A Really Fun Swap!

Pop on over to Suzee's blog,(http://typicalandersons.blogspot.com )and sign up for her fun new swap. She is hosting an Amy Butler Bag Swap. How much funner could that be? You can use any purse pattern you like, but it must be made out of a cute Amy Butler print!! There's so many cute ones out it's going to be hard to decide which one to use. I've known Suzee for along time, lets support her on her undertaking of hosting such a great swap. I hope I see your name on the list of swappers!!

Happy Birthday to:

Kaitlyn, John, and Jacob. While Jacob and Angie were here this weekend we thought we better celebrate all the January birthdays. Stuart fixed a dutch oven dinner for us, complete with homemade biscuits. This is one of the favorites here at the Whitehouse. Then I made the kids their own cakes, Kaitlyn was a little different this year, all she wanted was a dozen homemade biscuits from her Dad. Jacob wanted the same thing he has had for hum, should we say just about all his life. That would be homemade brownies. Nothing fancy for this boy. I failed to ask John what he wanted, so I made him the yummy chocolate cake that has the caramel ice cream topping and sweetened condensed milk drizzled over the cake and then topped with cool whip and toffee bits.

Kaitlyn's birthday is the 24th and Jacob and John share the same day of the 28th.

Happy Birthday to all of you!

Here are a few random shots of the day.

Our cute little Karas, isn't this attractive. There's nothing like a yummy brownie all at one time. What a fun afternoon we had visiting and enjoying each other's company. I'm glad they could all be here for the weekend, we don't get together as much as we used to, the kids are all scattered around. I'm so lucky to have such a great family, I love each and every one of them so much. Thanks for making my life complete.

Girl's + Fun= LOVE!

While Jacob and Stuart went snowmobiling on Saturday, the girl's and I had a fun day of lunch and crafting. Kira came up with the cutest Valentine's decoration for us to make. She always comes up with something amazing. We got together and started painting the letters for our Love blocks and we decided it way past lunch time so we loaded McKinley and Thayne up and headed over to Springville to the Art City Trolley. UM, UM! What a decision to make, should I use this paper or this paper? So many fun possibilites with this one.

Kira, Kaitlyn, Angie and myself at the Trolley, I had the best salad but I couldn't pass up the fresh cut french fries so I had some of those too. Oh my gosh, I am a pig! Worth every bite too!

What a cheeser, don't you want to kiss this little guy all over. Thanye is such a happy baby and was entertaining all through lunch.

The lunch break was over so it was time to get some serious crafting done while the babies were sleeping.

Here is the end result, don't you think they are "shut up" cute as the girl's called them. It was fun to add one more to our girl's day out. Angie is such a cute and sweet girl, I hope she had fun hanging out with us all day and didn't think we were to silly, as we can get that way alot.

This is my finished project, we glittered the "O" and boy that made the other letters pop. "Shut up", these were so fun to make. Thanks Kira for finding something fun for us to do. Jacob better bring Angie down with him again real soon, she fits right in and we enjoyed having her here too.

A Sneak Peek!

Here's a sneak peek of a quilt I'm working on for the shop. I have been wanting to do a Dresden plate quilt for along time, but I wanted to do it on a larger scale than a regular Dresden plate. I came up with this cute idea, (I hope!) and Aunt Mo (Ramona) at the store is pushing me along to get it done. So she has helped me plan it out and drew up my pattern. What a sweetie. This is going to be a 50" x 50" quilt, just the right size for a baby. The finished dresden is 36". Here are the instructions for the pattern, a little bit of chicken scratch right now, but I will get them typed up nice and pretty for the shop. If it turns out the way I want it, we will have kits for them in the store.

I'm making the quilt out of the new Moda line, Hello Betty from Choloe's Closet. It's a fun new retro line we just got in. Watch for the finished project coming up soon on my blog. I can't wait to share it with you.

You SEW girls!

On Tuesday night I taught my Simply Sewing 101 class, what a fun time we had. These ladies are getting better and better each time we get together. I'm really proud of all of them. A couple of my regulars were not there and we missed them alot. I hope they will be feeling better by next month. We did pick up a couple of new ladies and I think they had so much fun they will be back for more. We made self binding receiving blankets or table toppers. It's fun to see the different fabrics and combinations they come up with. Take a look at my girl's in action! Both Nyla and Amberlie did table toppers, they were so cute. And Shanna was doing receiving blankets for her friends babies.

Sewing wasn't going to be on Jan's list tonight, she was just too tired. She came to see how they were made, and then she was going to do them at home. Get rested up for the next class Jan 'cause we have something fun planned and you won't want to miss.

Did you know sewing and chit chatting can be done all at the same time? We do alot of laughing along with our sewing.

Here are some of the finished projects. Aunt Dale, Dondy, and Shanna. DeeAnn and Lou Ella are our new comers. Amberly, Me, Amblerlie and kids, and Nyla. Where was Erin and Angela? Hum, I think they were still sewing! Oh Caralissa must of snuck out before pictures.

After everyone finishes their project they get to put their name in for a drawing, this helps keep them motivated to finish the night of class. I made these cute little boxy pouches for the drawing that night. These were fast and simple, they work really well in your purse or diaper bag for the small stuff that gets lost in the bottom of your bag. They all loved them, and want to learn to make these in a future class.

I'm getting a little more comfortable with this new under taking. I'm having alot of fun with these ladies. They are such a joy to work with, just seeing the smiles on their faces when they have completed a project makes it all worth while.

I love Bargains!!

While I was in St. George this past week I ran onto some great bargains I couldn't pass up, you know me, I love to shop especially if it's on sale! I went into Mormon Handicraft to sign up for some of their quilt classes for the days that I am there in the upcoming months. All of their Christmas fabrics and kits were 75% off. I made out like a bandit. I got backing fabrics to match some fabric I already have, plus a few other great pieces. I picked up six Peace on Earth handwovens charm packs for $2.20 each. I have a cute quilt pattern I want to make out of them. My total bill was around 67.00 for 21 yards of fabric plus a kit and my charm packs. WOW!! I figured my savings on this purchase was close to $240.00. I did good on this one! Now I wish I'd bought a little more of some of them. Oh well, there's always next year right? I can't wait to get sewing some of them. I promised myself I was going to finish up projects that are already in progress before I start something new. I'm movin on it, I've already finished up 2 quilt tops that were started. So maybe it will be sooner than later!! Happy sewing!

Sewing again!

This is my first quilt for the year. I made this one for the store display at Corn Wagon. It's a little quilt, but just right for the car seat or stroller. It's made from several different fabric lines that matched. If you are interested, we have kits for them at the store. You can sew this quilt up in no time, very easy. I added three kinds of ric-rac to embellish it. Cute huh?