Pillows from the Past

I love making Pillows!  With a little effort you can really set a room off with a few pillows.

Here are a few I made and sold back in the day..

Now I make pillows for fun..

      These are just a small sampling of a few, I have many more pics to post but those are still on my old computer which I have not Unpacked.. LOL...

A perfect purse for our lil pooch!

Was quite a adventure designing and sewing this carrier for our Chihuahua.

Used some Vintage Tablecloth pieces with a Latin Flair... pockets here and there along with some spicy green flannel and she ready to load with our fur baby.

 

I will be posting pics of many of my Blankets made for my Grandbabes as well as my Friends.

Fast  Forward to 2018, Gabriel is now 7 and has a beautiful Sister named Lily

he also has 2 cousins named Luna 3  and Ayden 19 months.  

 If you ever get a chance to plan a trip to the Alameda Point Antique Faire, its totally worth the effort!

 Many Treasure await you.  I bought one of these Reprinted Blueprints for Rogers Office.
I will post a pic of the final result.

You can find most anything you are searching for.  Home Decor, Jewelry, Fabrics, you name it..

Its the 1st Sunday of Every Month.

SUMMERTIME FUN IN THE KITCHEN - BAKING MY FAVOURITE COOKIES

Lesa's Favourite Gourmet  EASY Cookies

preheat oven 375'

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsps vanilla

3 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups total of dark choc chips & white choc chips & craisens.. any combo you prefer.. i like more white choc.

whip butter, add sugars cream til fluffy (few minutes), add eggs, mix add vanilla

in seperate bowl add flour, baking soda & dash salt..

mix into butter mixture... add chip mixture..

drop by tablespoon full on ungreased cookie sheets

bake 8 -12 min..  enjoy!

gotta have dark chocolate, white chocolate & craisens

My KitchenAid does all the hard work!

yum  !  ready to drop tablespoons on ungreased cookie sheet

BEAUTIFUL!!

Pretty and Yummy!

I AM IN STITCHES SEWING PEE-PEE TEEPEES!!

PEE PEE TEEPEES!

SO MEGAN TELLS ME SHE HAS A SPECIAL REQUEST AND OF COURSE I SAY WHAT DO YOU NEED SWEETIE!  SHE SAYS I WOULD LOVE SOME OF THOSE PEE-PEE TEEPEES, OK, I HAD VAUGELY HEARD OF THEM , SAW THEM WHEN LOOKING AT "BABIESRUS" WEBSITE, THEY HAD PLASTIC LITTLE SHIELDS YOU PLACE ON THE LITTLE GUYS, I THOUGHT " I GUESS ITS BETTER THAN GETTING HOSED, HOWEVER I THOUGHT THAT CAN'T BE COMFORTABLE, SO SHE SAID SHE SAW THEM ONLINE,  SO I GOOGLED "PEE PEE TEEPEE" AND  YAHOO, FREE INSTRUCTIONS, AND WOW THEY ARE CONES MADE OUT OF FABRIC, LITTLE MINI PARTY HATS!!! HA HA... AFTER A GOOD HEARTY LAUGH I PRINTED THE INSTRUCTIONS AND DECIDED TO COMBINE 2 PATTERNS TO ACCOMODATE HOW I FIGURED THEY SHOULD BE MADE (IN MY WORLD!).  SO TODAY I FINALLY HAD SOME TIME BEFORE PICKING JAE UP FROM SCHOOL AND WHILE MY BLUEBERRY COBBLER WAS COOLING TO MAKE A FEW.  WELL A FEW TURNED INTO 5.. THEY WERE SO MUCH FUN TO MAKE AND SUPER EASY AND FAST, I USED CHENILLE AS I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE VERY ABSORBANT  (I FELT FLEECE WOULD RUN OFF RIGHT ONTO THE LITTLE GUY).  SO HERE THEY ARE... GET A GOOD LAUGH... I WAS IN STITCHES WHILE I WAS SEWING THESE.. THEY ARE SO FUNNY AND CUTE ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

MY PATTERN AND THE 1ST CUT

        PIN RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER

                                START IN CENTER AND STITCH STRAIGHT TO CURVED
                                 EDGE THEN BACK AGAIN LEAVING A OPENING TO PULL
                                 RIGHT SIDE OUT

  CLOSE UP OF OPENING, IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE 

                                    THIS LARGE, I AMENDED THE PATTERN AND MADE
                              IT A LITTLE SMALLER, YOU ONLY NEED TO PULL THROUGH

                               PULL INSIDE THROUGH OPENING REVERSING AND IRON

                                                                    CHENILLE SIDE

                                                   OPENING THAT YOU PIN CLOSED

                                          FOLD IT ON THE CHENILLE SIDE AND PIN
                      STITCH FROM TOP EDGE TO BOTTOM EDGE ABOUT 1/4 FROM EDGE

                                                     REVERSE WITH CHENILLE INSIDE
                                                                  PRESS WITH IRON
                                                 TOPSTITCH LOWER EDGE OF TEEPEE

                                                          INSIDE LOOKS LIKE THIS
                                            I MAY SERGE THIS SEAM THE NEXT BATCH,
                                        (MY SERGER NEEDED THREADING  AND I WAS
                           IN TOO MUCH OF A RUSH TO THREAD IT) SO MAYBE NEXT TIME!

UP CLOSE!

GOT PAINT!!

SO NEXT I WANTED TO DO SOME PAINTING FOR MY LITTLE GUYS
LAMP AND A SIGN WITH HIS NAME ON IT.  SO I FOUND THE
PERFECT "NOAHS ARK" LAMP AND PAINTED THE BASE, THEN I
FOUND THIS CUTE "VINTAGE" SWISS DOT FABRIC AND "VINTAGE
RIC-RAK... BOUGHT ONE OF THE STICKY LAMP SHADES AND
"VIOLA" ITS READY TO GO..  THEN I ORDERED WOOD LETTERS
PAINTED THEM AND BOUGHT THE "ANIMALS" PREPAINTED
AT "JOANNS".. GLUED THEM DOWN AND A CUTE LITTLE SIGN.
LOOKS CUTE ABOVE THE SHELF LEFT OVER FROM JAEDYNS
BABY DAYS..

BY THE WAY, THAT LITTLE BOOK "THE BEE SNEEZED" IS GABRIELS DADDY'S 1ST AUTOGRAPHED BOOK FROM WHEN HE WAS IN KINDERGARTEN..

Back to Gabriel !! Crochet Baby Hammock Photo Prop

I am a bit nutty when i want to make something without a pattern,
I totally loved those sweet little Crochet baby hammock photo props, but
I am tooo cheap to pay 50 bucks for one when I have basic crochet skills!
SOOOOOO  I decided to make one!! lol.. it was loads of fun.... (not really),

2 weeks later this is what it looks like ..


then the next task was waiting til I had the baby and Mommy was not around so i could surprise her with pics,.... that took some time, and in the meantime
my little pastachetti (nickname for Gabriel) was getting bigger by the minute,

long story short i finally had to just get him in there and snap away.. he's a little big, but the shots came out cute as can be..