Happy Leap Day!

Look where I've been... @ The Daytona 500! Celebrating Hanna's 13th Birthday... and trying to get a peek at Kyle... Did not get to stand next to the REAL Kyle, but Miss Hanna got to stand next to her driver, Trevor Bayne and he signed her ticket! She had a blast. We ALL had a blast!
Now, we are home... and I am ready to craft!

with the girls

I wonder if he's really this tall!

no Kyle,  just his garage

with the best husband in the planet

my racing fans

The happiest 13 year old girl in the world!

Tissue packs

Happy Monday!  I have been busy and productive and a vacation is on the horizon... Yippee!

A few weeks ago I made 160 tissue covers for the teachers at the Middle School and they were a hit. I used a lot of scraps and cleaned out my stash a little bit. We have a wonderful Hospitality Committee and their activity for January was a "stay healthy" bag for the teachers. We included tissues, chap stick, hand sanitizer and a few other goodies. They were delivered the week of mid-terms with a thank you note for all they do for our kids. 

I also finished a very cool embroidered tea towel calendar for 2012 and other quick projects. Pictures of those coming soon.

Enjoy!

Baby Gifts...

Inspired by Cluck Cluck Sew's Wednesday, Jan. 4th blog post: Flannel. 

Just like her, I looked at the tutorials she suggested and in practically no time at all, 

I had two very cute blankets with mitered corners. 

my fancy new tag

Craftsy, January BOM

A new project! Craftsy: Block of the Month Quilt.

Block 1

Block 2

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year and a Blessed Three Kings Day!

Sew Cute will be back with more handmade gifts and crafty ideas this year...

 I can't wait to share my projects with you and show you what I make with my new sewing machine. I'm one blessed and lucky girl!

Me with my adoring husband and beautiful girls, Christmas morning.

December!

December is here! What happened to November?! It was a busy month in our household and it felt like it flew by. I was busy working and cleaning up my always messy sewing room. I made baby gifts like the one below and sewed lots of girl scout patches. Thanksgiving came. We went to the zoo in the morning and had our family over for dinner. We are so blessed! 

Hanna and Dan

Hanna, Victoria and Alex

Our girls are so grown up!

strawberry onesie and baby quilt

ribbon turkey from Planet Applique for Baby Lyla

Labels

I made my own labels! I was short on time to order and receive my usual name tape from NameMaker  for a particular project (remember the crayon rolls),  so I decided to give it a whirl and this is what I came up with. 

So much fun to play with the fonts and sizes, typewriter
I went for easy to read!

Ready to starch, press and cut.

90 cut labels

Ready to sew... 

Here is my trick to making fabric labels:

1.  I ironed on a piece of freezer paper to a light colored muslin. Both pieces a little larger than an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper.  Steam off or you will get wrinkles on the paper.
2. Then I cut the prepared fabric to exactly an 8 1/2 x 11 rectangle.
3. I played making labels on the computer as a word document (the labels option).
4. I fed the prepared fabric into my printer and let the ink dry about 5 minutes.
5. I peeled the paper off and pressed the back side. Dry iron. No steam.
6. I starched well and pressed them maybe 5-6 times. They were pretty stiff. The idea was to give them body and keep them from fraying too much as I sewed them.
7. With the rotary cutter, I cut them to desired size and in an hour I had 90 labels!

I have a few left for other projects and I'm keeping them in this cute stationery box I got at the Target $1 section. Not bad at all!