Fall colors

 

 

Darla and her family came over for lunch last weekend and she brought me this pretty arrangement she made.  Inspired by Michelle's granite decor idea I went outside and found this pce. of slate left over from some projet.  I have since transplanted the plants to an oval planter because the pumkin started to go very soft...

Little chef

 

Bridgit went to a birthday party and they made these little breads to take home.

It is a sweet bread dough and after the first rise you divide it into 8 pces then roll into little logs that you make into a knot. Brush them with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake and EAT!!!

She had fun making them with one knot then adding another one on some of them.

 



 

Yummy!

Kitchen light and a new curtain

 

Here are the new lights in the kitchen.  It is hard to capture the real colors  with the camera, it is red and gold glass mosaic.  I love it!! Nic says he can see his breakfast real good in the morning!

 

Then , I had to change the curtain on the door of the kitchen because it had faded and when I washed it the red bled on the green leaves appliques.  So this is actually a tablecloth, becasue I could not find anything else I liked.  I won't go into all my complaints about that...... So I asked MA to draw me a neat tree.  We found a cool image on google and he just went to town.

He used a fabric marker for sewing so I bought another one that is for painting on fabric and some gold fabric paint to go over it.  That hasn't happened yet....

 

But I can still use it.  More pictures to follow when he has finished.  Can you see it okay in the picture?

Bean Bags

 

I got it in my head to make a bean bag for the boys' bedroom.  I found this pattern on internet but it turned out to be for a small child. Anyway, here's what I did.  This is the pattern piece that you have to cut out 6 times (plus another 6 times with a lining fabric) with your fabric on the fold then folded again the other way to end up with...

 

this shape.  Then you sew it all together and stick little round appliques on the top and the bottom.  I filled it with 100 liters of styrofoam beads and to get rid of all the extra fabric ( I used a huge duvet cover that I didn't need anymore) 

 

 

I made this pillow and stuffed it with all the scraps.  Then I put it into the bottom of the bean bag. This way you save on the styrofoam beads and don't have anything to throw away.

 

 

 

And here is the finished project.  It is too small for the guys but the girls took it in their bedroom. I covered it with another fabric that matches their room.  I should have taken a picture, sorry.  I used a quilt that I had bought a long time ago and never really used.

 

 

 

 

I did eventually make an enormous bag for the boys.  I used another pattern and two old denim tablecloths.  This one is stuffed with 300 liters of packing peanuts.  It works great.  He looks happy, don't you think???