Archive for July 3rd, 2010

Lazy Saturday?

That would be nice, but I have too much to do today!  I have been working on a diaper bag and accessories for a few days and I am still not done because our stinking Walmart NEVER has the ribbon I need.  And I do mean never, seriously, it doesn’t matter what color I need, if it’s the only color they are out of it’s the one I need!  At least the last 4 times I have gone in there, 4 different colors, it’s the one that is always gone.  I need bright pink this time!  So, I have the bag and accessories in different stages waiting for the ribbon, which I have Jake picking up for me at another Walmart this morning.  So, I have those things to finish up today and then I want to make myself a wrist strap for my camera.  I took my strap off the other day to take pictures of the new wrist strap that I made for someone.  I still haven’t put the strap back on and I want a wrist one so I figured I would just make one really quick today.  I have have to decide what fabric to use!  I need to have it for the 4th of July party that we are going to tomorrow night.  I also need to figure out how to take better fireworks pictures, but I don’t know if I have time for that!  If  anyone has any tips they would be GREATLY appreciated!

This is something I am going to try to tackle this coming week, it’s a project that kind of came from this idea.  Only I am incorporating that into a picture wall.  This is what I have so far (and some of the photos need to be changed out!)

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That is the living room wall above our couch.  I am going to add the letters into the collage of photos and add more sizes of photos eventually when I pick up some more frames.  Here are a few of the letters that I have picked up so far.

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The idea is to do lots of the ‘G’ and then add in letters for each of our first names.  These are all from Michaels so I haven’t hit Joanns or Hobby Lobby yet.  I want to do them all in shades of black, off white.  I am going to decopauge some book text pages on some of the bigger ones, like the biggest G.  We’ll see how long it takes me!  The hoop is for another wall project that I am getting ready to start.  I am going to do some fabric hoops and then do some scrappy hoops to hang in my sewing area.  That should be fun too!  Watch for updated pictures of my walls in the future.

I am chomping at the bit to go see Eclipse again, but I won’t be able to go for a few weeks probably.  So I am going to settle for re-reading the book and I had to make a new desktop wallpaper to look at while I am sewing!

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Isn’t he pretty?!  It’s even better when it’s covering my whole screen!

Well, I have to get to work on laundry, sewing, cleaning and making cookies for the party tomorrow!

Have a Wonderful 4th of July!!