A Bountiful Harvest

I love Panera Bread Company!  In fact, while I was living in Lexington, I often found myself at Panera meeting a YL girl or hanging out with a fellow leader or friend in between work and before a basketball game.  One time, while eating in Panera, I noticed this great table centerpiece of wheat.  Random, I know.  It just caught my eye and I loved how simple it looked, and how natural.  Since then I've really wanted to try my hand at making one for myself, and so I did.

Here's what I used:

-a cardboard container

-2 bundles of wheat

-1 spool of fall colored thread

-some acrylic yellow paint

All of which I purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Here's what I did:

-The cardboard container had a handle on it - I cut it off

-I then painted it yellow so that it wouldn't stand out where the wheat didn't cover

-I ended up not using my lid, so I set it aside

-I then figured out how tall I wanted my wheat to be and I trimmed them all to this height

-I started using hot glue to attach all my wheat to my container until it was covered

-I took my ribbon and attached it in 3 places using hot glue

-With my remaining pieces of wheat, I put them inside the container to make my wheat "bundle" look more full

Happy Harvest! :)

My husband can sleep anywhere...

My husband has an amazing gift of being able to fall asleep at any time or in any place.  I've noticed this to be true when we're sitting on the couch, sitting at the kitchen table after dinner, even when he lays on our hardwood floors...

And then when I flashed this picture, it stirred the hibernating bear...

hopefully, one day, we'll have kids that sleep as soundly as he does.  Until then, I'll continue snapping pictures of his random naps.

(did you check out his candy corn t-shirt?...it has "zombie" candy corn on it attacking the "good" candy corn...don't ask 'cause I don't know!)

Happy Weekend!

Call me crazy...

My dearest friend, Shea is having a little baby girl this upcoming December.  For those of you who know Shea, you know that she's super stylish, rocking her specific taste.  With that being said, finding nursery coordinates that met Shea's standards was next to impossible.  This is where I enter the story, with my big mouth ;).  I offered to make her baby bedding...evidently, I was coming off a sewing high.  The good news is that one of my favorite sewing websites has killer tutorials and my good friend and partner in sewing crime, Amy is going to be joining me on this endeavor.  Amy and I made Shea some gifts for her baby shower.  We made her a nursing cover, burp cloths and a baby blanket.

This is the Amy Butler fabric that we used to make her shower gifts (the minky dot fabric was the back to her baby blanket). 

Shea decided that she loved Amy Butler fabrics and that she wanted to fill her nursery with them!

Help us out!  Give us your feedback!  

We still need to pick out 2 more fabrics (for the bumpers).  Please look at all the fabric choses and give us your expert opinion!

Here are pictures, fabrics and the tutorial links of what we'll be making for her:

First off is her comforter.  We don't really have a tutorial for this, just a lot of ideas and guidance from other sewers.  

These are the two Amy Butler fabrics that Shea chose for her comforter.  The solid will be the back and the floral will be the front.

Crib Bumpers 

This is one side of the crib bumpers...so far we still need 2 other fabrics: 1 for the other side of the bumpers and one for the ties.  Take a look at all the fabrics that Shea has chosen and let me know what you think: should she pick a solid brown or a solid green to go on the other side of the bumpers?  What about the ties - what design of fabric do you think she should go with?

Crib Dust Ruffle

This is the fabric that she has chosen for her dust ruffle, to coordinate with the comforter.

I'd love to hear your feedback!  We're going to have to make the decision about the other two fabrics for the bumpers and I know that my blogging friends have great ideas!

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Let me tell you, this blog is so doggone cute!  You have to head over there and see all the different possibilities that await you!

Like these, what a fun thing to put in a kid's bathroom!

This cork board is sure to liven up (and help keep reminders) any desk!

I just went to a shower where the favors included these little tea lights...now I know how to make them myself!

Head on over to Green Bean's Crafterole and see what you think.  Let me know how she inspires you!

Happy Blogging!