Sew Blessed: January 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Giveaway!!!

You may have noticed that I am giving away 20!!!! free charms through my Sodderbug business! All you have to do is put my “Sew Blessed” button on your blog and I will make you a charms with your button on it!

Here are 3 of the ones I have made already!

One Nutty Girl

Life to the "T"

Marbles from Heaven

I threw in a Saints charm since she is from LA!!

Here is my running list so you know when I get to 20!

Thank you all for participating! Whew! That really was a lot of work! What was I thinking when I came up with a 20 charm giveaway?!?!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Recipe for Rachel Ray

Totally winging it Tuesday morning, I made a super yummy breakfast casserole for MOPS! Here is a rough recipe for it:

Spray a 9X11 baking dish with PAM. Put a layer of crescent rolls rolled out flat on the bottom of the pan. In a blender mix 10 eggs, a package of precooked and then microwaved bacon, 3 cut up greens onions, 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese and then the SECRET ingredient, a tub of chive and onion cream cheese. Poor in pan and then top with another package of crescent rolls out flat. Bake for 30 minutes 350!

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ENJOY!!

Blessed Pancakes

Oh my! I (we) made the best pancakes for dinner tonight. I added peanut butter to the batter! It was soo good! I also added chocolate chips to some of them to make Reese’s (my daughter’s name) peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes! Good thing I did an hour of cardio this morning!

Valentine’s Day Heart with Leftovers

Theirs

Mine

I used old wood from a friend’s burn pile and had my Dad make into a rectangle. Then He stapled rat wire on the back. I used a coat hanger and shaped it into a heart. Then I tore strips of scrap fabric in to pieces and tied them around the heart. Next time I would make my strips of fabric shorter because I think it is hard to tell it is a heart! Cost… zero!

Can You Read This??

I went to a couple of fire stations around and took pictures of things that looked like letters. I also did the same thing on a farm. Here is my first attempt at framing some of the letters, well matting them. I still need to buy the frame. The matte came as a double white set. I really wanted black so I spray painted the top one black with my chalk board paint. I might write out the rest of the verse along the bottom with white chalk.

LUV GOD

Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

In-Progress Projects

Here are a few projects I am working on. We’ll see how they turn out!!

A chandelier for Reese’s room. $10 from Goodwill!

Not liking this one so far. A couple of my friends bought metal letters to decorate with. Theirs turned out great! I tried cutting my own letter out of a sheet of metal (will NEVER do that again) and am going to paint it… I think I am going to need help on this one!

My inspiration for this one (Theirs)

Life to the "T"

IMG_4008-400x533 One Nutty Girl

Shaping things with barbed wire…

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I LOVE YOU MOM!

Happy Birthday MOM! I love you sooo much! XOXOXOXOXOXOX

The Ultimate Compliment

I admit it. I LOVE to copy people! Lately I have seen pictures of peoples’ shoes… yes, peoples’ shoes! I think the pictures are showing their favorite shoes. So here is my copy!

Hers (Life to the "T")

Mine

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Junk Store Find

When I was up in NY for Christmas I went to a store called Toby’s. It is not really an antique store, just a junk store with stuff EVERYWHERE and roof that is falling down and leaking all over! I found a bundle of silverware wrapped in duct tape for $5. Three of the spoons had an N on them so I made this for my friend, Trish Naylor.

Friday, January 22, 2010

I LOVE this window!!!

I am so excited about how this window came out!!! I painted it this week!! The verse on it is Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God”. It is one of my favorite verses. I plan to hang this in my living room maybe by a wide ribbon?

A couple other projects to share!

Hand-me-down sweater, embroidered the N on it, came out pretty cute for a freebie!

This shirt got more comments than anything I have ever made!

I made this little coat for Nicholas completely out of scraps…

Scott had the dress shirt in the donate pile because he said the sleeves were too short.

I LOVED this set that I made for my niece, Dani!

Surely you have seen these glass blocks around. I repaint it for each holiday!

One more copied project!

Thiers…

Mine… I made it for my mom for her birthday.

