Leather covers

This is a leather cover I made for my quads. Josh was coming up with business ideas for his business group for school. His idea came in second because it was so awesome, but it was too hard to guarantee a perfect set of scripture covers every time. (As you can see, mine are not perfect, it is a little tough sewing through leather, but not impossible.) I am going to try another pair


I love the backside fabric, and frontside too.


Here are the covers for our hymn book. This was the last thing I sewed together, so it came together a lot better than the rest. Perfect practice makes perfect.


Here is the first set I made. Not too bad I think.

Food and wood

Have you had that amazing pretzel, cream cheese, jello salad before? Well it is so delicious, now that I have learned to like pretzels a little more. I still don't love them, but underneath all this yummy goodness, it is definitely manageable. I put peaches into the jello instead of berries and it tasted so yummy!



I'm on a homemade making spree and took a wack at granola. Wow, it is delicious in its still gooey state and so good and filling for breakfast. Give it a try and you just might enjoy it! (I don't always have all the extra stuff, so just put in what you got. I put whole, frozen, blueberries as it cooks to dry them.)


I made this for my grandma and it is an Irish saying that goes with this:
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And, until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
I learned how how to make a piece of wood look a little better and I love modge podge, especially when the vinyl is kind of old. Helps it stay on.

Micahel making jam

So I realize that these are out of order, sorry about that but I think you can put the pieces together. Michael found a love for raspberries this summer - he would help us pick them and we would give them to him to put in the bucket, but he found a better place for them - his mouth. He then loved to "crush the berries." Which was super helpful while we were making jam.

Blessing Dress

I took a children's sewing class this winter semester and one of our projects was to make a blessing dress. There were a lot of dresses with lace, frills and ruffles but I stuck to a more simple and elegant look - a smoother sort of look and feel. Surprisingly, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I don't know if I would mass produce them, but I don't think I will be afraid to try another dress, maybe like a summer one. Who knows. We just need to have us a girl, sometime in the future to use it on. Someday.

Curtains

BeforeAfter

I have been on a sewing spree since Josh spoiled me with an amazing machine for Christmas, and since he decided to blow out a pair of work jeans every other day, I have been constantly at the table repairing jeans and thus needed some more variety. So this was what we had in our kitchen before and this is what I put together in a couple of hours. I am super excited about the color they bring into our brown abode. It really adds a comfy feel to our kitchen.

Peaches

So peach season, for me came at the wrong time. I was at Shadd's wedding for over a week as the peaches were getting done here. So, because I had let them set, a lot of them became too mushy to can. Although I was able to get still quite a bit in bottles.

Therefore, I made delicious peach jam. Well, it is actually more like peach jelly. It doesn't have chunks in it - just cause I don't really like peach/apricot that way. So it was pretty simple and I got to put them in these cute jam jars that Grandma B let me have.

I think this peach wanted to be an apple.

I had four of these boxes to can on my own. It wasn't too bad once I got started and the results were definitely pleasing.

Green, white and red.

So remember those pillow cases that I was so excited about, well I did finally finish them. Actually quite a while ago, I just never got them posted. Anyways, I am very excited about them because they bring a lot of color into a our very monotone brown room. Brown walls, brown curtains, brown couches, brown piano, brown bookcase, brown carpet, you see what I am saying. A little pizazz of green and red does quite a bit in my opinion.


See the brown I am talking about? However, our quaint little/skinny tree and silver tinsel bring out a bit of holly and Christmas spirit. It is so fun to turn on the lights and watch them light up the room. I absolutely love it.


These, I think sometimes could have been pumpkins with their dotted smiles, but I feel good enough about them. I constructed these all by myself and I am very proud of them. I painted them silver instead of white and I really like the effect. I didn't even have to buy anything. I got the wood from our backyard and the fleece I already had. Super exciting in my opinion! Anyways, I hope you are having fun decorating your home in ways you never thought possible.