Long week

The past week and half have been long and full.   Both girls are finished with school testing, and Shelly hopes she keeps her current grades so she doesn't have to take the finals in her classes.  Her High School has a really cool incentive, if you don't miss more than 4 days and have at least a C in the class you do not have to take the final.  This is true for all grades.  The only exception is when she starts her IB/AP classes.  She really loves this!   Sydney finished her testing, and then went off to Disney World with her father.  Shelly and I had to stay in Phoenix, because her soccer team is still involved in the State Tournament.  Her team made it to the quarterfinals, and is very excited.  Sunday we will find out if they make it to the Semi's next weekend.  

The sewing room organization is moving along.  The more I find the more I have to do.  The Elfa drawers are located behind my sewing table and are organized by color.  I really like the way they look like a rainbow.  The small top drawers will end up holding an LED light box and my Girl Scout items.  I was looking through the Featherweight case and came across the box with the accessories in it.  Can't wait to try the binder and the rolled hem foot.  The booklet explaining how to use all of the feet was even in the case.  Hopefully I will have some down time to play a little this week.  I'm trying to find my card reader, so I can upload pics from my camera.  My iPhone doesn't always take the best pics.  Sorry.

Happy Weekend!

Freaky Friday

It's another Friday the 13th without my favorite black cat.  One almost adopted me the other day at Petco. She was from a rescue.  If she had been a boy, I would have had another cat.  Her eyes were the exact color of my Sammy's.

We have had a busy week, and are looking forward to the weekend.  The contractor finished fixing the bathroom, and no leaks!  We have one small area that needs some caulk just to be safe, because he forgot to remove the grout and put in the sanded caulking.

Shelly has spent most of the week enjoying little homework as the sophomores at school take the AIMS tests.  She did have to take the Biology AIMS, as she takes Honors Biology.  She gets a weekend off from soccer as her team prepares for the State Cup tournament.

Sydney has had the past few weeks off from soccer because her team finished the season.  They won their division and had a great season.  She is looking forward to practicing again, because she misses her friends.  Tryouts are the first week of May for her team.

My sewing room re-organization is moving along.  The hardest part has been trying to decide how to organize my fabric.  I opted for a little of everything.  Some is by color, some by Manufacturer, and some by kind.  I have managed to find all of the boxes I had from moving 11 years ago that contained any quilt related items.  WOW!  It does feel nice to have everything in a place, and an end in sight.  As soon as I finish I will share pictures.

For now, here is a picture of my king size hawaiian breadfruit quilt I am working on.   It is my watching TV project, and will hopefully be finished in a few months, so I can finish my bedroom remodel.  I opted to use freezer paper to help me keep the edges turned while I appliqué the shape down.   I intend to machine edge also because it needs to be very washable.  (We have a black dog!)

Have a great weekend!  Enjoy my Spring roses, they LOVE the Desert!

Penny Table top

Wednesday brings a couple of busy days before the weekend.

We have the contractors starting today to reinstall the tile in the master bathroom shower.  We had a leak one month after the shower was installed.  Turns out the shower pan had been installed incorrectly, and they now have their 'best' installer doing the job.  This is a picture of the first try.  They get a chance to correct the wrong grout color, and incorrectly layed out pebble tile.   Not so happy about the waterfall that was in the kitchen, but glad they are going to remedy the mistakes.

Here is one of my projects I worked on while they remodeled the shower, A penny table.

The first step was finding a company who sold the round table blanks.  I found this at a site named http://www.readytocover.com/.

The second step was to paint the top black and install the edge banding to keep the mirror coat over the top of the pennies. 

 Then I spent a couple of days super gluing down each individual penny.  If I hadn't done this, the pennies would have floated in the mirror coat.  I opted to clean the pennies once I had glued them down.  I quick clean with Maas did did the trick.  There are $20 worth of pennies on this 38" round top.  The Mirror coat is a pretty cool newer product that doesn't yellow as fast, and is harder than the typical bar top epoxy.  I really liked it.

I thought I would give you a glimpse of the new stockings I made for the new mantel.