This and That

Random stuff I had going on before I left for America:)

Basket Case Quilt made from Dream On by Moda fabric.

This label I made many many months ago and forgot to show it. I used my Pfaff to do it. Look at the Frankenstein stitches on that binding! Oh how I hate to hand sew!

One day I got out all the quilts I had made and machine sewed labels to them.

a long time ago I found these to child-size folding chairs at the thrift store on base. I have already recovered the red one in a certain red riding hood vinyl and will do the yellow one soon. I'm just not sure if I want to leave the chairs as is: mustard and ketchup or paint them white? or what? I guess I should show the new fabric before I ask...

Remember when Emily was to spend a week in the hospital?

 I had made her a Hello Kitty pillow case to take with her.

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I am starting a quilt tomorrow for my sister-in-law out of the Sherbet Pips line.

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Emily was diagnosed with pink eye the day before we flew to the states.

Ava threw up the night we got the states.

I am now sick with a bad sore throat that has lasted tooo long. Yay!

but I'm here and I have eaten at Wiener Schnitzel so all is good:)

oh, and I saw Bridesmaids. I'm not sure I've ever CRIED that much from laughing.  

I'm into labels

Look what finally arrived!! After 5 weeks, my new labels are here. I think they are perfect (aside from the really bright green on that one mushroom). Jessica (who designed the logo) helped to make them the right size for a label since the full logo was out of the question. These are from fancyweaver.com in Hong Kong. The prices are the best @ 200 labels for $60 (I ordered 200 small labels and 200 big labels). The big ones are for...big items! Duh. Like quilts and ...other big things and the small ones are for clothing and bags and softies, etc. The only drawback for me is they took 5 weeks (actually longer but I'm not counting the back and forth when working out the design with them. So the total times was actually almost 8 weeks! If you live in the states, the shipping time will be less because I had mine shipped to my military address then here.

The above photo shows the backs of the labels.

The quality is awesome. So thick and professional looking.

 Have I mentioned that Emily is a Daisy? She's a Girl Scout Daisy!! I haven't taken any photos at her meetings or events because they didn't really have uniforms..until now. Not this dress! She wore this to the Boy Scout Ball last night. The Girls Scouts were invited as "escorts". Sounds wrong, doesn't it?

I bought this plaid taffeta dress at the PX on clearance for $4 !! I didn't buy it for this ball, I actually got it just because it was $4 and one day one of the girls might need a nice dress and I might not be in the mood to sew one. When I sew on all her patches I'll take a photo of Emily in her "uniform". 

You have to look at this website called My First Dictionary. It's really funny!

Labels

******I forgot to add where I get the labels from:

heirloomlabels.com They take about a month to arrive. I've been using them forever and really like the quality and the choice of motifs. The happy Darla labels are from fancyweaver.com. This was the 1st time using them and it went very well! If anyone needs help ordering labels just let me know:) Here's a scan of all my labels:

My new labels!

When we were about to move here we had 4 kitties: Pig Blossom (Piggy), Mau Mau, Darla and Alfalfa (who are brother and sister) but we didn't know how it would be traveling with 4 cats to Germany and if we were allowed to have 4 in an apartment, etc. My sister's cat had passed away earlier that year and she was very shaken up about it. She had always loved Darla & Alfie (especially Alfie) so Jon and i decided to ask them if they would watch the brother and sister while we were gone for 3 years. Long story short, they said yes, we drove them from San Diego to Sacramento and they've been in love with them and claimed them as theirs since. Unfortunately Darla passed away last year...

I used to have an email address when we lived in San Diego that was happydarla@.... so I thought it would be cool to have labels for my bags and other non-baby stuff that honors my little Dim-sum Darla.