{SUPER SPROUT!}

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Super Sprout celebrated a super 4th Birthday recently…we vaporized villians, went to the bat cave, practiced our super hero skills – all great fun.  I’ll be sharing the details coming soon right here including my pattern for our super hero capes!

(someone please tell me how on earth this sweet baby girl has turned 4 already!!  Now…if only I could talk the Gardener into adding one more sprout to our pea patch.  I keep telling him the 4th time around – will be a boy for sure!  But with 3 girls, I don’t think I have him convinced!)

{thrift store makeovers}

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Without a doubt, one of my very favorite things to do…thrifting.  Or dumpster diving.  What is better than driving around town on trash day and finding some fabulous furniture pieces set out at the curb?  My girls have an amazing art deco style drawers with a gorgeous curved mirror…in the trash…and now adorns their fancy schmancy playhouse.  Thrift store decor…a serious weakness of mine.

Sometimes I keep the stuff I find and makeover.  Sometimes I give it away.  It’s just fun to recreate something and save it from the landfill.

Here’s one of my latest :: a new lamp for Sprouts bedroom.

THIS is what it looked like the day I saved it from the thrift store.  

A little spray paint to the base…

…and I added some doodles with my paint pen.

Then I covered the shade in fabric scraps and buttons…

In all, this project took me : 5 minutes or less to spray the base.  5 minutes with the doodles on the base once the paint dried.  10 minutes to add the fabric and buttons.  Pretty quick and Sprout loves it…it’s in her room currently but I’m thinking about stealing it for my sewing room!

Have you any thrift store decor makeovers you love?  Your own or someone else’s?  Share a link in the comments…

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{the very versatile tie tote}

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Trish Thanks so much for this class/pattern! I finished my bag today! I have to confess, I am something of a “bag addict”, and this is one of the fastest, easiest patterns I have found, your instructions were so easy to follow. I loved the videos, I could almost make the bag just by watching the videos alone! Thanks so much! I’ve aattached a picture of my bag!

Jenny

I have had such a nice response to the Tie Tote e-class…and I’m excited to tell you that we have another that will be ready very soon!  The next class will be the very popular Hazel Hipster!  Jenny, a very nice reader sent the picture of her finished Tie Tote that she made recently…I especially love the kitty lounging on the back of the couch!  What a great color combo for Spring!

What are you sewing up lately?  I’m opening up a link list so you can share what projects you are working…I’d love to see!