Little Things

Tomorrow is the big day!  Solo painting party.  Who wants to come and help?  My sewing room is all cleared out (somewhat).  My Koala sewing cabinet and the rack that holds all my fabric bins are staying in the room.  Everything else?  Out.  My bedroom is loaded up.  Punk's room is holding some stuff.  The hallway is crammed with everything else.  I'm excited to get started.  My goal is get out of bed before 8am and get started.  We shall see.  I may be up way before 8 am but I'm a bed lounger.  I love to get up at 6am, turn on the TV and just channel surf for hours.  It's a bad habit.  My focal fabric for my new window valance is here.  Just waiting on my accent fabric to show up and I hope to get that sewn up this weekend.  Few seams shouldn't take me that long.

I will snap some pictures before I get started with the re-painting.

I finished up a few small projects before I tore into my room.

A personalized pillow for a birthday gift.  Did things a little different with this one.  I used the capital letter set and a colored solid instead of my usual white. Brown and pink is the color scheme in the baby's room so I thought this would be a good match.  I was right.

A little cupcake mug rug.  Just messing around with this one.  In one of my older quilting magazines there is a wallhanging with 3 cupcakes just bigger.  I took the idea from that.  Now that I've made this mini, I'm going to make the wall hanging.  Either for my dining room or my new sewing room.

I gifted this one but I will make myself one. It's just too cute not to have one around.

Scrap purging has been happening around here and I have put some aside to giveaway.  Stay tuned for that if you are interested in some scraps.  They aren't mini scraps either.  Some pretty big pieces.  I just don't want them anymore.  I plan on also purging my patterns so that will be a second giveaway just for fun.

For those here in the US - enjoy the Memorial Day weekend!  You know what I'll be doing.  :)

Enjoy your day!
Jen :)

Stayin' Alive

Sorry.  I have the Bee Gees running through my head right now.

HI!  How's it going?  I know.  I took some M.I.A time.  I have been doing a little sewing and I have some little things to share but I forgot my camera card at home and I'm at work right now.  Bummer.

Big things happening over here.  I finally got tired of looking at the hurricane mess in my sewing room so I'm getting down to business.  My bedroom is running over with totes and totes of fabric.  I have 2 donation bags full of stuff I don't want anymore.  And don't shoot me - but - I am throwing scraps AWAY.  Yes.  I said it.  I'm throwing it out.  It's not worth the stress it gives me to "use it all!".  I can't.  I am saving bigger pieces for Punk to use for her sewing fun but lots of the bits?  Gone.  Even if I can trim it down to 2.5" square.  It's outta here.  It would just collect in a pile for me to trim and then I will throw it back into Punk's bucket and the cycle will never break.

I'm doing it.  It's very therapeutic.  ;)

A sewing room re-do is happening too.  I'm going to make this room officially "mine".  I have held off for the "just in case" we had another child because the room I am in would be the nursery and future bedroom.  I think I sealed that fate when I bought my huge Koala cabinet over a year ago.  That sucker isn't moving.  LOL.  I now am going to repaint the walls, make myself a new window valance, get new storage cabinets.  The works.  It will be a slow process but it's needed.

Painting starts this weekend.  Window valance fabric ordered.  Ikea cabinets looked at - I am going to get one wall cabinet for now.  To pacify myself.  I can't quite afford what a I want for closed door storage for the fabric with Disney happening this year.  That will be my goal for next year.

So no sewing happening for a few weeks but I am very excited to re-vamp this room.

I will show pictures soon!


Enjoy your day!
Jen :)