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makeup bag giveaway

***THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER*** If you’re anything like me, you read craft blogs and imagine the authors to have really amazing handmade things filling their homes, right? That’s so not the case for me! 95% of what I make leaves my house and I just don’t have much time left over to sew for my girls, let alone myself. I realized I needed to remedy that this last week when my makeup bag started…

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Applique Tutorial: Curves

One of the most asked questions on my blog is about how I applique curves. So when I was making the baby blocks I snapped a few pictures of how I do the curves. I hope this helps those who were wondering! My first tutorial on applique. This font can be found here. First, there are 2 kinds of curves, inside and outside. Inside: Outside: And for a tip: when I do all applique, I…

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flutterby, sweet butterfly

Last year I posted a story about some shirts I made for a special friend of mine (please go read that post to understand this one better). This year I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make for my friend’s little girls to celebrate their brother’s birthday. I decided short sleeve peasant dress sounded like a fabulous idea. I hunted down this sweet butterfly fabric, keeping true to the theme, and got…

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Baby Blocks Tutorial

One of the things I love the most about being able to sew, is being able to make just about whatever I want. One of my favorite things to create is unique and personalized baby gifts. Last year I made this one for a friend to give to a friend of hers. The blocks were a huge hit!                            So this year, I got another request for baby blocks—this time for a baby girl. I…

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Millions of Peaches

Sshhh…do you hear that? It’s August. I thought July was never going to end! It was seriously the busiest month I’ve had in I can’t even remember how long! The Hubs was gone for a whole week, my Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law came to stay with us for a week, we had 3 family events, 4 birthdays, 7 doctor appointments, 4 round trips to the airport, and every day was full of regular life activities like…

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