finally!

i finally i finished it!
AND i finally posted pictures to prove it!

this quilt actually only took me a week or so of spare time in the afternoons. HA! spare time? maybe I should re phrase that... "here and there in the the afternoons when I should have been doing other things I worked on sewing this quilt"
I was determined to finish, and refused to let myself work on anything else. (except for maybe that cute little valentines day skirt) but the point is I'm DONE! C has his quilt which he loves by the way, and I am no longer haunted by skull fabric. Unless of course the quilt finds its way to the bedroom.

i'm in love

i worked on this baby every lunch break for a week. i enjoyed every minute of it, even gathering the purple layer. no lie. I am very happy with myself for starting and completing a project without distraction and i just LOVE how it turned out.
Instead of giving it a full bodice like the tutorial does I decided to go with a lace up back. This way the dress will fit her for quite sometime. It fits her now as a long dress and the twirling model is a little girl in my class who just turned 5. Its a shorter dress on her and i belive there is still room for growth because the exposed orange section in the back where their is no bodice has a few inches of stretch thanks to that wionderful clear elastic. (i love that stuff) It would make a cute top with some pants. It can be worn as a skirt and if need be i could always remove the red bodice and give it a waist band.
god i wish it would fit me!

rainbow twirl skirt

so ive been wanting to do this for quite some time, ive even had the squares ready to go more then once but lost my pretty little piles to the wrecker and her love for sorting and placing things in rows. i think i always chicken out because i really dont look forward to gathering that purple row but i DREAM about this skirt! i need to just do it. so tonight the wrecker and i sorted and place colors in rows. ive already sewn all the squares together and gather orange yellow and green and then go figure... i run outta clear elastic! damn!!! postponed again, but off to a way better start. im too sleep to post any other pics tonight. hell im even too sleepy to turn this one the right way. no worries ill post plenty of pics when im done!

i heart poka dots

just some cute last minute valentines day bags i made with twas quick and easy and the kids helped. we made 14 of them in a half an hour.
i love the vintage poka a dot ribbon around the top of the bag.
last minute i ran out and grabbed some glittery wired ribbon that worked perfect for the handles. thanks for motivating me rachie.

the skull quilt

3 years ago i decided i would make a quilt for C using a bunch of diffrent skull fabrics that i had collected online and from the fabric store. being pregnant at the time was my first excuse not to start, having a baby was my second excuse, moving was my third so on and so on.... untill finally the other day while digging thru a tote of fabric Kaija Rose began to line up all the diffrent skull fabrics in a row. (a favorite pass time of hers) it just so happened that chris was walking thru and saw the skull fabrics, brining up the 3 year question "where my quilt huh?"
I was fully out of excuses (although now i can think of some) i aggreed to start pressing and cutting if he would keep kai occupied.
i dont know how well he really held up to his end of the bargain but i did get a really good start.
Once Kai was in bed for the night I was able to get my squares sewn into blocks and cut back up again for a disapearing 9. Its all layed out ready to....but i couldn't stand to look at it any longer.

roll with it

After whipping up a few crayon rolls for holiday gifts I started thinking outside the box...the crayon box that is. My dear friend and co worker R and I exchanged gifts this year and what better to give a Kindergarten teacher and "master of markers" then a Sharpie Roll?

Its pretty much a larger version of a crayon roll with two rows of pockets. You can fill it, fold it in half and off you go, mobile markers from work to home. I really liked the way this turned out, folding the roll in half helps keep everything in place (instead of having the top opening exposed) I also made up a few rolls for the boys with extra wide pocket to fit their hot wheels in.

silly me wrapped them up without getting pictures. if i can remember ill add them later.

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