New Roads

Wow! Where have the last few months gone? Well, lets not make this a long post about nothing, shall we?

We sold the condo and moved into our new "Forever" Home. After the fiasco, I am NEVER moving AGAIN!!! 

I have high hope for Spaghetti Chic this year. I'm going to use the blog to chronicle all the work we plan on putting into our new home. 

In the meantime, I have recently made a new friend. Her name is Stephanie, and she is super talented! After one conversation that maybe lasted 5 minutes, I knew immediately that she was my DIY Soul Mate. Stephanie is trying to get her blog going. Please take a look at it, I promise you won't be sorry!

Caroline

Missing my House- Tar Heel Tour

I had finally gotten my home the way I wanted it when we found out we were moving. I was so excited, yet bummed all at the same time. Between my husband and me we had some major project FAILS! It took several years, lots of $$$$, and sweat to figure things out.

Last weekend we finally got up to North Carolina to get the rest of our belongings. We are scheduled to close in August. I know we should be sad to see out first home together go, but we aren't! So many things have contributed to out bitterness. I don't miss NC, the neighborhood, or the house really... Just the space.

So, since I am missing my house tonight I thought I would share it with you

Entry Way

Family Room

View from kitchen

Kitchen

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

The Hubbys Favorite place

Stay tuned for The Beach Condo Tour!

Happy 4th of July x2

Yesterday I showed you the bag I made for Lucy with a sneak peek at her shoes

I love making plain flip flops into something spectacular!

For this project you will need:

Flip flips

Ribbon

Needle and thread

button (optional)

hot glue

First  you will want to start with the flower yo yo

Take your fabric, and using a medium sized bowl or other circle template, trace a circle onto the wrong side of your fabric

Start by folding the fabric in about 1/4 inch and sew as close to the edge as possible

Once you have gone all along the perimeter, pull your thread tightly and it will begin to gather

Tie Tightly Put aside

Now its time to wrap the flip flops

I start with a drop of glue on the inside then begin wrapping the ribbon tightly and slowly while only adding glue to the inside

Once I finished wrapping all the way around, I put a drop of glue at the point of the shoe for the Fabric YoYo. To add a little funk I added buttons that I had around the house.

I loved how they turned out! Lucy does too!
I can't wait till Monday!!!

Happy 4th of July- And Tutorial

4th of July is my favorite day of the year! Parades, sunshine, cookouts, family, and fireworks!

I like to make Lucy her outfits for special days but this year snuck up on me. 

This was at her 4th of July Parade at School! I made the top the night before

Here she is waiting on the BIG parade. I made the dress and shoes too.

As you can see I love the 4th, this year is no exception. I have been obsessed with outfits for a month now. Lucy really really loved the tutu skirt from Gymboree, so she will be wearing that.
I have made shoes and a bag for the big parade

Today, I'm going to show you how I made the bag.
You will need:
Canvas
Red and Blue Fabric
Sewing machine and thread

The first thing I did was cut mu fabric into strips
3 of each at 3 inches wide

Iron and sew each of the strips

Once all that is completed, cut the canvas for you bag
I chose 10x12
You can find the tutorial here for how to make a bag
But before assembling, go ahead and make your ruffles
I chose for this project to do the long and loose stitch method
I took a strip and did one long straight loose stitch down the middle
Pull the bottom stitch to make a ruffle

Assemble your strips onto the canvas, then straight stitch them on

Once that is complete you can begin to assemble your bag.
Here is the tutorial for that.

I have the perfect model and she just flat out refused! So here I am. And NOOOOO my mirror is not that dirty!!!! I think.....

This bag is perefect to hold the candy that will get thrown out, if I wasn't leaving soon I'd make me one too!

What do you think?

Lucy's Dictionary

Horse- Hoo Hoo Hi
Pillow- Hep Poe
Water Tower- Wata Ball
Piggy Bank- Money Pig
Blankie- May-t May
Popsicle- Ice Pop
Marin- Emin


Enjoy!

I think it can I think it can....

If you have been following me you know that I usually don't share giveaways very often. I usually never enter them because quite frankly, I'm not going to win.

But when it comes to the AMAZING Silhouette machine, I'm all over it like white on rice.

I want this baby so bad, I can even tell you. I have so many ideas that I want to get out, but can't- Not until I get this bad boy. At Christmas they were running a special for $175. I WISH I had bought it then :o(. Right now the big purchase just isn't in the cards, so I am badly trying to win one!

You can try too, just go over to Tatertots and Jello and check it out!

Beach Bag Tutorial

My friend Carrie spent Mothers Day at the Beach this year and fell in love with a beach bag she saw. The bag was made out of a beach towel! She couldn't resist trying to make one. So a few days ago she came with towels in hand.  Since we had no pattern to go by we made 2, the first one was ok. The second one turned out really cute! Silly me took NO pictures! I am officially the worst blogger EVER!

So since I have no pictures, and I also bought a cute little towel, I decided to make one for my cousin who will be here tomorrow.

Good thing I embroidered her name on it because I might have to keep it!

Items Needed:

Towel of choice

wash cloth

Webbing

1. Fold the towel in half, and cut the sides and top to the size you want. I used a bag that I had as a pattern

2. Fold the tops and hem

3. Once you have hemmed the top of the bag, take your webbing and lay it out on your bag to position how much you need

Then sew the 2 ends together

Then re-position with the sewn part of the webbing in the middle so that it will be at the bottom of the bag. Sew the webbing to the bag. I used 2 straight stitches on each side. If you want to cut time you can do one straight stitch down the middle

Now its time to work on the pocket. Pull out your wash cloth, fold in half and sew at the top wrong side out like a pillow. Turn right side out position to where you want it. With a zig zag stitch sew the bottom and sides

Once you have done that, fold your bag together wrong side out, and sew the sides

Take the bottom corners and make a triangle

The bottom is flat facing up

Sew a straight stitch for the bottom of triangle

Turn your bag right side out and you should have a beautiful bag!

I'll be linking to the parties on the right side of the page!