Tutorials

My Friend K sent me two new tutorials that I thought were GREAT! I just had to share...

One is for a Key Fob.

The other is for a little pouch.

I thought they were both worth sharing and trying out! I also think I'm going to add these two to my blogroll! Love the ideas.

Golden Pace

I finally made a craft that is NOT sewing related!

I've been trying to pay attention to my plants lately and I have been trying to propagate with cuttings. Normally I just root in a plain old glass jar (re-use/re-purpose!) but I decided that I needed something that looked nicer than an old Pace Picante Sauce bottle sitting on my kitchen table. SO...I papier-mached my Pace Picante Sauce bottle and we now have Golden Pace and pickle jars on our kitchen table.

I took the tissue paper from a gift C gave us for our wedding and used it to papier-mache my old bottles with just a little glue and water. It was quick and easy and now I have a somewhat more aesthetic place to root my cuttings.

Bed Caddy

From the Sewing from the home tutorial series on Sew Mama Sew, I made a bedside caddy a couple of weekends ago. They were super easy and turned out really nice. I made one for B and one for me! I think I'm going to turn these into Christmas gifts.

New Bathroom! Well...kind of...

Wooohooo! I finally got to craft this weekend! I made a new Muu this one turned out way better than the one linked to but for those of you who aren't familiar with a muu, here's a pic of the first one. My new one is a grey waffle knit.

I also sort of, redid the master bath on Sunday. I made these curtains from the Waverly fabric I got at Joann's. They look OK but I'm having some MAJOR problems with my tensions/stitch length on my machine. So, don't look close at the stitches! If you click on the photo, you can see the pattern up close. I didn't think that the neon pink, green & yellow shower curtain would match either so I swapped that out for a simple white one.
I got a double curtain rod so I can still put a sheer behind the curtain. I didn't have it in me (well, my back rather) to hem up the liner of the curtains I used at our wedding. Maybe after M's birthday (Which is today! Celebrating next weekend). So now our bathroom looks all grown up instead of like a college dorm room. :) Yippie!

Sew Mama Sew!

I was unable to do any crafting this weekend with Birthdays and Sick-O's on my couch to tend to :( Here's to hoping for next weekend!

I did have my tutorial linked to on Sew Mama Sew!'s edition of Sewing for the Home. There are some excellent tutorials on there that I plan to make use of myself.

My tutorial is the Cozy Corn Pillow tutorial

I also splurged on some nice fabric to turn into mast bath curtains last week. AB FAB!

Pretty flowers all in a row

While M and I watched "The Little Princess" & "The Secret Garden" this weekend, I got some sewing in. I made this purse out of fabric I got at Poppy Quilt 'n Sew. I made a liner with cell phone pocket & key fob, & I used some bamboo handles from Hobby Lobby. I have to decide if I'm going to keep this one or give it as a gift...although the cell pocket is perfect for a black berry pearl...hmmmm....

New Laundry Room Curtains

I spruced up the rather white & plain laundry room/pantry this weekend. Now I actually don't mind walking in the room that means I'm doing one of two things, laundry or cooking. YAY!