Monday, May 27, 2013

Camera Straps, Pillow Covers and Luggage Tags. Is this a vacation?

Today was a busy day here in Washington.  Yes, Washington!  Puyallup, Washington to be exact.  Isabella and I are once again spending three glorious weeks with The Keaton's, or as Isabella calls them Uncle Mike and Aunt Michelle.

As always Michelle has a project for me.  Most people would not be happy if they put their business on vacation and then sat behind a sewing machine but I am not most people.  Shush you!!  Yes you!! As I was saying, Michelle had a project for me.  She has a very heavy camera and needed a cover for it and something to hold her lens cap also.  Sooooooo google camera strap covers I go and here is what I made. 






We choose minky for the back fabric so it would be more comfortable.  It was my first time sewing on minky and it was slippery and the dots in the fabric weren't very nice to me.  But I am please with the finished product and think I have figured out some of the mistakes.  I know a photog friend that I adore that might just need one of these.  As always a huge shout out to Tiffany Bird of Simply Modern Mom for her tut.  You can get it here.

The next project was making pillow covers for a updated game room.  In the past this room has been patriotic but since Madison is a fan of zebra and her practice dance floor is here Michelle choose to do a Zebra print with some hot pink accents.  Michelle choose a zebra fleece with hot pink hearts and peace signs.  I know fleece would not the be the traditional fabric for pillow covers but oh it is soooo soft.  I haven't gotten a pix of them yet.  They are being used at the moment in another room.




Finally a little something for me.  I meant to do this before I left but time got away from me.  I needed some luggage tags.  Printables here we come!!  I found these really cute ones from Amy Locurto at Living Locurto and printed them out, put my name and phone number on the back and then laminated them.  I just need to punch a hole in them and put them on my luggage.  I did two sets, one for the outside of the luggage so I can see which black suitcase is mine and one for the inside cause I once heard that the reason luggage gets lost is the outside tag gets ripped off and there is nothing inside to tell who the person is.  Nice run on sentence!  Want them....tough they are not yours as the tag says!  Oh wait they technically are not mine either so here you go... luggage tags

This more than likely will be the last of my vacation projects since tomorrow we go see the Mariners play baseball and then back to the Vegas heat the next day.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Kitchen Labels

This is how my days have been lately.  Open box, unwrap each item, roll my eyes at something, put packing paper back in box, take box to patio for someone to pick up, now figure out what to do with what I just unpacked.  UGH! 

Right now I am unpacking the kitchen.  I thought I could get away with just shoving stuff in the cabinets and deal with it later but my CDO will not allow that!  Sooo lets organize a bit.  I am transfering all the baking items into similar containers, no more random containers.  Of course I HAVE to label them so I know what is in each. Usually I would get out of my trusty label maker, but OH WAIT!!  Printables!!! So off to the laptop I run to look thru the hundreds of printables I have downloaded and TADA!  Print, cut out and stick.  What do you think?






I have blank ones too.  Those will have to wait till I get a white pen.

If you like these you can find them here