Paisley's first card

Paisley loves crafting... usually I set her up in my craft room with markers and her stamps and lots of paper... (we go through A LOT of paper at our house).

This morning I was making a card for her friend who's turning 2 (party this afternoon) and she decided she wanted to make Libby a card too. I'm impressed with her card making skills. I only helped her with a bit of writing, and a bit of glueing.







We did get a fat lip in the process though.

Project of the Month - Complete

This month's project was Chalkboard Placemats. One side is a vinyl print that is easily wiped down, while the other side is a chalkboard, including a slot to keep a chalk. The entire mat rolls up so that it can easily be stowed in a diaper bag or purse, ready for your next restaurant visit, or appointment with you little tykes. Also great for keeping youngsters busy in places where there are no toys readily available (visiting family, church, etc). These particular ones are already spoken for, but I hope to make some more in the near future to sell.

Joel's 1!

Well yesterday we attended Joel's 1st birthday party. :)

He was so handsome:



Paisley wore a dress that my mom had passed on to me (my sister and myself both wore it, I believe):







Annalise was there:



As was Meredith:



And Cashlin:



And Libby!





Joel enjoyed his cake:





I designed a new applique (which I hope to sell, but still need to work it out a little more). Made it for Joel, along with a matching card.

Rag Quilt

I need to take some more pictures of Paisley, so I can update the blog here. But for today, I'm just double posting, and posting the same item as I did on my craft blog. But I just love this fabric, and wanted to share it with you. :)

Haven't been hearing back from many people lately, either. Very few comments. I miss the comments. I love comments! :) I do plan to get back to updating everyday, first thing in the morning. Paisley being sick just threw everything out of whack this last week. I'm happy to report that the fever is 100% gone, and now she's just got a small cough and a stuffed up nose. Last night I put on the humidifier in her room, put her vick's plug in in the outlet, and used saline drops and a nasal aspirator to clean out her nose. And she slept from 8 til 7:30 (which I actually went in to wake her up). So that's good news. Over the weekend she was only giving me about 3/4 hours of sleep at night, and even that was a little interrupted. So I'm very happy.

Ok, here is the post for today:


I finally managed to get pictures of the owl quilt I made last week. This fabric is incredibly adorable and it GLOWS IN THE DARK!

I ended up making one crib size rag quilt, and two mini rag quilts with this fabric.

First off, here is the crib size quilt:









This item can be found in both my Artfire store, and my Etsy store.


Next, here is a photos of the mini quilt:





This item can also be found in both of my online stores: Etsy and Artfire.

Doodle Girl

I made Paisley this doll using Bit of Whimsy's pattern (featured in Saturday Slices a couple of weeks ago). Aside from a couple problems (easily fixed next time round), I'm pleased with how it turned out.


And so is Paisley!

Project of the Month

Ok, I really want to get back into my project of the month. So here is a sneak peek of March's project:



I'm actually hoping to get it done this week. :)

Blurfing

I would say that I spend probably AT LEAST 45 minutes blurfing (blog surfing) every day. Over the last few years my interests have changed and widened, and there are just so many talented individuals (and teams) out there. I love seeing other people's creations as well as getting ideas for some more of my own. I also check a few personal blogs, but mainly they are crafting related blogs.

I was thinking this morning (as I was catching up on my blog reading), that there are some blogs that I LOVE going to, and they are just full of so much inspiration, and thought I really need to share with you all.

So here are a few of my favorite crafting blog, you'll notice a lot of crossover in topics.... but I've tried to categorize them based on what they focus on:

Baking:
Bakerella (such amazing creations!!)
Cake Wrecks (Where cakes go disastrously wrong)
Confetti Cakes (Amazing cake creations)
Cupcakes Take The Cake (Everything cupcake... lots of recipes as well)

Sewing:
Sew Mamma, Sew (Free Fabric Fridays, as well as lots of other inspiration - also has it's own community full of avid and dabbling sewers)
Just Tutes (Tutorials by an amazing sewer - has a separate site where she sells her patterns)
You Go Girl (SAHM with great sewing skills)
Chickpea Studio (Beautiful creations and numerous tutorials)
The Long Thread (all about handcrafted items)
Crazy Mom Quilts (Quilting SAHM)
Sew Sensible (Patterns for girls by a SAHM)

Digital Scrapbooking (a lot of downloadable freebies on these sites)
A Work In Progress
Restored Elegance
DigiFree

Everything Else:
Simple (Website that does reviews of all sorts of products.. also lots of giveaways)
Craft Magazine (Links to many crafty tutorials)
WhipUp (Links to many crafty tutorials (some overlap with Craftzine)
Happy Bird's Crafting Haven (printable labels for all things homemade, and some recipes)
Craft Critique (review various crafting products)
Erin K Creations (started off papercrafting, has now become more passionate about sewing)

These are just a few of my favorites, I probably have a few hundred more that I visit regularly (gotta love having an RSS Feed reader). But thought I'd share a little of my internet life with you.

