Dust bunnies and dishes

     As I rearrange the dining and living rooms, I can almost feel the dust bunnies scurry and the daddy long-legs cringe at the thought or rebuilding their webs. I can't take enough allergy pills; it seems I am very allergic to dust bunny dander. :-)  I find I am also allergic to unloading the buffet and the bookcase so they can be moved. LOL

     Will I find a delicate, dust covered lizard skeleton like last year? Eww, ick and neato! Will the hubster take one look at the new layout and shake his head? Will I break a big toe on the way to the kitchen to get a midnight drink of water because I forgot I moved furniture? Will the old metal office desk I recently acquired look awful and will I have to break down and paint it? Where the heck will I put my sewing machine?

     Anyone else hate sewing in a dark, dank, oh-so-secluded corner of the house? It is soooooo unmotivating, let me tell ya!

Back to chores.......but wait, what is that I hear?????UPS???? gotta go!!!

  

My next distraction besides All Hallow's Eve............

The Dicken's Faire
Did some costume work for it last year and will earn myself a few tickets again this year. I also hope to be an actual participant. I've got the under garments, just need to make a dress!
Would LOVE to be in the Dark Garden Corset window doing an odd pose in a killer corset for an hour.
Dark Garden corsets
time to fix supper..............................

Calorie Free Fortune Cookies!

Spent an hour (maybe less) making these10 little beauties. I tried the glue method first but the all sew method worked better for me. And yes, you can use plain ol' felt instead of fusing fabric to fusible batting; this method gave me more colorful 'cookies'.  Type in" fabric fortune cookies" and see what happens.
Here's a quick photo tutorial from me:

Fuse as per package directions

Mark and sew inner third of seam about 1/4" from the edge

Fold cookies in half across the stitching

stitch 1/8" around two thirds of cookie

Done!

New header alert!!

Took a little time to play with the html codes and my header. Not too bad for my first try. I would like to get it to take up the entire center area, but I need to add more photos and re-size the header width again. It wasn't as hard as I thought. There are some great tutorials out there if you look hard enough. Wish I could remember where I saw this one. LOL VERY helpful.

Maybe I will take a class on this stuff after I see how I like my "low impact karate" class. That would be Tai Chi in regular people speak.....hahaahahhhhha

Pattern sale at Joann's

I didn't need  any of what I bought, but I love, love, LOVE aprons and apron patterns and when you combine my unnatural love of aprons and a pattern sale.....yikes!!!! My Joann's was out of the Vogue pattern (sniff, sniff) but I will check the other nearby store tomorrow. Authentic pattern circa 1952!! woo and hoo

Vintage Vogue apron

V86473   coveting this one, the store was out..

Got these four! Loving the two upper patterns!

What to do, what to do?

Hubby is off for a week to visit his mom and take her to her yearly appointments in Nashville. Today, I am totally unmotivated to do anything. Totally! Even blogging feels like too much work.  It's on 10:23am and I feel like I need a nap. Lack of sleep will do that to ya! LOL 
Must..............................get...................................active!!!!!!!

I did it and it's Ratty's fault!

I bought a travel sewing machine. It's a Janome AQS 2009. ( jem platinum 720 with different lettering lol)

She had the cutest, quietest little Jem Gold 660 and I've been coveting it since July. I went one step up because of the type of sewing I do and becasue the machine is now retired and well under $300.00 bucks on sale.

I can hardly wait to get it and pppplllllaaaayyyyyyyy. It only comes with three feet so now I have to save up for a quilting package for it. Anybody want to buy a featherweight?? I guess I don't need two......do I?