I Actually Did it! (edited with picture)

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This is a slide show of a whole month of scrapbook pages one each day. Good thing it was only 29 days LOL
I joined the LOAD (layout a day) group and payed my $30 for a month's worth of encouragements and prompts by creating at least one scrapbook page each day. Some days it was easy and some not so much...I only missed one day and made it up the next day. I got a lot done but of course I still have plenty to do in the future.
I think I learned that I can create pages a bit quicker than I usually do and they turn out very well. I didn't buy anything other than I had to print 2 extra pictures so that I could do the Mustang page.
The next LOAD is scheduled for May but so far my May is looking pretty busy so I will have to see if I can join in with the group.
Hope you enjoy seeing what I got done in February.
Below is everything stacked up together! I think I might have missed a few pages in the slide show...Oh, well!

Design Wall Friday

I am happy to say that I am ahead of the BOM I am teaching my local quilt group New Friends Quilt circle. As you see there is nothing "country" about MY version of the quilt LOL
I need to finish it ahead of time because it will be a gift for my grson A.
I did make a couple of changes so that it will be personalized for him. The house is now a garage and I added a mini block in the middle of the Hole in the Barn door block...I love the changes so far.
These three Harry Potter blocks are the newest. The quilt was a mystery and was finished by Jen at Sewhooked last year but I figure that is no reason to quit now. I have had way too much fun choosing fabrics for these unique blocks pulling from my purchases over the years from a local lady who's DH has been a fabric sales man for years. I would find these great fabric samples and couldn't resist LOL. Now they are finding a home in this project. For example the bottom block was a line of crazy hand dyes that made perfect books in the library.
I am in progress on a new My Project Runway outfit for the doll and hope to have it done in the next day or so.

Todays LOAD Layout

I have been particpating with the LO (layout) A (a) D(day) which has a private Flickr group to post all the pages we do for the month of Feb. Today it seems Flickr is down so I am posting here so that I stay on task! LOL
I will be posting all the layouts in the future but want to figure out how to do it so that I don't have tons of pictures at once. LOL

1. This page is for the daily prompt concerning the cars in our life. The pictured Mustang is exactly like the one that we had and I drove until I left home for good in 1976. It was fun remembering that car which was a beige sports car...kind of schizophrenic! LOL

I'm Back to Harry!

After almost a year I was reminded that I had started the Harry Potter Project of Doom Mystery project and it was hiding out in the sewing room. After a frantic search voila I found them and got excited once more about this project.
The next block is Harry's pet owl Hedwig. So here she is...I made a boo-boo but so that is how it goes. LOL
More from the design wall tomorrow

Muffy Kitty Cat 1996-2012

She will be missed!

Happy Valentine's Day 2012

Mr Creative and I celebrated Valentine's Day at home this year.
I made a southern style dinner for us...Shrimp and Chicken Creole with rice for him, collard greens, butter beans and Gluten Free Apple Crisp for him and Low Carb Chocolate Microwave Cake for me.

I set the table with some pretty candles- battery operated and one flamed- and a vintage tablecloth.
In the picture you can see Mr Creative's gift a vintage train car with a helicopter for his O gauge train.

Hope you had just as nice Valentines Day as we did!

Visiting St George

That's in Utah y'all...our very own Dixie!
On the way down I snapped this photo out the car window heading south on I15
Beautiful sunset eh?

MY Project Runway....Ice Cream Challenge

Week 4 of Project Runway was the challenge to use a flavor of ice cream (gelato) to inspire their design and look.
I can do that for my next project. I used Maggie Moo's Ice cream flavors to choose from...they had lot's, and after narrowing them down to four I chose Black Cherry.
I think the fact that I love Mary Englebreit's use of cherries on her designs and home decor helped me pick that one. I have several fabrics with ME cherries on them and it was easy to choose one that I would enjoy making an outfit. I decided to go for an every day type of outfit...something that she could wear to school or just playing with friends. I didn't have anything to make a knit top from in my stash and I ended up using a thrift store ladies t-shirt for the top. Above You see my supplies and list of things I might use from my stash on the yellow sticky note.

