Fun quick projects!

Okay so here is a picture of my machine Wednesday night when Nate was working on it. It looked so sad, but I trust Nate. He is so mechanical.



First I made some drawstring bags for the kids. There room is the next organization project!





I made Brooke two of the brown bag, and Trent got two of the green bag. The large flowered bag is for all of Brooke's kitchen toys! I love that fabric.

I have some robot fabric for Trent that I will probably use this afternoon. I am not sure what I am making with it yet.

This next picture is a fabric basket that I have been wanting to make for a while. The tutorial I used to make it did it in a patchwork layout. I wanted to save time and just use a solid piece of fabric.

Save time my booty! This basket took me just under two hours. That was with the kids in bed too. I think it is totally cute, but it is so small. I wanted to make it to hold some of Brooke's toys on her toy shelf.

I will be trying it again in a bigger size. Hopefully, I can convert the measurements.



Oh, I almost forgot. I made Brooke this zippered pouch for all her hair ties and brush.

Opperation Organization

A few before photo's!!!








Scary Huh!!!!

Here are a few during photo's







Okay, finally a few after photos!!







Oh, and I had to stop right in the middle of all the sorting to make a new basket liner. I sewed it on the table that was full of stuff!


Before:



After:



I also made a curtain to go on the back side of our pantry shelves. I didn't measure as I did it, so I need Nate to lower the curtain rod! LOL Anyhow, when that gets lowered I will take a picture of that and share it with you.

All of this organizing led me to the sewing projects I did yesterday. I will make a new post about yesterday's insane day of sewing. Well it was really only a few hours in the afternoon, and during a movie after the kids went to bed.

Do you think I am nesting?

We are alive!

Hello I have been meaning to get back to posting some of our adventures. I have been swamped with getting our school year wrapped up. We are on the downhill slide!!!! Today Trent will be done with his school day today at noon. What a nice way to start the weekend.

Our last day of school will be on Friday next week. We are heading to Clarion when Nate gets off work, and we will be camping at my parents. I bought the biggest marshmallows I have ever seen in my life. I am so excited to use them!

Brooke has been a busy little bug. She is learning how to read and having a lot of fun with it. Trent uses a program called Reading Eggs. It is so good that we bought Brooke a 6 month subscription. I am sure she will be reading like her Aunt Emmy in no time!

I have been doing a lot of sewing and organizing to get ready for "Baby Jack". I broke my sewing machine while sewing William's quilt on Sunday. Nate spent 3hrs putting a replacement part and servicing my machine Wednesday night! What a man.

So, of course I had to try it out yesterday...I think I may have gone a bit overboard. I will post about that next and share some pictures of the end result.

I can't quilt because I need to order a new darning foot today online. The one I had was for my model machine, but it is what caused my machine to break. I will get that in the mail next week and finish quilting. Until then back to regular sewing projects.

I have a big list of things I want to sew or get done before July. I will post those so I have an extra motivator to plow through them. First on that list was organize the downstairs. It was picked up, but there were things shoved in drawers, basket, and on shelves. Wait till you see the pictures!

Okay, well I hope you all enjoy seeing what we have been up to. I will work on getting pictures up throughout the day!

Long Time No Talk

I hope all is well to those who may read this. I forgot about this blog for a while. I have been up to a lot. Hope to post something tomorrow or at least soon. Check back!

What I have been up to this week

Well I am failing you all already. I haven't posted since last Friday. I dedicated Monday and Tuesday to laundry and cleaning the house. It takes me two days to fit it in with home school and the blonde monster.

I have been sewing a lot too. I am making a robe for myself which is coming out pretty good. I hope to finish it today while Brooke is napping. I made three pair of pj pants for Trent a few weeks ago. It has inspired me to try sewing some other things.

I made a pair of pj pants for Brooke, Faith, Grace and Evan. I fitted the girls pants to them over the weekend they look so cute. Evan...I need your inseam measurement and yours will be in the mail.

As far as food goes this week, the highlights are; Ham, Green Beans and Potatoes, Ham and bean soup with the leftovers. I added a twist to my bread this week. I put flax seeds, sunflower seeds, and basil in the bread. It was pretty good, but not great.

I also made homemade granola, with Bran Flakes, Oatmeal, ground flax, whole flax seed, unsweetened coconut, banana chips, honey, applesauce, and something else that I can't remember. :)

Oh, LOL the croutons I made got burned. I don't have a kitchen timer. Brooke broke it a few months ago. But, if I don't stay in the kitchen I forget that I am cooking!

Well the house is dirty again and the laundry is mounting so I best get back at it.

I think I will be running out of my laundry soap today, so I will take pictures of how I make my own soap. It is cool!

Messes

I am thoroughly convinced that a major mess must happen at my house on a daily basis or something is wrong.

Ok, lets start with 4 days ago...Brooke was in the bathroom and spilled an entire bag of red bath salts. That was lovely trying to clean up. The floor was pink after I picked them up and I had to dump my mop water twice to get it cleaned. Oh and by the way, this is hours after I had just scrubbed the bathroom including washing the floor.

3 days ago-Brooke spilled her bowl of cereal, a cup of water, and Trent's Glucose Strips (there are 50 in a bottle).

2 days ago-Brooke spilled an almost full bag of Flax Seed. For anyone who doesn't know what they look like they are small and thinner than sunflower seeds. They went all over the counter, in the silverware drawer, and onto the floor!

Yesterday-Brooke knocked the garbage can over (not on purpose she ran into it)

Today- she spilled an entire bowl of peaches on the floor!

I can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store for me. Or maybe even later today!

More Cooking

Since I mixed up bread dough last night I made some hamburger rolls and a small loaf of bread. The rolls turned out awesome. I cut them out using a large mouth jar ring. Then let them rise and bake. I love those rolls when we have sloppy joes.

The bread was a total flop, it sunk in the middle for some reason. So, I cut that up into cubes this morning to make croutons. I didn't mix up any seasoning for them yet, but that is on the agenda for the afternoon.

Maybe the hubby will pick up salad ingredients on his way home and we can have grilled chicken salad with the fresh croutons!

Have you ever heard of the love dare? It was what the book that the movie Fireproof was based on. It is awesome, you have to rent it if you have never seen it. But anyway, the Contemporary Christian station I listen to is broadcasting the daily love dare. It will run now through Valentine's Day. So every day they tell you what the dare is for that day.

It started Wednesday, with the first dare to not say anything negative to your spouse. When I first heard it I was very glad that he wouldn't be home until 5:30 pm! LOL It went well, but it was hard. I asked him as we were falling asleep if I said anything negetive to him all night. He said no, but you did seem distant. I laughed so hard!!!! On the radio they said that if you are tempted to be negative just bite your tongue and don't say anything. I caught myself doing that a lot, but I didn't think it made me distant! So what is worse not talking so you are not negative or being negative? Ok, so maybe I should learn to be able to talk with him AND not be negetive.

Yesterday the dare was to do something nice out of the blue. I choose to pack his lunch for him. (I hate packing his lunch, so that is a big deal) How does his sandwich look?

Today's dare is to buy him something small to show your appreciation. I will not be doing that for two reasons. One, I don't have a car to go anywhere. Two, love is not shown through purchases. So in lieu of purchasing a gift. I am going to do three of his chores that I hate doing. I will take out the recycling, and the garbage. I am also going to feed and take the dog out each time tonight. Whew...again all things I hate to do that he normally does. I will let you know what his reaction is!