This last Thursday Sciarrino and I headed to another meeting of our wonderful Portland Modern Quilt Guild. I love it so much. Wonderful people and a much needed break. I almost didn’t go as Bj had a late phone meeting (meaning Tuesday would be too loud to have hanging out in his office) but my mom, step dad and step brother took Tuesday on a little adventure of her own and I was able to go! I whipped up this little pin cushion for our swap of the month:
and the back:
I was on the fence about it, afraid it was too simple. But the person who got it loved it, and I loved the one I got:
I wonder how you sew this block? It would be cool to do this as a big pillow. The bottom of it has crushed walnut shells so I can also use it as a weight, genius!
More goodies. The floss was from the speaker and the little needle book was tucked in with my pin cusion. I’ve never had one of these so it was much needed.
This adorable print wasn’t from the guild exactly. I bought it off Christina’s etsy shop. I’m planning on making Tuesday something from it because she is owl crazy right now.
Today I had the pleasure of sewing with a few dear friends and I was excited to learn that two of them now have blogs!
Kristen‘s blog was a real surprise. And she even had an entry about me. I’m looking forward to reading more about her crafty endeavors… you may remember one of our sewing days at her beautiful house. And following her business, making cute bike accessories.
And now the one you’ve all been waiting for…. SCIARRINO! Yes, my friend who I call by her last name (pronounced sha-reno) finally jumped on the bloggy band wagon (gosh that only took five years!). It’s called Bear and it’s right here.
I linked both on my sidebar. So my blog list is up to date and I changed the links on my loves list and book list. I still need to tackle the dailies, I’m so behind on that. I did add a few fun pictures and I’ll try to catch up on the rest soon.
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Sarah and I had another fun craft day together last weekend. I was going for super simple on my layouts, since we usually talk more than we scrap. 🙂
The name was cut with the Silhoutte, it’s only in two pieces. I found that welding (over lapping the letters) is really easy to do, and it makes it so easy to stick the cut outs down. That little heart was crocheted by Sarah’s mom, she also made me this:
So sweet. I may have to give crochet another shot…
Title is from the Silhoutte again (why yes, I will be a walking ad for one now). I love that you can pick any font to cut. I’m trying not to get all addictive in the font downloading arena. But if you’re rocking an Apple computer don’t forget to utilize your font book to organize them. You can see all the characters before you use the font, it’s great!
Yes, I used my Silhoutte (and a download from their store), but I also used one of my oldest scrpbooking products. Any guesses? It’s from 1994 yo. Think about that…
Gold embossing powder. That I bought at the fair! I’ll be honest and say this might be the first time I used it. It was part of a set and I’m not the biggest gold fan.
I present the world’s longest title! I wanted to utilize this hexagon punch Sarah was borrowing from a coworker.
I love this punch. See I still have room in my heart for a punch or two (or a couple dozen).
This next one is pretty simple, and I wouldn’t normally share this type, but man oh man I love these pictures.
I swear you can almost hear the laughing!
I love scrapbooking “out of order” I scrapbook Library of Memories style, so I was cleaning out my 2006 binder and wanted to get some of these memories recorded before I tossed/filed/archived the remaining photos. I still might have a few layouts to do from that year.
How do you scrapbook? The only thing I’m not crazy about with this system are little details that sometimes get forgetten. I go back to the blog often, but I think I need to keep a tiny notebook or something with me. If you don’t scrapbook a photo for a few years what do you do? -
This is a crazy weird fall. Lots of sun (say what?!?!). It’s caused my yard to be beautiful and amazing.
I can’t believe how much of it is still green! The leaves are going to be dropping very late this year.
My little munchkin and I still find lots to nibble on. My poor confused tomatoes, look at them flowering! Don’t worry mom I cut them all back yesterday so hopefully I’ll get a few more to ripen up.
Speaking of flowering so many things are continuing to bloom! I am so glad. Not sure if it’s my diligent pruning or the weird weather, but I love all the blossoms.
Things are filling out in the rock wall.
Climbing roses are starting to climb. But I need to do a little research on how to care for my precious roses going into winter. The hazelnut shells are to try and keep cats out of my yard.
My front yard roses, still afflicted by their fungus, but the blooms are pretty. I planted 100 tulip bulbs in front of that little fence last weekend. I still have a 100 crocus bulbs to plant, maybe today?
Love this little patch in front of our picture window.
I thought we lost this clematis and cut it down to nothing in the strong heat of summer (for those few days :). But look it came back and it even has blossoms.
Another happy flower picture. I think my plants are in for a shock though, rain is coming tomorrow and I don’t think it’s going to stop for a good long time. What does your garden look like right now?
*I tried to post this earlier this week but was having trouble uploading photos, sorry I’ve been so silent! I’ve been up to lots, hopefully will update a few more times in the next couple days.
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