Here is my finished outfit and I think it is pretty dang cute! I could see any little girl enjoying this type of outfit with the fun black and white checked fabric, the piped hems on the skirt and capris. I used the sleeve from the ladies top the make the body of the t-shirt...it was just the right size to make a fitted body for the shirt. I had to modify how I put the t-shirt together but it worked out. I used ribbing on the neckline and it fits over her head...not much room to spare though. I can see myself having to put the top on to the doll in the future! LOL

Back view isn't that much different than the front.
Last night I saw the new challenge and WOW how hard was that to get people to give up their clothes! LOL I am thinking of a way to find a "muse" and then create something from the thrift store that would be of similar fabrics and style...Wish me luck!

MY Project Runway Challenge 3 Finished

So here it is my version of the "Miss Piggy" challenge.
I made a three piece outfit that a little girl could wear to a mid morning- early afternoon premier at Disneyland and then with a quick change spend the day riding rides etc.
I did a few things this time to challenge myself but piping the neck and front bottom of the top. Added the little peplum (for lack of a better word) to the skirt. Added the vintage trim appliques with button centers and made a paperbag waist on the shorts.

I should have done the hem of the shorts a bit differently but I wanted to use the existing hems on the capri's so I could shorten my time putting in hems LOL
I love the little skirt and even though it isn't a glamorous outfit I think I fits the event and the little girl who might wear it.
Next up is the ice cream flavor (gelato) challenge and a short time limit!

Two Layouts and Buttons

I actually had finished this layout a week ago but with my week taking such an unexpected turn and then back again I hadn't posted it before now.
This is my youngest son's 22 birthday this past fall. Don't adjust your screen he does have some blue hair and one white eye...it's a young adult thing! LOL
Supplies: bkground and ppaper DCWV, tag , journal box and star cut outs Storyteller's Club, ink Stampin Up fibers and brads from stash, Galaxy pen Am Crafts

This layout is of Mr Creative's 60Th birthday in 2012. I love this one too! Used a kit that has been sitting in the stash for probably 2 years or so. I was lucky to have pictures of him with our grkids and that will be a great memory. He is supposed to journal the box about how he feels being 60....hope he does it! LOL
Supplies: cardstock from stash, ppaper Laundry Line from Mind's Eye, chipboard diecuts and borders same, ink Close to My Heart, brads American Crafts

Lastly I have trying to come up with a way to store my buttons so that I can keep them in colors. I love buttons but sometimes it is more trouble that it is worth to find and choose the right ones. I found something that I love but there is one problem...the opening on the bottles are too small for about half of the buttons LOL So I am having to put them in two different places anyway. I tend to be an out of sight out of mind at least for the details like that. I can remember I have paper I want or even some ribbons because they are in my eyesight but when things are put away I forget about them! LOL I will take another shot with the bottles all lined up to show how they turned out!

My Project Runway-No Miss Piggy? update!

So, week three of Project Runway (PR) featured the designers making a dress for a movie-TV star to wear to the premiers of her newest movie...Miss Piggy! What a fun challenge for them to be a bit whimsical and a yet still have to be "designer-y" at the same time.
As I said before I am making things for a little girl doll so I had to think of how I could adapt my challenge to fit the "theme of a movie premier" or something like that.
Good thing I have a good imagination! LOL
So...here's my take. What would happen if your very best friend has been "discovered" by Disney and she or he is staring in a show on the Disney Channel? Of course they would want you to be at her premier party which just happens to be at Disneyland...and once the party is over of course you will spend the rest of the day at the park having a great time!
That's MY challenge...to create an outfit that a little girl could wear to a premier party at Disneyland and for the rest of the day at the park, riding rides, seeing shows and just having fun! I also decided to give myself the challenge of re purposing some clothes that I bought at the local thrift store.

