not much excitement

A little remnant bin therapy:

I had to stop by JoAnn fabrics to see my favorite employee, Sheena, and gift her with an oilcloth lunchbag. Sheena is a college age girl who is ALWAYS happy and smiling. She hugs her favorite customers at least 3 times each visit. I wish I brought my camera with me so you could see her!
I gave her a bag like this:

I thought she would cry.
Other than that, my life has been all about softball. Here's pictures from Julia's first game (they won!)


Gabby's team is undefeated 3-0 and Sammy's team doesn't start games until June.
Yikes!
I need to make lunches...have a great day :)

moo

Just a quick hello before I run out the door for a marathon weekend of endless softball and birthday parties. I would also like you know the level of my insanity. My house is in shambles, mountains of laundry to do, I don't have a gift for the party at noon BUT I did take 5 minutes to manufacture this tiny moo card case (you know... those cute little cards you buy on flickr?). There's a mom that will be at the party that is interested in some of my crafty stuff and asked me to bring a few cards, I didn't have an appropriate moo case but I had an idea for my tiny scraps of oilcloth-
ta da!


It needs tweaking but that's for a day when I have 10 minutes.
Have a great day!
xo
Carol

woohoo!

I am so proud of myself!
Cindy-Lou, over at the http://apronista.ning.com makes these super-cute, chubby chick aprons and she posted a tutorial.
Look what I made:



I LOVE this apron and I can't believe that I actually made something garment-like, it is something new for me...all the sizing, gathering,and whatnot.
Today is valances and panels for the pantry...maybe an oven mitt, dishtowel...I have lot's of yellow fabric.

possibilities

New kitchen valances? New panels for my pantry cabinets?
New apron? (I'm dying to try the instructions for "The Chubby Chick Apron" on The Apronista ning)
I have 5 yards (for $11.00 at JoAnns!)so I think I can do it all.
After Little League Opening Day festivities, that is.

I forgot...

what it felt like to sew cotton! I've been cranking out oilcloth stuff for so long, I needed a little break from it.
Over at http://apronista.ning.com/ there is a monthly project. April's was to use Recycled/repurposed/vintage fabrics.




I had the vintage table runner with pink crochet trim (maybe from my sister's MIL?) and I have been looking at it forever, knowing that it wanted to be something else. I just couldn't take scissors to it (I'm funny like that) and then it hit me... turn it sideways, gather it and it will be an apron!!! I added an embroidered hanky from my sister and Calamity Kim's shopping exursion in Sarasota last year. The waistband is new fabric.
It felt so good to run cotton through my sewing machine.
My little friend Hope is doing amazingly well. She had her surgery on Thursday and is recovering at a much better rate than anticipated. They are hoping to be back home in a few weeks. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, I really believe they work.

Etsy Secrets

Lovely Lotta at http://mom-o-matic.blogspot.com/ hooked me up with this "Etsy Secrets" website:
http://etsysecrets.blogspot.com/
(sorry, I still can't embed links for some reason and I don't have the ambition to look for the problem)
Go check it out, there's all sorts of good coupons there!

getting by, and you?

It's been a tough couple of weeks around here. My husband was sick for over a week with a cough that shakes the windows, makes his ribs feel broken and rattles my last nerve. He wasn't sleeping...I wasn't sleeping, he was sick and cranky...I was cranky. He's back to work but still not feeling 100% so I have been doing my normal thing plus what he couldn't. I always appreciate him but I have a deeper appreciation after my gas light in my car has gone on 3 seperate times (he puts gas in my car), I've been to the grocery store 4 times a week for work and home (he picks up groceries), emptying the litter box (ugh), doing all the driving of all the children all the time, etc., etc.
All this with raging PMS! How am I doing? getting by, and you?

It can always be worse though. I made this super soft fairy princess blanket for my coworker's 3 year old daughter. Hope was born with a heart deformity and needless to say, has had lots of medical issues throughout her little life. She goes for a major heart surgery on Wednesday. I always struggle with "what to do" in these situations so I usually turn to my sewing machine. Hope loves to dress up like a princess every day, I think she may actually be a princess. Please keep little Hope in your thoughts and prayers this week.