I whipped up a purse organizer last night using these instructions (pdf), though I started with fabric that was 12″ x 30″: The inside: I forgot to take a picture of the outside, but the Eiffel towers are right side up on that side. I realized I was going to have a directional fabric [...]

I spent a lot of time during the staycation week whipping the craft room into shape. Before we even moved in: Then we took down the painted pink wallpaper (seriously, PAINTED), but didn’t get much further than repainting – these are before pics from July 2008: I’m being charitable when I say it got a [...]

I guess I neglected to mention that I’d be gone, huh? Brad and I left on Monday to go to Michigan to see his family. Before we left, I finished up the tree skirt – not having more than one glue stick, and no fabric glue in the house, I did the stupid thing and [...]

I finally wore Salina yesterday, so here’s a modeled shot of it: Project details here. Brad took me for a snow driving lesson this morning. We found a parking lot with snow banks and no poles to run in to: After about 20 minutes, a plow driver told us to leave since he didn’t want [...]

I’m not surprisingly not so good at operating without stress. I have zero deadline knitting, had filled out my timesheet yesterday to take today completely off (my father is here), and I only just now remembered to even look at my November goals (of which I’ve done precious few of – I totally forgot I [...]

We went armed with our new camera (which Celina correctly guessed as the Canon SD 750 from the commercial). So the last picture with the old camera is me taking a picture of Brad with Lani in the huge giant LCD. (And yes, we chose it for other reasons besides the commercial, but it didn’t [...]

I finished up the detail work on not only one but two dresses for me. The first one is the one I did show the fabric for a while back. I’ve been almost done with this dress for weeks but have been pokey about the last couple of details. Last night while watching Dreamgirls, I [...]

Not that I haven’t been busy. I finished up the blocks for the block a month quilt I started a couple of years ago: Month 9: Month 10: Month 11: Month 12: There were three of month 12, since I have two extra for coordinating pillows. Here’s everything I knocked out today: Of course, I [...]

And you guys definitely were. I went with the popular opinion and just went and bought the dress. In a happy surprise, it was 15% off. Not a huge amount, but when you’ve already committed to the full price in your mind, a very nice bonus. So that price, minus the cost of fabric [...]

My good friend Rob is getting married in June (in Vegas!), and I’ve started looking for something to wear. I tried on this dress yesterday, and I love love love it. It is, however, a wee bit more than I want to spend. Part of me is tempted to just go ahead and go for [...]