TREASURY: Wendi Winn of Vintage Umbrella

A big "Thank You" to fellow blogger Wendi Winn - She Likes Stuff, who chose my pink and white chenille teddy bear for her Treasury collection.  Her blog keeps me entertained, especially her 'garage sale tales', the results of which make it to her Etsy shop Vintage Umbrella.  There are so many items I love in this shop, I may just revisit once I have my June funds!

  

Sew In Results: May 21

As I suspected, I was way too tired to get anything substantial done last night.  After the day, I cracked open a beer (unusual for me), which basically did me in.  But I did make progress, which is better than no progress.  I sewed on many Olive Street Studio labels, (to the outside and inner pockets of the reversible beach totes), got some smaller handbags almost completed in Seaside and Beachglass fabrics, one little Modern Floral, and pinned the cell pockets to the beach totes.  In all, I have 11 beach totes underway - and one needs to get to my reunion with me the first weekend in June - and the 5 smaller bags.  I'm hoping to have the bottoms of the beach totes all pinned by the end of the weekend. 

Friday Night Sew-In: TONIGHT

Tonight is the "Friday Night Sew-In" hosted by Handmade by Heidi.  To read all about it and register, if you have the inclination, click HERE to get the scoop.  I have projects lined-up - it all depends on how tired I am.  Happy Friday!

Seedlings

Little Olive and I started some seeds a few weeks ago - we did tomato, corn, zinnia, and basil.  I thought you'd like to see how we've done with our seedlings:

Tomato:

Corn:

Basil (top right) and Zinnia (bottom)

We made the newspaper seed pots by wrapping a single piece around a cup and folding over the corners to try and keep it intact.  For the most part, the pots did keep shape - we didn't want to tape bc we intend to plant the pot right into the ground - recycling at its best. :-)  We had saved a Starbucks coffee carrier and the pots are sitting in it.  The carrier has also helped maintain shape.  Hope to be showing some pics of the zinnias, basil, ears of corn, and big red tomatoes sometime over the summer.

T-Shirt Quilt: Sorority Days and Ear Issues

A quick post because I'm falling-over tired, but since I have taken the picture and sent it to the customer, I thought I'd post it here too.  The quilt will end up measuring 58" square once completed...it is pictured here on my queen-size bed.  We're going to border and back it in a medium pink.  More to come....

Happy Tuesday everyone!  It really was a happy day for me and a big relief of nagging worry - see, back in February, my left ear clogged and I thought it was just the end of my cold.  Until it started ringing, I heard 'double' and digital-sounding voices.  Very weird - but then I needed a root canal and the dentist thought the ear was the likely victim of the infected tooth nerve.  When the nerve proved to be a-ok, my cause for concern rose.  Off to the ENT I went - to have him prescribe 2 weeks of steroids and then an MRI to "rule out a benign tumor".  Don't get me started on that statement - but the bottom line, my MRI was yesterday and it was clean.  :-D  So even though my left ear isn't hearing perfectly anymore, it is way better than what could have been the result.  So I was happy today - and also think the sleepless nights of weekend worry have caught up to me.  Hence, the falling-over tired opening line. :-)

Blue Chenille Owls

We got a request for a blue chenille owl pillow, which will be part of a baby shower gift, so here are the results.  More will follow as we get prepared for the few summer fairs we do.

The flock.....

Pastel animal print flannel wings with lime green and blue:

Green and blue wavy cotton fabric wings with yellow:

Yellow and blue stripe flannel wings with blue and yellow:

Friday Night Sew-In: April Results

Since I had the reminder from the blog-host Handmade by Heidi, I got all set up for a Friday night of sewing.  I got this flamingo bag and two blankets finished.

Flamingo Bags:  I had two scraps of this fabric, and each was big enough to make one bag.  I wanted to finish the navy one, but didn't have blue straps, so that one will have to wait.  The tan, sage, sky blue is finished and I love the pink ribbon tie to give it a pop of color.   

Monkey Face Blanket:  I needed to make another blue nursery rhyme blanket so that is done, but I also had this new cotton monkey-face fabric with sage and mustard yellow polkadots.  I made a light blanket with a lime-green minky stripe back. 

Beach Totes:  I made good progress on the reversible beach totes, but didn't get any finished.  I took a picture of the completed inside pockets.  Outsides and cell pockets were all sewn in, but since they are not done or turned, they don't make for anything to look at just yet.

I'm anxious to finish more projects so hoping to get back up there later in the afternoon after the regular house-crap is done.  Happy Saturday!