Kitchen decorations

I bought a couple of berry garlands/stems on after-Christmas clearance, and pulled them apart and combined them for a long garland that goes across the cupboards over the stove and oven. The second picture is a wreath I bought (on sale) at JoAnn's and put it where the cookie plaque used to be. I thought the wreath matched perfectly, with the berries, the Americana colors, and the tin stars on it. I should take a picture of the tin cans I bought at Roberts and painted for my pencils and paper!

Now off to finish some mending and work more on Trevin's dino blocks, then on to Valentine's Day decor. I downloaded, with Amy's help (long distance) some images for the Silhouette. I can hardly wait to make something with them!

New things at My House

I decided to show some new things at my house. First, Mark got my new stovetop installed yesterday. Doesn't it look good? Now I just need to cook something on it.

The quilt is a table topper that Amy and I are making "together" long distance. We are using the same pattern, different fabrics. Mine is ready to quilt, I have drawn hearts on it to be a guide for the machine quilting. I am excited to get it done, it will be the first quilt to hang on my new star quilt hanger for my kitchen wall. It is cute, I should have taken a picture of it. I guess it will have to wait till I have the quilt finished to put on it. I couldn't decide how to hang the quilts on the hanger, not having quilt sleeves on the back of my quilts. After seeing Meg hang sheets on her lphotography backdrop yesterday with clothes pins, I decided to see if they fit over the hanger, and they do. I have a couple of old clothespins that I plan to paint red and antique. I think it will work, I'll have to see!

Aren't this little penguins darling? I actually made 4, but I put mine up on a shelf already. They were pretty quick to make, once my kind husband cut the wood for me. There is a crafter who is sharing these ideas on her blog, hopefully one for each month of the year. February's is a bee, I have the wood cut and ready to paint! Amy, Andrea, and Meg, I hope you like them. You get yours next time I see you!

Tutus and headband

Lexi had a little dance performance in the beginning of December and their outfits were red and white tutu's. I had some extra stuff from making her tutu, so made one for her teddy bear and one of her dolls. I also made her a new flower headband.

She loved the tutus and headband and she looked so cute while she danced!

Batman Hat

Andrea made the cutest Batman hat for Brecken for his birthday. I don't think she got a picture of it, so I'm posting it for her :) It turned out so cute and he loves to wear it!

Boy and Girl Quilts

These are the quilts I made for the kids for Christmas this year. I bought the panel for Brecken's when he was a baby and hadn't done anything with it yet, and then I found the panel for Lexi's this summer. I was excited that I found both a girl one and a boy one.

Pirate Shirt

Here is the shirt I made for Brecken with fabric markers. Jeremy helped me design the ship, then I traced it onto the shirt with a black marker.