quilt basting and Green Paper challenge!

I'm basting a quilt for a friend today that I made for her. She is having a baby girl in a few weeks so I need to get it done! I love doing baby quilts! It's the size I mainly make because I just don't have the room for a bigger ones! I do have a "design wall". It's a cheap vinyl table cloth turned and pinned on the wall backwards so the blocks "stick" to the back. It works too! That way I can lay them out and keep track of them! This is the basting spray that I use. It doesn't gum up my machine or needle so I love this one! I lay out my batting first on the floor.Then I lay out my backing fabric first. Smooth it out flat then spray the top edge first then flip the bottom up the just spray down the rest and smooth as you go. Well actually I do a section at a time, not the whole thing at once.

Plus try to keep the kitty off of here! I don't know what it is about cats and fabric but they love it!

Then I flip it over and lay out the quilt top and do the same starting at the top edge and work my way down in sections.

I do hope they love it! They painted the room pink and all girly!

Finally this is an ATC I did for the Green Paper's challenge. You get 3 images to play with! I has an old key and an old gosh I don't know, part of a drawer pull? Hope you like it and hope everyone has a great day today!

Well it's a new year and like most people I do feel energized for new, well everything!! We had a great Christmas with family and friends. Meagan and Jordan had great birthdays as well. So now that it's a new year I'm ready for some change. So we have been looking at new furniture! yea! I am so EXCITED! I have been wanting new furniture for the living room for a couple of years now. We were going to get it last year but I wanted a new car instead! :) So we've been looking for some new stuff, finally! That means I'll be repainting and new curtains and man I can't wait! Of course I'll take some pictures along the way! On another note my wonderfull hubby bought me a Cricut Expression for Christmas! I have looking at this thing for awhile now and just never bought it. So he took the hint and got it for me! I love this thing! I've been doing some glass etching so far. I wanted to redo these jars so I thought it was the perfect place to start! I've got so many ideas just waiting to be put to use for this thing! I'm just so ready for this year!!

Just a quick note

It's my husband's and I 16 year anniversary today! Wow that's a long time we weren't thinking cause we got married on the 16th, our daughters b-day is the 18th and our son's b-day is the 20th and then Christmas! Yep..we are broke!!

Have ya ever wondered?

Have ya ever wondered as you make things for your family and friends for Christmas, or even a birthday or just for whatever, do they Really like the things you make or are they just being nice? I wonder it all the time! I love to make things for my family and friends, it's a little special piece of my insight on things. Not just jewelery, but quilts, art etc. It just makes me wonder. Does anyone else feel that way too?

Green Paper Challenge

Here is my collage for the Green Paper challenge. It is paint some pastels and stamps as well. I didn't get a chance to do the last one so I really enjoyed this one! Enjoy!

Christmas wreath

Well I finished the vintage ornament wreath finally.I had it hanging outside but it got so cold the glue ,I don't know "shrunk" and I lost an ornament, so I brought it inside. After all that work I didn't want to just lose it all over the front porch! Of course I had to add a pic of our little tree. I wish our living room was bigger! I would have a giant tree!! But, this one is still pretty I think. I hope everyone is having fun decorating a getting ready for Christmas! I love this time of the year, so fun!!

Christmas time!!!

Well first my kitty Bink's just had to get in the shot too! I went to the antique store today and hunted for some vintage ornaments to make a wreath for my front door. I found some that were priced not too bad. I need to find some more but ran out of money. Oh that's what my husband is for! Ha he'll appreciate that one!! But anyways I'll show it when I get it all together! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We did and were most definitely stuffed! ;) Oh I need to not take migraine pills for a backache, too much caffeine and it's hard to do much else but I've got so much of the jitters going on!! Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow! Have a great weekend everyone!!