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Another Foray into Clothes

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This week I took another step into clothes sewing and made 2 pairs of shorts for boys!  I was inspired by Kristy from Hopeful Threads who is gathering Little Boys Shorts to send to Cambodia.

Here are the shorts I made:

Size 18 Month Shorts

Size 12 Month Shorts

I used this fabulous tutorial AND pattern from Caila-Made. I am really happy with how they turned out. There are a couple of itty bitty puckers but overall, for my first 2 pairs, I’m pleased with them. Now I just have to explain to Anne why her Cars fabric is gone…

Today we are off to ride Thomas the Train with Anne’s Auntie Lisa and her cousins. We have been planning this since March and we are all very excited! Pictures next week!

Winners & Broken Time

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First I have to start out with the fact that I am in absolute shock and awe that my last giveaway for my first ever custom bundle over at Contemporary Cloth had 926 entries! WOW! That is just so AMAZING!

Now for the winners, each will receive their own BitterSweet Bundle Fly Away, and for those who didn’t win, you can buy your own!

Sandy B and Barbara. I will be sending both of you emails later today.

Now on to my next bundle for Contemporary Cloth. First I will tell you how I started. I was going through the Yuwa Japanese fabrics on the Contemporary Cloth site, these are Japanese fabrics that I haven’t seen anywhere else. They are all very interesting, Modern, and like nothing I have seen before. I picked one print (upper left) and built the bundle around it.

The Yuwa Print, Kei, for some reason makes me think of a broken or disassembled old fashioned clock, you know, the kind with gears.  After that the rest of the fabrics just fell into place and the Broken Time Bundle was born.  This bundle is available exclusively at Contemporary Cloth for purchase and would add some great basics to your stash as well as a fantastic focal print.

What do you think? Do you see the inspiration? Broken Time?

 

Confession Time

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We have lived in our house for 13+ months. We are the first owners and it was brand spanking new when we moved in.  That isn’t the confession, the confession is that we have done almost ZERO decorating in our house during the last 13 months!  There were a lot of expenses that never occurred to us when we bought our home…like window coverings.  There weren’t even BLINDS when we moved in!  That was a fast $3,000!  We moved from a 1,400 square foot one story home to a 2,600 square foot 2 story home – we didn’t even have a bedroom set for our master bedroom – hello IKEA!  Needless to say some things have just never been taken care of, partly out of laziness, partly because I really hate decorating, but mostly because it is a brand new home and if it has involved making any kind of hole in the wall I have shied away from it.

Yesterday that all changed thanks to the wonderful help of my Father-in-Law – our master bedroom finally got CURTAINS!!! Which means I am no longer waking up at the crack of dawn (literally). The window on the right faces East!  The quilt is my original design and please don’t judge the pictures on the ground…I swear they will get hung up someday!  I really want to get a table for our little seating area in our room, either that or bring up the Hope Chest from California that my mom said I could have…

The only problem is that there are three small windows behind our bed that are still uncovered. I’m not quite sure what to do with them, and now that all of the other windows are covered, I do really want to do SOMETHING with them, I’m just don’t really know what. I’m totally open to suggestions, and from the expression on her face…I think Anne is quite shocked they are still naked!

Oh yeah, and no judging my Target bed set – the king size Swoon quilt is a work in progress!  The goal is for it to someday take up residence here…you know when I have spare time to work on it – LOL!

And now for the gratuitous cute picture of Anne – because I really can’t help myself!

If you haven’t already, make sure to take a few minutes to go enter to win my first ever custom fat quarter bundle!

The Fruits of Our Labors

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8 delicious pounds of freshly picked strawberries!

We started off the day with Anne wearing a perfectly darling outfit (that she picked out), nice and clean and bright yellow.

We got to the strawberry farm, picked up our baskets and headed out on a tractor ride out to the field – Anne was so excited about the tractor ride – and is really looking forward to pumpkin picking now because I told her she gets to ride one then too!

Here she is with her granny – she was so tickled!

Here she is after with our haul! Gotta love the strawberry stains up the dress – which did NOT come out in the wash by the way 🙂  Oh well, guess I will use more stain stick next time!

I don’t know why, but I just think this is the sweetest little picture of her…

Here she is celebrating all her berries on the tractor ride back. These are my hubby’s parents, affectionately known as Granny and Poppy.

Needless to say there has been a whole lot of berries consumed in our house this weekend, and even more have been frozen for smoothie drinks later!

What did you do this weekend?  Check in tomorrow to see how my father-in-law helped me give my home more of a “lived in” look!

If you haven’t already, make sure to take a few minutes to go enter to win my first ever custom fat quarter bundle!

Linking up with Plum and June!

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