This is my most recent project. It is a quilt for my son. I have had a lot of fun working on it after the kids go to bed.

I made a piñata for my daughters b-day.  It was both fun and easy, so I thought I’d made a list of instructions in case others could benefit from it. For simplicity, I chose to do a “hot air balloon” piñata. I used a 9″ balloon.

Make some papier-mâché paste.
Apply a layer of  1′ wide shredded [...]

I got another purse idea from Country Living magazine.  Here are the simple directions. My wonderful mom sewed the handle on and put a lining in it for me.

Lately I have been thinking about how my kids know barely anything about my grandparents, my dad, and my sister Tammy. They all passed away 10 + years ago. To help remedy this problem I’m going to do some memory books. I will of course include important dates, places, and lots of  pictures . I’m [...]

A couple of  years I started  making a recipe book of my grandmothers recipes for her posterity to enjoy. I’m almost done typing them all out and began to think about how I was going to get it printed up. I came across this cute recipe book in a Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. This [...]

I have just recently finished 3 projects and needed to brag about them.
I made this necklace for my mother for Mothers Day. I heard on a show that ribbon necklaces were in  and in the fashion magazines. I found a picture of one I liked and tried to copy it. Thanks to my niece who [...]

I have been looking for a new purse for quite awhile. One that is affordable, smaller, and my style. I came across one that didn’t look to hard to make in the Country Living magazine that I thought I would try to make. Here is the link of how they made it. Here is how [...]

I finished another project that I have had for a while. I helped make a quilt for my daughters big bed. My mother did the hard part. She machine quilted around each square and a paisley design into each square. Thanks Mom. My daughter picked the back. It couldn’t have matched better.Here is the finished [...]

I saw these 2 different bag ideas in the Country Living magazine. The first idea comes from a lady in Nantucket Massachusetts that has a store where people can make bags out of material that she gets from a thrift store. You then add sewing novelties to them and take them home as souvenirs. I [...]

Here are couple of projects I have almost completed. The first one is a world map wall hanging for my daughter’s room. Since my major was geography, I couldn’t resist when I saw the material.

The other one is a quilt, also for my daughter. I will sew on souvenir patches of the places [...]