Summer Snowflake

As the song goes...what a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Out walking the dog and caught the toes and pooch in the pic. :)

Interesting Pics Taken Today

Curtains

More sewing today. Finished another cushion cover for the sun room. Just have the couch covers left now. Of course though, I don't have enough fabric left, so I switched projects and continued work on the curtains for LM's room.

I think there is some cosmic force that makes it impossible for any project of mine to be as straightforward as first appears. Take cute sheets and turn them into curtains--easy enough. Oh, but, the sheets are three inches too short, so I have to put on a bottom border involving two additional colors of fabric as well as trim.



One down--three to go. I think it turned out cute, but the trick will be to get the other three to be the same. --Gotta get that square from W for straight cutting.

Wow!

butterfly_small, originally uploaded by jnanevans.

Out walking the dog on the same road I walk her every day. Saw two flowers I had never seen before AND a butterfly landed on one just as I was taking the pic. Very cool.

Magic

Ahhh....the magic of Photoshop (trying out a Free Trial of Photoshop Elements) :)

Crazy Week

Crazy, crazy week at work, which meant no sewing, cooking, cleaning, blogging, picture taking, TV watching, book reading, or even much sleeping.

Better to be busy than bored.

Receiving Blanket Curtains

We are in the process of switching out LM's bedroom from a baby's room to a little boy's room. I'm actually not too sad about this. Every age has brought something different and fun, so I'm looking forward to whatever the future brings.

We took down the crib about two weeks ago and got him a bunk bed. Right now we just put up the bottom bed, and he seems to have adjusted without any problems at all. I found some new bedding this weekend--tropical fish, and I am in the process of making some new curtains.

I had actually forgotten that I made his baby room curtains until I took them down today. I wish I had taken a picture of them because they were really cute.

Take two receiving blankets, and cut one of them in half.
Sew the two half pieces onto the sides of the uncut receiving blanket.

Fold the long piece in half, so the right sides are facing out.


Sew a 1" pocket along the entire top for the curtain rod. That's it.