Christmas Present

I have been horrible about taking pictures of the stuff I have been making! I need to work on that this year! Here is one of the Christmas presents I made and actually snapped a picture of:

I had to try these iron on transfers for a project for my brother... since I still had some left over and they were so much fun to use I made them into wall art. I found these graphics at The Graphics Fairy

She has tons of vintage clip art on her site and it is all free! I found this pretty little nest and matching robin and printed it off onto iron on transfer paper. Then I just ironed it onto some pretty muslin fabric I had and stapled that onto a couple of canvases I found at Michaels! Easy and fun!!

Yes, I still craft

Here is my latest work in progress:

This quilt is going to be huge...I haven't measured it yet but trust me. It is ginormous!!! I saw this pattern in Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Easy Quilts magazine Winter 2009 issue. This pattern is called Lizzy's Parade by Cherri House. It is a great pattern and went together pretty easy. So far the hardest part is making the quilt sandwich and starting to quilt this monster on my machine. But even just pinned together I love it and have seriously thought about just using it with the basting pins! LOL!

Looooong time no post

Well, it's been a while since I've had a chance to post anything crafty so I thought I would dip my toe in the water and start off with a mini project.

I just bought my first serger and was so proud that I was able to thread it myself!

We have a stray (who I am pretty sure is now officially our cat) who sleeps on our back porch and I thought he needed a new bed. I found a cute little basket at Marshall's for $4.00 but the lining was pink checks and I didn't think that went with Oliver's (see we named him and everything!) manly cat-titude. So I picked up some outdoor fabric at JoAnn's and tested out my new serger:

Coffee Table Facelift

I finally tackled the coffee table that we bought last summer at Shipwreck days...It was a cute table before but I thought it could use a little update.

Here it is before:

...and here it is after (please ignore the CRAP in the background!):

I originally wanted to distress this but since this is my mom's house and she said she likes the table as is and not distressed I guess it is going to stay as it is...although I think the top might need a little something!

Makeup bags

I've been working on a couple of things but all I have pictures of so far is a couple more makeup bags that I have given away as gifts.

I think they turned out pretty cute! The inside of the owl bag was a crib sheet that my friend wasn't using anymore. Gotta love recycling!

Travel Bag

...or makeup bag or whatever you want to call it! I think it turned out pretty cute (once I figured the pattern out! I won't even show you the first attempt!) I don't know why the first time I make something it always turns out really homely but then the second one turns out really good. I guess I have to figure out how to do it step by step once and then I'm good to go.

Anyways here is the makeup/travel bag I made for a friend. I saw this super cute fabric and immediately thought of her!

I added an extra little pocket for the little bits and bobs (wow, I totally never get to say that!) that you might want to keep safe while traveling and hopefully I will get it sent of to her this week! Key word hopefully!!

Two posts one day

I made this cat pillow for a friend who loves animal prints and has a little girl kitty. I've had this faux fur fabric laying around and couldn't figure out what to do with it. I used a black velvet jumper/dress thing I bought at the thrift shop for a couple of dollars and used the stuffing from two old pillows. I love reusing old stuff! This picture shows my kitty Furrgus "testing out" the new pillow and Finnegan is keeping an eye on him!