Don't give up on me

I know it's been a while, lots of things have been going on. I won't go into details but let's just say the year hasn't started out great.Its nothing that our family won't get through so don't worry. I have been doing some projects and will be posting soon. Stay tuned.

New Bathroom Curtain

Since I have had the past couple of weeks off (the perks of working for a University), I have been keeping busy by working on some sewing projects. One of the projects that I have been working on is a new bathroom curtain. I bought the fabric a couple of months ago from http://www.fabric.com/ .  I am really proud of myself because I am not that great at sewing. I really only know the basics so the fact that I was able to create this curtain without a pattern is really exciting. I did have a little help, I have this type of curtain in my guest room (I bought it a few years ago) so I just studied it to figure out how to make my curtain. I think that it turned out really good.

My next project is to make new curtains for my living room so stay tuned.

One of My Fav Christmas Gifts of 2010

This year one of my favorite gifts was from my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They gave us two handmade rocking chairs. How cool is that! Of course, I can't wait until spring so I can enjoy them on my back patio. David built them himself. He is a true asset to the family because he can build almost anything. I hope to be hitting him up soon to help me redo my kitchen backsplash and countertops :).

Check him out on facebook at Lunceford Construction .

Thanks Sommer and David!!!!

Wedding Wreaths

Over Christmas my sister in law and I made a couple of wedding wreaths for a family friend who need them for an upcoming wedding she is coordinating in January. I only took a picture of one of them  but they both turned out really good. We were able to sell the for $40 each so that was cool. Merry Christmas to us !

The white ribbon we used was purchased from Hobby Lobby.

It's a Table Runner kind of Christmas!

So every year we exchange Christmas gifts with Chris mom's side of the family. When we first got married we didn't have a lot of money and still don't :), so I made each of them a homemade gift. After that first Christmas I have continued to giv them a homemade gift. I wish I had kept a log of what I made each year. Last year I posted it on my blog so this year I decided to post it to journal what I give them.
So drum roll please...... this year I made them a table runner and monogrammed them matching napkins.See them below. I made a total of 5 table runners. I think they will enjoy them :)!

An early Christmas Gift for Mom

So after seeing my wreaths that I made for myself, my hinted really hard that she needed new wreaths for her door so guess what I made her two for her front door. Here's how they turn out!

Merry Christmas Mom!

Christmas Wreaths

Every year at Thanksgiving my sister-in-law and I make something homemade for Christmas. This year she actually came up with the idea of making wreaths for our front door. So with our two creative brians combined we came up with these two wreaths. I think that they turned out GREAT!!!

This one was for my mother-in-law's front door.

This one is for my front door.

I took it home to show my mom and she loved it....so she may be getting one the next time I see her :)