Jenny Of Elefantz has a new free BOM

Have you all seen Jenny's new Shabby Roses Home free BOM. She blogs over at Jenny of Elefantz Designs. http://www.elefantz.com/2013/07/blocks-1-2-of-shabby-roses-home-and.html


If you haven't been to her blog you must go visit her. This is gonna be very pretty. I am gonna join in. This will be my very first BOM to join.  I just couldn't resist. It is so adorble I lvoe Jenny's style. She has the cutest patterns available in her Craftsy shop.

New project started and old project finishing up

I am finishing up on my mug rugs Breast Cancer awareness project for The Breast Care Center. Just a couple more small  things to be done. Before I set up the delivery date. Can"t wait. I am so excited  to be so close to finishing this. I'm not a fast person by any means as I get so easily distrated and have my hands full with the kids, house and animals and huge amounts of yard work to constantly be done here.  I snapped a quick picture of  a stack of some of the completed mug rugs on yesterday. I had stacked  them on my daughters arts table she has set up in my studio room.

 Also I started work on  a new project yesterday as well. I have to make some baby items by one of my neices upcomeing baby shower. She is haveing a baby girl. They have picked out the name Autumn...  They have decided to  do her  nursery in  minie mouse. So alongside the mug rugs I put the baby wash cloths I cut out and made from Terry cloth.  3 different colors pink, lavender and turquoise.  I have made these for several others and they told me after useing mine they tossed the store bought ones. That these have held up a very long time  and are much thicker and nicer.  So I figured 4 of each should be about enough.  Here is a closer up picture of those baby wash cloths.

I have also purchased some flannels that I wll cut out and make her burp cloths out of and possibly some matching bibs as well.   I hope all of you have a fabulous day surrounded by family, fabric & fun.

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Good things in the post

 I received a beautiful mug rug from Rhonda  who blogs over at Ravelly1 blog http://ravelly1-quiltzblog.blogspot.com/   It was a gorgeous patriotic mug rug....I love patriotic stuff and so does my husband. If you have never been to Rhonda's blog please go check her out and leave her  some love. She makes the  most beautiful mug rugs.  I won her spring mug rug in the spring giveaway  which sits on my desk and is what motivated me to start making them.

Now isn't this just stunning. Thank you sew sew much Rhonda. My husband loves it. Rhonda has been makeing the most stunningly real looking fish  appliques over on her blog.  You really have to go check them out. Please tell her I sent you if her site is new to you. Also please consider following my blog. You will find the buttons to the left. Several options their to follow with.

My chance to go Thrift today

Today was the day to take my son to the city to see his specialist. I don't know if I have ever mentione dit or not. But my son is a special needs child he hasAutism and  a lot of other health problems . The long drive really   makes for a long day. We have a 2 hours drive their and a 2 hours drive back.  We did get to go visit my favorite thrift shop while their. I actually found a piece of fabric. It was a yard for $1.25 only one piece like it. Also got a couple shirts for me and the daughter  on sale for $1.00  each. My kind of shopping. I am not sure what type of fabric it is that I bought. It looks like and feels like linen but is slightly stiffer. I am sur eit must be for home decor but who knows?  Could be from being starched by previous owner for all I know. A gorgeous beige color. With a really cute selvage and very pretty blue flowers  printed on it. 

 

 

So that was my lovely and only piece of fabric I got to buy.  They only had 2 other pieces and they were polyester...No thank you to that. I wore enough of it as a child and am now allergic  to polyester. Polyesteritis...It makes me sick just to think about sewing with it.

And yes we did get a little rain today as we drove home. It was also very very hot. The thermometer in the  car read 97 degrees. We are all so very very sick of all of this rain.

  On a happy note I did get to sit and make some hexi's as I waited on my daughter at play practice this evening. 

 

Tammy

 

 

Blog sure needs some updated sewing room photos

Looking at my blog I realize all of my pictures of the sewing room and house and everthing were all taken at the old house  where we used to live several years ago. I really do need to take some new pictures of the sewing room I guess...I sure do miss my old house sometimes but not all the commotion of living in such a large subdivison in a large town. I really enjoy the peace and quiet  where we now live here in this  rural setting. With 2 acres which is big enough for us and almost too big to take care of...But it was a great move for the kids and for us and to be close to family again. So sometime soon I hope to be able to get some new photos posted of everything. I am gonna try and post more often ...There may be gaps though as I am currently dealing with my breast cancer and faceing  more surgery soon.  Please follow my blog via  the links that are located on the side bar.
 Tammy

Happy Fourth Of July & some good luck too

With all the bad luck I have had going in my personal life as of lately. Which I will  not go into all those details here. Lets just say I got some fabulous good news today.  I all ways follow the blog hops that Madame Samm who blogs  over at  http://www.sewwequilt.com all ways hosts. Her hops are the best. Full of great creativity, wonderful projects and you get to meet the most creative blog owners.   Well quiet a while back in time I started following carol @ her blog http://justletmequilt.blogspot.com  She has a wonderful blog and she seems to participate in all of the hops. This lady is very talented. If you haven't visited her before please hop over to her blog and say hi. The latest blog hop was the Stamp On It.  Carol gave away a prize as part of her day of participating. It seems I am the winner. What did I win you wonder.

Hmmm a fabulous  and very generous  gift certificate for $20.00 to a new to me quilt shop called  Quilt Taffy. I had never heard of it before. Carol gives it rave reviews.  So I had to rush over their to check them out.  The  owner is named Corrie and she has a huge fabulous selection of fabrics and supplies for sale. Here is her link so please go check out her shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop/quilttaffy  I found some beautiful fabrics over their and fell in love with some  new to me fabrics.

   Just thought I would share my fabulous luck.  Thank you Carol and Corrie too. Happy Fourth of July to everyone. Hope your day is fabulous. 

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Tammy

 

 

Claiming my blog over at Bloglovin

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