I chose this cute little sun dress and the flowered carpi's. I thought the colors were great and I also thought that the two fabrics used in the dress would give me some versatility in the design. I made a list of items that I would use from my stash.(you see it below propped up on the wooden mini cupboard) .

And here is the in-progress shot of what I hope to be making. Below is more of a hint of what I am doing I love those little flowers on the skirt so I hope it works out! LOL
I should be able to finish up tomorrow as I don't want to get too much more behind!

UPDATE
I am almost finished with this challenge only having to do some hand sewing but I am really tired and am hoping to get to bed earlier tonight
Hope I can all finished early tomorrow

My Project Runway...Challenge #2

Well for any who watch PR you know that I am behind on my challenges. It has been like that for me for the past two weeks!
So.....
Challenge #2 Was to make an elegant, romantic, over the top gown for an Opera opening night.
Well MY little girl doesn't go to the opera...after-all she is just a little girl so after some thought I tried to imagine what would be an event where a little girl would want to be elegant, romantic and over the top?
How about a Fairy Princess Party? LOL So that is my event. Here she is in her "look" in three pieces.

The top has "fairy wing" sleeves that I stitched by hand out of a vintage nylon organdy trim that I had bought several years ago in a box of trim at an auction. It matched the icy blue satin I used for the skirt/cape and the underlining of the top. The top has organdy rainbow striped ribbon that I stitched together to create the pretty stripe fabric for the bodice. I lined the skirt and top with white muslin to add some strength and structure and even used interfacing for the top and waistband for the same reason.
The under skirt is made of white, pink and lavender tulle that I made into an elastic waist skirt. The headband and lower bodice is made from some shear glittered ribbon. I ended up using some stick-on jewels as the final embellishment. I am not sure if I want to leave them on the outfit as a child might try to remove them even if they are glued on with fabric glue but I wanted to have them for my "look" I even stuck on some jewels near her right eye to make her fancy.

You can see my supplies from the leftovers. I forgot to take a picture before.
Supplies are all from Hobby Lobby unless noted:
Polyester satin (so it can be washed), cotton muslin (from stash), tulle, shear ribbons, nylon vintage trim (from stash), scrapbook jewels (from stash), butterfly and elastic and Velcro from stash.

I thought I would share the neat tool I used to create the scallops on the over skirt/cape. I got it at a quilt event for making scalloped edging for quilts and other projects. It's the JP Quick Points Scalloped Ruler model S1.5. You can find it at www.quickpointsruler.com. It made making those scallops so easy!
I might add some close ups later if anyone wants to see.

My Scottish History

I am proud to be the descendant of many Scots who lived the hard life in Scotland and then headed for Canada with many others for a better life.
There were many talented people who can claim Scottish ancestry but one of the most famous was Robert Burns the poet who was born 250 years ago.
If you want to enjoy some of his often humorous poetry read by some famous Scots click HERE and enjoy! Mr Creative and I will be enjoying a dinner in his honor at BYU on Saturday with members of the Utah Scottish Association.

We Want Candy LO Pages

Love all the fun papers that DCWV had this past Halloween in their glitter stack and it is so much fun to create with them
My GD C and GS I helped me out one day making Halloween Oreos and because we found that the candy melts don't take to food color so well we also made some candy clay pumpkins. I thought we could just change the white melts to orange with cake decorating food color so we had this lovely bowl of orange stuff that allowed the kids to make some crazy pumpkins.
Supplies-
pp DCWV and Fancy Pants, brads and ink from stash, ribbons from stash

I won't be scrapbooking for the rest of the week but hope to have two more layouts to upload early tomorrow depending on time.

