Father’s Day Crafting ~

We’ve been busying drawing and I’ve been busy embroidering and sewing . . . this Father’s Day we created these bookmarks as gifts. Using Amanda’s tutorial from Mothering, I thought it was such a clever idea to use this for gifts this Father’s Day for all those readers in our family. You can find the tutorial here on Amanda’s new website for her new book coming out in August. You will definitely want to create some of these for yourself and family members!! They are truly treasures!

What I truly love about her project and sounds like the whole approach to her new book is to use what you already have – not to feel compelled to go out and buy the latest fabric, but to truly reuse, repurpose, recycle from something you already have. I have found in my last several projects that cutting up curtains, old linen pants has been quite satisfying knowing that I’m being thrifty, creative, and re-inventive all the same time!!



Speaking of those fabulous size 12 linen pants I've been sewing from since this bag, this doll, this pillow, these few pieces of linen on the fronts of these bookmarks, 'marks' the end of those few scraps I had left over from the "pants." Thrifty! Yes in deedy!!

a little sneak peak ~

With Santa’s workshop still going strong, I thought it would be fun to give a little sneak peak what I’ve been working on this week:





Since Friday last week, I had have several projects in mind to finish up this week. One being this Wee Wonderful’s Elf Stitchette that began as a road project when we went to the Outerbanks late August.



This quilt was something that popped in my head,





and the doll . . . that was definitely a last minute idea that came late Friday afternoon. I’ll share more on her later . . . back to work!!