Maine Vacation- Vintage quilts

Just getting back from our wonderful Maine vacation. There are certainly many reasons why Maine is known as, "Vacationland": the temps (cool breezes in August), the yummy lobster, the numerous waterways and the activities. We had a fantastic time and one of the cool things was the turn of the century restored farm house that we called home. The house was decorated with so many cool touches. One of my favorite things was the quilts that she used to decorate. I really would love to know the story of who made them and why but it was enough just to feast my eyes on them.

1. A quilt that was hanging in the hallway 2. Quilt that was in my room 3. Close-up details of the quilt in my room

Apples, tee hee- A Laptop Sleeve

The night before my trip to Vegas I realized that I did not have a small bag to put my laptop in for my travels. I was already feeling like a bag lady, between my son's stuff for the 5 hr flight, my stuff, assorted medicines, snacks and the like I needed something that was not huge. After scouring the net for a limited 30 mins, I combined a few tutorials to make my sleeve. It was a quick and easy projects that only required the materials that I had at my fingertips. It took me about an hour to sew and that included some minor seam ripping :)

The verdict: Glad I needed to sew this instead of packing our stuff. I still need to work on my sewing straight lines and my pinking shears were a great little tool to edge the fabric. And well the apple fabric for my Mac was just too silly for words. So that means I love it.

my apologies to the 2-3 tutorials I used to make this, I can't seem to locate you anymore...super sorry! :)

Hope

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson

I have decided to participate in a Craft Hope project. I have linked the info so please visit for all of the details but essentially it is a call for stockings for tornado victims. While the deadline is soon (Sept 23rd) and the school year is starting (super busy me!), I figure this project is easy enough for me to do without too much seam ripping :) So if you would like to participate please head on over. If you decide to help out, let me know so I can have a buddy in these efforts.

sunset in California

Driving on the Pacific Coast Highway with my bestie and two riddled up little ones in the backseat was truly one of the highlights of my summer. My only regret was that my time in Cali was too short. Cue the LL Cool J, "Going Back to Cali" and insert the when :)

What has been one of your best summer moments so far?

for the love of fabric

(a cool vintage machine)

Whilst hanging out with my bestie, fabric was calling my name big time. My bff doesn't sew but she loves fabric and color and fashion and all things pretty SO she was game on these fabric quests with me. We went to the cutest fabric store, Sew Obsessed - you feel like you could stay there forever. We met the owner's sister-in-law and she was so helpful. We stayed in there for about 2 hrs and she helped us every step of the way. I purchased a cute pattern and all of the fabrics I need to make it. Just gorgeous. I will say that I don't have much experience with little quilting stores but my experience was nothing like a lot ofthe horror stories I read on the web. She had no problems helping a novice and there was no minimum on cutting fabric. Aside from all of the amazing fabric, the decor was so cute. Loved it!!!

1. Crates of fabric 2. Close-up of displayed quilt 3. Adorable decor

Good eating!!

there was this truck

with good burgers

yummy fries

but questionable drinks.....so YUMMY!!!

Bad Blogger

I am in Vegas with my bestie, yay for fun trips. On our first full day what did we do? Hit up a thrift store!! Fun times. The store was HUGE and quite well organized. None of that creepy, closed up goodwill smell either. It had pretty cool furniture, a decent women's section but you know what it was lacking? Pyrex. Not one single piece. Ugh! The nice salesperson told me it goes fast and she even went in the back to see if they had any that had not made it out to the sales floor. No luck. She did find some Corning Ware (anyone care to fill me in on the difference between the two and yes, I tried Google) that was in excellent condition. Not a win for my Pyrex hunt but certainly the kind of place that made the browsing easy.

What was really interesting about the place was on the entire top floor were several artists shop/galleries. The little ones toured each spot and really enjoyed the art. It was certainly cool.

I walked out empty handed and this is what makes me a bad blogger is there were so many cool things to take pictures of and I did not take one single picture. I promise I will do better.