Check ME Out Saturday Week 75

Welcome back!  I can't wait to see what you are going to post today!  Please don't spam and have TONS OF FUN. 

Today I am going to be staining and sanding away.  I can't wait to show you all the results. 

Construction Week 7

Construction on the house is coming along quite nicely.  We are going to be painting this weekend.  At least we will be painting the Master Bedroom and Bath along with the Girls Room.  In my room it will be a faux finish and the girls will be baby pink.  The rest of the house is going to be tan but my bedroom decorations are black and white so that wouldn't work :)  The girls room is very shabby chic pink frilly so tan wouldn't do there either.

ps...this is my debut :)

Doily! Oh MY!

I saw this posted on Check Me Out Saturday this week.  I didn't add it to my feature cause it isn't really a craft, but it is absolutely ADORABLE!  Seriously I am in love!

Here for the Etsy Shop

Thanks Julie of Stars and Sunshine for sharing

Check ME Out Saturday Week 74 Favorite Links

Here are my favorite links so far this week.  If you want to link up still you do have time go HERE

Wayward Girls made fruit leather (this is also a favorite past time of ours.  I was planning on showing you guys how I do it this week or next so keep an eye out for it)

Thirty Six Ave re-did an awesome little dress stand. (plus I just LOVE her decor!)

The Key to Flow made some yarn balls.  I am planning on making some when we get in our house (yep we only have 33 days left!)  She even gave us some trial and error!  Even Better!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to stop by again on Saturday to link up!

Scrap Fabric Quilt Top-Fall Colors

I am finally having time to use up all them scraps I swapped for back in May.  Here is the quilt top I was able to make.  I LOVE it.  Now I need to make a back piece and machine quilt it.  Its actually quite large (like throw size) for a quilt made from scrap pieces!  I am going to attempt to machine quilt it. 

Check ME Out Saturday Week 74

Welcome back!  Last week there were so many awesome entries!  It is always so much fun looking through each and every one of them and seeing all the fun things you all have been up to!

Link up what you have been working on...please no spam! Thanks!  Remember to stop by Monday for my favorites (you just might be featured :)

Rag Quilting - Backwards....An Experiment

 You all know how much I love my rag quilting...its quick.  Its easy.  Its forgiving.  So lets experiment for a minute. 

 Instead of all the raw seams on ones side of the quilt...I flip flopped them.  So now the blanket is reversible...Weird....I know.  I receiving these squares in a fabric scrap swap a few months ago and I let my daughter arrange them.  She put a purple square on top of each yellow striped square.  Then When I sewed them I made sure that they flip flopped so that they alternated.  In the above pic you can see how there are raw seams and then hidden seams...I let my 5 yr old clip all the seams (which wasn't the best idea she got lazy and tried cutting off the raw edges instead of clipping them)  But all in all its for her dolls so it don't matter much to me :)

I still haven't washed the blanket (a week later ) but when I do this weekend I will show you all the finished product.  I actually really like it.  I can see some potential...Give me a few weeks to come up with it :)

While I was snapping away with the camera my baby girl wanted a photo shoot.  Silly girl!  She doesn't smile for the camera once so this is just melting my heart!

Airplane Applique Rag Quilt with Embroidered Personalization

A few weeks ago I got a request for a larger airplane appliqued blanket.  She also wanted her sons name Ben embroidered on it.  I love how it turned out and I hope Ben and her mom love it as well!

Check ME Out Saturday Week 73 Favs

Here are my favs from this weeks Check ME Out Saturday link party.  The linky is still hope so you can link up HERE if you haven't yet

 Bless My Nest found the table that I have been searching craigslist and thrift stores for.  Beautiful isn't it?

Check out 36th Avenues awesome dice.  

Ciao Newport Beach has some awesome beach art.  I ADORE it!

Make sure to stop by Saturday for the newest week of Check ME Out Saturday!

Check ME Out Saturday Week 73

Welcome back...link up what you have been working on.  Please no spammy stuff :) Can't wait to see what you all have been working on!

Construction Week 6

Our house is coming right along.  This coming week we will be half way done.  We are all really excited!

I love seeing every little step that it requires to build a house.  There are so many little details that I would never of thought of!  It really is amazing. 

Check ME Out Saturday Week 71 highlights

Thanks everyone for stopping by last Saturday for Check ME Out Saturday.  There is still plenty of time to link up if you haven't already.  Here are my favorites:
Biplane by Sandy  
I have got to do this with my girls.  They will just die over it!

Make your own Gum Drops at Sew Can Do

I have had a project like this in mind...I have SOOO many scraps that it would work great for me.  See it over at Lindsey Sews

Seriously!  Aren't they all so adorable!

Check Me Out Saturday Week 69 Craft Link Party

Welcome back! I can't wait to see what you all have been working on this last week!  It is definitely one of the highlights for me each week!

Make sure to stop by Monday to see what my favs were from this last week.  Please don't link any shops or stuff your selling.  

Bath Robe from Beach Towels

Its pretty bad when my daughter and husband search the entire town for a new bath robe for me.  They thought it was bad that there were countless holes in it and many bleached stains...

Me on the other hand didn't really care....It served its purpose.  It wasn't like any other robe...it actually absorbed water.  It covered me very nicely.  It has been a good friend for many years. 

After I found out that they had searched for 3 hours for a new bath robe for me that was absorbant I realized how bad this lovely purple robe really was.  So I started watching for some towels that I could make a new robe with.  It has taken me 3 months but I did it. 

This project took me less than an hour from start to finish.  It was really simple.  I forgot to take a picture of it before I cut it all up...

First I cut up my purple robe into 5 pieces (the arm, one of the front 1/2 pieces, the back piece, the tie for around the waist, and the little loop that gets sewn in the sides to hold the tie)

Then I laid out my 2 beach towels (I bought 3 but ended up only needing 2 for a size small robe) and laid the pieces from the purple robe on top and cut them out (make sure to cut out 2 arm pieces and 2 front pieces, and 2 loops for the tie to go through)

One other thing to try to remember is to use as much of the finished edges of the towels as possible.  It will make finishing the robe so much easier :)


Then I sewed it all together with my serger.  If you don't have one then use a zig zag stitch with your sewing machine.  First...the shoulder pieces from the front and back pieces.  Next where the arms fit onto the shoulders, then sew under the arms together down through the sides of the robe (make sure to add the little loops in the waist area for the tie to go through)

Next finish your edges and your robe is done.  Seriously this was a really easy project that I was dreading.  I did make my robe about 3 inches longer than my last one.  When I finished the edges I just serged around them and since I won't be wearing it to town no one will know that I didn't professionally finish the edges :)

Construction Week 5

Construction on our house is moving right along.  Target is 90 days after dig date.  So far we are on Day 36.  More than 1/3 of the way through.  I am so excited but at the same time it seems to be taking FOREVER! 

I have so many projects that are in process for the house.  I think I have pre-house jitters :)  I am normally the type that doesn't have a million projects going at 1 time.  I have a couple going but they both get done...now nothing is getting done but everything is getting started.  Hopefully once we get moving into the house everything will come together at once :)