Been making Halloween pop up cards. Decided to create cricut templates for them. Here are two, a few more coming later.

Cathedral Window Boxes

Cathedral Window Boxes

I’ve  been working on cathedral window boxes. I made a bunch of pillows for Christmas gifts (most of which I forgot to take photos).

Here is one I made for me with my coke stash.

I always put something in the windows. It’s just fun.

Since we’re going to be on the road all summer, I decided to do a quilt/spread for my bed. Bob drives the RV and I sew.  I did the basic top (mostly by machine) before we left.

Here is the top I’m working on.

         I cut out about 50 different fabric squares of sea life, and I am hand sewing the squares into their windows.

Here’s a section I’ve finished.

I actually decided to add a layer of batting in each square and sewing on the buttons tacks down the batting. I put buttons on the back, too. It adds strength and it hides the stitches.

Usually Window boxes don’t need batting as they are already several layers of fabric, but I wanted it thick and warm.




Here are another of the pillows I did.

Here is a top I just finished that will be a pillow when we get home.

I liked the other coke pillow, but I wanted to use slightly bigger squares to get more of the design in.

All done.  

Loft bed almost done

View from the side with all the Boho curtains tied back.

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View (below)from the side, with the Boho curtains closed. I’ve painted the shelves, but I’m going to trim them in checkerboard to match the dresser.

There’s lots of room underneath. It will hold six giant plastic tubs and still have room for more. You have to crawl to get in, but once inside there’s lots of room.

The boho curtains took ten times longer than traditional ones, but I love them.  I have the skirt for the bottom, to cover the storage area,  almost done. I’m going to Velcro it on. I was going to make a ruffled one with elastic but decided against it.

Decoupaged Dresser

My son is a musician, when he moved back home this year for a six month round of chemo, I redid his room. I started with the dresser. I decopauged all but the trim, which I painted with black enamel, with old sheets of music. Then printed out some musical graphics from my computer. A good spray with sealer and they can be decoupaged, too. I then chalked various pastel colors here and there and finished with three coats of polyurethane. New knobs and it was done.

Under the Sea Tote Bag

Step three...(starting at bottom)

Put the lining together. Added very thick interfacing (The for making hats kind) and four interior pockets. At this point I also added the side pieces that will be attached to the rings for the handle. 

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Step two.. (steps in order bottom up)

Continue to add background detail. Added coral. Cut coral out of a pretty pink patterned fabric. Used variegated peach thread and added little ‘polyp bursts’ around the coral limbs.

Photo before sewing it down and embroidery.

Step one.

Started the new tote bag. I just slightly enlarged my purse pattern so I could actually use it as a. Purse if I wanted to. I’ll post the steps as I go. 

Cut out pieces and machine sewed background pieces.

 These are the two sides and back pocket, above.
Below is the front side flap.

Loft bed

I wanted to use a spare bedroom for storage but I also needed a bed, so why not build a loft bed with storage space underneath. Then I said, Okay, a couple of rows of book shelves would be nice, too.

Here is the frame. I designed it to hold six plastic tubs underneath and a two rows of books.  

Side view

End view

It’s a Vest.

This is a Vest I made several years ago.  I liked it so much I thought I’d use the same idea on a purse. I will put the steps to the purse on a page of their own.

 Back.

 Right

Left side.

Decoupage a FLOOR

What? A floor? Yep. My son is very hard on his floor. I didn’t want another carpet. Bare cement looked harsh. I decided to decoupage the floor.  He’s a musician, so I thought I’d use photos of music posters and album covers to cover the floor.

Finished above with 5 coats of polyurethane.

Below half way done.

Catching up..

I have been really busy this last year, what with retiring and all. I made lots of things but never seemed to get around to posting. I’m going to do a lot of catching up in the next day or two. I have lots of news things planned.  Even working on building a high platform bed, and getting ready to decorate our new camper.

One of the things I have been working on lately, are purses. I wanted one with lots of pockets and one that I could Decorate. I ended up making a Bunch for Christmas gifts. Unfortunately, I neglected to take photos of any of them. Here are two of mine. I am also going to document the building of a new one (slightly larger) in my next post. My own pattern.

The Bug purse.

This is the back. Phone pocket and a candy pocket.

Also has 4 pockets inside.

There was a gorgeous spider pin on the web, but it got lost somewhere.

This is the front. Scarab is stuffed, sequined, and beaded.

One side, flowers, bugs and ribbon.

Other side is plain, might add something later.

This was actually the first one I made. I used it to base the final 

pattern on. It had a lot of mistakes in the making. I used old blue jeans 

for the fabric. The outside pocket is a real jean’s pocket.

Crochet Circle Vest

Crocheted this on our road trip this summer
The first ten rows are from a doily pattern, the Rest I just winged.