Bargain Fabric

In between packing to move to a new location (hello bigger yard!), working two jobs (part time retail - and I run my own photography business), plus being a mama and a wife and my own self - I got in some time to raid Fabricvilles bargain bin: $1 for any piece of fabric, at whatever size it is! I whipped up a dinosaur pillowcase for my son with the bargain fabric and an old basket liner that had broken. 

LittleMan is now asking me over and over to make him a dinosaur blanket! I plan on making him a plaid one that goes with the dinosaur theme done by pottery barn once we get into our new house. and the best part? I still have some dinosaur fabric left over to make into something else for him :) 

Have you checked out your fabric stores bargain bin? What did you purchase and make?

Ruffled Streamers

streamers are a quick and easy "must-have" to really turn the house into party mode for kids. 

But they've been done before and I'm always looking for that extra little easy detail to kick it up a notch!

I made these for my sons halloween party...

(but really - any color combination would make this great for any party!)

totally cute right? two colors and ruffells! and they were so easy! It took quite a bit of thread, and this was about a whole roll of streamers - but considering streamers are from the dollar store, you can't beat it! here's the link to the tutorial for them: { Dana Made It }

Block-a-day Quilt-Uberfest

have you heard of Blue Nickel Studios Block-a-day Quilt-Uberfest?

check it out [here]!

I've got two blocks done so far...

block one: 

 block two:

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They're terrible pictures - sorry! they were taken with my iPhone. but now that I'm going to tackle blogging again (and I'm back to work part time), I'll start using my big girl camera for blog posts :)

I'm a day behind on the blocks but I've got a few days off so I'm tackling two blocks today so I will be all caught up! Are you doing the quilt along? Let me know! the flickr group is [here] as well! 

book talk

Have you checked out the scholastic page(s) lately?

littleman is participating in the summer "Read To Me" program at our local library which encourages reading every day with him for at least 15 minutes - more on this in a later post!

Scholastic has a blog called { Book Talk }

I'm jumping on the bandwagon late, they are on book three but we're going to follow along anyways.

So tomorrow while we're at the library, we're going to pick up the current book they are reading:

They've already read Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel and LMNO Peas by Keith Baker .

I'm not sure if we have LMNO peas at our local library, but we may pick up frog and toad are friends to read together as well.

are you doing anything for summer reading projects? leave a comment or link to your reading activities! :)

Color Samples

I've started a series of Color Sample's

These are colors from a particular photo that I've taken, with colors that I think flow well together.

You can download the photos if you like, and use them in photoshop to sample the colors.

that way you can use the photos in scrapbooking layouts, blog layouts, party ideas, etc. 

just please give credit and link back to the Q farm if you re-post the photo!

Let me know if you use these color's in a project - I'd love to see links and photos!

Nephews Quilt

We have a Super Little Man in the family now - my nephew! Born on July 1st, 2011 - canada day!

Here's a quilt I'm whipping together to bring out for our visit in august when I get to meet him :) It's just the top so far, its going to be reversable, with back being tie-dyed flannel and having appliqued words: 

eat. sleep. play. repeat. 

I'm also going to make him some taggie animals!

with only four shifts left of work, I've been thinking about blogging more

I've been thinking of easier ways for me to get photos, what I can post about, etc. especially since money will be super tight until I can find a job!

Leaf Prints

It was a bit of rainy day here, so to keep little man busy I pulled out the paints!

We went on a quick walk and chose three leafs to print with.

LittleMan painted them then I helped him stamp them on the paper - quick and easy :)