Coming Soon....

Hey everyone I am coming back soon so look for some up coming photos of some of the projects I have been working on over winter break...

Long break....

To all of my followers...

I am on a long break from sewing and crafting. Needless to say it has been a very interesting and stressful last few months. I had to fight to get my daughter back after her father didn't bring her home after his summer visit (no surprise there). Then my computer decided to crash during this process of getting her back. I am back online but at this time I am in school full time and need to focus on that. Due to the fall out of my ex's actions I was forced to drop 2 classes during the summer therefore putting me on academic warning. *sigh* My unfinished projects are still there and I will eventually get to them when I get my life back to being stable again. I am in the process of looking for a full-time job but am having no luck due to the fact that I am in school all day 2 days out of the week. I have a feeling that me being on academic warning will affect my financial aid next semester or next year. I quit my job back in December so that I could focus more on school and my daughter. I hope to be able to sew again in the next couple of months again.

Jenn

Recent Projects...

Here are my recent projects in the last few weeks...

Things to occupy my childs time and mine before she left for her dad's for the summer. The flip flops were fun to make. Katlynn enjoyed her flip flops she took them with her!  I am yet to finish my pair will probably get those done this week. The paintings were pre-printed canvas's I picked up at Micheal's. Katlynn had fun until it got too HOT outside.

Almost done...

Here is the quilt I have been working on for Katlynn (for her Birthday that was back in March) my goal is to get it done in the next few weeks. I have decided that I love this quilt! It is a cheerful quilt and while I was putting on the board to take a picture of it, it kind of looked like a stained glass window from the backside.  This quilt has been interesting to put together. I have had to make a few modifications as I went, have had to go "frogging" a few times as I was not satisfied with how something looked. When I started I had to undo about 20 blocks because I had some shrinkage problems with a particular fabric. Then I didn't like my first pick of border, I needed something to break up the greens and make it pop a lot more. This quilt is used out of the leftover fabrics I used to make the miniature quilts for my daughter at Christmas time. Giving her a matching blanket when she is playing with her animals. The first picture is of  what I am going to put on the borders. The outer border is also what I plan to put on the back somehow (I want to piece the back so she can have 2 blankets in one). I have about 4 weeks before I start my summer classes so I have plans to finish some of the projects I started but haven't had time to finish during that time.

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day! 

Thank you to everyone that have served are serving in the military. Those that have lost their lives to allow us to have the freedoms most of us take for granted. Those that have fought recently and are haunted by the images of the things you saw. Those that fought decades ago and still remember things as if it happened yesterday. There will never be enough ways to say Thank You for everything that you have done or are doing for this country. Also thank you to all the military wives and families for giving their soldiers the support they need.

Thank you!

Finals this week...

It has been a bit since I have been able to sit down and blog. I have reached the end of the semester and that is when all professors squeeze in those projects and papers. 4 papers later, the last thing on my mind was sitting down to write some more! This week is finals so after this week I will be back to blogging regularly and will be posting some more pictures of almost finished projects and new projects to squeeze in before the summer session starts. Was just curious how much care packages were running these days... they are still about the same price they were when I was attending Stephen F. Austin.  (way over priced!)

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to all mom's out there and all women who hope to be mom's and haven't been able to.
Look at all the pretty flowers... the 4th picture looks like the flowers on the card my daughter got for me. 

Spring Cleaning!

I have been pretty busy lately with school. I am taking 4 classes right now and it is down to the final 5 weeks where papers are due, projects are due and final reviews. This has been a great semester I ended up dropping my History class (in search of a different professor). Needless to say I haven't been getting a lot of sewing done the last little bit. I have gotten some (almost done with my daughters birthday quilt, will blog and post pictures soon). I have been working on de-cluttering my life when I am not too tired at the end of the day. I rediscovered a book that I had bought awhile back when I was still employed and forgot about it (never reading of course). This book is called It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff.He helps you go through every room in your house and get rid of the extra stuff you don't need anymore.  I have been plucking away at some of the chapters and have found it helpful in letting go of the things that I do not need anymore. Those little things that we tend to hold on to with intentions of doing something with them someday (the someday that never comes and you end up with this huge pile of stuff). I have consolidated several containers in my closet by throwing out old papers (that may have meant something to me 5 years ago but are meaningless now). Old ticket stubs that I probably had intended to scrapbook (never got around to that too). I did organize a few photo boxes and managed to go through some books I have read once and didn't really enjoy or have never read!(I will probably be posting those on e-bay soon).  I even found a fabric stash in my closet. There is another great book that has been comical to read (very similar to the 1st book) Clutter Be Gone: Cleaning Your House the Easy Way.

One thing to remember when spring cleaning is... to not go out and buy more containers (unless of course you absolutely have to). The object is to get rid of stuff so you can make room for new stuff, or just to make room! I will admit I have too many containers because I would buy them to store stuff in. I get more stuff so I need more room to store my stuff. *sigh* I finally bought a few shelving units to go inside my closet to give me more shelf space in there and am pleased with the results. Eventually, hopefully soon I will have some of the stuff that came out of my closet back in my closet nice and neat. The rest will be posting on e-bay or donating.

There is another great website out there for organizing! Flylady.net, she also has a book now Sink Reflections


  15 minutes a day makes a big difference. Don't get discouraged and give up. 

Cross Stitching 365

I have been cleaning out my closet the last few months. Discovering things I forgot that I had. Anyhow I discovered this cross stitch book and have started cross stitching again.... after a long long hiatus. I remember doing the sunbonnet sue's on a hand towel for my bathroom. So I think I might do a sampler of some of these patterns.