Spoonflower is having an awesome sale! Instead of a Cyber Monday sale, they will be having a week long sale. November 28th, today, through December 2nd. For every fat quarter of fabric you purchase, you get one fat quarter free! any design! by any designer!
Perfect timing too. I just added a new design to my spoonflower shop.
I’m calling it Sketchy Kitchen and it comes in three colorways.
Even more fabric coming soon.
Pin ItI’m a little late on the game today! CT and I are still sick and just plain exhausted. I wanted to take part in Cyber Monday, I had a whole shop update planned and everything…
but instead I’ll just do a sale.
Yep, 20% off EVERYTHING in either of the shops.
the Art School Dropout Shop or the Mini Art School Dropout Shop
No strings attached. The code can even be used on custom items.
Just use coupon code: CYBMON20 during checkout. I was planning on having the sale end at Midnight tonight (EST), but since I’m behind on posting this I’ll extend the sale until Midnight Tuesday (EST).
CT and I have had a slight cold all week, and I thought we were getting better.
I was seriously wrong. I ended up with a horrible fever Thanksgiving night and CT was up most of the night with a hacking cough.
CT has been watching a lot of Christmas specials and was really into the idea of the holidays. So to make the day after Thanksgiving special, and to counteract the horrible night before, we decided to start decorating for the holidays.
We were still sick, and my husband was starting to show signs of a cold, but we still lugged all the decoration boxes up from the basement. I had to go through everything and pick out all the fragile ornaments, I could do without them for a few years. Apparently I love plastic though, because I didn’t have to take out too many.
Yo Gabba Gabba has a Christmas episode where they sing about decorating the tree. CT sang it the entire time! She even hummed it a few times.
She only wanted to hang the candy canes and the round bulbs. She accidentally broke half of the candy cane’s and she hung all of the bulbs on one branch. It was super cute.
The tree has only been up one day, and so far CT has only taken off about a dozen ornaments. That’s not too bad, right?
I figured we were putting up one of our tree’s, so why not put up the other one! Yes, we have two trees. CT calls the white tree “mommy’s tree”. It’s my clearance tree I bought last year and is filled with either hand cast plastic ornaments or clearance ornaments. It’s our fun tree.
I’m nowhere near done decorating. I still have loads of ideas running through my head. like maybe some quilted tree skirts? or some stuffed fabric trees? or how about some glittery snowflakes for the yard? Maybe even some more ornaments for the tree?
So expect more posts like this one. hopefully a lot more. As long as our cold goes away soon.
This year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. I had heard my uncle wasn’t doing it anymore, and I figured we had the room (and the chairs he used every year for such events), so “why not?”.
I originally thought it would be the whole gang… my grandmother, my mom, my siblings, my four uncles, their spouses/fiances/girlfriends, all their kids, etc etc etc… There’s a lot of us.
I was kinda relieved to find out that it wouldn’t be everyone, just my immediate family, my uncle and his fiance. I think there was 11 of us total.
I didn’t get many photos. Actually I only took ONE! ha. I was too busy cleaning, cooking, and baking.
See my one photo? It’s not even a nice bright photo!
My sister did take a bunch though, mostly of family. She has a much fancier camera, so her photos were a lot prettier.
she took a nice photo of our table mostly filled with food. Nothing too special, but very comfortable.
Oh and those smudge marks on the wall are my next project! Not anything weird. Were trying to pick out paint colors for the dining room.
All in all Thanksgiving was really nice, and I won’t hesitate to offer to host again. I’d even be up for having the entire family if needed.
This isn’t a tutorial on how to cross stitch something. This is just a quick and easy, photo heavy, “how I did it”.
I LOVE to cross stitch. It’s very calming to me. I wait until after CT goes to bed and I just cuddle up with a blanket and watch some TV while stitching away.
Lately I’ve been buying all my patterns from Wee Little Stitches. We love nerdy stuff in our house, and they make awesome nerdy patterns. I highly recommend checking out their etsy shop.
the Tardis, pictured above, is from one of their Doctor Who patterns.
If you would like to see how I made this piece into an ornament, please keep reading… Continue reading
Pin ItSo I’m accidentally already onto my second Book-A-Holic project. Accidentally? Well, I was planing on making an ottoman or log pillow from Kid Made Modern, but last minute I had a need for a handmade gift.
I was invited to a Pie Potluck at my friend Heidi’s house, and I wanted to make her a hostess gift. What do you make a girl who can make anything? Apparently a potholder.
I guess I’m kinda lazy, because my second project is also from the Spring 2010 issue of Stitch Magazine. This time its the Wraparound Pie Holder by Rashida Coleman-Hale. I figured it matched the whole pie theme.
Normally I would stay away from a project like this. I have never quilted more than two layers, I have never made my own binding/bias tape and I have never bound anything (the correct way at least). I was determined!
First things first, I had to figure out how to use my walking foot. My husband bought it for me two years ago, while I pregnant, in hopes I’d actually finish the quilt I’d been working on for weeks. I never did. I was too scared by all the quilt layers!
Turns out it’s not as scary as it looks, plus it comes with a nice guide to make all the quilting look even. It’s my new favorite gadget.
I chose fabric I already had on hand for the front and the binding. I did have to go out and purchase some Insul-Bright insulated batting and Linen. I had never worked with either of those. It’s was almost an entire project of “firsts”.
Cutting the linen was not fun, its very squirmy. Anyone have any tips on making that part easier?
The quilting part was a lot of fun, and I loved that walking foot. It really helped to keep all the layers even and there wasn’t any bunching on the backside. Awesome!
I couldn’t find the little bias tape maker I had purchased, so I just made it the long way where you fold the fabric in half and then fold the sides in, etc etc etc. There are instructions all over the Internet to explain it better than I ever could. I attached the binding and for the first time ever hand stitched it to the front side. I actually enjoyed doing that part, which completely surprised me.
I’m so happy with how the pot holder came out, and the instructions were super simple and easy to understand. Plus now I have a nice long list of new skills. Who knows, I might even try and finish up that quilt from two years ago.
