like I need another hobby!

So since mid September I've been visiting my Grandma on Monday nights and learning how to sew a quilt. I've wanted to learn for awhile and though I have basic sewing skills I've never attempted anything more than hemming pants or making hand puppets out of felt for the kids. I mean I took the home ec classes at school and my mom is an excellent seamstress but really sewing didn't tell me much. But I really wanted to spend time with my Grandma and learn her craft.

I'm shocked at how well things are turning out! This is the quilt so far. I'll be adding a couple more strips of denim and cotton along the top and bottom just to lengthen it but basically its almost done.

 Learning from my Grandma is really cool because she's so pro at doing these quilts that she doesn't press seams or pin anything! I, on the other hand, really need to pin because the fabric slips a lot for me.

 Totally laughing at this photo! I had just finished my last panel for the night when I ran out of thread on the top spool! Honest I didn't mess up!

My zig zagging stitch, which I think is the most fun for me. Don't ask me why ;) So now I've got this quilting bug that I want to go buy cool fabrics and create with them! Cause you all know I have so much free time lol!

a long overdue post

I seriously tried to update my blog before but blogger had other ideas. I haven't had a whole lot of time to do a lot of crafty stuff do to other commitments but I tried! I was thrilled to get the new Scrap Shotz monthly kit for October featuring Fancy Pants Happy Together paper and embellishments. I have to say that the combination of white, brown, blue and what I'm calling Baja Breeze (like Stampin' Up!'s colors) knocked me off my feet! But I didn't have any of the right color of photos for the papers. So I threw most of them into black and white.

 I had to use one of my new punches from EK Success, its this huge honking big scallop with circles cut out. Fabulous for scrapbooking pages but I doubt that I'll use it for cards lol!

 My favorite photo of Owen lately!

 Just for those who can't read Owen's shirt it says "my mom is outta your league" guess who bought that ;)

Trying out a transperancy card. This transperancy has very cool flocking on the outside that just begs to be touched!

 These cards were done for a challenge that I put up for the Scrap Shotz card crew. The idea was to take an inspriation piece and built a card around it. I had fun finding pieces from Pier1 online and Pottery Barn which has a ton of eye candy for the home decorating people. Or people like me who can't decorate my house at all and need tons of help from sweet sister in laws! Thanks Nicki! Course if I could go shopping without 3 children and have an unlimited budget I'm sure I could come up with something lol!

 These cards were the subjects of the Christmas Card class that Rhonda (my sil and SU! Rep) taught locally. Not pictured is the cute little gift box and the Christmas tags that were made as well. It was totally awesome because we had total newbies and some seasoned stampers who all loved the class. Everyone learned something new and had fun! My fun was added by the few Bailey's and coffee that I consumed ;)

 This card was also done for a challenge at ScrapShotz, the challenge was to use white and kraft on a card. I love how it turned out and to be honest I love anything kraft :)

 Just an extra layout from the Fancy Pants Happy Together kit.