My beautiful living room

This is my living room. It seems like every room in my house is "almost" done, and I never seem to finish. So there are definitely things I want to change about this room, but I am mostly happy with it.

Okay, here goes. Sofa and love seat from a discount furniture store for $600. The pillows around the room and table runner all sewn by me or my mommy. These are somethings I am wanting to update a little, but who knows when I will get to it. The coffee table was purchased for $80 (regularly $500) from the RC willy outlet. It is solid wood and it was stained dark, and I go and paint it white. I haven't liked the white paint too much, and now I wish it was dark to go with our new piano.

Fabric for window panels $3 per yard. (wish I got more.) Molding around the room, fab husband. Plus cost from home depot for supplies.

Okay, this is a dresser, but it worked so well in this room. Cost $150 from RC Willey outlet (steal!). I want to change the knobs out to crystal one day... Frames on top, Hobby Lobby. Plus one I decoupaged. I made the frame on the wall, and I am not super happy with it. (and I know it needs to be repositioned...again one day...

Chairs on each side of the piano, $45 each. RC willey. Regularly over @100 each. I painted them and recovered in prettier fabrics.

Piano...the most expensive thing we have bought in our married life (besides home and cars.) Wall art, all three peices from TJ maxx. I paid $50 for the center roses, and $15 each for the iron work on the sides.

And is that a little tiny baby on top? Why yes it is, my sweet brand new baby...priceless....(ahhh, couldn't see that one coming. No seriously, my two year old is for free, but this little guy, he is not for sale!

Azure, Barnwood and Terra Cotta

This is apparently my new favorite color combination. Looking at this fabric makes me happy. I also decided I'm done with brown as my go-to neutral and in with gray. Could I be more trendy? I picked up a few of these fabrics, Deer Valley by Joel Dewberry for Free Spirit to do my room in and I am so excited! I love everything about them, especially the second print down is fabulous, birds and all. What color combinations are you guys loving? I feel really trendy because I used to hate orange, but now, of course, I love it :) Burnt orange though, does that count?

Hat maker hat maker..

What "in" courages us? Creating with our own 2 hands.
I went to visit Heather in Utah for 7 weeks and became a hat maker such as she is. How I adore knitting tiny baby hats!! Recently I had two friends have baby showers for sweet baby girls, and here are two hats I made from the same yarn. I love how they turned out!


Isn't she so sweet?!? Okay, it's my son. I don't have a baby girl :( When I was taking these photos, my husband opened the window and yelled from our room "Don't worry Meg, one day you'll have a baby girl." He better be right. I hope he doesn't mind these are in blog land. Sorry Oliver, but you are pretty adorable.

And speaking of babies, my partner in designing, quilting, crafting, gossiping, Heather had her 5th child, July 23rd. Her ONLY baby boy, Weston.

ConGRatUlATionS!!!!

love you :)

We're crazy

We're crazy, it's official. I have to say, the patterns from the ladies of LizzieB Cre8tive really were the first quilts we saw and thought that quilting isn't all for grandma's. The first applique project we EVER started, thanks to Heather, is their pattern Piece, Love and Applique. Notice, I didn't say finish. I have a few squares done, here they are:



Like I said, it's the first applique and one of the first quilts I started doing! Since starting this I've probably made 15 quilts in between, so who knows when I'll finish this.

The BEST part, Heather decided to do the applique all by hand. Seriously.

Plexi glass frame project...

I made this without my hubby. Go check out shanty 2 chic for more made without hubby projects.This isn't much of a how to, because unless you are good with tools, it isn't the easiest. All it is is a large piece of MDF, and the edges are routed. Then you paint the wood and sand it for the distressed effect. Next is a piece of Plexiglas (purchased at home depot) and this is cut down a little smaller than your wood. Make a cute collage of your photos, and then put the Plexiglas on top, and secure it to the wood with little screws, with little caps, so you can easily remove the Plexiglas to change out photos. Then just a cute vinyl lettering saying at the bottom. It was a fun and pretty easy project. It is in my craft room. which I still plan to reveal, but it is never clean enough for photos, but when it is, you guys should love it. Hopefully as much as me!

I need a new craft like I need a hole in the head!

First off, an apology. Megan and I have been on vacation. We have successfully taken most of June and July off. Megan has been here in Utah and we just tried to get some hanging out sister time in. So if we have any fans out there still, we apologize for being such slackers. We will both be getting back to real life soon which will include plenty of crafting blogs hopefully you will enjoy.

