Salsa!!

Introducing the newest rug Salsa. This rug is 18X20. This rug will be raffled at a retreat in California. This retreat is for the spinners and weavers group.  Can't wait to see how much they like it. Hope they get some good money for there club.  They picked out the colors and I did the work. This rug was a lot of fun. It was super quick unlike some of the others I have done. This was my first one that I didn't put a border on it. Hope it's new owner enjoys it as much as I did making it.

This next picture is a bit closer so you can see it better.

Organization!!!

This weekend I was organizing my sewing room. Really excited about some of the changes I am making in here. It is long over do. Now things will be organized better. I am not being creative today. This is very sad. Was hoping I would be able to. But, The organization needed to be done. It will make me more efficient and hopefully things will be easier to find. So after this there will be an explosion of creations. Not sure if I will be able to post them for a while though. Cause like I said before I tend to make most things as gifts. So you will have to wait to see them complete till they have been given to the rightful owner. But today I will be posting pictures of my new storage shelves and the new storage stations. Oh what fun! Can't wait to share. This first photo is of the jar I found to display my ribbon and lace in. Jar from Walmart and tongue depressors to wind ribbon etc on to.

This next photo is my jar wall. Shelves on the top are from Ikea. Below are magnet knife holders also from Ikea. On the magnets are baby food jars. I collected those jars from a few ladies out here in the valley I live in. One of the cool things about this wall display is the jars on the shelves. These jars are compliments of my step dad Fred. He absolutely loves jelly and they used to make jelly all the time and canned it for later. Well they haven't done it in years. But they saved all these lovely jars. I love them. Each one has various fruit embossed on them. They are very old ones. New lids of course. I think they are my favorite thing about this wall. So now I have a place for all the different colored snaps, buttons, bells, beads etc. I think I like it. Places for everything.

Purple People Eater!!

Here is the latest project I just finished. I started this one before the twins. But, the twins shoved there way in the line up so I put this one on hold. The inspiration for this rug would have to be the purple walls in my laundry room. This rug contains various purple material. I was sorting the material I had into main colors. These were the ones I came up with. Purple is one of my favorite colors as well. So this one made me really happy to do. When you love the color it is so much easier to love the project. Hmm!! What to do next. My list of projects is endless. Guess I have to get the creative juices flowing and get busy.

Christmas 2014

This Christmas I couldn't think of what to do for gifts. So decided to look to pinterest for an inspiration. So this year for the ladies in my family I made. Re-usable paper towels. It was a lot of fun to make these. Wasn't sure how they would all take them. Some of us are into recycling and others are not. They went over pretty well. I was very pleased at how they turned out and have since made some from wash cloths for myself.

 Along my journey on pinterest. I found some very cute ideas for giving money as gift. I have two nieces I wasn't sure what to get them. So rather than buy them something they might not like or maybe couldn't use. I decided to give them cash. Who doesn't like cash. But, I wanted to have something for them to open. So I got creative with my cash. Thanks to the many ideas on pinterest.
The saying on this one came from pinterest. But the padding of the money was our idea. Pretty fun!! Yes, she was very thrilled with her creative money gift.

Here is the second one we did. Thanks to pinterest.

I think we just had way to much fun with these. And they were received very well.

Meet "The Twins"

I would like to introduce you to what I call "The Twins". These locker hooked rugs were made for a dear friend of my mothers. She asked me if I would make here a pair of rugs and they had to be the same. When you are doing locker hooking it can be a challenge. Fabric does stretch. So placement of color can be a challenge. She asked me to make it random. Similar to one of my other rugs. So this is what she got.

This one is a close up of the colors.

My mom's friend picked the colors and I did the rest. I really love how they turned out. She said random and this is for sure random. You won't see any dirt on these. I have to tell you a funny thing though. After I make a rug it isn't complete without putting it on the floor and stepping on it. So after every rug I make I have to put my tootsies on them all. And of course my kids laugh at me when I do this cause it is a big deal to me and I make it that way. I sure have enjoyed making these rugs. Little splashes of color.

Midnight Snack Complete!!!!

Well the midnight snack is complete now. Binding is on and it is quilted. Yippee!! We got to sleep under it for the first night. And let me tell you it was good. I didn't get sucked into the duvet. I was sure glad to get rid of that. That was the best part. Funny thing is it didn't cause me to have that midnight snack that everyone was warning me about. Didn't even need that bottle of tums. :)

This thing is huge!! 120X120. We wanted it large so it would cover the entire California king size bed and the pillows. It worked great. Totally love it. After I had it quilted my mom decided that we needed matching pillow cases. So she made us matching pillow cases. What fun is that. Mom's are the best aren't they? I sure love her and It was a great idea. So here they are. One matching set in flannel like the backer. One set with different patterns for each of us. Like his and hers.

This picture shows a bit of the backer. Yes, That is the midnight snack. Flannel for extra softness.

And last but not least the final on the bed view.

Dalmatian!

Dalmatians blast from my past. Remembered this when I was at my mother-in-laws house the other day. decided to get a picture of it to post. This was done by me in 1996. It is counted cross stitch. I haven't done any counted cross stitch in a while. But this one is still one of my favorites. My mother in-law has had many dalmatians in the past and she just loves them. And who couldn't resist the white and black spots. Very active and fun loving dogs for sure. Just thought I would post this old creation from my past.