Sewing up a storm here!

These pillows and others can be found on Etsy. My shop name is dawnkristine.
Hope you can find something you like, I will be adding lots over the next few months. I have/am busy. I have a great love for hand stitching and always seem to go back. My grandma taught me when I was about 5-6, and I will always keep this creative outlet in my life!

While the big cat's away...

While Big Cat Daddy is gone, I have been VERY busy with my WIPS and some new things. I am hoping for a totally Handmade Christmas this year! The pumpkin pillow above is finally finished!

I am thinking I should have photographed more detail of the pillow above, I love to mess with "unconventional" ways. Like Vintage and new fabrics randomly quilted together, and then randomly embellished with my creations ( crocheted motifs) or Vintage buttons, or fun trims and embroidery. Keep checking back as I plan to update the blog all week with the fun I have been having! Oh 41 is going to be great!

Pillow finished!

I have several projects I have finished and am trying to get on Etsy, and you know I cannot get the photo file small enough to upload. What in the world? Does anyone have any tips here? I am hoping my friend Becky can help. She is a computer genius! Btw she has made some great bags this week, go check her blog out!

HAVE A WONDERFUL 4th of JULY!!

Finished pillow-
We are just going like crazy around here! BoDeans concert last night, smores Wednesday night, parade and fireworks today- Swimming tomorrow--new roof all week and it looks amazing! -- Jurnee has been sleeping until 10 every day. But I did find time to work on my projects. Finished the pillow, and a few other things. More photos of the pillow are on Flickr.

Weekend Retreat

So, Where was I this past weekend? I went on a scrap booking retreat. Mainly I went not only to get away for a weekend, but to see if I am still as passionate as I once was about scrap booking. I did answer my question, but I went away with so much more. Our speaker was Tricia Morris the owner of CLUB SCRAP.
This company is amazing, but Tricia herself was an incredible teacher/speaker. WE learned some fast layouts, (which is the premise of club scrap,) but we also learned book binding and I very much enjoyed this workshop! In fact I plan to do more soon.

This pillow above I finished last night with the help of my mom's button stash and it turned out pretty good, but my photos are not the greatest, as usual. I am trying to finish what I have started. So you will see more in the very near future! I have been adding to my Etsy shop.
I could not resist this photo op. This is my little Sophia, with two of her babies, and her cousin Jake's graduation photo placed precisely in that position by her on her lap. I must have giggled for 1/2 hour about this one.

Mid - October and life goes on.

My first pennant banner...I am already working on the next one, it was a good diversion from my other obligations. And best of all, I think Jurnee is learning to spell "halloween"


This pillow is soon going to be listed on Etsy with a few other creations. Check on Friday, the day I will be adding listings, probably most weeks from here on out.

We had a great weekend at the pumpkin patch and just a bunch of family time, it was a good breather. Thank you to all who comment anonymously, I wish I could personally thank you for checking out my little blog! Hope you will come by again!

Latest Happenings

Lousy photos, but this is one of my latest projects. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. I appliqued the circles into what I feel is a change of seasons that we experience here in Wisconsin. I really need to figure out how to make better photos with the digital camera, or I may as well forget it! Sheesh...
I also picked up my poppy pattern for my applique class, and I can hardly wait to get started on it. I will show my progress as I work on it.

I just called my sister in Minneapolis and she is not affected by the bridge collapse other than inconvenience, though she said at approximately 6:05 Tuesday night she was on that very bridge, man, close call. I bet traffic sill be a disaster there for awhile. We will see in early September when we go there for the fair. Did you know the Minnesota State Fair is incredible?...I like to hang out in the arts & crafts building, lol.




Janell was here this weekend and took some fabulous photos of the girls for me. She is so stinkin' talented. She works with all sorts of vintage cameras for herself and has a darkroom where she develops the photos herself, but using my camera seemed to work out fine. (Maybe she could tell me what I am doing wrong.)

Enough for tonight...