Ruby and I had a great day. We played outside, took pictures, and went shopping. It was a little cool this morning, but later today it was nice. She always finds some cute things at the thrift store. She took them home before I could get pictures. They will look great in her new room.
My sweet daughter has been living in a very small (2 bedroom) trailer for 7 years now with her husband and 3 kids. Things just haven't worked out that she could have a house. We have the opportunity to buy a house that needs to be moved. It's only 5 miles away. We've checked with house movers and codes and it looks like we can move it on our property. As you can see from the pictures it has been taken of. It has 10 foot ceilings and beautiful lighting fixtures and window treatments. Lots of closets. The girls will have a room together and Jakob will finally have his own room. The outside is brick, so it will have to be removed when it's moved. Things are moving along pretty fast. I just know it will happen by Christmas.
So far for Layla's birthday I've made her this blanket. Fabric on sale for $5.99 a yard and I had a coupon for 50% off on the blanket binding. So very easy, although I had to use the walking foot because it was puckering.
Just wanted to post a sweet picture of my great-nephew Aiden. He doesn't look like he had surgery, until you see the scar going across his head. This is my Dad with Aiden. This was taken 3 weeks ago. I'm sure he's grown a lot more.
All the Grandkids spent the night, so I had some new crafting to do with them. Got these at Joann's. They had 40% off which made it $4.79. I think there was at least 12 in the pack. No gluing was great. The colors were peel and stick. Holes were alreading in them. It was a lot of fun. No mess. Make your own faces. Layla took one to her teacher today. 
I helped Layla and Ruby make these photo frames from the Martha Stewart crafts. We put magnets on the back. Layla made hers for her friend Maggie which is the picture. Ruby made hers for BB her cat. The bottom picture they made for my brother, Grandpa Jeff with baby Aiden.
Their ready to go to two birthday parties today.
I haven't finished painting Anthony's house yet, but we did put up the siding we bought. It looks like a different house. See the before picture here. When it stops raining I'll be finishing it.
Made the girls these cute Tutu's from Tea Rose Home. Ruby picked out all the colors and the roses (from Hobby Lobby). Layla thought she did a good job picking out her colors. They wore these to the Shriners Circus tonight. I told them "I hope the clowns don't try to take you two on tour with them". Their grandpa happens to be a clown in the circus.
Made the "Summer Blouse" from Weekend Sewing. It's more like a Winter Blouse. The fabric is flannel from my stash. I took Maggie's advice and made the placket a lot shorter. It was pretty easy to make. It takes longer to trace the pattern. I would definitely make another. Next time I would make it longer.
Vicky, Ashley and I went antique shopping last week. We didn't find much in our price range, but I did get the chickens. Got the doily at Goodwill today for $.99. It was in a picture frame. Very nicely done with a mat. I think it should have been $9.99, because most of the frames that size were, but I ask and they said .99. Just got a feeling it was a family heirloom. Why would they toss it out? My gain. (Sorry for the dark picture).
My Aunt Lousie has given me lots of fabric, so I shared with Ashley. Pattern is Simplicity 2906. It only takes 7/8 yard of fabric if you make size 14 or below. Only took a half hour to make. It took longer than that to figure out what size she needed and cutting it out. I made it Saturday night while Vickie, Ashley and I watched Dirty Dancing. Picture is a little blurry, but she is lovely.
Just finished these cute little doll clothes. Thanks to Obsessively Stitching. She does a great job. I finished 5 in an hour. These were mostly little shirts and dresses, so pretty easy. Hope you like them. The little chubby doll on the right was pretty hard to fit. But she didn't have any clothes that fit her. These were the baby clothes I bought here.
Maggie from Vingt Centimes and Liz from The Quilted Turtle are hosting a "Weekend Sewing" projects from Heather Ross's book. I decided to join and made these lounge pants for my niece Ashley. I had to change the pattern a bit. First of all she wanted the pants to hang on her hips. So I cut off 4 inches at the top. Then I added a drawstring instead of elastic. Made from one of my sheets she had picked out. When I got the sheet she wanted a dress from it. I started to cut it out and noticed white paint on the sheet. It just wasn't enough for the dress, but the pants work. Can't wait until she sees them.
I made this in 2001 when I was laid off work. Debbie Mumm was featured on a quilting show and gave instructions.
I also made this in 2001. I think it was in a quilting magazine.
Got this at Joann's last week. All of you candy corn junkies will love these.
My little princess.
Made Ruby a dress from one of the pillowcases I embroidered. Will have to work on Layla's today. She wore a little shirt under it and looked so cute. We made a trip to McDonald's in her outfit. She's just not a social butterfly like Layla. There wasn't any other kids in there and she still didn't want to play.
I wash everthing when I bring it home. So here are the cute hankies, a curtain of Dick and Jane, and baby clothes I'm using to make doll clothes, seen here.
Hard to believe I have 200 post. Never thought I would make it to 10. I've really enjoyed my new blogging friends. I'll just keep on blogging. 
Made this top for my birthday. Didn't really need a reason, but anyway. It's from New Look 6892. The fabric is about 8 years old. Just enought to make this top. Super easy. By the way Hobby Lobby has Simplicity patterns for $.99 this week.
We did some projects today with our Martha Stewart Crafts. Got glitter everywhere. I even found glitter in a cereal bowl in the cabinet that wasn't opened today. The girls had to take a bath afterwards to get rid of it. But they had so much fun and so did I. Just make sure you have lots of newspapers on the table. The butterflies turned out really cute. They had them sealed in envelopes before I could get a picture. The butterfly on the table is one I did. Layla made a bluebird and dragonfly. Ruby did a caterpillar and a bee. Then they did the 2 photo frames for the fridge. Martha has a way to glue the pom pom's together, but the girls couldn't do that (core to core). I will redo them if they don't stick. Hope everyone else has as much fun as we did.
