What I Wore Sunday #1

 

 

 

Well I am not always fashionable and I might wear the same thing every week to Mass on Sunday but I thought it would be fun to participate when I can in this link up. I love fashion, I don't always dress like it or have the guts or money to buy what I want, but I try. Not only that but I really feel that modesty needs to be brought back to young ladies and I love that these bloggers are trying to do that.

Here goes nothing!

It was a bit chilly and I didn't have much time to think so I put on this denim skirt which is much cuter in person, a white tank (nursing ready), and this maternity/nursing shirt that a friend of mine made me. I love it but realized after looking at this picture that it might make me look like I am still pregnant. :) Oh well. To top off the look I have my brown cowboy boots (they have bling you just can't see it), I love them with this and another white skirt I have...you might see that in the coming months.

Necklace: The vintage pearl
Shirt: Lynn from ada b & me
Tank: glamourmama
Skirt: christa taylor (on-line store out of business)
Boots: A local outlet manufacturer 



7 Quick Takes #1

1 Well I would like to start blogging a bit more and this is one of the few ways I am going to kick my rear into gear. Look for more personal posts from me and check out the other side of "Jules"= faith, fashion, and photography (ahem..still learning).

2. I am really excited about doing this quick takes Friday but I have a regular Friday post...my New Fabric/New Find Friday. I don't want to give that up because I am always buying new fabric and love to show them off. SO do I post this 7 QT's on Friday along with my other post...or even Saturday!? humm

3. Maybe I am doing this instead of cleaning or cooking because I am now a stay at home mom and wanted to do something to connect to the blogging world that I sit up and read every night while feeding baby Squirrel (our baby's nickname, not a real squirrel). Or maybe I do need adult interaction and this is my way of feeling like my adult voice is heard. Not sure.

4. I told you our basement flooded right? Well it did and we finally cleaned it up and moved everything back down there....whew. I feel like our life has been out of sorts for a long time, but it has only been since July. I hope to share pictures soon of the crazy mess we had to clean up. This is the second time I brought home a newborn to a disaster of a house. Dirty, messy, house! Well by the 1st of the year we will be CLEAN for once and put back together! Yahoo.

5. Who DIDN'T hear about Prince William and Kate expecting?! I was so excited when I heard this the other day and can not wait to hear what they are having, naming the baby, and how her pregnancy goes. Too bad she doesn't have a blog where she talks about how she is doing and posts pictures. Then again I didn't do that with my two pregnancies did I. :)

6. Advent...it is here. What are we doing for advent? My husband is giving up listening to the radio while working. That is very hard for him, but I am making him listen to Christmas music when he gets home at night. I have no idea what to do yet. Any thoughts? What are you doing? I know this is broad but maybe make better use of my day. Spend less time just looking up useless stuff on the internet and add some prayer time in with the playing, cooking, sewing, feeding, walking, driving, sleeping time. Yeah adding prayer is always a good thing.

7. Wow we are to number seven already? Well I would love to post a picture but I have gone over my blogger picture limit so now I have to start resizing my images before posting them, or start paying for more memory. Ick. Maybe I should move my blog to another server? No that sounds like way too much work. I hope to have at least one picture next time....it was just too much for me to do this time.

New Fabric/New Find Friday #117

This post has been a long time coming. I participated in my second Exclusively by Mommy event in July and below I wanted to tell you about the other great vendors that were there. Please check them out, always great to support other local mommy run businesses.

The third Exclusively by Mommy event at Cotton Babies is tomorrow!! Click on the banner above to see the other great Mommy's that will be joining me then.

Back to who was there in July...

The first one is Hanley Fold Farm, Anne is a personal friend of mine and I LOVE her soaps, lotion bars, and chap stick. I have to say that we use the lotion bar and chap stick more than her soap but I would totally recommend her products to anyone. Check out her website to see what local farmer's market you can find her product this weekend!

 

 

This woman's company is called Hold it Right There Bags you can find her on Etsy HERE. She has beautiful bags and purse organizers. I also love her logo and business name. The shoulder bags are my favorite.

 

 

This Mother and Daughter team called Banded By Beauty have the cutest girl hair items. I wish I had had a girl so that I could buy some. Check them out on Etsy HERE. Their mission statement and use of vintage items is so cool.

Last but not least there was probably the most seasoned crafter, Lee Lynn Crafts. She makes a wide variety of personalized items. Love her jewelry, so awesome! She is also a friend of a friend and is such a nice woman. I am so glad that I finally got to meet her.

Finally I did take a picture of my both this time...here it is. I am planning a different booth set up this time, more ways to hang my items. I realized this time that I really need to hang things for people to see them.

 

I will be there again tomorrow Saturday the 8th if you would like to join me!
 

Third Try At a Quilt

I have only made two quilts in my life and the second one I still haven't finished (just have to bind it). Why I just can't get it done I don't know. I bought these great animal fabrics for baby bee when he was born and I have some extra after using it where I wanted to so I decided he needs a quilt for his twin bed! He isn't in a twin bed yet which gives me some time to make it. Hopefully I finish it before he needs it. ;)

Here are all of the patterned fabrics that I am using and then I am using solid colors to coordinate. Blue, orange, brown, and green. I cut it up and used a modified pattern I found on a wonderful blog called Film in the Fridge. She has the best, most inspiring modern quilts, and I love how she plays with color and shapes.

