DoDo and an Update

Well hello, it has been forever. I have been crazy busy the past month I have started a little, and I do mean little, business. I am selling some of the things that I am making. But more on that later. We had Vacation Bible School at my church, I had an amazing time with a great group of kids. There were over 2000 kids and they gave almost $14000 for drinking wells in Ghana. My family and I went on a vacation to Riviera Maya, more on that later (with pictures I promise). We also went to my grandma's in Millican for the 4th of July weekend. We had a great time down there with the family, Piper is getting so big we all celebrated her 10 month birthday with a monkey cupcake. The boys went fishing and Hannah, Emily (Hannah's friend) and I joined to shoot the guns. Thanks to Cody (Jake's friend) we were able to shoot an AR15 along with the shotguns.

But now I am back at sewing and crafting.

I got a Cricut!!!!!!
I have had so much fun making random things learning how to use it.

I made a bag for my grandma, we call her DoDo, and no I have absolutely no idea why we call her that but everyone does! We are going to Colorado next week and so I decided to make her a bag. My mom's customer and now my friend Alice gave me this pattern. It is made with an old pair of blue jeans. I liked the pattern but I don't think that I would use blue jeans next time they were stretchy and very difficult to cut to the right size. But they do add alot of detail to the bag. The edges are sewn on the outside which allows for the edges to fray. I also added the prairie points to the top, super cute. The pocket on the outside is made from the back pocket of the blue jeans with the state of Texas appliqued to the pocket. I think it turned out very nicely.

I hope she likes it!!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

I am a little late on posting her birthday but better late then never.

For her birthday I made her a bag. I assembled the bag like I did the laminated cotton bag in the previous post. However I added batting to the inside to make it a little more stable. I used the scissor fabric that I posted about from City Craft. I added a pocket to the outside with the scissor fabric and a pocket to the inside with the black broadcloth fabric I used for the outside lining. I ended up breaking 3 needles while making this bag. OOPS! It is not perfect but it still functions as a bag.

For dinner I made Mom's Meatloaf and Green Beans. For her birthday cake I made an Italian Cream Cake.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!!

Sewing Day

My friend Carrie and I had a Sewing Day a couple of weeks ago. She came over to learn how to sew, not sure I am the best teacher since I just make it up as I go. We started our weekend by going to City Craft, an amazing fabric store in Dallas. I bought some laminated cotton and oilcloth along with some really cool scissor fabric, to be seen in a later blog. The next day we began our adventure. Carrie made some amazing pillow cases. (Which I will copy the idea and make for myself one day)

She did an amazing job!!!!

Our next project of the day was to make bags!
We had no pattern to go by really, so I was making it up as we went.
We started by making the bag as usual. We used laminated cotton for the outside. I used a bright pink cotton for the inside lining. I then made my own bias tape out of black and white striped oilcloth for the top piece. The handles are the laminated cotton and bright pink cotton. I think it turned out very well.


Carrie did the same type of thing with her bag as well. Instead of tieing her bias tape together she sewed the sides completely. I think that she did a great job on her second project ever!



We finished the day with a fish fry with my parents Life Group.
A yummy ending to a fun day!