Hey! Chickie

This has to be my favorite layout I have done in a very long while.
Spring 2011 grson I and I went to the local Intermountain Farmers Association store to find seeds for Mr Creative to plant in the gardens. Look, they still have the baby chick-chicks for sale. Isaac found that they were shy and would run under cover when he tried to pet them but I helped him see that if he was patient they would come over to the feeding area in the pens. We looked at the different animal feed bags and he found the right one for chickens. He had a great time looking around the store at the farmer things.
I had these pictures printed for quite a while and even picked out the papers and supplies but they just sat until last night.
Somehow they managed to come together so easily for a change. I used a sketch for the basic design but of course had to adapt it to my pics and supplies.
Supplies: cardstock-bazzil and coordinations, brads American Crafts, ribbons All My Memories and Am Crafts, pp American Crafts and DCWV, circles cut with the Coluzzle

MY Project Runway

I am a big big fan of the Lifetime TV show Project Runway. I am not exactly the people the show is marketed to...my idea of high fashion comes from Target, Kohl's and QVC! LOL But I do love watching the creative process of the designers as they try and make an extraordinary design while dealing with all kinds of challenges.

So I heard about a group that was doing their own version of Project Runway using fashion doll or what ever doll they had to work with.
They would do their own version of the weekly challenges just for their own satisfaction and fun. I loved the idea but by the time I found out about the last one it was more than halfway into a season....too late to really get involved.
But it is a new season and I thought it would be a fun thing to play with during the winter months.
So I made my own rules and started with the first challenge the unconventional materials challenge. The contestants went to a 99 cent store and had $100 to spend.
So for MY version I went to the local dollar store and spent $4! LOL I allowed myself use of most of the materials in my sewing room like thread, Velcro, buttons but not my fabric stash unless it will be the only fabric used. The exception is muslin which is a freebie.
I also allow myself use of a basic pattern book for an 18 inch doll since I haven't really done garment design before. The doll came from the local thrift store for $5...she has a child like body and face so...my designs will probably head that direction LOL
My materials are a pair of boys black and white tartan boxers, a hank of plastic rope, two little girl's bows and a pink and white fleece child's hat.

I had some good plans and found just like the contestants that things don't always work the way I planned! I thought I would weave the rope into a bodice but it just was too stiff and plastic to work for me.

Here is my completed look for the doll. I used the shorts to make the skirt and lined the front of the little jacket and a piece for a headband, the hat was turned into the jacket and bodice, the rope was used as trim on the skirt and bodice and the headband and a drawstring for the skirt and the bows are pretty obvious.
The things I learned are to use invisible thread on the rope, stiff plastic doesn't weave so well, unless I make longer sleeves and a rather high neck the cloth body will show and it's really a lot of fun!
If I were really on the show I would have been knocked a lot for using fabrics instead of things like coffee filters or mop heads LOL but it's MY rules and for me as long as they were in the dollar store it's fair game. Hey I could have used towels or even scarves!
Anyway next challenge will be harder for a little girl figure as it is a gown for a night at the opera! YIKES!

Spooky Days again LO

Hey, it's Halloween again ! Or at least in the scrapbook pages.
Two layouts I did from this past October of grson I. left page he is with his preschool teachers and right just enjoying some fun time with candy eyes and making candy clay pumpkins.
Supplies
backgrounds DCWV and Recollections, yarn Sticky Stitches QVC, Stickles,brads and accents from Storyteller's Club kits

On the Sewing Machine

So....wonder what's in progress? It's a surprise project for someone(s) in New York!
I am hoping to have it done in the next day or so and will take a picture of the finished project.

Harry Potter DVD Scrapbook pages

After 7 books and 8 films the Harry Potter saga came to a close Nov 11 of 2011 with the release of the Deathly Hallows pt 2 DVD.
Around our home Harry has been something we have really loved since youngest son A was about 10 and I bought him his first book as a Christmas gift. Who would have known the story would take our family by storm like it did the rest of the world.
These are the pages I did for the party we had with the family.
I love that I was able to find Harry paper and accents that I used on the pages. I journaled my feelings and our story on what looks like a letter with the Ministry of Magic's seal.
It took me several days to do the two pages but that's OK...it let me relish the experiences all over again one more time.
Supplies
cardstock from stash, HP papers Creative Imaginations, ribbons and brads from stash, pp Debbie Mumm from Joann's, Stickles, letter stickers All My Memories