I put them together and numbered the rows so that I can sew them together, never know what happens between first lay out and sewing. This is what the front will look like and the back will be a solid color with a few patches of these fabrics. I started sewing the rows and good thing I didn't sew the whole front together because now that we have baby squirrel I am going to take this quilt from one to two! I want them to have matching quilts to go on their new bunk beds that are going in bee's room. So in that case I need your help! I need to figure out what color "sashing" to put in between the colorful rows. It will be a solid color stripe that runs between the rows and will hopefully allow me to take half of the rows to make a second quilt.

That is where you come in, my readers...what color should I use? I was thinking, grey, or white to balance out all of the bold colors. Any thoughts? I think whatever I use for the sashing I will also use for the back of the quilt. Look at yesterday's post to see what the room looks like, that might help in making a decision. Eeek I might just have to wait until the rows are sewn and then lay them out with different colors to see what will work best. I would love to hear what you think.

Bee's New Room

So now that baby bee is finally in his new room and his little brother, squirrel, is in bee's old room it is time for the room reveal.

Let's go back...back to when I bought the house. Here are some pictures of the room back then, white walls, drapery, and wood floors. Perfect for Grandma to come and stay.

Here is a picture of the room during demo. We knocked out part of the wall to open up the closet. The closet went back behind the wall and was hard to get things out of that back corner so we opened the doorway up and put a sliding mirrored doors there instead.

Here is a great picture of after...back then. This was designed and lived in by my roommate at the time. When she left it stayed this same color and I just put a rug down on the floor to help with warmth.

I wasn't planning on changing it until kids moved in that room and we picked a new color to put on the walls. How could I guess that I was going to have two boys! I totally wanted to paint the room purple. ;)

Well I guess the closest thing to purple for a boy is grey, and that is another color that we do not have in the house already so we painted the room grey. Here you see the new blinds we put up to go with the rest of the house. If you look on the floor you see the rug that went with the old decor.

I know it is hard to tell but see those paint samples on the wall? Those are the color that we ended up going with. The walls in these pictures are just primed with a grey tinted primer. Of course since the new rug didn't go with the wall color we went with a different rug, one that would go with the fabrics that were in bee's baby room that I am carrying over into his big boy room.

 Here is the room finished, mostly. Grey walls, grey and brightly colored rug, bunk beds (soon to come where the bed and mattresses are in the bottom pictures), a crib, a reading bench with cushion (soon to come) in front of the window. Don't mind the stickers on that dresser (thanks daddy) that dresser will one day be painted white and have new hardware put on them. That used to live in our bedroom and now that it is a kids bedroom our room feels more grownup in our room. Daddy got a new armoire for his side of the room and he loves it. It houses all of his clothes which frees the closet up for me! BONUS.

 Another view of the room, I am sorry these are bad angles, the room is TINY. Below is a bad picture of the sliding closet doors. On one of the doors I put a vinyl growth chart so I can track how tall they are getting. I haven't marked any yet but I hope to soon. I keep that door closed because someone likes to pick off the vinyl! EEKK

We have yet to hang pictures and drapery but that will all come in the coming months. Stay tuned for Wednesday when I talk about the bedding that I am making for the bunk beds.

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway- Fall 2012

UPDATED: The winner was #12 Anna! Congratulations and your onesie will be on it's way soon! Thank you to everyone who commented. It was fun hearing all of your favorite songs.

It is time for Sew Mama Sew's giveaway day!

 

Humm I was trying to think hard about what I wanted to give away this time, last time I gave away a children's apron and the two years prior I gave away breastfeeding covers. Most of my orders right now are for custom screen printed shirts/onesies, so that is what I am giving away today.

Christmas is right around the corner and this custom sized Reindeer onesie will be perfect for your little one or to give as a Christmas gift. I am giving away a white short sleeved onesie in the size you pick (0-3 mon, 6-9 mon, 12 mon, 18 mon, or 24mon) with a reindeer printed in the color you choose.

 

This is an example of what the reindeer looks like on a shirt (just an example, this item is sold).  

 

Here are the rules:

• Post a comment on this post to enter. Tell me what size onesie and ink color you would want if you won and what your favorite Christmas song is.
• You have until December 7th at 5 p.m. PST to enter to win. Winner will be announced by email no later than Sunday, December 9 and I will update this Giveaway Day post to include the winner’s name.
• Winner needs to be from The Continental United States no international shipping.
• I will pick a winner via random.org.
• I will ship the item by December 14th.

For those of you who are new to my blog....welcome! I hope you have a chance to look around at all of the fun things that I make. For those faithful followers thank you so much for sticking by me and please go check out some other fun blogs and giveaways listed here. Don't forget to check out my Etsy store where you can purchase my products. You can get there from the products page here on my blog or right there on the right sidebar. I have the shop closed right now as we are moving things around in our house but it will be up again soon so like me and asked to be notified when I return!

Good Luck!

Back At The Machine

Well it is has been three months since I posted on here and I can not believe it has been that long. I have had my hands full of baby these past few months, which I love. We were so blessed to have another baby boy in September!  We didn't have a nickname for this one in the womb but have been calling him a little squirrel so that is what he will be called on here....or maybe beebee. That is what baby bee calls him. :)

I hope to jump back into blogging, probably totally sporadically and boring like before but I want to try to get better. I might even post a few linked posts to other blogs and even talk about my personal life a little more. That might make some of you happy to read, and might gain a few new readers, or maybe not. Isn't that the goal of blogging? More readers? Nah I just like having a little corner of the internet where I can talk about the fabric and projects that I love. I just hope to gain a few readers here and there.

So much has been going on here, new baby, I am now a full time stay at home mom, and we had a HUGE flood in our basement that we are just putting back together. I hope to talk about all of these things and more in future posts. For now I just wanted to tell you that I am back at the machine and back on the blog.