Hawkeye Pillow Cases

 I got this hawkeye fabric awhile back, I think I got it at Expressions in Thread in Le Claire, Iowa. At any rate I sewed it up into a pair of Hawkeye pillow cases.

It's a fast easy way to make a pretty fancy pillow case. There ar4 a ton of tutorials out there, here's one I looked at to get the correct method. Magic Pillow Case
Kinda looks like I should get some fluffier pillows, but I really like my flat old feather pillows.

Less Pink

Remember this cute little book case? I got it for $1.

Well I got busy and started sanding the pink away. I'm planning to paint it so I won't strip all the paint off.

I'm pretty sure it has at least 3 coats of paint on it. A really nice shade of green, then a coat of white and another coat of white-ish and then pink.

I filled a couple of little dents with wood filler and hopefully will get the primer on it before the weekend.

A Little Auction

 I took some time to go to a little auction up in Cedar Rapids.  Nothing too extraordinary there, but lots of pretty things that would need dusting.

 There were at least 4 full sets of dishes, one had 25 dinner plates!

 These butterfly glasses were pretty..they went for almost $20, more than I would pay since I don't need glasses at all.

 This is a clothes dryer, it was the most unique thing I saw there. Enough of that for today!

A Finish!

I finally finished the scrappy quilt. This top has been waiting for a few weeks,

 I came out pretty good! Remember I posted about it here

 Love that batik fabric. I struggled with the quilting this time. I used my rental time on the long arm to quilt a meandering pattern, but I had some tension troubles and had to rip out a big chunk.

 But now it's done thank fully! I love the way the blue thread looks too.

 

I'm linking this quilt to the Blogger's Quilt festival.Go to  amyscreativeside.com for details about the Bloggers Quilt Festival!

Idol Finale

SO, you know I'm a fan of American Idol. And I couldn't be more pleased with the results this year! I was rooting for Candice all season.

And can you believe it..they will let you pre order her as-yet-unreleased album now!  Well good for AI. So now I'm free on Wed & Thurs. nights! I wonder who they'll get for judges next year?

Diggin' In the Dirt

So the minute it gets warm out, Hubs wants to plant tomatoes. Deep Sigh...I hate digging in the dirt.

So a quick trip to our local Lowe's Store. It is fun to SEE all the plants , but I know diggin' in the dirt is only a moment away.

DONE! Now to water the dogs...I mean the plants!

Weekend Browsing

So I went over to Walford, Iowa on Saturday. They had community wide yard sale day. It was insane! It's a pretty tiny town, but the streets were packed with cars parked everywhere and a zillion people browsing for the yard sale find of the day! I didn't hang around too long!

I stopped over in Amana on the way home. I saw they were having a market at the Performing Arts Center. I saw this cute old cigar box and look what was inside!

 hmmm, stamps!

 The seller, Denny..(he was sure wanting to make a sale) told me they were from the old post office  in Amana. Too bad they didn't say that on the stamp still, pretty cool. He had the box marked down to $15.

I couldn't pay $15 but I got him down to $10. Yes, not something I need. but cool anyways. And look

1910! I can turn the wheel for the SENT or RECD, but I can't move the year part.

 And I got this cool picnic basket. I liked the one got i got awhile back...it's my stash basket for photos, so I talked with another guy selling stuff, he was asking $45. Not!

 I got it for $10. I like the slats that make the lid, my other one is a solid wood hunk, like plywood, so this one is pretty!

Don't they look good together! I think I'll need a couple more of these....haha!

Happy Mother's Day

My mom is pictured here with us 3 older kids and our Dad. I don't know how she managed with 3 kids tearing up stuff, but she did! I'm pretty sure she made the outfits my sister and me are wearing. Mom always says she hated to have her picture taken, but I'm glad she did it once in awhile, to me she is so pretty! If the year on the photo border is correct I was about 6 years old...what a cute red headed kiddo!  Happy Mother's Day Mom!Love You!

Finished

 I added the borders to this quilt top and now I just gotta get a backing ready for it. I'm going to take it to my next long arm rental session I think!

 I like this quilt a lot, it is kind of an odd size though. 57X88 if you do it right, like the pattern.  I'm ,of course, a little different.

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Still trying to get a better picture of the color of the feature wall color. deep sigh!

Pinterest Strikes Again!

I saw this photo on Pinterest it's from

Two Peas In A Bucket
and I thought it was such a cute idea, I knew I could do this too!

 I had this frame that has been stashed in my closet for a long time..thanks Mom!

 I kind of eyeballed where my photos would need to be and put in staples on the backside of the frame.

 I tied some string through the staples, I wasn't sure if the strings would stretch and sag, so I left some tails so I could tighten if needed.

 Then I got some of these little tiny clothes pins from Hobby Lobby.

And I test pinned some pictures to see if I had the strings placed level and fairly straight.

So I think it looks pretty good! I pinned some pictures from our trip to Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon I blogged about that trip here.

I sure don't like the color of my wall the way it looks in these photos. It is so much brighter!

Drive One 4 UR Community

The other thing I did today was make a donation to my local elementary school. And best of all it didn't cost me anything and I didn't have to have kids begging me to buy stuff! Thanks Ford motor Company!Ford has this program called Drive one 4 UR Community.  All you have to do is go for a test drive, fill out a paper saying what you thought of it and TaDa $20 for your community, or our elementary in this case...up to $6000! I hope they get enough folks to go on a drive!

 Our local Ford dealer Carter Ford,
Sponsored this event and supplied all the cars and trucks to drive and lots of signs to direct folks to the driving line.

I drove an awesome Ford Fusion. Like this one...oopsy I forgot  to take a picture. What a fun easy way to help out a good cause.