Quick Cards

We had a parcel come a while ago now from the UK full of goodies from the in-laws. There was a little something for everyone. I got an awesome packet of paper flowers. I completely forgot to post it here at the time but came across the pictures the other day.

I have been sitting on some plain/blank cards that I bought from Walgreens. They needed a little something but until now I couldn't figure out what. When I saw the flowers I knew they were the perfect colors for the job.

My daughter and I had loads of fun sorting them into sizes and then mixing and matching them to make pretty combinations. I now have a stash of pretty cards for any occasion that comes along that I may have otherwise been unprepared for.

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Nic

No Sew Fleece Throws

Hello there, as you can see I have had a little revamp of the blog. Nothing too drastic but I think it looks much better. I am in the midst of sorting out my craft room, it has gotten very out of control to the point I was avoiding going in there to create at all.. I have a few things backed up thankfully to tell you about and show you so I will try not to be too MIA while I tackle this humongous task.

My latest craze seems to be no-sew blankets. I made the kids one each for Easter. I know, I know I completely forgot to post a picture for you guys to see. It was one covered in cats for my daughter and one covered in planets for my son. they were very well received. I also made one for my hubby's birthday back in June. I spotted the most awesome Mickey Mouse fleece at Jo-Ann's. I bought 2 yards and I matched up with a plain blue for the reverse side. I just love them and they are lovely and cosy. I was feeling a little left out but luckily I found the most beautiful peacock print panel to make one for myself too. Now we all have one :-)
  

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Nic



Reversible Tote

In one of my regular visits the Jo-Ann's I bought a couple of sewing kits. The colors and patterns caught my eye, they were really pretty and I had a gift in mind for them. My wonderful sewing friend Lucy's Birthday was on the horizon so I finally got around to putting one of them together. It's a reversible tote. There were no different fabrics involved exactly as it was all printed on one sheet. Made for a quick and simple cut out and put together project. It really is pretty, oops said that already didn't I. I am very happy with the finished bag and so was Miss Lucy.

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Nic

Allergy Pack (for school)

I think I have mentioned my daughters friend with the peanut allergies before. Her mom (my friend) thinks she is old enough to carry her own medications. She still needs an adult to give them to her should she need them but if she has them with her then they are immediately available.

My friend and I tossed ideas back and fore and while out shopping together a few weeks ago she found this fanny pack on clearance at Jo-Ann's. I set about livening up the front with some denim and an iron on applique. I also added some fabric that my friend picked out (the rest I am going to use for a gift for Christmas).

Once the outside was finished I set about the inside. I know I probably should have done this the other way around but I guess I got carried away. Anyways I put a number of strips of elastic inside for holding her epi-pens, inhaler and anti histamine in place so they would not bounce around.

Both she and her mom loved it. Thumbs up on that one, yay!

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Nic

It's In The Bag! (Carrier Bag Holder)

Oh boy have I been busy. Having the kids home 24/7 is driving me slowly cuckoo. Seem like my craft room is just something I pass by each day on my way out the door. However I have been grabbing snippets of time here and there. I have been working on this project for a while. The initial plan was to make 4/5 of them but after the first one I have decided I might need to use a few less pieces for the others.

I made this carrier bag holder for a friend of mine as part of a pay it forward post on Facebook. She is possibly my biggest fan of all things I do craft wise and therefore was the first to receive my PIF project. The cool thing is that all the fabric matches her kitchen perfectly. I found the tutorial for this project on this wonderful blog........ http://saidosdaconcha.blogspot.com/2009/10/scrap-buster-tutorial-scrappy-carrier.html ........ It is a wonderful read, I think this may well have to go into my favorites.

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Nic

It Takes Two Baby

Friends of ours recently had twins. A little boy and a little girl. So, so tiny, I knew as soon as I saw a picture of them that I needed to make them something. Straight away I started cutting and piecing and planning. I found this gorgeous teddy bear fabric with both pink and blue bows on it at a local store.

