It is another beautiful day here in AZ!

I am loving this weather finally the perfect az weather has arrived! Time to start planting flowers and veggies. I love to change things around in my garden (sanctuary). I went to Barnes & Noble and found this cute basket in the clearance area. I have a few coke bottles from when we used to buy coke in the bottles long ago. Yes I am dating myself. lol. But it's all good! My husband thinks I am a hoarder but I just appreciate good stuff. So I bought this basket and it is perfect to display my coke bottles. I told him I was just waiting for something to display them in and I have found it. Just another decoration for my garden. I make get some fake daisies and put one in each coke bottle? hmmmm?

My first crocheted baby dress finished!

I found this cute pattern in Crochet today magazine and wanted to try for my soon to be new little niece. I made it in the 6 months size because when they wear cute stuff like that they usually aren't crawling yet. The pattern was called Sunshine Baby Dress. I love the color lavendar and her mother looked so good in lavendar when she was a little girl. I took me a day and a half to finish. Of course I put aside house work to do this. ( I have to admit)lol. It was a simple pattern and easy to follow just the type I love. I will be adding baby booties to match and maybe even a bonnet. Hope she likes and of course her mommy will have to take a picture of her in it. I chose the color pink for the flowers because I think lavendar would to be too much of the same color. I love the button closure on the back it looks like a pearl.

My wedding gift tradition part 2

Since I wasn't able to post all the pictures of the album I am giving my nephew I am posting pictures of the cover of the book and the box I put it in to wrap it in. This will help keep it protected and you can see through it too.

My Wedding gift tradition

I always loved to take pictures especially of the nieces and nephews and now my kids. I have kept a collection of photos of them and made a scrapbook of them so that one day when they get married I will stop filling the scrapbook. This is now their job to take over or do what they wish. I hope they all have enjoyed the pictures I kept of them and put into their albums. Tomorrow my nephew will be getting married so it is time to hand over the album. I hope he cherishes it and takes good care of it as I have all this time. I always try to put the album in a protective box or container so it will be easy to take care of and store for safe keeping. This is the first nephew album I have to give so no cute box for him. I put in this plastic container which looks more manly and you can see through it. Congratulations Richard and Carolina best wishes for always!

My cute Coffee Cosy sleeve

My niece Jessica picked up this cute fabric quarter for me and I knew just what I wanted to make out of it. So I made a few of these cute coffee cosy sleeves with corduroy on the back and a velcro fastener. It another way of going green!

Starting on Christmas Presents!

I showed one of my friends a fabric journal I made and she asked if I would make her one too. This was back in Summer so I am sure she is thinking I forgot all about it. But not I. I love to keep info in the back of my mind with all the other useless info back there. I decided to make her journal all black and white fabric with colorful embelishments. I left it a little plain because I want her to use her own creativeness on it. Everything in the book I put down and sewed has something to do with her life. The dog shape is to represent her dog Lucy with the intial L. She loves to take photos and she has a sunflower tattoo etc. You get the general idea right? I hope she loves it!

A bear , A Beanie and a blankie!

I couldnt resist to make a matching blankie for this little Bear. I made it ASU colors for my cousins little boy due sometime in November.