I would love to hear your thoughts on homemaking today...... What is the great homemaking advice anyone has given you?(Or that you would give to someone else) I think mine is two-fold, and I wrote about both of them..... HERE and HERE. Would you mind sharing yours? I am excited to read your best advice.... ~Elizabeth ... View the Post
Archives for November 2013
Advent Calendar Activities Ideas
A few years back my parents gave me this beautiful advent calendar: I love it. They gave one to each of their children on Thanksgiving and filled each door with notes, candy, activities, pocket money, etc. It was so fun to open the door every day and find what little goodie was in store for us. Every year since then I have planned on refilling that advent calendar and putting inside the doors some treats and notes but also an activity for our family to do every day for those 24 days ... View the Post
November Holidays
I forgot to post this last Saturday...but here it is today: November Holidays!!! (There's more to November than just turkey!) November: 10th: Sesame Street Day, Forget-Me-Not Day, Area Code Day 11th: Veteran's Day, Origami Day 12th: 13th: World Kindness Day 14th: National Pickle Day, National American Teddy Bear Day, International Girls Day 15th: Clean Your Refrigerator Day, National Bundt Pan Day, National Day of Play, Guiness World Record Day, I Love the Write Day 16th: Button ... View the Post
$5 Friday—Handmade Baby Bibs {Quilt-as-you-go}
I am kind of addicted to the quilt-as-you-go method. Thanks to whoever was the genius who figured it out....and thanks to all those who have posted tutorials on this simple quilting technique! It's fast and easy and GREAT for little projects. A couple of friends in my neighborhood had babies recently and so I decided to use the quilt-as-you go technique on some baby bibs. By the way, baby bibs were one of the first things I started making when I started sewing again 10 years ago and they ... View the Post
Make Pajama Pants from Jeans
How to make a Pajama Pants Pattern from Jeans---An EASY tutorial: It seems like about this time every year I start my list of things to make for my kids for Christmas. And every year I put pajama pants on that list. And every year I end up running out of time and buying them on Christmas Eve. Well not this year!!!This week I started making the Christmas pajama pants and I started with Simon's.I made them during naptime and without a "pattern". I don't know why I hadn't thought of it ... View the Post
A Fashion Show Behind the Scenes
Back in September Elizabeth and I were lucky enough to be invited to participate in Riley Blake Designs Fabric Fest. We were able to teach some classes as well as share some of our designs in their fashion show.(A fashion show!!! We were so excited!) We had so much fun putting together our 3 mini collections for the show.(I'd do it all over again right now!)And when show time came everything looked great on stage but back stage....back stage was another story:Here's the thing...the "models" ... View the Post