I am almost embarrassed to post this. See crafting is like a real life addiction to me. I get an idea in my head and I have to get it immediately. When we started to knit a couple months ago, I had to get going right away. I needed the right needles, I wasn't even patient to order online, and called all the local shops for the right items. (you guys are about to see some CUTE stuff we have knitted.) but back to my addiction. I have seen these cute charms around at local boutiques. They are adorable and overpriced (especially if you are a crafter and everything you see you think how you can make it cuter and cheaper.) So I wanted to make some. I figured I could find out how to make it, because I remember making a stained glass airplane thing in 7th grade art. So I knew I had soldered before and it wasn't that hard. After hours of research online to figure out how and best places for supplies, I made my orders and got my insides ready to go.
Meg and I also are digital scrapbookers. (LOVE IT). So the insides were all created with digital files and photoshop. Then we customized them with our personal photos. And added some cute glitter. I had a few failed attempts, but in the end I am VERY happy. These are not hard. And I have already made gifts for friends and family. If you have any questions, email me or leave me a comment. I am not sure what the interest will be on me getting more specific on tutorials or links. Anyhow, hope you all like my necklace. It makes me happy to see my little girlie's around my neck.

Cute Quilts...

Here are a few photos of our quilts we set up for our etsy shop. My favorite one is the bottom one, which I haven't showed you all yet, but will soon. Quilting is SO fun! I kind of ignored this craft for may years, because I know what an addict I am. I knew I would love it and get into it, and buy myself a nerdy plaque that says "she who dies with the most fabric wins." (I do not have the plaque (...yet). But once I started going to cute quilt and fabric shops instead of large chain stores for my fabrics, I had to start. Now I LOVE quilting and sewing. It is so fun to create.

I should take a new photo with more of our quilts and have the rocking chair stacked really high, but our quilts are on quilt shop walls. Megan and I finally went out and got our patterns into more shops. It is really exciting. We are still just local, but are working on that. Let us know if you see our quilts or patterns in shops near you.

This last one is our "TUTU pretty" quilt. It has a lot of applique, but is SO pretty. This is from an older Amy Butler line, but would work with so many prints. It has the feel of a scrappy quilt. And it is SO girly with crowns and wands and butterfly's. Any girl would LOVE it! (and not just little girl.)

Let us know what craft or crafts you have become addicted to. (maybe you can give us some ideas.) Also, come check out our etsy shop. We LOVE visitors. Also, join us as our followers. We promise to have more fun crafty posts...and posts that come more often. Thanks!

A New Quilt Pattern

This is the greatest quilt for a little boy! My Oliver loves the ear and tail that hang from the doggy, it is so cute. There are so many cute quilts out there for little girls, and now finally one for your little Mr! The applique is pretty simple and easy, the pieces aren't too intricate. The quilt features snails, a snake and a dog. My favorite squares, the argyle. We love argyle, it's underrated. And the pattern has a really easy to follow instructions and diagram on those squares. I especially love it for little boys as you can see here in my boy's bedroom.

We hope you love this quilt, we sure loved putting it together!

AND it's ready for purchase now :)

Thrifty cute Finds....

Thrifty Decor Chick is doing a goodwill linky party. She has some AMAZING stuff that she has got from GOodwill and turned into treasures. Go check her out. Here are my finds. That cute little terra cotta pot and flowers on the shelf I got from Goodwill years ago. I had to put them together, but it was a cute little inexpensive craft for my girls room...

Second, these pillows I made. The cute little aprons on the dresses were from DI (check for Deseret Industries in your town, the same as Goodwill, but I like it better.) Anyhow, I saw some adorable pillows at a cute boutique for $80. Then I came across these aprons and I knew exactly what to do with them. I still have these pillows, they are getting rather raggedy...

These photos are actually from a couple of years ago when we lived in Arizona.

The Dresses on Vacation...

Our California Vacation...

I made these dresses from Sandi Henderson's clair pattern. I have also added this link toShabby Nest, because what can be more frugal than homemade dresses? Here we are in California. I wanted to take the girls to the beach with the dresses for a little photo shoot. That didn't really happen. But I do LOVE the first photo here. I will definitely be putting that up.
Sophie being adorable in the Ocean. She LOVED it!

She loves posing for the camera. She doesn't need to do much to be adorable!


The plan was not to use the dresses as swimwear, but what do you do? I had this vision in my head of these gorgeous photos by the beach, but the girls were drenched in minutes. I got a different kind of photo shoot, and I adore the photos we got. What do you expect with four little crazy children?

Hope you all like how the dresses turned out. Just looking at the photos makes me want to sew!

Drop it like it's hot

We LOVE linky parties, and below are the places we regularly link and party!  Check them out, you can find some amazing things!!

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