A few more ideas!!

Look at this wonderful girly pillow!!!  The instructions are in Girls World, the book on your wish list for the Holidays!! ( read a review) Just do a pillow or sachet with a bit of felt instead of the overnight bag and look how sweet. same for the ornament i grouped four images together on a June Tailor computer fabric sheet and look how fun with a little flower and sequin..you know you want to make one.  last but not least a page from an old school book glued onto cardboard glittered and attached with a sweet sentiment. of course a felt flower will take it to the next level.  So get your  craft on..xoxxo

Holiday Show Buzz

First up wreathes just a couple..do you remember my spread in Country Living 2001??  That’s when I became famouse for my wreathes and the demand hasn’t stopped since but with the demand of my schedule it’s hard to create very many.  Here’s two for you to love as your own.  just to let you know we do not ship them ever..extremely fragile..Gives you a great excuse to come visit our show.  Dec. 1,2,3,.I’ve iincluded a couple of pages from my spread in 2001 maybe you’ll remember.  That wreath was and is 5 feet wide people love to see it up in the studio.  So I hope you’ll come I love meeting new folks..xoxo

It’s Monday and here we go!!!

The raffle begins so please listen while I explain the details.  First we can share the project we created with Accuquilts Go Baby. Also these are some of the dies we used. I love this machine reminds me of an Easy Bake on so many levels!!! I love applique, I love it on ticking something wonderfully appealing about the old with the cut outs!! Oh  and please forgive Penelope she wanted so much to be in the photo and was a little concerned that you may not see her if she wasn’t directly in front of the camera..oh well you get the point.  I also used the appliques on squares of green to give them some contrast on the ticking.  Anyway I’m pleased as punch and hope you are too.

So for the raffle there’s lots of ways to enter and they are as follows.  First sign up for their email and get 22 patterns for doing that simple task.  Then go to these links and say hi.  Most importantly leave a comment here to enter to win one of these die-cut machines..Yes you heard me correctly
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Don’t forget leave a message here and you could win one of these machines, it’s that simple but please don’t forget to sign up for there newsletter.  Oh and end Friday night at midnight winner to be announced Saturday!!

Festive playroom!!

So Jenny complete with Girls World in one hand and Sis Boom fabric in the other along with her beautiful daughter have created this playful space. Jenny how  fun is this place?  Oh and the times she will have here in this lovely playground of happiness.  I just love how her daughter worked on those chair seat pillows and really become part of the adventure.  Reminds me of my days making forts and going to Woolworth’s to buy contact paper for the window treatments.  My twin brother was like Hold Up little girl!!   Girls it’s in our DNA!!  Also did you hear Melissa P. and Jenny hung out at the market together ???  These girls know how to live it up!!!!

Thanks for sharing your pictures and your love of creating.  xoxoxo It means the world to me. xo

Holiday Show with Barbara Strawser

Yes it’s that time of year again and our artist friend Barbara Strawser is in the house Folks. We know how you love that. So the elves are busy and so am I creating fun ideas and getting the house all festive.  Hope you can all make it. Dec. 1,2,3, that’s  Thursday.  Friday and Saturday.

Fair Warning

Do not miss the AccuQuilt Go Baby Raffe this coming Monday.  Lucky you another chance to win that fabulous die cut machine!!!.  I’m here to tell you totally worth it. Kate Spain and I had the best time !!  Now I get to reveal the project and pick one lucky winner.  So comeback Monday tell all your friends cause this could be your lucky week.  Honestly I don’t know how I’ve lived without it. So seriously come back Monday do not miss this opportunity ahead.  While you are there sign up for their emails so you know what’s coming off the presses. Also get 22 free patterns just for registering.  I can’t wait to show you what we made.

Dressing up!

Sew Mama Sew Thanks for carrying Girls World at such a great price.  So those of you who have been holding out to purchase this fab (I’ve been told ) book please put together a nice package for yourself.  In the cart put the book, 5 yards of Chandler in Brandy and create the Josie, or the Mary Fancy Dress inside the book (make them long to the floor if you like, that’s why the extra yardage!)  and make one happy little girl! Look at Miss Abby!!!  Thanks Sew Mama Sew you mean so much to us and we love your new book store!!  Photo by Tim Geaney!!

She does it for the love of it

I love how Stephanie Danko of Tabbo Designs surrounds herself in Happy Sis Boom fabric.  For the girls, for her home, for her accessories.  She lives it and has fun.  I love how her girls look so carefree in the skirts she creates for them.  Her girls have made George the puppy from Girls World and she just keeps the fun swirling.  Stephanie I know we would get along!!! Like all of you she’s a giver and gives her time to coaching the cheerleaders in her daughters school. she’s one of us.  lots of things stirring and at the end of the day you can tell she never misses those hugs with her children.  So these are some things I picked up in flickr to share with you all.  love how she embroidered the wristlet bag!!

Just Collaging

I love old paper, I love vintage ephemera!!  Something about the time,the place, the memories, the innocence.  It all is wrapped in a ball of sentiment!!  I just adore playing with them and I encourage you to play too.  Find some quiet time and just explore on Ebay and Etsy for old wrapping paper and cards, see what stirs you, see what you love.  I have to make time for play it’s where I learn the most about myself as I’m sure many artists out there would concur! xo

A great gift for the Holidays

Whole Cloth Quilt!!  So you purchase two fabrics with 6-7 yards of each fabric to make a twin quilt and a pillow case to coordinate and about a yard of another coordinate for the binding. One fabric on one side of the quilt and one fabric on the other, thus the name whole cloth!  Great to put a spring/summer  fabric on one side and a fall/winter fabric on the other Find a local long arm quilter we have a special lady Jackie in Canton at Canton Village Quilt Works who will take your fabrics batt and quilt for a price and ship it right to your door.  So great for a unique gift that you won’t find in the big box stores!!  Everyone at my daughters school is constantly asking her where she purchased hers?????? Visit her shop. Talk to Jackie about how you can possibly get a whole cloth made cause she is so service oriented and loves what she does!!!  Look below at West Indies Chandler in Blue found at Sew Mama Sew.