Whew! Whirlwind weekend!

First off, I updated my previous blog entry to show that completed tablecloth! Enjoy!

Today I finished task #4 on my list--I assembled and sewed that fabric booklet for my friend's son! Check it out!





Hopefully I'll at least finish the wrap skirt before the deadline tomorrow! Wish me luck! :)

Additional updates:

Also, a special thank you to everyone who turned out to our first fair of the season in Fairfield. I was unable to go myself, but sent my husband along to represent our work in the booth with Lauren (my business partner and friend). :)

Also, in the coming weeks, look for a new feature to be added to this blog. I hope it keeps it interesting! :)

EDIT: May 20, 2008:
The skirt -- unfortunately -- did not come to be! But I am so glad that I participated in the Spring Cleaning Challenge! I met wonderful people --literally around the world -- and had a great excuse to finish those projects! Thank you to Ellia for thinking of this wonderful idea! And thank you to my sponsor, Nicole, for cheering me along!

Woo hoo!!

I finished the second task on my spring cleaning list! Last night I completed my Valentine's Day tablecloth from almost two years ago!! It was such a nice feeling to have finally completed it. When I abandoned it long ago, I had only sewed two sides. So I had to pin and sew the remaining two sides last night.

I am working with a local frame shop to get the mats I need for my fifth project on the spring cleaning list. The place I was going to order the mats from online raised their shipping fees and were going to charge me $40!!!!! Just for shipping!!!! So luckily right down the road from where I work is The Gilded Edge. I am pretty sure they can "hook me up." :) They are closed today, so I plan on checking in tomorrow on the progress. The frames I ordered are in production-- not sure if they will make it to the apartment in time for the deadline, but at least I ordered them! That was the task I put off for over a year!

I'm going to work on project #4 today during my lunch break. I brought the fabric pieces with me to work to make the book, so I'm hoping I can get everything pinned so all I need to do is sew everything together tonight!

Pastry school kept me pretty busy this weekend. We had to make our own wedding cakes. I'm pretty happy with how mine came out, considering it's my first wedding cake ever.

The sun is shining again, after hiding all of last week. I hope it stays nice and sunny all the way through Sunday! Our first fair of the season is Saturday and my hubby is going to be representing our work with Lauren while I'm off completing my cake final at school. He's so good to me. :)

Progress of Spring Cleaning Tasks

Tonight I placed the order for my frames for task 5 on my list: mat and frame my photos for the bedroom. I decided on one 18x24 frame to hang over the bed, with two 16x20 frames to accompany either side (all horizontal). I also chose six 8x10 frames to hold various photos, one of which won't be mine but one I found on etsy that would look great with my theme. You can see it here. I already have my purple delphinium in a 20x24 frame over my dresser, and a reproduction of Georgia O'Keefe's poppy that I painted with acrylics waaaaay back in high school. So things are coming along nicely! Now I just need to order the larger mats-- and send out the larger photos to the lab.

As for my other projects... eeks. I haven't been able to even look at them yet, because life has kept me very busy! This past weekend I had to make a baptismal cake for our friend, so any sewing time I had was converted over to baking time. I'm hoping to make a dent in my projects this weekend, but tulip season is starting in the Litchfield hills so I may be tempted to run up there and photograph them instead...

How is everyone else's projects going?

Spring Cleaning Challenge!

Ellia of Greenbean Baby Art came up with a great spring cleaning challenge. (Any lingering craft projects that have been collecting dust qualify... see her blog for full instructions.) I just made it in at the last minute (a day late of deadline) thanks to the fabulous Nicole, who saw my post on Ellia's site. I had mentioned interest in the challenge, but didn't have any sponsors. So she took care of that! Nicole is sponsoring five projects of mine, that need to be completed by May 12. I better get started! :)

Here is my official list, for entry's sake. I plan on updating this blog to show the progress of the following projects.

1. Complete my wrap skirt started a month ago but not close to being done!
2. Complete my valentine's day tablecloth -- from fabric that was cut 1.5 years ago!!
3. Create window draft dodgers from fabric I purchased in November 2007.
4. Create fabric booklet: Animals Around the World... for my friend's son. (I missed his birth in March. Oops.)
5. Project: Matt and Frame my flower photographs for bedroom--not yet sure of number but enough to cover walls nicely.

So there it is! I'm excited! :)