Should this be coming up for air part 2?

I wonder how many parts there will be of this theme during the holiday season!? =D

Okay so here is my big reveal. Sorry about the blues clues paw and blot out blobs, I don't have my photo editor uploaded so I just pulled one up quickly online and did  few necessary changes.

My daughter and I are working on decorating her play room. It's a very open room that is seen by all who visit so it was way past time to make the room presentable. We are not finished yet, I would like some shelves in there as well but it's a start. I cut out and she sewed and finished the cushions. I made the table cloth and she picked out the paper and letters for the banner.  I LOVE the letters and paper she chose! Here's a closer look.

LOVE! We will not always have a  Happy Birthday banner in this room but right now is our family birthday 'season' so it's appropriate.

I used Jennifer Paganelli's Banner pattern from Girl's World. Super simple and easy to make.
To make the scalloped paper circles I used this(ignore the sparkly wrapping paper that's for paper plate chargers. No kidding! I will take pictures and post):

I was tempted to go over to Corie's(Banberry Place) and use her Cricut but we have too much fun talking and I really didn't have a ton of time as we just got back from our big Thanksgiving minivan trip across the US. So I bought one of these giant hole puncher thingies and went to town with the cool paper my daughter picked out.
 So now party favor bags are filled cake just needs to be picked up tomorrow. We are good to go for celebrating! In the meanwhile... get out your scraps and start cutting! Don't have a birthday to celebrate? Make one for the holiday you celebrate this season! For me that would be a Christmas one and that's likely to happen before the season is up. This was so fun to make!

I am testing two patterns for Carla so stay tuned! One for you and one for that special little girl in your life!

Coming up for air!

Okay so Quilt Market was amazing and so cool and now I blink and Thanksgiving is barreling toward us. Gosh the time is flying! At some point I will post my Market pictures, I figure you have already seen them by this point though. We are in the midst of upgrading my computer so the files have not been loaded yet for me to grab and share. So sorry.

So I just have one project left for my last teaser post and then I can reveal all we have been working on. I cannot wait for you to see it! I just hope the pictures do the projects justice. My daughter worked so hard on her projects. So sorry to leave you hanging.

In addition to the surprise project, right before Quilt Market, I decided to make myself and Melissa P. a  set of Rosetta Bags out of West Indies.

I really love how the fabric combinations work together. Melissa brought a teeny piece of luggage to Quilt Market and she was concerned the ruffles would get smushed so I am going to send her purse to her. Good thing anyway because in my late nights of sewing, I didn't catch the ruffles on the sides well. Grrrr. I was beyond annoyed with myself.


 So right now I am sewing some christmasy gifty things. Here's the guinea pig of one. I do not profess to be the expert on cutting or sewing oil cloth so go easy on me. This oil cloth is a lot slicker than laminate so it tends to slide more under the machine and in my scissors. Curves are a challenge for me anyway so these scallops gave me a run for my money. I like the wonky look of it for our personal use. I don't think I would sell it this way though! Unless there are other wonky loving gals out there like me.

I need to go fix dinner(aka call the pizza guy)so go check out Melissa's blog posts on market. Your jaw will drop over the projects she sewed for  Quilt Market. Not only was she prolific but also her projects were so cool.