The Sew N Sew

Spring is in the air and my favorite sewing hang out The Sew N Sew in Glendora has turned 1!  Shelly the owner of the Sew N Sew has definately taken off running with her little store.  She started off with one store front and has grown to having now 4 store locations in a small radius to accomodate her clientel.  2 store fronts to house merchandise and the other 2 for classrooms.  I am excited to join her on a new venture of having the supreme honor of getting "own" my very own window each month!  What a thrill!  I will be debuting a fabric designer and/or pattern designer each month as well as fabrics and certain notions etc.

For the month of April we cooked up some special Spring/Easter items just in time for the Anniversary Sale which happened this week.  So here is the newsletter that you can pick up at the Sew N Sew to assist you should you like to purchase items to make your own Claire or Woodland Bunny.  We featured Sandi Hendersen creator of Portabello Pixie who is a fantastic fabric & pattern designer.  I used Moda fabrics from the Bunny Hill line, they are to die for!

Here are photos from the window display at the Sew N Sew of all my handmade items:

 Yes, Yes!  I know there are alot of photos!  But I am picture happy!  It's been a long time coming, I have not been able to sew in a long while and I am quite proud of myself! Yay for me!  You may notice there are hats and bows as well?  Hmmm???  What outfit would be complete without those? LOL!  The bunnies attached to these items where done all in the embroidery hoop and then attached to the bows.  So all the items minus the bows were all sewn items!  Everything you see can be purchase at the Sew N Sew my favorite little hang out.  Stop by, Shelly would love to help you out!

Vintage Furniture gets a make over!

I love weekend yard sales!  Our city is a perfect place to go trolling around for vintage furniture that needs new life.  So back in early March the kiddo's and I were off to a playdate one Saturday morning while daddy was out skateboarding.  We were almost to the freeway and boom, yardsale!  The kids are yelling, daddy said no more chairs mommy!  But how could I not stop and "just look"? LOL!  Well long story short, I brought 2 of these beautiful arm chairs home for a whopping $25.00 for the pair.  The next day I took a trip to the local home depot paid $5.00 for some beautiful wood embellishments that the hubby helped me glue on and while we waited for them to dry he helped me decide on the fabric to recover the seats in.  So here is the before:

And here is the after of my NEW vintage living room arm chairs!  Yay!  I love them!  There is nothing you can't do with a little imagination, spray paint, glue & a staple gun!  Watch out! LOL!