My Craft Buddy

Introducing....my Mom. She is making a cameo appearance on my blog today. :) You know, my mom who left this comment on one of my posts:

"...did you know you were actually adopted? Martha Stewart was your mother, but she was too busy making her millions to raise you, so I did it for her--but now I'm just going to have to give you back to her--the family connection can no longer be hidden."

Well, my Mom may not be Martha Stewart...but she has some mad sewing skills! She helped me whip up this apron at super-speed...well, it took a few hours, but that's super-speed in my book (especially since the first hour of our sewing night was spent trying to get my machine to have the right amount of tension)!!! And we plan to do some more tonight!

Things I learned from my mom last night:
-How to used the back-stitch feature (correctly) on my machine
-How to use bias tape (and how awesome and easy it is!)
-That the tension on my machine was ALL WRONG
-How to zig-zag stitch

Is it really bad that I have never tried a zig-zag stitch on my machine before last night? Umm...probably. :SThanks Mama-Llama!

Okay fine....

I admit it: I've been hiding from you. I am ashamed.

The reason?

Well, it's because I told you I was going to do an awesome 100th post...and then I had a creative block (like writer's block) and I can't think of a dang thing to do! Okay, that's a lie: I can't think of a dang thing I can do with the TIME I've had lately. Fall is so busy---how do you women with kids do it? I am just a married girl with a 40-hour-a-week job, and I seriously feel like my life is flashing by--no time to cook dinner at night, let alone time to sew or scrapbook or anything else fun like that!

So I apologize that this, my 100th post, is the epitome of
"Lame."
I PROMISE that as soon as I get a minute...I will post about all my awesome craftiness....(maybe.)

Well, I'm off to look at all of your craft blogs...since mine is so boring lately, I might as well benefit from the creativity of others....

Adorable Pillow, a Sewing Tip, and a Little Christmas Cheer...

Can you believe this is my 99th post!?!??!?!??? INSANE! And the other insane thing? In the past month, my number of followers has almost doubled! THANK YOU everyone! I feel so loved! Expect great things from post #100 tomorrow. :)

In the meantime, here's post #99:

I ran across a blog today called "Crafterhours." Check out this awesome pillow they made:

This is awesome. This is actually going to go on my to-do list in my sidebar.

One tip in their tutorial that I thought was useful to pass on is this: If you are ever making pillow covers, you should measure the fabric EXACTLY the size of the pillow. So, for example, if your pillow is 16x16", you should measure your fabric to 16x16". Don't give it a seam allowance, because then your pillow cover will be nice and tight around your pillow form instead of loose and sloppy. Good tip... :)

There are SO many cute pillows out there like THIS post I featured a few days ago. I really might have to give these a shot. (I admit, I'm a little scared...)

And then I ran across this over at Moda Bake Shop:

I realize this may be WAAAAYYYY out of my comfort zone (and skill level) but I MAY just give it a try....we'll DEFINITELY have to see. ADORABLE.

The Results....

So if you read my post from yesterday, you probably read about all our great finds at Kohl's. :) Some of you made guesses on how much you think everything was worth and how much we paid. Sorry, everyone: You all GREATLY under-estimated the value of all the stuff we bought. :( Although your guesses on how much we actually spent were fairly accurate....

So how much was it worth????

If we had paid full-price for every item we bought, we would've paid $1,063.44. That's right! One thousand sixty-three dollars and forty-four cents!

What did we ACTUALLY pay??!?!??

$183.00. YEP! That's a total savings of 83%!!!!!

It's okay to be impressed. *wink* We are pretty proud. :) And so is our Mom...she taught us well!

OH, and we got away with $30.00 in Kohl's Cash to spend this week as well. Awesome!

Thanks
We *heart* you!

Killer Deals!

I went and visited my sister in Provo this weekend. We found some KILLER deals at Kohls! :) I took pictures of all the things we purchased, and thought it would be fun to see if anyone could guess how much all our purchases were worth if we had paid full-price, and how much we actually paid for it all. So here are the photos of the things we bought:

This first picture is an overall shot of all of the things we bought:
2 purses (one is Relic Brand, the other Nine & Co.)9 shirts, 2 blazers, and a levi skirt2 decorative barn stars, and 2 metal decorative squares
One 12-inch high mosaic vase2 decorative fall candle holders
1 pair of w0men's "Basics" brand athletic shoes with gel padded soles
Two trick-or-treat bowls, 6 Halloween placemats, and 3 pairs of Halloween earrings
A beaded bracelet, 2 fall leaf candy dishes, 1 men's baseball cap, 1 men's "Dickies" brand belt, 2 packages of "decorative scatters" for fall, 1 spaghetti-strap tank, 1 Christmas table runnerSo take a guess! Leave a comment saying A) What you think all of this merchandise was worth in the store if we had paid full price, and B) How much you think we paid. :)

Have a great weekend!