UNO - Not just a card game anymore

It also makes a darn cute birthday theme!

My friend Lindsay has a little man who is turning one this weekend, and she wanted to use UNO as the theme for the party. But she didn't want to go with the new version of UNO that's out these days. No, she wanted to go retro and use the old school game as the design. So cool.


She asked me to make him a shirt using the freezer paper technique. It turned out so cute!

I've made a couple of shirts using this technique, and it is SO EASY. Even using two colors like i did. I love it.




Here is the finished product. I'm thinking of putting together a tutorial. Would you be interested in something like that?

It's about time!

Whew! Now that the holidays are over (for about two weeks now) I finally had some time to get in the craftroom.

I've been really slack about making blocks for my Sew Connected 3 group. Well, it's about time I got around to it!

This one is for Cathy. She sent beautiful fabric, in the colors I'd like to do in my bedroom by the way, but I was really stuck on what pattern to do for her. She wanted something geometric, and in viewing the other blocks made for her, I added a little touch of pink to match some fabrics she sent to other folks. I hope it doesn't clash .



This one is for Twiddletails. She wanted a log cabin, and since I'm a little addicted to wonky log cabins, I decided to do another one. I really like how this one turned out, and it's the first time I've pieced the logs. Her only requirement was to use the brown as the center square. Since I had some left over, I used a little piece of it in the upper corner. I love the dots!


This last one is for Sara. Truth be told, my head hurt after already doing two blocks improvisationally (is that a word?), and I just couldn't come up with anything fantastic. She really wanted the block to show off the fabric, and since I got a sweet piece that included mermaids, swimming girl AND an octopus, I didn't want to cut it up too much. She also sent along the pink and white Kona and wanted the white for the background. I was pleasantly surprised with it when I got finished and have already heard from her that she likes it as well. Yay!




It felt SO GOOD to get back behind the sewing machine. I have to thank my hubby for that. He's been helping me get the craftroom organized, and he is AMAZING. We made more progress in two hours than I've been able to make in 8 years of living here. Now we've made our way to the fabric cabinet, and frankly I'm a bit stuck.


I had started to organize my fabrics a couple of years ago, and thought I'd do it by yardage size, but now I've accumulated so many random sizes of fabric, maybe I should do it by color?


How do you organize your fabric? I need some ideas.

All I want for Xmas

My hubby and son have been bugging me for a list of ideas for Xmas. Since I noticed a few other bloggers posting their lists, I thought I'd do the same.

They both know that I desperately want a wii system, preferrably with a wii fit package, so that's a given.

I need some new quilting and crafting supplies.

Fancy designer fabric (in the new colors for the bedroom).

Binding clips (yes honey, the ones that look like barrettes)

Marking pen (the blue, not purple)

Gutermann thread - cotton, not poly (in beige color for piecing, or misc colors for stash)

Omnigrid ruler 6 x 12

Juki TL98Q quilting machine

And since I do most of the cooking in our house, I have decided that I need a few new tools for the kitchen.

Oil bottle drizzler (in red of course)

Vegetable peeler

Mandoline slicer (this should be at the top of the list)

Radio/CD player (again, in red)

Silicone basting brush

That pretty much covers everything. Not so bad right?

A quick note...

Just wanted to let you all know that the craft show was AWESOME, and I'll have pictures and details coming soon.

Also, I'm really going to start focusing on more sewing and crafting posts, not just lame apologies for not being around. :)

Where I've been

Hello friends, just wanted to let you all know I'm still around.

I've been busy busy busy getting ready for a craft show next week.

I'm so excited for this one. It's a juried show and it gets LOTS of press, so I'm really feeling like maybe I don't have enough inventory, but I guess we'll hope I sell out of everything.

Hopefully I'll remember to get some pictures of my products. If this goes as well as I hope, I'll have to get working WAY SOONER for next year's show.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Back to the grind

Wow, it's over already.

We just spent the last 5 days on a cruise ship to Mexico, and man did we have a blast! It was SO RELAXING. So peaceful, beautiful, relaxing. Did I mention it was relaxing?

We stopped in Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas. We learned how to make some really good Mexican food, we did some sea kayaking, snorkeling, shopping. It was AMAZING.

Oh yeah, and we ate. We ate lots. I've never had so much good food in my life. With the amount of lox I ate, I should be Jewish by now. With the amount of food my husband ate, he should be a whole 'nother man - literally - by now.

We saw some of the most amazing sunsets ever.

We saw the biggest flag in Mexico.

We also saw some dolphins, whales, and we're pretty sure we saw a swordfish jumping out of the water, although we weren't quick enough with the camera to show you.

And now that we're back, I have some mad sewing to get done. I have a craft show in about 3 weeks that needs some major inventory.

Back to the grind.

October Snowstorm 2009

Holy cow people. We just got a HUGE snowstorm here in CO. You've probably heard about it on the news, but in case you were thinking "it's way too early for snow", here's the proof.

Oct. 28th on the left, and Oct 29th on the right.

Mr. Big was out of school for both days, and as a bonus, I even got a snow day!

This is Dixie. She LOVES the snow. Unfortunately, the snow loves her back in the form of snowballs sticking to her hair and packing between her toes. The other thing she loves to do is let all this snow melt all over my house. My hardwood floors DON'T love that, and frankly neither do I.