one shabby chick

what I've been up to

My sister-in-law ordered some aprons for Christmas.....

(she ordered them for her "dog show" friends so I used some doggie fabric for the pockets)

and a tote bag too...

A friend of hers (yes, she's giving me lots of business) called today and wanted to see if I could make some mini crayon rolls (for only 4 crayons). I was just finishing up the aprons so I said sure....

and managed to finish them today - 25 of them :-)

   

They were fun to make and I had a good audiobook to listen to.

Planning on doing a bit of Christmas shopping tomorrow - hopefully....I have no idea what to get for my 12 year old....or my brother.

Christmas Parade

We are all getting ready for the annual parade...

the two oldest kids are walking with Hubby and their soccer teams....

The other two will be watching from the sidelines with me. It's nice and sunny this year - last year there was a thunderstorm during the parade - I kept worrying someone was going to be struck by lightening!

Been a busy week on the North Shore - big surf contest, another surf contest, lots of traffic and now the parade - fun times!

Glee

I just had to share these - I dare you to watch them and not feel happy afterward. Best show ever! I watched the season finale of Glee and Top Chef while folding the mountain of clothes - I'm in the best mood now!

Bullet points

• The kids are back - they had a blast!

 

  

• BIG waves are here - and tomorrow night is our church's Christmas dinner here...which is right smack in the middle of this contest (if they are having it). The traffic is insane so I may have to leave a bit earlier than I had planned.

• Made up some aprons with Heather Bailey's new line - I love this fabric - the prints are just so cute!

• I'll do another post with more NY pics - just been busy with life :-)

(isn't that the cutest ornament? My sister got it for me at K-Mart) 

• Finally got our Christmas tree today - we went to Home Depot last night but they were all sold out (they got some more today)...it will have to wait until Wed. to get decorated though...got to finish up a few more things for the craft fair tomorrow.

Grosgrain giveaway

This is such a great one too - I love vinyl wall decals - and she's giving away a gift certificate on her blog - go check it out!

 
 

Overwhelmed

I have just been feeling overwhelmed lately - and a lot is self-inflicted...

Taking on too much and leaving things to the last minute - never a good combo.

(new Christmas pillows - you know, sewing things I shouldn't when I'm supposed to be working on other things)

I had a bunch of log cabin blocks from this swap and so I sewed a couple for myself and have some tops quilted to make my mom a few for her birthday (this Friday)....

 

I did get a few things accomplished this morning and am feeling a little better...

Put Rebekah's blocks in an envelope (yes, they've been sitting on my desk for a month!)

Finished up my pillow for the Pillow Swap (and it's now ready to mail as well)..

 

  

 

and Allyn's blocks for October's A Notion or Two - they have been sitting there just as long as Rebekah's - I just couldn't get them to turn out right so I was not wanting to finish them because of that - but I finally did - sorry no pictures though.

 

I've made progress on the quilt too - just don't think it will be done this week...I'm going to have to ask Marina for an extension (she didn't put a time limit but she is due this week)...

Whew - so I still have 7 aprons to make - 3 for a soccer friend of mine and 4 for my sister-in-law...all are gifts for people on their list. I've started picking out fabrics and cutting them out too.

And my other two finally get home tomorrow....feels like they have been gone forever!

Oh - and the giveaway winners....here they are:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

18	37

Timestamp: 2009-12-02 02:21:14 UTC

18 - Kathy Murray

and

37 - Jenny

Congrats ladies - and thanks everyone for putting up with my slacker blogging!

Trying out the "quick compose"....

I know I still need to post winners for the cds...and I have actually been doing some sewing...

will post pictures and winners tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving in the States and in other parts - just a wonderful day!

 
 

Hi there

Didn't mean to take a break....it's been a busy week but I really haven't done much (does that make any sense?).

The craft fair went great - I did really good (the best I have ever done at a craft fair!) but I guess a bunch of people complained that it was slow...it did rain the last hour so we finally packed up after getting wet...my sister was such a great craft fair buddy - thanks Cacia!

Had a soccer game on Sunday (which we lost) so by Monday I was wiped out. I don't know why, but as I was cleaning on Monday, I decided that I would re-arrange my sewing area...which meant I had to move all my fabric and re-fold it so there was no sewing Monday or Tuesday.

 

Yesterday we spent the morning at the doctor with an asthma attack (my 7 year old) but he seems better today.

I finally was able to start sewing again today...I cut out all the pieces for this quilt.

It's for this amazing photographer - she's about to have her 4th boy. Now I have to figure out the best layout on my design wall.

And since I needed my design wall, I sewed up this quilt - just need to add the outer borders.

 

And the best package came today - my Echino order from Fabricworm...this line is so gorgeous! I love them all! I'm thinking about making  up a few more totes for our church craft fair.

 

 

I do have a few apron orders to work on - and a couple birthday presents too. But tonight we have a babysitter and a group of us are all going to see "New Moon" - I may need to go watch Twilight right now :-)

Oh one more thing - Did everyone see Fabricworm is having a Thanksgiving sale - and they have Sandi Henderson's new line...plus they are getting Hope Valley in next week - yeah!!

A few aprons

They made it safely to NY and are enjoying their time so far...I'm so glad the kids got to experience something like this!

I spent yesterday cutting and sewing aprons...I have two more left to sew up and then I think that will be it...I think...

I did a rolled hem on the sides of the apron body and on both edges of the ruffle...I really like how they turned out - and it was so fun to play with lots of different fabrics on each apron.

It's a beautiful sunny day here so I'm hoping the same will be true tomorrow - last year we had a horrible storm all week December and the weather was ok for most of the morning but ended up pouring rain towards the end of the craft fair - luckily we had seen it coming and boxed everything up.

Oh, I almost forgot - have a couple cool links for everyone....

I subscribe to Sandi's blog and was so excited to see her 12 days of Christmas...and she gotten some amazing things - I am in love with all these pincushion toppers - like this one, this one, or this one - ack!

There's also an amazing giveaway going on here:

And I saw this on Randi's blog - have to make one! It's so pretty!

OK hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!