Memory Games & Pouches

While frantically whipping up some Christmas gifts and airplane entertainment I used some fabric I had stashed away that had this on the selvedge. Isn't it cute? It's going to be the banner for my shop on here that I will one day actually open. I have to re-learn the Paypal cart,  plus I have to actually make something not already planned for someone to sell. It's going to take me at least a month. Maybe only a month because I spent all day at the sewing machine Sunday and it was great. I missed it. Here is what I have been up to.

Pouches in progress

Kody's marker pouch.

I hate how it's wrinkled. I wanted to iron it before taking the photo
but Kody was trying to shove things in it before I even sewed the hole
in the lining up. He picked out all the fabric himself. I had to help a
little at first because he picked linen and then some crazy novelty
print. Once I mentioned the background colors had to match he picked
out all the boyish linen pieces he could find. I think he did good.

Then I made him the matching game from Stitched in Time.

I really wanted to do this but since I don't have a good printer for
that fabric paper, I just picked out some cute fabric patterns to use
for him to match up. He played with them all day.

If anyone else is in my situation and uses regular fabric instead of the printable fabric make sure you have "fray check!"
As you can see from my photo my little game is unraveling away….

Hope everyone has a great week. I may not be around again until the end of the week since I have my final Tuesday.   🙂

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Stitched In Time

  My latest craft book acquisition did not disappoint. I fought the holiday crowd at Barnes & Noble to get the book I ordered well over a week ago. The book was Sitched in Time by Alicia Paulson and is right up there with the Sew Pretty Homestyle books in my opinion. There are so many projects I want to do. Here are a few photos of the pages.

These next two are my favorites projects I would like to do before the end of the year.

If time permits I will be doing the matching game project this weekend. I think it would be entertaining for the kids on the airplane trip to FL coming up. The only thing I don't like about the book is that some of the projects are using that fabric paper you put in the printer to print out images. Unfortunantely my printer is old and can't handle the thickness so I am unable to do those projects. 😦 That isn't the books fault though so I can't hold it against it.

I have gotten behind on some things this week with work, the upcoming holiday, and I haven't been feeling so well. I have lots of packages to get out in the mail and will get those dropped off Saturday. So for those of you expecting something from me consider it on the way after this weekend. That includes presents, giveaways, orders, etc.
Also I will be getting a giveaway ready this weekend as well. I can't decide when I want to post it though. I didn't want it to be over the holiday since people are so busy and I will be gone too so I was thinking maybe the middle of next week.
Hmm..I'll have to think about it….

I'll leave you with one of my failed new banner images.   I worked for hours on trying to get a new header photo for this blog but never was satisfied with the outcomes.

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Bookstore Trip

  There are moments in everyone's lives where we stop and think to ourselves "Did I just do that?" Today was one of those moments for me and it was over a wrinkled up magazine.
  Some of you may remember the post about my Artful Blogging magazine hunt. I had given up the hope of ever getting one in the bookstores and had decided I would just get the year subscription with free shipping whenever I got around to it. I saw the Winter edition on the sidebar of someones blog and decided I would treat myself to it after I got everyone elses Christmas presents. Well this afternoon after breakfast my mom and I decided to hit the bookstore. I wanted to get Stitched in Time and she needed some books for her trip back to Florida. Of course there was only one copy of Stitched in Time in the Barnes & Noble and none of the employees could find it. I had them order me a copy and moseyed over to the magazines to get a Quilts & More or some other publication so it wouldn't be a wasted trip. I grabbed a couple crafty magazines and was leaving the magazine isle when I saw it. A tiny little red corner poking out from the very top of the magazine rack behind a stack of crochet mags. I noticed someone reaching up in that direction and plowed over the little man in front of me and grabbed it.  I then scurried quickly away from the isle to find my mom and bail. I am not sure if the person was reaching for Artful Blogging. I just know I looked like one of those crazed Christmas people that would grab a toy from someones hands and fight until death to get the said toy. In this case though it was over a magazine…for me….which was bent up and looked like the binding had been chewed on by an animal.
I stood at the checkout with my mom and she saw me looking at the imperfections of the magazine. She told me that it was the only one and since I made a fool out of myself I needed to just get it and get over the defects.
Now I have yet to read it but I flipped through the pages and got a couple shots of what looks like another yummy issue.

Please excuse the crummy photos. It's been rainy and cloudy all Thanksgiving weekend. My little point & shoot camera just doesn't work under any condition but sunshine/flash free. I just keep hoping for my Christmas bonus to get my dream camera.  🙂

Oh and my little bunny wallet is FINISHED!!! I can only post a preview image though in case the person it's going to pops on here. I think I may do some of these scrap flower hairpins to put inside the coin pocket. They look cute and I have so many scraps I need to find a use for them.

I have many ideas after seeing the outcome. Other animals are in the works. 
Now I am off to bed to read as much as I can of my magazine before falling asleep.  🙂

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