super busy! There has also been some serious magic going on in the craft room! (Not that kind of Magic!!!) My friend is having her first baby and her baby shower is comming up in about a week. Here is a sneak peak at what I have been working on. I can't show the finished products until after the shower so a peak is all you get for now :)

Free Paper! (A Cost Savings Idea)

Want to know a great way to get free paper for your craft of purpose? This is a great tip.... Call your local paint and wallpaper store and find out what they do when they are done with their wallpaper sample books. Most paint stores throw them away and will give them to you for FREE if you agree to pick them up at a certain time every month. Stores get new wall paper sample books with updated lines so they throw these books out on a regular basis. I get mine from the local Sherwin Williams. The books are HUGE and thick, the ones I have are about a 1 1/2 feet long by 1 foot wide. A lot of the books have some pretty cool textured wallpaper in there which can be lots of fun! Here is a card I made using some wall paper samples, some pictures of one of my books and a few of the pages inside of them. I want to try and hit up an upholstery store to see what they do with their sample books, oh the sewing that could be done from one of those :) I haven't got around to trying that one yet.