The lace edit and a 6th Birthday

I always forget how manic May is, with the end of school and all sorts of drama. However, I had a wonderfully quiet night with my stitch friends last week and figured out how to solve the lace addition on the side of the pillow:

I'm fairly proud of the solution, it was repaired by cutting with the pattern of the lace and then sewing the two pieces together with nylon invisible thread (oh, and click on the photo if you want a close up of the repair). I think you would have to look VERY closely to see the repair and it should hold better than the lace! :)

On the home front, I attended two back to back field days and today is Matey Moo's 6th birthday party. For pass out gifts we put together a collection of his favorite songs! (he insisted on the term "collection"! :) )

So, it's off to the bowling alley for the party! I'm hoping to finish up that pillow tomorrow and get caught up on other little projects around the house. I missed the Friday archives, but I'll catch up next week!

I'm hoping life will slow down, but with the last week of school upon us and my work not slowing up, I have a feeling it's not going to! One of my current projects is finding host families for 45 french students that will be in the Lakewood/North Denver area in July, so if you're in that area and are interested...let me know! :)

Labels: family life, lace, sewing

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So close....and yet, not done

I am SO close to finished with the pillow:

I think it looks great! (and I don't often say that about my stuff) but the lace I'm using for the edge is TOO SHORT! ARRRRGH!
So, I guess I'll run up and get a length and piece it in. It's WAY too expensive of lace to replace it all with a new strand....and I think I can seam it together so it's not TOO obvious. Wish me luck.
However, it will be a day or so before I get up to Joanne's to buy new. Sigh.
Always something, eh?

Labels: beading, Crazy quilt, embroidery, lace, silk ribbon embroidery

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Woo Hoo! A playdate!

I had a playdate dying lace! Woo Hoo! My friend Antonia invited me over and we dyed lace! It was heavenly. This is what I made:

I'm so excited and now wanting to put it on stuff! Inspiration is a very very good thing!
And on top of that - gifties:

Isn't that cool? And she gave me a few aprons! (pictures to come).
Wow, did I need that! It was SO fun!

Labels: aprons, Crazy quilt, lace

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Back into it....aka "Summer Begins"

I seem to have arrived at the motherlode! Being in a neighborhood with huge amounts of Mom's with young kids...guess what quite a few are getting rid of! Their wedding dresses! This one comes from my massively creative friend Claudia! Isn't it gorgeous? She was worried about a little dirt around the bottom edge and so yet I'm picturing doing some dying! Oooo....ok, you know I'm truly a crazy quilter when I see a beautiful wedding dress and all I can see is how to start cutting it up!

Well, we have started getting organized for the summer...schedules, chore charts, tons of activities and I'm trying to schedule in time for art and craft! I need to organize my studio (which is a dumping ground for some reason) and start playing with some new ideas.

I've also been massively slack with blogging, but I'm back on that too!

My apologies to webring folks...the ring was beseiged with tons of spam entries which I've been trying to wade through. The spammers newest trick is to submit entries in other languages. Since we have members of the ring from all over the world, I'm often duped and then install some hideous spamwear or virus. UGH! BAD SPAMMERS! Anyway, I hope to have it all cleaned up over this weekend.

If you pop by the blog...wave and say Hi! I need encouragement right now to keep up my entries...and knowing you're all there would help a lot!

Labels: Crazy quilt, lace

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Spamantha, Creative Festival, and nail fun!

Yesterday was great! Missy C and I met Spamantha and her little girl at the Denver Creative festival! The girls had a BLAST! They got to color a block, got lipgloss at a Mary Kay booth and oooed and ahhhed over every last thing at the festival (including some sparkly things that Sam and I have vowed to put on a t-shirts!).

I picked up some fabulous lace! He doesn't have his large stuff (in my picture) on the website, but he said I can scan then and ask for more. He had fabulous collars, etc. The best part was the large lace (the stuff I bought) was only $4 a yard! Whee! I tried to hold back a little!
Then Missy C and I had a bit of time to burn (the boys went to the movies) and so we went and had our nails done! I love the flowers the girl did on Missy C's nails! All in all a great day!

Hopefully later today I'll have an update on my hearts! They need to be done today!

Oh, and my friend Creative Claudia is going to be teaching classes at Fancy Tiger (I believe making children's clothing!). So, I'll post updates when I know more!

NOTE: (for Arlee!) If you want the Red lace, send my picture to the guy at the website (he said they try to get back in 24 hours) and he can send it to you. They don't have any of the big laces on the website, but he has a ton of stuff he's happy to send! I told him I was going to scan mine so I could reorder!

Labels: Blogging, family life, lace

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