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This month’s crafty update is a few quilts I made just for me!  Occasionally I get to keep something I make – Yay! The first quilt is one I made specifically for our travel trailer.  It’s a fun wonky pinwheel pattern made with the Firefly fabric line by Ruby Star Society.  I backed it with…

Crafty Update: Quilts for Me!

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crafts, quilting

September 20, 2023

This month’s crafty update is a project I started when we did a road trip to the Florida panhandle over spring break.   I love a car crochet project so I worked on these cute Easter turtles for my kiddos while we drove. With a 12-hour drive, I made 2 of these little guys and the…

Crafty Update: Easter Turtles

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crafts, crochet

August 16, 2023

This month’s crafty update is more quilts – of course!  But these are special – for my awesome nephews! The first one is a Cat quilt for my nephew’s birthday, he loves cats and writing.  I sent it to him for his birthday in May.  I used the Cats in the Window pattern from Missouri…

Crafty Update: Quilts for my Nephews

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crafts, quilting

July 18, 2023

This month’s crafty update is a quilt I made for my bestie’s daughter before a big surgery.  She is a heart warrior who was born with a heart defect and has been such a trooper throughout the years, with the support of her wonderful family and Mom!  The amazing girl needed an awesome quilt of…

Crafty Update – Tonga Batik Quilt for a special Teen

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crafts, quilting

June 21, 2023

This month’s crafty update is a project I made for my husband’s birthday in January.  He is a very loyal San Francisco 49ers fan and when I saw the Touchdown quilt pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew I just knew I needed to make him one in 49er colors. I found all of the fabric online…

Crafty Update – TOUCHDOWN Quilt!

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crafts, quilting

April 12, 2023

I wanted to post an update on some of my crafty endeavors!  For Christmas, I made my mother-in-law a quilt.  It was down to the wire but it made it to her just a few days before Christmas! She sent me inspirational pics of what colors she wanted. I think I nailed it on the…

Crafty update

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crafts, quilting

January 18, 2023

This month we wrap up the 2020-2021 school year for PTO and planned for 2021-2022! I am going into my 3rd (and final) year of being the PTO President for my kid’s elementary school. Every year we have a big planning meeting in June for the next school year. Gifts are my love language –…

Crochet Flower pot gifts

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crafts, crochet

June 24, 2021

Since my kids were really little I have been wanting to make them each a quilt – even buying fabric for them – but of course I never got to it and now they are totally over the original fabrics (flowers for her, cars for him). So I started from scratch, this time getting input…

Kitty Quilt in progress

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crafts

September 9, 2020

I was going to save this activity for my summer newsletter but decided with all the craziness going on now with the Coronavirus, that I would share and add a little fun for kiddos who are off of school due to the virus. I did this project with my kids back when O was almost…

DIY Kid’s Handprint Calendar Activity

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crafts

April 2, 2020

This project has been on my list for almost a year now – and we just got them updated before the next birthday parties!  I blogged about  birthday books back in 2013 – see the post HERE.But now my daughter is just about to celebrate her 10th birthday – so we have 9 birthdays worth…

Save the memories with a DIY Birthday Book!

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crafts

August 14, 2019

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