Pottery Barn... Move over!

Here I am in San Diego with my cute little daughter Kimmie (favorite daughter :)

She has a new apartment and wanted to spruce up her patio, so she came up with a plan and I executed it!

Thanks to the Dollar Store, 3 clay pots and 2 bags of potting soil for $5 and a stop at Wal Mart for petunias at $5... and VOILA another successful ALLIORIGINAL CREATION!

We had our first BBQ on the CUTE patio tonight!

First quilt of the year

For Kaileys birthday this year (January 25, 2011) Christie and I made her a quilt using her old T-shirts.  We found a stash of shirts from elementry school, girls camp, tennis team, dance teams, EFY and other events that she participated in.  We wanted it to be warm and cozy so we cut out the logos from the shirts making 12" blocks and then sewed them  into a 'rag' quilt with purple flannel (her HS colors are purple and gold).  All of the seams are cut and frayed which add to the texture.  As you can see, she loves it.  Happy Birthday Kailey!

I Love My MUMMY

I saw this cute idea for a halloween candy jar and had to make one...I love it, especially the eyes looking out under the bandages.  Everyone needs one:   buy a square glass canister with a lid......fill with candy (I put in halloween taffy)  cut some strips of cloth about an inch wide.....glue on two google eyes.....wrap the cloth while securing here and there with a glue gun.   I finished this off with a little sign attached with rafia that says,  I love my mummy!        So cute!

Autumn leaves

I love decorating for Fall.  It is great because it is not only a season but there are two holidays that you can use alot of the same decorations.  This year I made these fall leaves that I can spread down the table or put around the living room.  They were so easy:   Find some leaves that you like the size of in your yard.  Put them on the copier and make yourself a pattern.  Cut them out of different colors of felt (way cheap).  Then sew the veins on your sewing machine.  (if you don't feel comfortable eye balling it like me  try drawing the lines with chalk first.)    Voila,  leaves........

Now we can sing "It's Autumn Time, It's Autumn Time,
                             the leaves are falling down"

Am I the only one singing?

I guess it's Fall

I love this time of year, especially the fall decorations.  I tried a new idea for a pumpkin today and thought they were really cute and unique so here they are for all of you (probably two viewers) to see.   All you need is a quarter yard of fall fabric, a toilet paper role, a 6"stick and some fall foliage.

There is no hard part,  simply set the roll in the middle of the fabric and start bringing it up over the sides and into the tube hole.   When it is all tucked in put your stem and flowers in the hole also.  Cute huh?

Autumn Wreath

Okay,  so the weather is awful.  We had maybe two weeks of decent Summer weather, three days of fall and now it is winter so I am in my "let's do a fall project" mood.   Here is the wreath I am working on. SOOO simple... and you can use whatever colors youd like to match the different holidays!

     If you want to make one you will need a straw wreath (Ikept the plastic on)  about 1/2 yard of burlap and 1/4  yard of 2 or 3 colors that you like.   I used straight pins, greening pins and hot glue to attach everything.   I also used an accent color of ribbon for the flower centers.

To begin, cut about 3 inches of burlap to wrap around the wreath.

 Cut burlap and fabric circle of differnt sizes to make the flowers.  Poke the greening pins through as many circle as you like and stike into the wreath

.  Tie the ribbon into knots, cut, and then glue into the center of the flowers.  You could also use beads, buttons or chording for the centers.

     

     I attached a ribbon at the top of the wreath so it will hang easily.   I am anxious to try this same idea in christmas fabrics.  I hope you like yours!

Having a project makes everything better!

Okay,  I know I haven't written for awhile but I have had a busy summer so far.    Fortunately I got sick and had to slow down a bit  so since I was homebound I made a quilt.  The quilt store was my first outing and I still wasn't myself and had no energy, so I gave the clerk my quilt pattern, the fabric selection and had her figure everything out while I sank down on their compfy overstuffed couch.    $89 dollars and (I found out when I cut my fabric),  way too much fabric  aghhhhh,   I was good to go with project in hand.   

Babies go so well with flannel and of course this is for a baby boy.   Can't wait to take it to the baby shower  and of course  I will blog about what I am doing with all of the excess fabric  (I can't believe I trusted her in my vulnerability:)