I Love Living in New England

Maine is so pretty....even when the weather is a little grey





 




 
It was a wonderful weekend! Happy Monday!

Sewing up a Storm!

I have been sewing up a storm lately! Since switching jobs I have had alot more free time which is fantastic. It is funny because I never thought I did until I got a job that didn't let me out until 6:30 and with a 40 min commute I was getting home after 7, eating then going to bed! Now I am home by 5:30, get more money and have alot more time for crafting! I love how things work out for the better!

My sewing has involved a pretty quilt block, my Patchwork Chevron Quilt and even a little sewing kit! I am hoping to get more quilt blocks into the mix since I am planning on joining the 3x6 quilting bee on Flickr! I have always wanted to join one of those and now I have the time to do it =) Here is the first block I tried.







These are my favorite colors at the moment. This block actually has alot of the scrap fabric from my first quilt which I love. I have seen this design alot on Flickr and love how it showcases alot of different fabrics. I tried to make a little mini quilt out of this with some free motion quilting but that ended terribly! My bottom stitches are looking awful and keep knotting no matter how much I change the tension or re-thread or clean the machine, but only when I try to free motion quilt! It is very frustrating. Might take my machine to my LQS and see if I am doing something wrong. It was fine when I practiced a few weeks ago. Oh well haha.

Then we have my Patchwork Chevron quilt!



All the blocks are finished! I am now in the process of sewing them all together which I am hoping to finish tonight. This is the biggest thing I have ever sewn with an approximate finished size of 78"x78". I have no idea how I am going to quilt something this big haha.

Last I started a Zakka Style sewing kit. I finished the cutting but only sewed together the pin cushion so far. It is soooooo cute! I love Little Apples by Aneela Hoey and was happy to use it here! =)



That's it for now, I am going to Maine this weekend with the Bobert so I am sooo glad the week is almost over!

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

My First Mosaic!

My First Mosaic!, a photo by TangledinThreads on Flickr.

Just learned how to use the mosaic maker for Flickr! These are some of my favorites =) I am not sure why the names of the photos aren't coming up here but if you click on it it will take you to my flickr page and you can see where the photos came from =)

This Week

This week was rough. It was month end at work so it was very busy and crazy. To top it all off I got the 24 hour bug on the last day! Ugh it hits you like a ton of bricks that it for sure! What makes it worse is that even though I couldn't go to work ( there was no way I was driving 45 minutes to be nausaus and useless all day) but I had to work from home and make sure I answered every email if I was needed...not fun. I am not sure  if I mentioned this but I switched jobs at the end of December and even though I like working at this new place, I am not over the moon for it. So when the director of accounting called from my old job and offered me a higher position it was not hard to make the decision to go back. That being said the manager at my new job thinks I am going to be slacking til I leave hence the reason I had to work while I was home puking....sometimes I am not a fan of accounting. The only good thing that came from this was when I was feeling better that afternoon I actually got some sewing done on my quilt! WEEEE!!!



I am sooooo excited for this!! It is actually alot better then I imagined it would be =) I still have two more of these rows to go but I couldn't be happier with how it is progressing! This is the farthest I have gone on a quilt since my first one! I cannot wait for the top to be done and I have already ordered the binding! I am going to use a red candy stripe fabric, I think it will really pop with all the white =). I am having a little trouble deciding on a backing but I will figure it out.

Besides that I sewed a little this weekend too. I have had the same checkbook cover since I was 17 so it was time to whip up another one. They are sew easy to sew and I got so excited that I forgot to iron in the interfacing! =( it is a little too floppy for me so I am going to have to make another one. Oh well still pretty!




 


I also decided to change up my beauty routine. For the last few weeks I have become very interested in make-up. Don't ask me why, all of a sudden I wanted to buy it and wear it. I researched what kinds were good, I you tubed how to videos and started a nice little collection.







This is some of the stuff I have bought....a little crazy but I am liking it so far. I never wore make-up before unless it was for something special, maybe to work sometimes, but after going to the gym so much I really wanted to start looking and dressing a little nicer. I might have gone a little wild on the purchases ( I need to start controlling my impulse buying) but after learning a few tricks I have never felt prettier! I am really enjoying it =)






Even decided to try a new toothpaste to help whiten my teeth a little and a razor that is supposed to be ten times better then any woman's razors. Evidentally they use duller blades on the women's razors since we use them more often so we buy the refills more. I read that somewhere haha so wanted to switch it up a little.

That is prolly a little TMI for most people haha so I will stop it there. I have a few thrift store finds to share tomorrow!