30 Minute Room Makeover

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Come check out how to update your bedroom is just 30 minutes..

Sewing Pattern Review - Pockets to Go

I apologize for the lack of a complete sewing pattern review this Sunday. My mother made me one of these "Pockets to Go" by Atkinson Designs for Mother's Day (chock full of sewing goodies including this pattern) She had suggested I make one for a pattern review...

Well... I've been working on it all week when the girls would give me a minute. And well it has been a longer project that I had anticipated. I remember planning on doing it in an evening and my Mum was shocked & informed it would take longer. Longer, indeed!

I will bring you the full pattern review next Sunday.. Let's just say it is an adorable basket, but this pattern would be best suited for a class project rather than going solo at home.

An adorable baby bonnet review is on the horizon as well! Have a pattern suggestion? Please let me know!

(picture via the Atkinson Design website)

A Minute Of Fame... Missed

A month or so ago, a local news crew came to interview me about my Etsy store. It was funny timing.. I had just decided to stop doing the photography props and direct all my efforts into my artistic endeavors, but I figured that story could be just as interesting. The story they told with the editing isn't the one I imagined, but that's the joy of television...

In the end they aired it late on a Sunday night, and I completely forgot.. Luckily, Audzipan, another Etsy store interviewed, found the footage..

Here all the shops they interviewed..

* All Things Belle (me)

* Audzipan

* Body Language Soaps

* Gumball Grenade

* Willow Creek Signs

Design Center

When I saw that UCreate's "Create With Me" project this month was a framed chicken wire jewelry center, I had a couple ideas. I knew I didn't want to do a jewelry organizer because I have a really nice armoire for that. I finally decided on a framed design center.

I took a large Ikea frame and removed the glass. Then hot glued some panels of cork on to the frame back. Instead of painting the frame, I spray painted the chicken wire a robin egg blue. And then put it all together!

It was cute and functional, but missing a little pizazz.. So I whipped up some fabric rosettes and gathered fabric for an added accent.

It works great! I can either pin fabric and paper ideas to the cork or clasp them on to the chicken wire with metal clips.

This baby is going right over my sewing table to inspire me for future projects!

Pattern Tester??

Was totally inspired by Quilt Market and Artisania's Paper Piecing

I've been working like crazy making my own paper pieced designs,

and I'm taking the plunge...

I'm going to start selling a couple on my Etsy shop

and of course I'll offer freebies here.

BUT

I need some pattern testers..

Anyone out there interested in helping me??

You will get the pattern and give me the feedback!

Let me know!