A little organization

I spent some quality time in my sewing room this weekend.

While I was out there, I managed to get a little organizing done.


And I do mean a LITTLE.

I got most of my ribbon in order.

I used a hanger that is designed for multiple pairs of pants. Each row (except for the very bottom) opens so that the ribbon spools can slide on and still be able to turn if you just want to pull off some ribbon and cut it.

This is such a welcome change since before this my ribbon was all in a bag. Well, that was before. I was looking for some ribbon one morning and I was in a hurry and got so frustrated that I had just dumped it all on the floor and that's where it remained (just keeping it real here.) So you can imagine how happy I am to have it up, organized, and out of the way. WooHoo!!

Now if only I could do that with the rest of the stuff in the room. LOL

A Daisy'll do....

Over the weekend I had a few hours of time to myself (thank you mid-life hormone freak out that lets me sleep for only 4-5 hours) and I needed something quiet to occupy my time. Especially since I finished reading my book.

I had seen this pattern before and since I had bought some cotton thread I decided to look it up again and give it a go.

It worked up pretty quickly and I think it's cute. Which, of course, means I'll probably never use it to wash my dishes.

I did have a little problem making the instructions for the final round make sense in my head (but that is very likely just me.)

If you give it a try, I'd love to see your results!!

Upcycled Goodies

I have three teenage daughters which means we have lots of hair accessories. They all share one bathroom which usually looks like a tornado has been through it. I'm always looking for any small way to help contain some of the mess.

Somewhere or another, I saw a container made from a used chips can and decided I could do something similar with a recently emptied oatmeal container. I headed to Hobby Lobby and bought a couple of sheets of 12 X 12 paper and then dug out my bottle of mod podge.

 

I coated up the oatmeal container with mod podge and wrapped the paper around it. I only did a little at a time to help keep the mess to a minimum.

After I got the container covered and gave it time to dry, I folded a little part along the bottom under and glued it into place to give the whole thing a cleaner look. I also cut a circle from the paper to cover the center of the lid.

The purpose here is for the girls to put their hair clips and pony tail holders inside the container and head bands fit perfectly on the outside.

Here's the finished product.

I hope they'll actually use it. LOL

We've got bling

We spent the weekend getting some bling on at our house.

One of my daughters competes in pageants. She's only allowed to do 'natural pageants' because I'm not big on the fake hair, fake tan, fake teeth, etc. kind of pageants.

So, she's got a pageant coming up with the theme of denim and diamonds. There really aren't a lot of rules to go by which is really hard for me. I generally need some kind of parameters to operate in. Just wide open gives me too much room to go crazy with ideas. LOL

Anyway, since my daughter has to pay for her pageant participation on her own, she's learning a valuable lesson about learning to work with what you've got to save money.

With that in mind, I took a pair of boots that Kirsten has outgrown (but they still fit Addison) and added some bling.

These are the boots before:

After blinging up the boots, I also worked some magic on a belt that I have *ahem* outgrown.

She has a denim dress that she'll be wearing them with and her Dad is going to polish the foot part of the boots tonight.

I'm happy with the way they turned out and so is she. I can't wait to see what the other girls in the pageant show up with. I will say this though, I went through a WHOLE LOT of hot glue getting all of that done.

Wash Colths

I told you that I have still been crocheting. I've seen on other blogs where people go on about how much they've fallen in love with crocheted wash clothes. I had some yarn left over from the camisole I made and since it was 100% cotton, I decided to make up a couple of wash cloths.

The two white ones are cotton. I happened to be in Hobby Lobby and touched some bamboo yarn that was soooooo soft I had to have some. That's the red one.

I haven't used them yet. So far I just like looking at them all folded and stacked. Maybe I'm just afraid that I'll really like them and then I'll go crazy with making more and more. LOL I'm thinking they're a great way to use up left over yarn and to practice new stitches. If you make gauge swatches (which I never do--I'm bad that way) go ahead and make them big enough to use as a wash cloth later. Maybe now I should start doing that. lol

For Father's Day

Since Dax was gone all weekend doing his training with the State Guard, Addison and I decided to do something different with his cake.

Here's his cake:

We did the inside in camo:

We could barely find it to eat it! LOL

Anyway, to get this effect I just colored vanilla cake mix and then put it in the pan in plops of color. I went over the colors to make sure the batter was deep enough in the pan and kind of mushed it around a little. I didn't really swirl it because I didn't want the colors to blend.

I saw a picture on pinterest of some pans with the batter, and this is what I figured out to do to get the same effect.

Dax thought it was pretty funny.

Baa baa little sheep

I've got more crochet stuff, but I didn't want you to think this had turned into a crochet blog. lol

I've had this fabric with hills and houses on it for some time now. I don't remember where it came from or why I bought it and I haven't known what I was going to do with it.

I saw a picture a few weeks ago with some sheep made from french knots and knew that's what I wanted to put on this fabric.

I think I'm going to make another, bigger one, and put a lot more sheep on it.

I thought it turned out cute and I still have a lot more of this fabric. And it's really quick too!