Random burst of inspiration

So I remembered that a good friend's birthday was coming up

and I decided that I'd make her a card. My random burst of inspiration,

a desire to make a card with fabric and a fascination with sewing things to paper,

I came up with this little diddy!

I'm so happy with how it turned out!

I felt like super crafter afterwards and it didn't take that long to make

(once my crazy indecisive mind came up with a design).

My friend is into poppys so I decided to go with a poppy-esque design.

Kind of a crap shot, but I wanted to show the pleated design.

Pretty sure I should have switched needles to sew on paper, but I'm just not that savvy.

Ponytails and "Crash-a-tower"

Figured I was due for an Aubrey post, it's been a while! She's getting so old I can hardly stand it. This girl has some serious personality and ideas of her own. And boy can she ever talk...never stops!

She is all about her horse and it goes with her everywhere! At this time she also had a particular fondness for her gumboots:) Made for some interesting outfits!

These two love each other so much. She always vibrates with excitement when she hears the front door opening and as soon as Zach's up the stairs and in our apartment, Aubrey yells "welcome my house Dada!" and proceeds to tackle him! Too cute! (side note, I realize that I just made her sound like a dog, but she really does vibrate with excitement. No other way to describe it!)


I finally convinced her to let me put a ponytail in her hair....it lasted approximately two seconds there.

Right before she ripped it out... but it's so cute isn't it?!? I wish she'd let me do it more often...

Two August Outings....

So I'm trying to play catch up and I even have grand plans of posting from my trips to Canada and England....a girl can dream right?

Aubrey and I hung out with some friends we met at VBS earlier this summer.

Aubrey and their youngest boy are only a day apart in age, crazy!

They are so cute together, playing and fighting like only two year olds can!

We first went peach picking and then to this awesome beach here on the shore in Ocean Grove(two seperate days).

It was where the movie According To Greta was filmed, kinda weird driving around and having everthing feel familiar until I made the connection!

Picnic lunch!

Playing peek-a-boo with B.

We had just got there and Aubrey promptly bit it and was devastated that I had no wipes to clean her off! I have no idea who she could've gotten this trait from....

Random gopher holes that the kids almost fell in!

At the beach in Ocean Grove... Aubrey stopped being whiny right before we left and finally played nice with B.

Sharing a popsicle with N:)

So old!

Getting her second popsicle of the day.... Mom fail.

correction...

Not sure why the last post says August 30th... I wrote it today....
Maybe because I loaded the pictures for it on the 30th?? Interesting...

Projects....

Wow, kinda sounds like I'm talking about where I live....I'm kidding. Although, there are times when I look outside and I wonder... But that is another post for another time!

I've been a busy little sewing bee these past few weeks. I guess

I've been feeling the spurs of Marcy and Anna coming to visit(didn't I mention them coming? If not , they are and I am beyond pumped!!!) and I didn't want fifty unfinished projects sitting around. I figured that a respectible forty five would be better, less shameful... in my head anyway. So here is what I've been up to. They are all out of order and wonky, but instead of moving them I choose to not, why you ask? Simple, I'm lazy....and this computer decided to delete a picture instead of move it when I tried and all my pictures are on Zach's computer...that is with him at work and not here... and I can't load up that picture again and I'm annoyed... That's why.

So this is the pillow that I've been working on for Aubrey...for almost two weeks! I kept sewing things on and taking them off or moving them, it was not pretty! So I settled for this, her name on bunting. I think that it turned out super cute(even if my hand stiched letters are a bit wonky.) There is a flower on the other side that you will see sometime later in this post... not sure where, like I said, wonky.

Just a random button picture, they are a bit of an obsession in this house, I want to put them on everything and Aubrey could sit and play with them all day!

This is a plastic bag holder thingy that I whipped up randomly

Crap picture, but there was bad lighting. I love it though (not the picture, the bag)!

These are two little pillows that I got at a garage sale for a buck each and recovered to match Aubrey's big pillow.

This is a close up of the other side of Aubrey's big pillow(see, buttons! I love them!) It's a flower:)

Here it is big, the flower side that is. I'm pretty happy with this side, a favorite I think:)

Aubrey was wso excited to have a pillow made just for her!

Drawing random circles and placing buttons on them.... sometimes I think that being inside her head must be pretty fun:)
More button fun(in her favorite Dora PJ's)!
Random.....
The "butt load" of fabric I got for $7 at an estate sale!
Fabric bracelets! I got the idea from "sew fantastic" blog...link on the right hand side --->
So that's what I've been up to:)

Too much love for the fabric.

So, I have a crap load of fabric, new and thrifted, (well a crap load for me, my stash is not that crazy) and ideas to make things, but can not bring myself to make something. I can not for the life of me, get myself to CUT the fabric that I love so much! I don't want to screw it up. I feel like I buy the fabric because I love it, it's art, and it's so hard to use scissors on it. I spend money on something and I want to know that I'm gonna make something wonderful with it. I love sewing and I love to see what I can create, but it just takes so much for me to get there! Am I the only one who has this problem?!? I told Zach that if I could just buy and buy and buy fabric and just look at it and touch it, I'd be a happy women. Ergo(who says ergo??), I've figured out that I need to have a cute fabric store one day. Wouldn't that be perfect?!? I sure think so:) Zach was so kind to remind me of my other dream, to own a candy shop(back from the days when I used to be chunky and all I could think about was junk food) and I assured him that this fabric store would have a candy corner! Not sure he's with me on that one....
Wow, that was a rambly post, sorry. I guess I had to get that one off my chest.

Laundry, Dishes and Fabric~~Oh My!

So I spent all weekend trying my very best not to look at the

five heaping baskets of laundry that needed to be folded.

Make that four, as well as a giant heaping pile of laundry on my bed.

Why you ask? Simple. We only have four baskets. That's why.

The only reason the laundry was clean in the first place,

was because Zach did it....he was not feeling as

procrastinationly inclined as I was.

We have a deal, he washes it(and walks up and down the three flights of stairs

to get to the basement the laundry is...minor detail...)

and I fold. It's a great deal really, how many husbands would

do laundry every week?? I know, he's a keeper:)

But I am happy to report that it all got done.... in the eleventh

hour...literally, I'm pretty sure I was folding at eleven on Sunday night!

Better late than never right??

What is it about laundry folding(not to mention the

putting away part, don't get me started on the putting away part)

that makes me want to scream? It takes less than an

hour, and I can watch a movie or a show while doing it.

Should be simple. But for me, it's not.

I'm not even going to start discussing the pile of dishes that needed washing...

lets just say it was bad, really bad, as in the-cupboards-are-empty kinda bad.

Just shameful.

One day a dishwasher will be there to do the dreaded work...one day....

Ahhh, dreams are cheap.

On to more exciting (and less depressing on my part) stuff.

I went garage saling on Saturday morning and I hit the

vintage(some of it just old and not great) fabric jackpot!

I was at a tag sale and the lady, the one running the sale, was so

impressed that I was into sewing at my age(I think she might have thought

that I was fifteen, the curse of looking like a kid.... but hey works for me if it scores me a great deal!). Whatever the reason, she decided that I should have three grocery bags full

(I'm talking stuffed and really heavy) of fabric for $7!

And she kept throwing stuff at me for free, thread, quilt book...etc.

My head is bursting with possible projects.....

Now I just have to get to that last laundry basket, the one full of the fabric I bought,

the one that I literally hid from my sight last night so I would not have to deal

with it and all it's tangled fabric mess....

Wish me luck...