Other websites that are FANTASTIC for crafty inspiration:

Splitcoaststampers
Craftster

Have any crafty blogs you read? Would love to hear of others that you may love. Please let me know in the comments! :) Always looking for more blogs to blurf, or more sites to stalk.

October Project Sneak Peak

IMG_7144, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

Here is a sneak peak at the fabric for my October sewing project.

September Project

IMG_7148, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

So at the beginning of the month I gave you a sneak peak, well here is what I made with that fabric. A cute little girls' sundress!

I do have to thank my mom, for the help she gave me, it's been ages since I've sewed from a pattern, as well, she helped with sewing the ribbon on, because I was too scared to ruin it! Thanks mom! I'm actually really pleased with how it turned out in the end. Just tied the bows and attached them this morning.

Coming this afternoon, a sneak peak at October's sewing project.

This week though I will be focusing on paper crafts.

Needle Felted Pumpkin

Needle Felted Pumpkin, originally uploaded by the long thread.

So I was reading my many crafting blogs during Paisley's morning nap today, and came across a neat one that I wanted to share. I've never tried felting (well actually that's only partially true. My sister made me some FAB slippers for Christmas a couple years ago, and I had to wash them to "felt" them.... but this is totally different (I LOVE THOSE SLIPPERS BY THE WAY!).

This is needle felting. Looks neat, never tried it, and maybe one day I will. But thought I'd share with you all, as I know some of you are crafters, and this looks pretty easy.

If you click on the picture, it will take you to a tutorial on how to do this. Neat project for fall, but can be used to make almost anything.

We're home

Back at home this week. Working on re-establishing a routine. Actually, that hasn't been too hard. Paisley's gotten back into it pretty good.

So what'd we do while we were away?

Well here's one of the things I was up to:






These are some wet wipes/cloths that I sewed up to sell. :) ONly in 3 prints right now, but I have a bunch of other flannels now (jet planes, space theme, flamingos). Wet Wipes

Beautiful Quilt

IMG_7065, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

This is the beautiful rag quilt that Grandma Yeomans (my mom) made for Paisley. It's adorable, and so snuggly!

New Project - September

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So I'm excited about my September project. This is a sneak peak. Top secret til I'm finished. Isn't this fabric fab?

Today was the international Buy Nothing Day. Convieniently it is the same day as Black Friday. Our club had a stuff swap on campus. It was a store set up, but no money was exchanged.. just items. Kinda cool. Unfortunately today was also the big Country Christmas Craft Show at the Exhibition Grounds. Over 177 craft booths! :) I did go, and I did buy a couple of items (as gifts of course). I also wanted to scout it out, since I plan to have a booth next year for my cards. Last year I had said I wanted a booth this year... but I'm still in school. So next year... I have it in writing now... that I WILL have a booth at the craft show. There were 2 other card booths there this year. One of which the cards weren't very nice and they were charging $4 a card. The other one had great cards. :) I would considered mine to be on the same level as theirs. They were charging $3.50 a card. So I scouted it out, and both booths were selling a number of cards while we were there, so YAY!

My cats have been fantastic lately. I thought they'd be all over the tree, but they just leave it alone. Actaully they've been napping under it, but not disturbing it. Which is wonderful.

At this point, I think there is no way I can fail any of my classes. I think I'll even get through chem with a somewhat decent mark (my lab is definately going to drag up my mark). In lecture I'm sitting at 56% (higher than I thought), and she gave out a make up assignment which is able to add 6%to the top of my mark. So say I only get 50% on the assignment, I will be sitting at 59%. Which means I only need above a 40% on the final. :) which I can guarentee I'll get. So YAY!!! No chem worries anymore. With th lab factored in, I should get 65-75% on the course in the end. YAY for lab, even though it is a very brutal lab.

Ohh and I charged up my cell phone for the first time in,.... 8 or 9 months! They're threatening to cut me off if I don't use it soon. So I figure I'll carry it this week, and one day I'll call Josh to get him to pick me up!

I was reading yesterday about christmas trees and the environment. Artificial trees (which I have) are bad in that they have so many chemicals in them. Which really isn't bad, until it hits the land fill. Real trees, well.. you're cutting them down and killing them. Now being a christmas freak, christmas just isn't christmas without a christmas tree. So it gave a solution. In some cities you can rent a tree. It's a really neat idea. You pay a rental fee, and the tree comes burlapped up (roots), and after the holidays, the tree is picked up and gets planted within the city, whether it be a park, a schoolyard or something! It's brilliant! Right now this program is available in San Fransisco and Portland. Hopefully it takes off elsewhere for next year. If you have a real tree... make sure to recycle it at the end of the season!