A Gift To Help Mommies

I was laying in bed last night at midnight when I realized that it was Wednesday and that I missed this post! Opps. My days are all messed up and it still feels like Wednesday today but the best news of all is that it is almost Friday!

Well there have been a lot of exciting posts this week with the Christmas Boutique info, giveaway, and now a special gift for a charity is close to my heart. Every year the local Natural Family Planning office holds a trivia night to raise money for women with infertility to help pay for adoption. Having many friends with infertility whether for a short time or on going and experiencing it a bit myself I feel for couples who want children so badly but can not have one of their own. They asked me to donate some items for the silent auction and I was happy to do so. I gave this gift basket the first year and attended the trivia night the first year. This year I can not attend but did donate these items below.

I did not have time to make as many items as I did the first year so instead I made two burp cloths, a pair of baby leggings, and a cute oneise with a cat on the front. This picture does not do them justice but they all have yellow and orange in them and they all coordinate with out matching too closely. I think this set is perfect for a boy or girl. I hope that the person that get this really enjoys it!

Here is a closer picture of the cat. I had this blue fabric with the cat already appliqued on it and I thought how cute and perfect for the oneise. I just stitched it to the onesie and I like how bold the cat is and how whimsical. 

The event is this Saturday evening and if you would still like to attend I am sure they would love to have you. You can find out more information here.

HUGE Giveaway

Fresh Art Photography, who you heard me talk about here, is doing a HUGE giveaway-32 items over the next day.

Go here to enter to win the giveaways (specify which number you would like to win if you have one in mind). Go here to view the item that I donated to the giveaway. Good luck.
Here it is...

Let me know if you win something...there are some REALLY great items.

Christmas Boutique

Please mark your Calendars for the first annual Christmas Boutique. Come join me and some friends and cross some gifts off your gift giving list.

New Fabric/New Find Friday #86

These two fabrics are a bit of a random paring. The top fabric is a leftover Christmas fabric that I found on sale a while back but I think it could go Holiday or if you love green and red together it can be used for something else. It sort of looks like bulls eyes doesn't it? Not sure yet what it will be used for but I am sure I will find something.

The bottom fabric is a fun plaid fabric that I bought so I can make it into a bow tie for my husband. I would like to try to make it for Christmas as a present but we will see if that happens. I have not made a bow tie before so this would be an interesting experiment.

I really like the plaid fabric a lot and it sounds like plaids are coming back in style...or were they in style and now they are going out?

Well tonight is day 4 of my 30 and so far I have been doing well. I have finished three items and went to bed before midnight one day...not too bad if you ask me. I hope to have more info on the Holiday Boutique posted tomorrow. Have a GREAT weekend.

A Cute Baby Set and An Announcement

Yet another friend of mine had a baby a few months ago and she is precious. It is sad to say but I do not remember bee being that small and it wasn't that long ago. I made this special little girl an initial onesie and a silky blanket with her name on it. I think they are pretty cute, I especially love the blanket! Every girl needs a little leopard in her life, a little something soft and smooth to cuddle with in bed (when she gets older and is allowed to have toys in bed with her).

The E on the oneise is done in a chocolate fabric with pink polka-dots, I played with a new font and like the feminine curves it has to it. The leopard blanket has brown flannel on the back so one side will feel warm and one side will feel cool, it will be great when she starts exploring textures. I have one more of these blankets available and will post on Etsy this week.

The announcement is that I am hosting a Holiday Boutique one month from today with two friends! I will have my items as well as two other lady friends and their items (Jewelry and Soap/lip balm/lotion bars). I will have more info in a few days and will do an entire post about it then. Please mark your calendar for Saturday November 5th, and come anytime between 10am and 2pm to do some pre-holiday shopping!

Now you know why I have to kick it into high gear and get my sewing machine buzzing! One night down 29 more to go! Oh and I also watched the new Jane Eyre movie...now to read the book. I loved it.

30 Day Challenge

I have a lot of things I want to sew and make and I seem to fiddle around on the internet at night and don't get any sewing done. Now mostly I am spending time uploading pictures and starting blog posts but I always feel like I have done nothing at the end of the night, especially when I had plans to sew after I uploaded those 10 pictures. It is all very necessary but no one tells you that uploading pictures and writing posts, that are somewhat interesting (I hope) and free of errors, takes time...time that I don't have a lot of these days.
I am always trying to balance my time and I need to do that more now with bee. I am a night owl and when I get going I get jazzed instead of tired. So I am going to set my bedtime to midnight no matter what, and earlier is always better, so that when bee wakes up in the morning I am not a grouch.

So what about the challenge you ask? Well I have a lot of things half finished and ideas I want to move on so I am going to challenge myself to make one thing a night for 30 days. Now the hard part will be finishing something before the clock strikes midnight. I have my list and I am ready to get started!!
I will of course blog about it but not until December, I have a few other posts waiting patiently in the wings and I would like to feature those first. I will also be posting new items on Etsy, as I have been working on those for a few days. So not only will I be doing the 30 day challenge of sewing every night but I will be posting to Etsy, the blog and of course Facebook.

Wish me luck!!

Candy Stripe Apron

My mother-in-law loves to support all of her children and step children, so every once in a while she will order something from me. This is the second apron that she has ordered and I always love making something for her. I don't know if you remember but I have told you before that she is a woman after my own heart having BINS AND BINS of fabric in her sewing area.
She wanted me to make an apron for a woman that she sponsors in South America. They have the same birth month and so she likes to send her a little something to celebrate her birthday. She gave me a picture of her and told me to pick fabric that I thought would look nice on her. In the picture she was wearing a teal dress and her skin was a beautiful deep tan color. I thought that this brown and blue strip apron would be something that she would like to wear and would look nice on her. It sounds like she wears an apron all day long while she is doing her chores.

Here is my sister-in-law modeling the apron for me before I gave it to my mother-in-law. This time instead of using two different fabrics I wanted to try using the same but changing the orientation of the pattern to give the contrast. I hope that her friend enjoys it. How fun to have someone like that from far away sending you items once a year. It is like having a long distance pen pal something that I always loved to have as a child.

I will be sewing a few more aprons this week, I hope to make one a night so be on the look out next month for new aprons.