Seams of Life

our first Fall craft

Inspired by Betz White's pussy willow rainbow my daughter and I made our first Fall craft this weekend. I had these Autumn colored pompoms in my craft stash, bought for some forgotten project, and the branches came from dead limbs in our yard.

I let Sarah spray paint the branches with a flat white paint -- she's been asking to spray paint something every since I painted our kitchen table so she was quite happy and did a very thorough job. Once the branches dried I hot glued the pompoms on and, ta-da, we were done.

If you panned out of any of my pictures, chances are you would see this: 

Because my tiny babe is determined to walk and pulls up on anything and everything. I'm not ready for a toddler yet but Molly dosen't seem to care about that.

birdie mobile

Two posts in one day...so unlike me! But I just finished up the Birdie Mobile from Little Crochet and wanted to share it before my big kids get home from school and hijack my computer. I apologize for poor quality of the pictures - there isn't much natural light in my bedroom. Hopefully you can still see the adorable-ness of the Birdie Mobile. 

It really brightens up Molly's little corner nursery!

 

yarn along

Joining Ginny today for Yarn Along. I haven't read a book in what seems like forever. I've been too lazy to go to the library and too cheap to buy anything. At least I have my Country Living subscription, it comes straight to the house and is already paid for. I just received my October issue, which I was so looking forward to since Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but I have to say I was a little disappointed. In fact, I've been disappointed in all of the issues this year. There just seems to be more of the same over and over and something is just missing that I can't put my finger on. It could be me, maybe my style is changing?

Above is the beginning of the Swing Set Cardigan from Little Crochet. I'm working my through this book! I'm just about finished with Birdie Mobile.  

I'm excited to finish this one and share it. So, one project almost finished and one project started...and many more floated around in my head. Guess that explains why I've only been flipping through magazines.

my sewing nook

I've been dusting off and re-arranging my blog today. My blog used to have a domain name that I didn't renew and thus, many links were broken. I finally took the time and fixed most of those broken links. I also figured out how to make a button (I'm know very little when it comes to writing HTML) thanks to this tutorial. Now there's a nifty list to your right of my tutorials and patterns.

My sewing nook has been dusted off and re-arranged too.

 My son and I cut and hung a new shelf and now I have more space to display all of my favorite nick-knacks and notions.   

Hopefully all of this cleaning up will jumpstart my creativity because Elsie Marley just announced the dates for the next Kids Clothes Week Challenge and I'm eager to get started.  

crayon art

Tutorial found here.

 Hope you had a wonderful weekend!