Sneak Peek

In five weeks, our new house should be done!!

Hip Hip Hooray!!

Here are a few photos of the custom wood floors and cabinets.

The kitchen with island.

The mud bench in the front hall - by the side doors.

Kind of blurry.......

The fireplace - will be ceramic tile.

The main bath - love the bottom open.

The top three windows will be my sewing studio!!!

The study - for Big D.

Pantry doors on left.  Laundry room door on right.

Can't wait to see all of this painted and the counter tops!!!

Stay tuned!!

Making Gifts for Christmas

I have been busy making a few gifts for Christmas.

Always fun to do for those who appreciate it!!

I had fun knitting a variety of boot cuffs. 

 I will let family at Christmas pick a pair.

Quick projects and fun to make!

I found this afghan started by my mother tucked away in a box 

with the yarn to finish it.

Merry Christmas, Natalie!

 

Natalie also asked me to make some new pillows for her sofa.

This is a nice mix of some I made 

and some I found at the Crate and Barrel Outlet.

Hope she likes them!

Feeling the need to sew with some Christmas fabrics,

I made these cute quilted pot holders.

My yoga instructor and a couple of my dance instructors loved them!!

(I always like my feet in the pictures!!)

I think it will be fun to make more of these pin cushions next year.

So many funky, creative ways to go!!

That's all folks!!

Inspiration

 I was recently at the Crate and Barrel Outlet in Chicago and was inspired by a couple of things I saw there.  The top picture is an Advent Calendar made from many bright, fun fabric scraps.  Easy enough to do!

I don't have my Mac computer - it is in storage and I am having some trouble editing my photos - so bear with me.

I liked this pillow top too.  Great use of bright solids and I have a lot of them!

And this cute pillow with winter houses.

So fun with the different textures.

I also visited a quilt shop in OKC and found it really fun and modern.

 These were a couple of pillows on a bench. 

 I really like the background fabric on the yo yo pillow.

 

 And the other pillow has such a great affect with how the fabric is cut.

I bet I have some fabric that will do just this.

And then I thought this pieced pillow was fun.

Easy to do.  Great use of random scraps.

 

Wow!  I thought this idea was great!

Solid fabric stretched on a wood frame

and yo yos - some up some down - color coordinated.

Lots of Kaffe fabrics too!!

Are you motivated???

A Dancemakers Christmas

The Christmas display at our new dance studio is amazing!!!

An artist did the drawings of the dance couples and Michael, one of the owners, copied each one in a variety of sizes, glued them to foam core board and cut each one out with an exacto knife.

Wowza!!

CDs as 

ornaments!

Mirror ball

ornaments

from

Hobby Lobby!

Simply

amazing!!

Tomorrow night is the Holiday Sweater Party!!

Can't wait!

December 1st !!!

I am so excited December 1st has arrived.

Why?  You ask?

I can start my 24 days of tea from David's Tea.

Yes, a different tea each day until Christmas.

The tea for December 1st is Forever Nuts.

It's in the little tin sitting there in front.

If you have never had David's Tea - you do not know what you are missing.

This is the second year for the tea Advent Calendar 

and they sold out online the very first day.

A great Christmas gift is the Perfect Tea Mug, the Perfect Spoon and some holiday teas.  Oh My!!  

There is a shop in Chicago in Bucktown on Damon Ave.

but it is also super easy to order online.  

Free shipping over $50 or $5.00 flat fee shipping from Canada.

I was at David's Tea on Saturday and had a hot drink to go - 

a Chocolate Macaroon Latte.

Yes - you can make any of their teas into great lattes and use your soda stream to make bubble teas.  All of these are great hot or iced.

I also purchased the Advent Calendar from Starbucks this year.

The tins are stuck on a magnetic chalk board.

Sweet treats inside!!

A little bit of cheer for me this season in my little apartment in Oklahoma.