Barn House

My sister-in-law Debbie and I were vendors at the Barn House Sale this weekend. We had a blast! This was my first show and Debbie's second. Joe and Jermonne (owners of Barn House) were fabulous to work with. We are totally bonded with them and the other vendors. We made some great new friends. It was a great day and a great sale! Thanks Joe and Jermonne!!!

Debbie and I are posing with our new best friend, Sylvi from Little Cottage. We just fell in love with her warm & wonderful personality. She's so great!

Thank you Barn House (Joe & Jermonne) for a truly magical day...

Graduation!!!

CONGRATULATIONS CHELSEA!!!

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."--Mahatma Gandhi --Class of 2008

This is Jake. He is our sweet, fat old lab (we call him fatty). He has been part of our family since Chelsea was in pre-school and he wanted to be the first to congratulate you on a job well done!!!

Grad party on Sunday...

Good job Chelsea we are all so proud of you...

Congratulations Chelsea!!!

Quilt Day!

Last Wednesday was a great day, quilt day! This month we decided to do something as a group with Jolyn teaching us how to make our project. She is a very talented person and teaches many classes. We get the benefit of asking her all kinds of questions on quilt day. She couldn't escape us last week because it was at her house!

This is Jolyn, she's a little fiesty (although she hasn't bitten anyone yet)!!! I think she's telling us to pay attention...

Once we got focused we started to get the hang of it. We were so focused that the group was actually quiet for minutes at a time! It was really weird... (seven women quiet)?

Cathy was so into her project that she was working on it while talking on the phone, now that's talent!

Debbie excites easily...

The finished product...

(top picture from left to right: Jolyn, Laurie (me), Laurie, Sherryl, Cathy)
(bottom picture from left to right: Debbie, Laurie (me), Laurie, Sherryl, Cathy: not pictured: Susan)

A little show and tell...

No Sherryl and Debbie are not pregnant! They're showing how much you could eat if you wore one of these adorable aprons!!!

It was a fun day...

5 Things

This post is for all you crafty,sewy people out there. Do you ever buy beautiful books full of projects you can make only to look through them and never make anything? Well I do. I have decided to pick 5 projects from my beautiful books and actually make them! Part of my plan is that I have to use fabric and supplies that I already have.

Here's project #1...

I chose my project from a book by Amy Butler, In Stitches. Now for the fabric...

A pretty red and white toile type fabric. It's got the weight and feel of linen. Very pretty. I guess it's time to get busy...

Tip of the day... if you have to leave an opening in the fabric, criss cross two pins at the spot where you want to stop stitching. It will remind you to stop stitching so you won't have to rip out any seams!

I needed two 32x1/2" pieces of leather for the handles. I didn't happen to have any 1/2" leather laying around. Remember the rules? I can't buy anything new. My creative mind was working overtime for a solution, but it was my husband who suggested using an old belt. What a great idea!

I thought my next obstacle would be cutting the belt. I decided I would score it with my rotary cutter then cut it with scissors. But when I started to score it my rotary cutter sliced right through it like butter (that's 'buttah' to you and me baby)! I was impressed by my handy little rotary cutter.

And now the finished product...

This was a fun project to make. I can't wait to start project #2!!!