Recent things!

These are two totes that I made for my friend's birthdays.  They have matching tissue holders.  The totes are getting better as I go along,  and this month I am going to make a bow tuck purse for Jessica's wedding I think.

Dust covers

Above is a dust cover for a Featherweight sewing machine and a matching pin cushion and thread holder. This was made for my quilting friend June I loved the fabric - so much sew that I made a dust cover for my Featherweight too.

 Below is a dust cover for my Viking.  They tell me that we should cover them up each time we leave them.

This is Annie Merle my featherweight she was born in 1948

This is my latest edition to my sewing machines, she sews a super sweet straight stitch and purrs :)  I will be using her at classes and when I can take a machine when I travel.  I named her after my mum because she taught me to sew way back in 1966-67.

Nifty tool caddy

This a a tool caddy with attached pin cushion.  I love this fabric and

used it once again! 

The thread holder can attach

to the tool caddy but I didn't like it,  theysaid to use rice to weigh it down but it wasn't enough - I would use sand if I do it again, so I used velcro to secure it to the table.

St. Joseph's Thrift Store Finds :)

This watercolor picture that I call Ladybugs and Honey Bees sat at store for 2 months. I didn't want to pay $18.00 for it and pointed out that it had been there over a month so I got it for 1/2 price!  It looks like a quilt block to me and I wanted for my sewing cave - well Carnell calls it a cave I want to call it a studio :)

Quilt Rack

I found this at the thrift store also - I thought it was a steal for $12.00!

We go to the thrift store with our students at school as it is on the next block.  I find things that I think we need or books too.  I also found 6 great towels some from Restoration Hardware and the other equal quality!  2 bucks each and hardly used.

Thrift store find :)

There is a little thrift store one block away from the high school campus.  I have picked up a few things there very reasonable.  There has been a little (11x11) water color picture that has been professionally framed sitting there since May.  It was still there today when our class went out on a community awareness walk, I looked at it again and thought I really want this but I don't want to pay $18.00  yes I am thrifty, so I told the man behind the counter "this has been here since May, I would like it - can you reduce the price?"  He said  he would take $ 8.00 off, I grabbed it and 4 big paperback books for a total of  $13.10.

It looks so much like a quilt block I couldn't resist it,  I call it Ladybugs and Honey Bees :)

Big find at IKEA this morning!

25 spaces for storage Yippee!

Half way through!

 Previously this month, I had tried to reclaim some wooden shelves that had been part of a child's bedroom suite from life before Janet came to live. I had put them outside and how was I to know that here in southern California that things can get all mildewy.  Anyways, I had slathered them in bleach and then washed with vinegar and water and let sit in the sun for three days.  Then I brought them in.  They stuck like musty old rotten wood.  I lived with this smell for a over a week, but it wasn't getting any better.

So this morning Carnell and I set off for IKEA in Carson.  I really do not like this store, but know for shelving units it really can't be beat! I found a style I liked and it would have taken two units and hours of putting them together :( and over $ 200.00, but they would have been fine.  So on the way out I said "let's look at the "as is" - there it was a totally different shelving unit but for half the cost and fully assembled.  We also have a truck, so there is no problem there.  Carnell was all for it.  As you can see the shelves are white and the frame is beige - who cares?  Not me!  So for $99.00 plus tax I have storage space for quilting, crafts,  and misc. stuff!

My new sewing area!

We are taking about mounting the flat screen tv and me using the media cupboard as part of the storage wall.  It is tucked on the far right side, I would paint it white though, as it is bare pine. Also think of getting a pegboard and mounting it above to hang things on.  I am so pleased with our find - tickled pink truly. I have a large space in front of my sewing center so that I can sandwich the quilts with spray basting!