Pepsi-aholic's dream bag

Look what I made for my favorite lil' Pepsi fan!!

My mom, Rosy Cheeks gave me some Pepsi labels, some bright red and blue polka dot fabric and asked that I make her a tote bag to lug around all her crafty projects.

(I love the flower! I think she needs one for her hair!)

Now, I am not much of a soda drinker, the easiest place for me to cut calories is by limiting my soda intake. But not the case with my mom, if she does not have a Pepsi by 10, heaven help us all!! (Love ya mom!)

But, I do love how this bag turned out, it is so bright and cheerful!

On the inside, I lined

it with the blue polka dot fabric and a little red gingham. I used more of the red polka dot fabric to make lots of pockets to hold all the little things she'll need when she crafts.

A few weeks a go she did a cola swap on my favorite swapping site, Two Peas that I think would be so cute as a dangler from this roomy bag. 

I think I may have to do one of these in Root Beer for Gavin to use as a library bag, he takes after his nana, a soda fiend! 

Hope you love it mom!  

My 4th of July quilt is done...and it is all mine!!! Here are a few detail shots

I quilted around all the denim stars in red and then quilted some blue star shapes in also.

Down the two red columns I used blue thread to quilt in some lose loops and free hand stars. 

 Here is the back side, even all on its own it is pretty cute!

And like a good artist, I even signed this one. (On the blue rectangle)

And here it is in its place of honor in my family room, waiting to be snuggled with! I think that I may have to do one for each holiday....just what I need another project.

I also worked on some of the swaps I am in. The top is my recipe card for the 50 State recipes swap I am hosting on Two Peas

The next three are for a quilt square swap I am in on Two Peas. The bottom one is a summer theme, the middle one is a red, black and white theme and the top one is a fall theme. What do you all think of that top one? Does it say fall to you? I am just not sure I love it....

Well, Happy Crafting,

What a productive week!

Is is amazed how much I can get done when there are not a hundred school functions...oh and your hours get cut at work! Not good, now my craft funds are even more limited....but I did get a lot done!

Designed and sewed my fourth of July quilt top....LOVING it! And as promised, this one is all mine!!

Started on my July set for my front door.....

Made my cupcake recipe cards for a swap I am hosting on Two Peas

Did some awesome hair dos on Taya, thanks to A Princess and Her Hair

And I redesigned my blog and my mom, Rosy Cheeks, blog.

I am feeling accomplished! On the list for this weekend, besides clean, laundry and errands (boring!) is to start quilting my 4th of July quilt and get a few more recipe card groups done....well I am off to the grocery store!

Happy Crafting!

Added note: I am linking this post up with Craftaholics Anonymous

Check Mark!

Another one off my hug them all project. I call this Caleb! Caleb is my 4 year old nephew on my husbands side. This little kiddo is constantly on the go! So the colors and patterns I choose were bright, cheerful and full of energy.

I did this disappearing nine patch quilt as part of Obsessively Stitching's quilt along.

And even though this was not my first quilt ever, it was fun to do a traditional quilt for the first time.

This is the back.

I still need to add his name to it. I need red thread. I think I am going to hand stitch it on.

This is the quilt top I started today. It is for my 6 year old nephew Adien. I am calling it Big Little Boy. 6 is about the age when kids start thinking they are to big for mom and cartoons and early bedtimes, hence the name. So I combined fabrics you might use for a younger boy with fabrics for an older boy. It is all made from scraps I had. But I do need to get more white for the rest of the sashings.

Here is a close up of what I mean by the little boy fabrics, the zoo print in green and the big boy prints, the black, red and gray skulls.

I have also started cutting for the next online quilt along I am doing. It is over at Crazy Mom Quilts. This one I am giving a red, white and blue color scheme for the upcoming holiday. I promised myself that if I got Tayas, Baileys and Calebs quilt done that the next quilt I did would be mine. So this one is for me, well sort of, for my family room which is decorated in a star red white and blue theme.

Happy crafting!

Yummy Kitchen Sets

Every year for my Dad's family reunion we do an auction. All the items on auction are donated by family members. All the proceeds go to funding the following years reunion. Everything is payed for, the campsite, the evening meal and the morning meal....all are covered by what is made at the auction. So you can imagine there is some pretty good stuff! I will admit, the family reunion, use to be a drag...hanging out with old people i don't know. But, these auctions have not only funded the last several reunions, but have made all of us want to go, to show of our own stuff and to "win" some of the awesome items donated by other members. And because of this, I have gotten to know a lot of really neat family members I probably would not have known otherwise! One year one of my dad's awesome carvings went for over $150. And a quilt that had been started by my great grandma and finished by one of the aunts went for about the same price!

So why am I telling you all this?

Two reason:

One, I would totally encourage you to try it out with your own family.

Two, I want to show you what my mom, aunt, sister and I came up with. 

These cute boxes are actually for my mom's family reunion. This will be the first year the auction is introduced, so it might be a little slow, so we came up something awesome to show the family how its done. 

Each kitchen set comes with:

- An apron

- A tea towel (Both my contribution)

- A set of 8 recipe cards (My Mom, Rosy Cheeks Contribution)

- A yummy treat (My sisters or my aunts contribution)

and a "bonus" item. 

 

This is the first set, I call it have my "cup"cake and eat it to Kitchen Set.

The "bonus" is the cute magnets. Don't you just love that Itty Bitty Oven Mitt magnet?!?! I did when I saw it over on Obsessively Stitching, Care has a great tutorial here if you want to make yourself one...they are so easy!!

The yummy treat in this is a 1/2 dozen pretty cupcakes!

The second box (My Moms favorite)

I call "Summer Lovin" Kitchen Set

Inside:

The picture on the right is a pin that can be move around the apron or worn separately. Is the "bonus" along with another super cute Itty Bitty Oven Mitt magnet.

The cute part of this is my dad hand carved a little pig to be the "cork" on the top of the bottle of homemade BBQ sauce my mom made for the treat.

The third set I call Berry Sweet Kitchen Set. (This is the one my aunt had me do)

Inside:

I just finished this tonight. I will get pics up of the adorable apron and tea towel tomorrow, when I have some light again. The "bonus" for this one is a little girls version of the apron, so a mommy and me type thing. Its super cute! The treat for this is going to be some homemade strawberry jam and a fresh load of bread.

The final one I call

Hands off my chocolate Kitchen set (It my favorite, I don't know if I can let this one go!)

Unfortunately it photographs really dark, but I love the pink and brown color combo!

Inside:

This one is a half apron. It is so cute!! Apparently I forgot a pic of the cute tea towel and the "bonus" on this one. Which is pin in the shape of a chocolate chip cookie. The yummy treat for this is going to be a box of homemade chocolates.

I am pretty excited how cute these turned out! I hope the fetch some good money at the auction!

Happy Crafting!