Happiness Surrounds You

For Christmas I made this quilt for my sister. After she seen the one that I made for myself she wanted one to look just like it. Well I changed it up a little bit... I like it better than the one I made for myself...but anyway. She loves it and uses it all the time. My sister lives in Florida, and I live in Wisconson so anything this cozy makes you feel a little closer to home.

This is Chesney he had to try it out before it was shipped out.

I wanted to do something special with the label... so what I did was designed it on my computer, printed it out on a peice of iron transfer paper and ironed it on the quilt. But will make note that the next time I do something like that it will be on a piece of fabric that hasn't been sewn yet. It needs to be flat.

So today my plan is to do a little organizing... I am a boyds bear collector ..for many years. But enough is enough. I dont have the room for it anymore and my cats sometimes use them as toys and bat them around. Infact I've come home a few times to one of them having the sweater on the bear completely unraveled to shreds....ruined. So its time to move them into a plastic tote. I know why even bother to keep them if you cant enjoy them but I'm not ready to completely get rid of them.

Next I need to clear off the scrapbook table. Put all my tools in there spot and get scrapping again. Its been way to long. I have projects to do. One of which was a Christmas present that I wasn't able to finish in time.

So wish me luck. I get easily distracted.

Oh and I must add that I am anxiousely awaiting the starting of this class. Just a few more days.. sign up here

Some craftiness has been accomplished

What seems like a long time ago I got a tutorial from Rachel on RVKC etsy to make a lap quilt. Well the quilt has been completed for a long time but the binding was something to be desired. With that said this is also my very first quilt ever made. But my hand sewing well is non exsistant. So I had my boyfriends mother hand sew the binding on for me. I can say that I did try my hand at it but it looked like crap. I will get more practice at it because I'm already working on a new one. And this time there will be some honest to goodness quilting done to it. My BF's Mom Sandy and I have designed a quilt pattern to sew on my new quilt when I finish. Ok so.....here is the quilt from the Red Velvet Kit Club you might like to see the full version in my flickr

Next is another piece that I just finished.. A Rag Quilt and her name is "Love"

Boy did I have the drive to finish this one. Pretty colors, the flower printed fabric that I used was my inspiration piece. My main goal was to create a quilt with lots of pink and brown. And when I seen this print I got super excited about it. I think I pulled this all together in less than a month. And thanks to Sandy (Bf's mom) who gave me the guidence to pull these hearts together.

Sooooo ..... What else have I been doing? Well Im in the online class taught by none other than Miss Elsie Flannigan and she's shedding some light on Journaling and new ways of doing so. So I take my pad of graph paper to work and I write and draw on my 15 min breaks. I'm also making homemade gifts for Christmas. Now I just have to concentrate and focus on using my time wisely to get these projects that I have brewing in my head completed on time for the holidays.

So this post is taking about 2 hrs. to put together. Now let me finish before you all say OMG! I have a perfectly good reason for doing so. The CMA Awards show (Country Music Awards) Carrie Underwood blows me away with this song. I love watching the CMA's every year.

So I hope this post has made up for the long time that I have taken in even putting up a new post. I'll try harder to update more. I'll leave you with a little self portrait that I did over the weekend.