recycled bottle lamp

A lamp made from recycled bottled. I started to make one of these once, but I stopped. Cutting those bottle bottoms was hard work/ hard on the hands. This is a nice one found here for $225.

My Men!!

I hand-sewed these ties for my boys. It is really really really hard to find ties for little boys in stores, so I made some from a pattern from the Purl Bee website. The white shirts are from a thrift store...about $2 ea. We are going to a wedding in May and the bride's colors are turquoise. It is also a beach wedding. I thought bright blue ties and bright green Hawaiian shorts would be cute.
We tested/modeled the clothes in the backyard...only for a little while though so they didn't get dirty.

Groovy Dress...where is this pattern?

Photo by Jasimine Star (my favorite wedding photographer).

I really like the look of this dress. Retro design & Groovy pattern mix...and it looks comfortable. Gotta find a pattern for a similar design somewhere.

Burke Chairs (tulip chairs) on the cheap!

We took a trip up to the mother ship (IKEA) on Saturday before Easter. On the way home, we stopped in Lockhart, TX (in between Austin and San Antonio) and purchased some retro 1950’s Burke/Tulip chairs that I saw advertised on Craigslist ($25!). I was wondering why no one in Austin had gobbled these up yet. Then I knew...it was a haul out there....so very far outside of Austin. It was still worth it though; I was excited to find them. It took us longer to get home than usual, because we took a wrong turn on I-10 and started going toward Houston! Lots of driving indeed to pick up these chairs. I am going to clean up/fix up the chairs (going to paint the orange chair white also) and make new cushions for them with Amy Butler fabric one of these days.

Mod Owl....Hoo Hoo!

Loving this owl.....so simple, yet so mod! From Susan Beal....click here.

Sweet orange ugly doll

Another cute little ugly doll as spotted on SFgirlbybay's blog.

Inspiring sewing room

An inspiring sewing room found here. I really like the blue walls and all of the matching white...I'm a sucker for monochrome looks with a punch of bright color.

I've been redecorating my sewing room the past couple of days, so I have been looking at a lot of pics of sewing/craft rooms lately. I'll post a pic soon of the redecorating outcome. I am liking how it is coming along, better use of space for work.