You like??

I can make that!

Are you ever out shopping and see something you love and think, “I could soo make that!” Usually at that point I take out my cell phone and take a picture of it or if I am on my computer I right click and save to my “Projects to Copy” folder. I thought I would show you a couple of projects that came about like that!

Thiers

Mine… my daughter hated it and never wore it!

Thiers

Mine

Thiers

Mine

Thiers

Mine

I don’t always like mine better but it is fun to try to make it instead of buying it! This is the next thing I want to copy… a super girly chandelier for Reese! I have been looking on craigslist for a cheap one to redo.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Embarrassing Moment!

I can’t believe I am sharing this but a friend (or maybe she is not really my friend and that is why she told me to post this… heehee) said I should.

So I am at the YMCA, just finished a hard workout and am in the shower. You know how sometimes a really good butt scratching feels so good in the shower? Come on admit it, no one can ear your thoughts! Yes, well, I gave my butt a really good scratching. Then I realize that I am about to walk naked through the locker room to my locker with huge red lines all up and down my butt and everyone will know exactly what I just did. (They only provide hand sized towels and I usually use it to partially cover my front goods.) Can you picture me kind of walking funny, making sure my butt is always facing a wall while I walk.

NOTE TO SELF: NEVER GIVE YOUR BUTT A GOOD SCRATCHING IN A PUBLIC SHOWER! or bring a full sized towel…

Sorry no picture to go along with this one. LOL!!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How could I have forgotten?!

One of my favorite memories in 2009 was our trip to FL! My cousin got married so Reese, Nicholas, Mom, and I drove down together. You could not pay Scott enough to go to FL in the summer. While we were there Mom watched Nicholas one of the days and Reese and I got to go to Disney World’s Magic Kingdom! We opened the park and closed it as well! The big picture in the hat makes me laugh because she looks like a little version of me!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Top 10 of 2009

In 2010 I am going to try to do a little better with my blogging. To start off the year I have made a list of my favorite 10 projects from 2009. Here we go!

This is a shot at making my own stationary for birthday gifts. I had Reese draw a big birthday cake and scanned it. Printed it on cardstock and wala… I will not buy birthday cards anymore! Not that I ever did!

The land lords in the house we are renting replaced the windows this year so I asked to have the old ones.

A couple of cute canvases!

And of course I started soldering!!!!!!!!!!! This was a custom order for someone who wanted a picture of a tree in it. I thought it came out pretty cool! www.sodderbug.com

I started painting glass this fall!

I made the whole alphabet and plan on doing one out of pictures taken on a farm! My plan is to have a book printed for Nicholas to practice his letters and just for a keepsake! I might also print out the letters of his name and have them framed to hang on his bedroom wall!

My new embroidery font that I LOVE!!

I made baby slings!

This is a tassel that I made out of a finial that I took off the curtain rod in my living room. I tore strips of scrap fabric that I already had. It cost me nothing to make! I made several of these and sold them at a craft show for $20. They all sold fast!!!

Here is a collage of sewing projects. Going around clockwise starting in the top left corner…

I bag I made for my mom, a couple of Johnny’s I made for Nicholas, a dress for Reese. She picked out the pattern and the fabric! Next one, I took a pair of too short jeans, cut them off and added a ruffle and ribbon belt. I also painted the tractor on the shirt. A to-shirt that I (or maybe it was Anja?!) painted a dancer on and added fabric to the bottom to make it a dress. Added a ruffle and appliqué heart to the overalls. A couple pairs of pants that were too short for Reese so I made them capri’s and added ribbon and buttons. A baby sling. This next one is an original idea. A little boy had a blankie that was totally tattered but he still liked to hold it at night. I made this bag that has loose elastic on the top so the blanket is inside and he can put his hand inside the bag to sleep! And 2 burp clothes!!

Here are my Top 10 for Memorable

Events of 2009

(good and bad)

I brought in the new year at the hospital! This was so fun! I brought all kinds of horns and noise makers for the patients. I handed them out at 11 and you could hear them making noise for the next 2 hours!