This time around I decided to make bags. We bought cute outfits for each of them. They won't fit them for a while yet but hopefully they will get lots of use out of the bags for various things. diapers, changes of clothes, etc.

These were so much fun to make and have safely made it to California to our friends. I know, I know more friends in California. I'm beginning to think we should move there too so I can be closer to all the little babies. I love babies and seem to be drawn to the baby fabrics. Probably cause they are so smooth to the touch.

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Nic

Whooo's Birthday?

I made this card a couple of month's ago for a friends daughter. Completely forgot all about posting it here on the blog. I have been distracted with sewing and the kids being on holiday. Finally I have found a little me time to update you somewhat.

I have to show you a picture of the birthday girl's wonderful owl cake her auntie made for her. I actually found the idea in a magazine and passed it on to my friend. She is very lucky to such an awesome cake making friend to bring it to life. It's also a peanut friendly version for the birthday girls sister who has severe allergies.

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Nic

Baby Quilt

I have some pictures to show you of my very first quilt. My friend Lucy showed me the basics when I made a table runner and place mats while staying with her and her family for a visit last summer. Shortly afterwards she announced that she was expecting baby #3. To me this was the perfect opportunity to show her how grateful I am for her friendship, guidance and for showing me what wonderful things I can achieve when I put my mind to it.

They made the decision not to find out the sex of the baby so I was left pondering what colors to use. I had in my stash of fabrics some embroidered Winnie the Pooh fabric in both blue and pink I had bought them about 9 years ago when I was expecting my daughter we too chose not to find out so when I got the fabric all those years ago I got both just in case.

I also bought the softest fluffy fabric in green and yellow and on yet another craft shop visit another Winnie the Pooh fabric caught my eye. At this point I was a little spoiled for choice. Being indecisive I used them all on the front of the quilt and when the baby was born I was able to use one solid panel of pink for the back (yes, you guessed it pink for a girl).

I had a bunch of scraps left over at the end so made a bag for the quilt so Lucy can carry it around when she is out and about. Because of my personal attachment to the fabric used there is a whole lot of love in this quilt and I hope that we can go visit them all very soon.

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Nic

Baby's Got A Brand New Chair....

Dunna, dunna, dunna, dun. LOL. Did you miss me? I want to apologise for being AWOL for a bit. I just don't know where the time has gone. Been one very busy little bee though that's for sure.

I need to catch you up on what I have been busy with. First up is my second "Dora" project for my daughters room. You may remember the body cushion I recovered a little while ago. Well next came her Dora chair. she loves sitting in it to read but has outgrown Dora and wanted something different.

I could not resist this lovely fleece fabric. It is covered in cats which is just perfect for her as she just loves cats. I had to take the old cover apart so I could use it as my template. The result.....a brand new chair that she loves to pieces. As soon as she saw it finished she hugged it and promptly sat in it. Awesome!!!!!

This is her when she first got the chair on her third birthday. Thanks for looking.

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Nic

A Few Small Projects

My Daughter recently read a book in school called 'Shiloh'. She was so taken with the book that she bought her very own copy at the school book fair. The story is about a young boy and a dog that he names Shiloh. She also has a toy puppy that is the same breed as the dog in the story (we got it at Ikea) and so it got renamed, yes you guessed it 'Shiloh'. I made the newly named puppy a collar with his new name on. He now has pride of place in my daughters bed.

Just to take you back to the Disney Holiday we took back in December. My daughter bought each of her closest friends a friendship bracelet. However she wanted them to be more personal and have each girls initial on them. So I finally found letters and a couple of charms that I put on each one. Her friends were very excited when she handed them out.

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Nic

Memories - Engagement

I have one of those old style photo albums the ones you peel back stick your picture in the page and then stick it back down over the top. I guess when you think about it this kind of photo album would be considered basic scrapbooking cause you could use pictures of different sizes to show an event or special occasion.

Anyways mine has slowly over time been changing color on me and I am worried that it will do the same to the photos themselves. So I decided to make a start on transferring the pictures into a new scrapbook. First up is my husband and I at our Engagement party.

