Some bunny wuvs you

These little guys were so fun to make!

Some have hopped all the way to NYC, South Carolina, and the rest will hop away with a new friend, on Sunday!







I'm keeping super busy in the studio, at the moment. It feels so good to be sewing again, after a few months of busy, busy. Need to keep plugging away here, before Spring Break! Listening to Kina Grannis while I work away.

Happy Thursday!

Leafy collage

Want to make a fun leafy collage?

First of all, you take a piece of sturdy cardboard.

Cut a piece of fabric that is one inch larger, than your cardboard.

Go through your autumn colored fabric scarps, and pick out some pretty leaf colored fabrics.

Cut out a bunch of leaves.

Arrange your leaves on the fabric, making sure to keep a one and a half inch border all the way around your leaf design. Have fun with this! There is no right or wrong way to arrange your leaves!

Put a dab of hot glue on the back of each leaf, to fasten it to the fabric.

Pick out some pretty colors of embroidery floss, and stitch around the leaves with a needle and thread. If you are in a hurry, you can use your sewing machine, using a pretty stitch.

I left a few of the leaves alone and did not stitch them.

Secure these leaves with a bit more glue, using my hot glue gun. If you have fabric glue, this works well, too.

Using a cool iron, carefully run the iron over your finished collage.

Cover your cardboard with your collage. I simply taped the fabric around the cardboard, on the backside. (no one will see, right?!)



I got a little carried away with the leaf cutting, so I have a few leaves left over. I am going to make a banner with these.



I plan on having my kids help out with this one. We are going to collect leaves (real ones) and use them to dip in fabric paint, and stamp the individual pieces of fabric that will attach to the banner. We will mix these in with the fabric leaves for a fun effect. Come back later on this week, to see what we came up with!

Happy leaf hunting!

Best Mother's Day ever!

Mother's Day is one of those holidays that just can't be celebrated in one day. I want to celebrate Mother's Day everyday. I believe that being a better mother myself, makes for a happier family, happier home life. This is what I strive for each and every day. I want to be the best mother for my children. To laugh with them, to love them, to cherish the good with the bad.



I am so thankful for my own mother who taught me how to love and to be a giver. It's my mother that gave me my first sewing machine(s), taught me to bake bread, to cook, to garden, went for walks with me before I could even walk! Took me across the street to feed the neighbors Shetland ponies.

I made my sweet Momma this vase cover, that I fell in love with, over here. It's a great way to use up your gorgeous scraps that you just can't throw away. I ironed my fabric pieces onto fusible interfacing. (The stiff, heavy kind of interfacing.)



I hope all you mother's had the best Mother's Day weekend!

Pink Fig Accessories

We are a big fan of Pink Fig patterns!

Look at these cute little purses we whipped up in no time! Chelsea's patterns are so easy to follow, and you have a finished piece in an hour or so!



Two, cute little purses from her latest Pink Fig Accessories pattern! Hop on over to her shop and pick up a pattern!



The pattern directions give measurements for a shorter strap than we made. Just for fun, we made our strap length twice the size of the direction measurements. This makes a great length for a cross body strap for these cute little purses. Either way is delightful. Next time we will try the shorter strap measurements. We also added little sewn in pockets for lip gloss and girlie treasures.

Fun little project

Just take a look at these adorable little photo albums! I got the idea from Lizzy Kartchner. Lizzy's talented works are amazing and beautiful.



I had so much fun with these darling little photo books, during the summer. You really and truly get so hooked, that you end up making more than one! They are so addicting that I made one more, and another, and another and wow, "so and so" would love one.......and before I knew it, the pile was growing.



and a few more.........



pretty stash all over my bed!



I am still having fun with these little beauties. They make really nice gifts! (which reminds me that I still need to finish up a few before Christmas!!)

Thanks for the fun, Lizzy!!!!!!!

Phoebe!

Isn't this little elephant super cute!!!!!!!! The moment I saw this pattern, I knew I had to make a few elephants. This cutie was for a sweet little one year old.





If you've never seen these creative ladies, you must head on over to their blog. They do take a bit of time, but are so worth every stitch.

New houses!

We had so much fun making these darling little house pillows. My heart leaps a beat or two faster when I see them over here, on this blog! Ruby makes the cutest things, ever! Now we have two cute houses of our own. We made them together on my daughter's birthday.





A darling way to plump up your cozy collection of pillows. A perfect way to use up scraps of fabric and trim.....buttons, whatever strikes your fancy. I think we will be making more of these. No two are alike, and they are so pleasing to make.

Random Ramblings

Look what my girlies found blooming on the tree! It was so cute to see them finally realize that the blossoms were not real! They found all the eggs on the ground, and then we had to start hinting that there was something else they had missed during the "egg hunt"......I was really inspired by Ruby's pretty hair clips...if you haven't seen her beauties, you really should check them out! I fashioned these fluffy blossoms after the gorgeous Camelia's we found in the Hagiwara Japanese garden's.



Blue....pink.....which one will you pick?



Felt flowers are sooo fun and easy to make...and they look soooo cute in the hair! Fastened to a cute ponytail or bun....or over tousled locks.



..and some fun eggs hidden quite well amongst the four leaf clovers and yellow flowers....see, I told you it's all random....fun randomness!

Happy Thursday~

Paper flakes

Paper flakes is all we get.......with that I'm satisfied. No slishy, shloshy snow to slide through, no wiping out on black ice.



Just pretty, flakey, sheets of paper, no sheets of ice or snow........



Reflecting beautifully off the pretty mirror, as if to say hello, and good morning to you.



Happy, happy holidays to all of you, both near and far, wherever you are! Thank you for all your kind and generous comments over the past twelve months that made up 2008! Oh yessss! 2008 was great! We are looking forward to what 2009 will enfold.