It's been a while but a lot has been happening lately! It's been a busy few months and now Christmas is just around the corner!

Maxton had his 1st birthday, we all dressed up it was a great time! My nephew is getting too big too fast, we all are really enjoying this time.

Uncle Alex even enjoyed himself!

Halloween was a blast! I had to get a picture with Darth Vader!

I had a day off today and I got a lot of sewing done. I really didn't have any major problems so I didn't get too frustrated.

Took me about 2 days to make three different size yo-yo's out of the rest of my Amy Butler, Midwest modern charm pack. After I connected them using the button hole stitch with my sewing machine. I'm thinking it would be a cute garland for a mini white Christmas tree.

I also finished a table runner out of this funky chandler fabric I got in Wisconsin. I also whipped up a couple purse organizers. These purse organizers are great and everything has its place in my purse.

Well that's all I got for now! Stay tuned I've got a lot of great Christmas projects jumping around in my head, I'm gonna be a good blogger let keep up!

Handy Work

So my best girl friend, Bobbie is having a birthday this Saturday, when I saw this saying on a sign at work it reminded me of her. We always have a blast together and this saying is soo true for us! I hope she likes it...

Another project I finished was this one hour bag! I love browsing around on other crafters blogs and I found this easy pattern on, Jodie's blog! I really only did take me 1 hour, and I love this because I can make the bag smaller or larger depending how much scrap fabric I have laying around, and trust me I have a lot!!! Anyways, try this pattern for yourself its great!

Mom got me a panel of this under the rainbow Wizard of Oz print and the blocks were the perfect size for coasters! Theses turned out really great, I plan on making a few sets to sell at work! Speaking of work check out our blog and the Little Red Hen website! Yes I am the web mistress, and I love it!

NO! NO! Bad blogger! Bad!

I should be ashamed of myself! I've been such a bad blogger lately! I've had the time to blog but lately I've been being lazy. Summer is always a really busy time and I think this is one of the exciting summers for me yet. This year has been and is going to be busy with trips to the cities, 3 weddings, concerts, and Chicago I'm ready!!

My boss Cathy and I went to Wisconsin for a cash and carry show and I had a great time! We stopped at some really fun quilt shops and I got some goodies! I found a super cool embroidery book by Mary Engelbreit, and some awesome unique fabric... I haven't made anything out of it, yet!

Mom gave me a cool pattern for an "easy" lunch sack, this weekend sounds like a good time to sew since Alex is having friends over for a Soul Caliber video game tournament.... sound stupid? Well I'm he will have lots of fun and that's all that matters.

I embroidered a tea towel from a pattern out of my Mary Engelbreit book. I love the rick rack around the outside of the tea, so cute! I'm thinking of some day doing my kitchen in black and red to match with all my hello kitty gadgets... someday...

I really enjoy stitching and this was a cute free pattern I found online. It was a really fast stitch it took me about 3 hours, I pared it up with some Amy Butler fabric and it looks great in the bathroom!

So as I said I have 4 weddings this year. Alex's cousin Eric is getting married July, 12th. Then his sister gets married July, 26th. Our good friends Adam and Jackie are getting married in September. Then of course my love Bobbie and Matt's wedding in December. I had bought a dress for Bonnie's wedding then I was thinking a dress, dancing, and me drinking may be a bad thing... Chicago is also coming up in July and I really wanted to buy some ting that I could get good use of. My sister, Maxton, and I went to Sioux Falls on Tuesday and I got a suit which I feel great in, and I think I look pretty damn good in too!

Becki made this great video of Maxton and for those of you who haven't seen its just the best! Shes so creative and Maxton is one hell of a stud!

You should just be able to click on it?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36267172