A Walk Around Around the House This Morning

  

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Happy Day!

Just Too Fun

I found these today on Etsy. Thought you all might get a kick out of them too!  All four can be found at Adoptabot's Etsy Shop

I have so many of these coffee pot parts because I can't leave an aluminum coffee pot behind at a garage sale.

It's fun to look at them and try decide what the part is.  This bottom is an ice cube tray.  Who'd have thought there would be a use for those!

I'm not sure what the guitars are made from.  You've got to love the fork hands.  I've made some creepy hands with forks when I've been pounding away, but these have style.

Now, the rock band is complete.

Pattern Party > Lines

Oh yeah, it's a party!  I love parties.  And, I love photography.  Here, the two go together!  Leah, at Moxie Photo and Design is hosting this one and it's going to be a new theme each time.  Today, the theme is "lines".

All together, "lines".  Can you tell I spend all day, every day with my 3 and 4 year old?!

 String.  

Strange thing,but, I really like string.  And, I like the lines that it makes when it's all wound up properly on the spool.  It's so orderly, and yet it goes in different directions.  Sad thing is, you can't reproduce this on your own.  Well, I can't anyway.  When it comes unwound, you just grab the loose piece and wrap vigorously in a circle around your spool of string and start to cover up the lovely orderliness.

So far this one has been spared the ugly fate of re-wrap.

 

....and, then there's the graceful dangling line..... mmm...

Check out Leah's blog to see more of the Pattern Party: assignment: lines

My First Banner

Another thing I've seen around the web and on Etsy a lot are banners.  And, I think they are just so neat.  I found one the other day on a blog that was all white on white.  She inspired me to finally make my own.  NOW, for the life of me, I can't find her blog or the banner!  I really need to work on the organizing on my computer.  Do you all keep track of ideas and sites in a really organized manner?  Would you like to share the best way to do that?!

I used all old (and stained) linens, pillowcases, and trims.

So, I let a little color in here, because I wanted to....

I used free motion machine embroidery over most of the pieces and put them on a stabilizer.

The clips are hair clips that I spray painted off white and white then glued a button on the top.

A little 'Bliss' was embroidered in....

I tore strips from an old pillowcase then joined them with the sewing machine end to end.  I then crocheted the strip with a length of very pretty white eyelash yarn to create the cord to hang the banners from.

  One of my daughters said, "I like it, I don't get the point of it, but I like it."  

I'm pretty sure there's no point, but I like it too.

Now, I'd like to create seasonal ones to sell in my booth and in my Etsy shop---then there would be a point, a purpose if you will.