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Our friend's birthday was this past weekend and I wanted to do something homemade for a gift. In looking through my sewing books I ran across a grocery tote, but after going to the fabric store and found this mod floral print, I decided to go with a shoulder bag.
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Another fun crafty project for my sister's upcoming baby shower. He handled the cutting and I did the ironing (they're held together with this iron on interfacing). We've decided to make the baby shower animal themed, so we'll put these pre-made ones out as examples and let others make finger puppets during the baby shower.
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Update: I put together another pair of pants on Sunday and these turned out much better. So much so, I may just keep the first pair and call them a prototype. Perhaps give them to my sister's kid later in life for a doll.
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We've been talking about recovering the kitchen chairs for a while. Running across a fabric remnant at the store we decided to finally get this done. The old fabric was torn and the cushions were starting to disintegrate. So we disassembled the chairs, removed the old fabric, added bamboo batting to beef up the old cushions and recovered them with the geometric green fabric. We're very happy with how they turned out and how easy it all came together. Plus, I now own a really heavy duty stapler.
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It's not one of my strengths. My hands shake and apparently I flunked scissors in kindergarten and no one told me (there's always a lot of cutting with sewing for some reason). Nonetheless, my sister's baby shower is less than a month away and the book with a cute mobile made from a lampshade finally came.
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Zach removed the satellite dish from the house about a month ago and I decided it would make a good bird bath, which will actually be the water source for the bees. I spray painted it a couple of weeks ago and today Zach built a stand for it. I think it looks pretty sharp. Now let's see how many bees drown in this one. They seemed to drown a lot in the other water source we had set up for them. More twigs and shallower waters should mean more bees can get a drink without drowning. Here's hoping...
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Yesterday I had Zach drop me at Michaels while he went and washed the car. While I had the intention of buying a wood shelf, when that wasn't available, I browsed through the jewelry making supplies. Inspired by the pieces they had and how inexpensive they were, I bought a few and made some earrings. I wore the first ones shown today to work and I think their my favorite. Initially I was worried they were too big, especially since I hardly ever wear earrings, but no one commented on them, so they must have seemed natural enough.
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We feed the chickens lots of lettuce and veggie scraps. I saw a wire ball for $30 that you could stuff that is intended as a chicken toy. Basically when the chickens first peck at it, it swings then the chickens run and peck at it until it's empty. Well, I ran across these clearance suet holders and I must say they work just as well for only a couple of bucks a piece. More importantly, the chickens love them. When I take them out of the coop to fill them, the chickens are waiting at the door for me to return. You can see here, my first attempt with chicken wire, which the chickens liked, but I was too afraid the pointy ends of the wire would poke an eye out.
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I keep three blogs with the help of my husband and some foodie friends:
todayitried.com
patrioticandromantic.com
anchoragegourmet.posterous.com
