Boo!

Bench

 A friend of mine was throwing this out... NOT.

A little paint works wonders.

Sweatshirt Turned Purse

This was an OSU sweatshirt.  Cut cut, snip snip. Wala! a purse! It turned out great.  I had a hard time finding the red leather straps.  I had to be patient, I went to 5 surrounding Goodwills hoping to find a red purse.  3 weeks until one popped up. This one is for sale.

Grab your favorite teams sweatshirt, leave a post. High School, College, Pro, I can do them all!

Vintage Tidbit Tuesday: Start a Health Program Today!

Your body expresses your very YOU!  What you yourself do with it shows the beauty, the development, the grace...and pose...and mannerisms you have acquired through the years.

Your personality adds the necessary polish in gaining a sparkling and popular you...but without excellent health...it is like a dollar bill torn in half: One half is worthless without the other half.

This temple of your spirit...your body...does require fresh air, sunshine, nutritious food and water...and body-building exercise.

If you study this wonderful mechanism...your body...and realize that you will depend upon it functioning properly over your entire lifetime of work and play...then you will also realize how important good health can be, too!

Start out, today, and plan a program of daily exercise.  Take a few minutes out of every day...for once you get into the swing of things it will never be missed.

If you sit for a long, lengthy period...learn to take the kinks out every so often by getting up and walking...and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g.  If you're on your feet for long periods, give them a break.  Exercise doesn't stop after a morning's workout...it continues throughout every waking moment.

Balance your exercise so that it is just right for you...not too strenuous...and not too light.  Never try to overdo things...or you will be doing yourself more harm than good.

If you follow good clean habits of exercise, eating, work and play activity...with a good balance of relaxing and sleeping...you will keep yourself in top health.  A feeling of vigor, youthfulness, alertness and pose is certain to follow.

Breast Cancer Awareness is Year Round

This is a quilt that I made to raise money for Breast Cancer Research.

Susan G. Komen

for the Cure

It will be traveling around for a year and displayed at different organizations, you can have a chance to win this by purchasing a raffle ticket.  If you would like to help, please leave a comment and we will make sure you get a ticket. Or if you are interested in having it displayed at your Church or other organization and sell tickets I will be happy to send it your way.

Here are some pictures of the quilt in the making

Once all the squares are sewn together, you use a template to cut them up to get the pinwheel effect.

The binding and quilting aren't on yet

Antique Sewing Cabinet Drawers

I just love old sewing machine cabinets and especially the ornate old drawers that adorned them.  I have a small display in my sewing room of some drawers I took off of an old White Sewing Machine Cabinet.  I have my mother's antique child's sewing machine along with the box of accessories from the White Sewing Machine and the Ornate Wood Name Plate from the front of the cabinet.  Other than saving these pieces and the base the cabinet was in poor shape.  I also seem to like the "white" items because that was my Great Grandmother's maiden name.  Still have to make something with the old iron base, but we'll save that for another time.

Here is just a little sampling of the beautiful drawers

that used to grace the sewing machine cabinets of yesteryear.

They are beautiful any way you look at them.

And so many ways you could use them in your home.
Just something I love that I thought I would share.

Hootie Hoots!

The 2 little Hoots are about 2" tall. Fun, quick, and easy!!
Here's the how to linkhttp://efemera-ink.blogspot.com/2010/06/wise.html