Girl on a Swing

 I had been wanting to make this "girl on a swing" mini quilt for some time so when I had left overs from a quilt I'm making as a birthday gift, I knew it was time. Although I'm not sure red was the best choice since there are red apples sewn along the bottom of the tree and some in the tree. But you can't see this because I used red scraps! ooops.  I like it though and now I have this out of the way I can move on to other things I feel the need to make but really don't need them.

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 I have a ton of old labels from starting about 10 years back. I just couldn't ever decide what I wanted so I have some for when I used to make cat houses and other cat things, one for things made for the home, 2 for costumes, 3 for babies/kids and some simple ones with just my name. I was thinking of what I could do with them and decided after I had made this mini quilt that I would sew these old labels in to things like this. When I don't want to waste one of my new labels (the mushrooms) but I want it to have a label to show I made it. I don't want my girls to be looking at my stuff some day when I'm gone and wondering if I made it or someone else did. If I was giving it away it would  have a new label but this is going on the wall and no one will see the back unless they look. I'm going to take down my mini quilt clothes line and sew old labels on all of them! How exciting! Just kidding, I have a life:)

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 I just finished reading The Winter's Sea. And LOVED it. LOVVVVVED it. It's about Scotland and Jacobite's and love. I'm now ready to start the new Sookie book!!!

It's a baby one

no reason for these other than she's cute. Are those not the cutest pj's? and extremely messy. Poor thing has my eyebrows.

a mini toiletry bag or box bag. It's perfect for binky's or ..... stuff. Emily is officially off the binky!! Four and half years old and finally done. She was only using it at night for a long time but recently we just told her we couldn't find it when she asked for it. It worked! Let's just hope she doesn't find a stray one someday. Me and my sister used to scoff at older kids with binky's before I had kids. Karma is all I have to say about that. It is totally inevitable that if I say something negative it will come back to me. It's almost comical how often this happens but its not! While some people never seem to be troubled with Karma...

It's super tiny. about 4.5" long.

The inside.

If it was yours, what would you put in it?

mini quilt

A mini band-aid quilt. I could not get a decent photo of this. It's not as cute as I had envisioned but it'll do (donkey). Fabric is Cloud 9 Organic and some other's thrown in.

no reason for this picture of the girls in an Ikea bag either.

I bought a nose douche today (nasendusche) from a German Apotheke. That's a neti pot to those who can't sprechen. I have been suffering from sinus pains for a couple of days now. Hurts so bad I want to shake a kitten! I'm going to irrigate my nose tomorrow. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. I'm sure everyone is going to be waiting by their computers.

Mini Quilts

I love mini quilts! I was first introduced to them by my first boss at the Goose, 4 years ago (can't believe I've been there that long!) and it was love at first site. Two of the miniatures hanging on my clothes line were made by this manager and the other 3 were made by me. I think I should quit the store just so I can enter the mini contest we're having....