clouds, ruffels and bows

clouds , ruffles and bows

It's summer time, my little princes is getting bigger and bigger and grow out of her PJ's. I always have a stash of fabric in my little room (more a hoard) and I thought: Why not sew a couple of PJ's!

She need something comfy, something what is not getting wiggled over the belly or the pants is getting lost in her bed between stuffed animals and books. 

I was coming up with a romper but very loos and of course she needs the bows or ruffles (probably mom needs it more than her). 

That was one of the best things I ever sew for her. She absolutely love it. I have trouble to get it of her.

That's Kim now in her puffy PJ's. They look on her like a big cloud. I'll guess if I'm done with hers ( 3 more to go) I need one too, but no pic's from me sorry!!!!

Yarn Bobbins DIY

Yarn Bobbins

You have "500" hundred of this left over ball thingies too, right, you don't wanna toss them away, because you always could use them for something else. 

In my case, if I need a special color or what ever, they are all over the place. I have to dig my way through my boxes with yarn, its just a head egg and it makes me sometimes wicked mad.

The other day I was watching on YouTube how to change color with the afghan stitch without holes in your work and this lady had this bobbins. I thought that's what I need for all my little balls and I'm able to store them nice and need and I don't dig anymore. 

Well, because I need quiet some and I don't wanna invest in new bobbins ( Invest that money in yarn)

I though I make my own. 

All what you need is:

1 empty orange juice container

(That containers are sometimes hard to cut, be careful and don't cut your fingers off.) 

Scissors

1 Sharpie

How you can see I washed the container and cut it already in pieces

That was my original model on paper, but it didn't like it. So I cut the bobbin like a giant H with a little slit on one side.

That's the end of my little left over balls situation.

A call for coyote ugly

A call for coyote ugly

I know its been a very long time, looks like for ever, i m back. 

After a busy summer, my hubby is finally out of the Army and back from Korea. Kido is in bed Pauli on his after lunch nap, i got time to post a couple thing what i did over the last couple month...

In the summer, Cindy, me and the kido, we went on our regular yard sale hunts, I love it.

I find all kinda old stuff, Paul would say throw it out that's crap, I find good stuff and redo it.. 

I fund 2 antique lamps for 10$ that was a steal, but the shade was ugly. 

One off this fussy, dust  nasty brown old Gram lamps.

Now you see what I mean UGLY.....

After. I redid the hole shade and I love the clean look.

 

Hello Kitty Cat

For a couple month ago Cindy's Mum gave us a couple bunch a stuff, curtains bed spreads ....... I'm a big fan from hand down stuff because I always find something to do with it.

It was sitting in my office for a quiet while. But now, my Pauli is coming home from his oversee tour and guess what I have to finish all my project asap. He will tell me something, if he sees my chaos room.

Anyway, she gave me this shower curtain with this very busy kitty pattern, not my style lady's, so I decided to sew my first quilt for my little angel.

I'll cut 64 cats and 64 pink squares, sew everything together. The inside, you cant see, is one of my old blankets and the baking is a fleece blanked.
I'll found the golden button's in a thrift store, you never ever can have enough button's anyway.

All in all the most costly on this project was 2 yards wonder under and I love it.

I iron it on the cat pull the paper off and iron it on the square, everything stays in place, sew around the cat bum bang done.

Cost all in all around 10$ not bad for an old shower curtain, blankets and a couple button's.

for my princes

My daughter Kim is getting 2 in a couple days but that doesn't stop her from fighting with me over my make up mirror. Finlay I had enough and Cindy's mum donated an old little vintage mirror for Kim.
I didn't liked the colors, what a easy fix.


A little bit of acrylic color and now that is the master piece .

It hangs now on Kimmy's wall and she love to see her face in it plus it keeps her busy at least for a couple min per day.

"This old man"

I found "This old Man" (its an old wing back chair from 1926) in an old basement from an old lady.

It had an hole cat on the pillow, at least it seems like that, in a wicket green hunter green and smelt bad.
But was in love with the shape of it and antique one more thing what I share with my mum the love for antiques (my dad words what you doing with this old crab).
Ether way I thought I could upholster it on my own.

After I researched online how to do, I'll started to run in the next couple stores and bought everything. What I couldn't believe the other blogger that it was a ruff job.

Guys it is not a lie.
I was about to throw it over my porch I was so mad because it took me quiet long and at the end he was resting in my office for like 3month
(plus I had to finish it, if hubby is coming home from oversees he wanna see it, because stupid me I told him about the old man).
 Now I'm almost finish and I love it. It's not perfect but for me it is.

  I love my "old Man"

I'm back

Well, seems like a long time ago that I  was on her. I had a lot going on and some nice projects to finish and still some to go...

I'll start with my not jet finish blanket. It was on my last a post