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Excuse Me While I Have A Snit....

My mom had a birthday yesterday.  So I went to Target and bought one of these.

 

I had big plans for it. Instead of sliding a photo into the mug, I was going to make a mini-quilt, if you will, and slide it in. Brilliant!  In my mind this was going to be so cool. So I perused my fabric. I selected a killer combination. I did a little measuring, a little cutting, a little sewing.  I ended up with this.

I was quite pleased with myself. With eager anticipation, I snipped off the last thread and went to slide my masterpiece into the mug. Not going to happen!! 

Fabric + Interfacing=Too thick. 

Oh. Yes. A snit was in order... I roared my terrible roar and rolled my terrible eyes. I gnashed my terrible teeth and showed my terrible claws.  There was even some snatching of hair. Until finally I said, "Be still." (Any WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE fans out there?  I haven't seen the movie, but I love the book. It was a staple on the bookshelf in my classroom and in my girls' room.) 

"Be a problem solver, not a problem maker," I told myself.  I thought, and I thought, and I thought.  I had to settle for the next best thing. I made a trip to Kinko's to make a colored copy of my masterpiece.

Not exactly what I had in mind, but it would have to do. I carefully cut out the counterfeit and slid it in the mug.  As I said before, not quite my vision but what's a girl to do?  I'm pretty sure my mom will still love it.  Happy Birthday to the best mom on the planet...

Now what am I going to do with my mini-quilt masterpiece? It's the perfect shape for a small apron. Perhaps the the cat would like one? I'll be sure to post a picture if that's what I decide to do. LOL!

Project #1--A Gigantar Pegboard---Done!

Yep. Project #1 is finally done.  I built a spanky new pegboard. ALL. BY. MY. SELF. Power tools ROCK!

Remember my studio space before?  

 

The table is so deep that the back half was unusable.  Plus that big white wall...boring.

 

So...I flipped the table so the short-end was against the wall. Then added some spice including this new gigantar pegboard.  Let's take a closer look.

   

Here's a little shelf to hold my treasures.

 

Next, a file basket to hold, well, files and stuff.

 

 Add some paper-covered cans to store pen-like tools.

 

And some fabric buttons to hide the screws.  Really. There is no excuse for ugly. LOL!

 

Let's not forget the new fabric bar (a.k.a. a towel bar spray painted with oil-rubbed bronze paint) I mounted on the wall,

 

or the magnetic message board I hung above it.

Joy of all joys!  My space feels complete. 

Project #2, also a rockin' redo, is so close to done.  Now that my craft space is put back together I can finish Project #2.  Can't wait to show you.

Happy day,

Cassie

I Wish...

I wish I could show you some amazingly clever fabbity-fab-fab costumes that I lovingly stitched for the girls for Halloween.  But I can't.  This year the extent of my involvement in costumes was to get the dress-up box out of storage. Oh. Wait. I did craft Paige's crown out of some construction paper right before she left to haunt the neighborhood.  But for the most part, the girls creatively crafted their own costumes out of bits and pieces salvaged from dance performances and  Halloweens gone by. I think they look smashing.

 

I wish I could show you the glowing and grinning jack-o-lanterns we carved and set on our step to welcome trick-or-treaters big and small.  But I can't.  I waited until the last minute to buy pumpkins and there wasn't a pumpkin to be found in the town.  How was I to know that the sub zero temperatures we got at the beginning of the month turned bunches and bunches of pumpkins to mush?  A pumpkin shortage? Who'd of thought it?  We had to settle for Halloween luminaries this year.  They looked o.k. There's something a little bit disturbing about little candle tea lights in the bottom of paper bags, though. It seems like a no-no.

 

I wish I could show you the rockin'-redo projects I've been giving my creative attentions to the last few weeks. But I can't.  Neither one is done.  Here is a little sneak peek, though...

Project #1:

 

Project #2:

I wish I could think of a clever way to end this post. But I can't. So...

Goodbye for now~

Cassie