I can't get over how young we look and how skinny I was, and as for the huge glasses.....no comment. LOL. Sixteen years later and I am still very much in love with him and this page has gone into my favorites.

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Nic

Bathroom Re-Vamp

Just popped in to show you all a little something. I have broken with routine a little and done some more sewing while in the process of spring cleaning. My kids Bathroom has an underwater theme but needed a little something so I made a bubbly tie-back and bought these cool bubble looking decals on clearance at Michael's for the wall. The fish I got ages ago from Bed Bath and Beyond. I think it looks pretty neat. How about you?

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Nic

Little Pull String Gift Bag

We have friends that have just had a baby boy. I wanted to send them a little something and I found the cutest outfit with a frog on it and remembered I had some cute froggy fabric here at home so I looked it out along with a pattern for a mini duffle bag and I made the bag to go with the outfit. It looked pretty cute at the end, I think I will be making more of these. It was fun and easy to make.

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Nic

New Job Card

I made a card for my niece to celebrate her new job. She is training to be a vet's assistant. My daughter wants to be the same thing when she grows up isn't that sweet. I used a digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil it is called coexist. The pile of animals seemed to fit perfectly.

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Nic

Birthday Pages

Continuing on with my daughter and her best friend's friendship books. I did a page from my daughter Megan's Birthday last year. She had her party at Build A Bear. Inviting just a handful of friends. They had a great time and this page was a lot of fun to make. I even managed to find Build A Bear stickers at Michael's.

Megan also invited her best friend's sister to the party as they enjoy playing together also. I didn't want her to feel left out so I made this picture card for her. Using my top note die for the surround and 2 pictures. One, I cut down smaller and stuck on with pop dots to make it stand out from the page.

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Nic

Happy St. David's Day

Sorry, nothing to show you today just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a Happy Saint David's Day. It is a special day for welsh people just as St. Patrick's Day is special to Irish people.

Hope you have a wonderful day.

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Nic

Cushion Re-Cover

My daughter has informed me recently that she is too old for Dora the Explorer any more and that left me with the question of what to do with certain items that she has. Her toys were sorted into keepsakes and giveaways. We also sold some of them and let her have the money as she was so good to have let them go.

However that still left me with a few things around her room that she still uses regularly but doesn't want Dora all over them. So with my mind currently working overtime on sewing things I decided to make new covers for them starting with her floor/body pillow.

I found a really pretty fabric at Joann's with pretty flowers all over it and got busy with sewing it a new cover. I didn't want to take the old cover off as there was no zip and I couldn't guarantee that there was another cover inside or if it went straight to filling. Also I thought that the bright pink might show through the new fabric so I bought a cheap neutral body pillow cover from Walmart and made a neutral cover first.

My daughter absolutely loves her new pillow and it looks great in her room.

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Nic

Happy Valentine's Day

Today is the day we celebrate how much we love the people in our lives. Here is the Valentine Card I made this year.

Real Red and Vanilla cardstock. I used my Martha Stewart punch, a doily, valentine embellishments from Target's Dollar Spot and some crystal stickers.

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Nic

Birthday Page - Best Friend Book

Today's post is a scrapbook page. A 6 x 6 double page for my daughter and her friend. They both have a Best Friend book and I make them identical pages to go in them. This page is to celebrate Tati's Birthday. This is from last august so you can see just how far I have fallen behind on this project. She had a dinosaur theme. She loves them - I think she may be a paleontologist when she grows up. The picture of them hugging is my daughters favorite, she says it reminds her that she and her friend are going to be friends for a very long time (Best Friends Forever).

You may notice from here on out there is an attempt at a routine to my posts. One of my New Year's Resolutions was to try and do more scrapbooking and sewing so I am alternating. First up is card making obviously as it is my first love. Then I will make the effort to sew something. Finally, I will be scrapbooking. I have a dozen scrapbooks and I have noticed that only the kids school ones have anything in them so I will be working to rectify this as soon as I have caught up with the girls friendship books.

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Nic