Birthday Girl

Today is my little girl's birthday.  

She's turning 6. 

Her name is Sasha so I found some cute 

things on Etsy that have to do with the name 

"Sasha".

First we have Sasha the Lioness.  Sometimes my Sasha has a lioness attitude.

Source 

My Sasha loves to draw.  One of her favorite things to draw are mermaids.  

Here is the "Sasha Blue" mermaid.

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And finally we have this beautiful silk organza and french lace flower clip.  

Source

These things are pretty girly-girly and my
Sasha is girly but guess what?

She's actually going to have an
Angry Bird Birthday Party!
Go figure. :)

                                    

PicMonkey

So, you all probably know that Picnik is shutting down {gasp!} 

BUT--- I've learned about a new site that seems just as good!!  

Introducing...

It was created by a couple of former Picnik engineers.

I've already played around with it a little bit and 

for being Freeeeee it's pretty amazing.

After you click to add your photo you can 

play around with a bunch of settings that

allow you to adjust your picture to your liking.

You can add text, frames, shapes, and even whiten up some teeth!

Below is a picture I uploaded and played around with.

In addition to playing around with the brightness, contrast, etc, I added some text, a heart shape, and a colored frame.

Kinda fun, huh?

Go forth and play.

Fabric Stash

So the other day I was watching Law & Order on my computer and I thought to myself:

"I should do something productive while watching this show."

I knew I couldn't do something that was too mentally intensive 'cause if I miss one word of the show I'm lost! 

Well, I decided to fold my fabric stash!  

Since I was sitting at the computer I did a little Google search and found a few sites that gave instruction on how to fold fabric. Yeah... didn't realized there are DoZeNs of ways you can fold/organize your fabric!

I liked this tutorial and got to work.  A few hours later and my fabric looked like this: 

Nice and neat!  Doll pattern found here

Kinda pretty to look at, huh?  

I encourage you all to tidy up that sewing area 

with a little fabric folding!! :)  

Let me know if you do!

I really enjoy sewing projects that are quick and bring me almost instant gratification.  

L-o-n-g-e-r projects keep me entertained for a while...... 

but most of the time they get set aside and lost in the pile of other projects.

Some of my most favorite projects are from a website called:

Keyka Lou.  

I have quite a few of her (Michelle) patterns and enjoy whipping them up lickity-split!  

One great thing about her patterns is that she includes a few different sizes in the pattern.  

For example, I bought this pattern and made all three sizes of pouches that were included in the pattern.

Here is the smallest sized pouch of the "Pleated Pouch" pattern.

(I made this pouch for my niece.)

I jazzed it up a bit by using three different fabrics on the front.  

I also used a contrasting color of thread for the top stitching on the outside.I thought it turned out really cute!  

You should check out Michelle's patterns at 

Keyka Lou. 

They are fabulous, inexpensive and quick to create! :)

Pinwheel Door Frame/Wreath

A few posts ago I mentioned I was working on a project that had to do with pinwheels.

Here is the project I was talking about!

I think there was something similar to it on Pinterest. I just did my own thing with it though.

First I found a frame at a thrift store.

Then I took it out back and gave it a couple of coats of this

beautiful aqua colored spray paint.

Since this frame/wreath was for my front door during the summer I chose some really fun, bright colors to make the pinwheels.

Here are some of the pinwheels. My daughter helped me out a bit.

I used glue dots to attach the pinwheels to the frame.

I also cut some triangles out of the paper to make a bunting to hang across the middle of the frame. I sewed rickrack across the triangles.

There isn't a picture of this but I used some lettered stickers and attached them to the triangles.

They spelled out "Welcome".

Sorry I don't have a picture of the frame/wreath hanging on my front door. I KNOW I have a picture of it somewhere. When/if I find it I'll post it!

Feeling Summertime!

Oh, I am so enjoying the summertime right now!
Flowers blooming...

Source: lovely-little-things.blogspot.com


































warm weather, kids taking swimming 












lessons and playing outside

All. Day. Long.

http://www.freefoto.com 

And delicious, yummy watermelon.

I wish it would never end!

http://www.marthastewart.com/332432/watermelon-punch-and-bowl 

Pinwheels

I am currently loving pinwheels.

I have a project in the back of my mind

incorporating pinwheels.

Gonna be awesome. :)

Source: cateredcrop.com via Lynn on Pinterest

Pinwheel Quilt

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