The Mint Needle

Hello friends! I hope everyone enjoyed their first week of Spring! I know I have. We've been busy at home, refreshing, repainting, and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. One of the perks of refreshing, or should I say, reorganizing, is the fact that we often come across things we forgot we had.  A little something special that was found upon going through some closet baskets were vintage purse handles purchased for a buck fifty! So what did I decide to do? Make bracelets! For starters, the bead holes were the perfect size for pulling through some stitched fabric straps. Second, who doesn't love wooden beads? And third, those purse handles are still good for a bag, this time with fabric straps :) Just take a look at how easy this came to be! The handle part that attaches to the actual purse was screwed into place. That made it so easy to take the beads off. For my daughter's bracelet, I re-purposed some fabric scraps I had no use for. But you can easily use ...

Am I the only person who loves it when it rains outside? You'd think with a dog, 2 cats and chickens I would hate the mud. But the perks of getting to sit indoors and sew throughout the day outway my couple of minutes slushing through the yard to make sure all our little pets are ok! Already budding in the yard! I just love it! Having said that, we've been fortunate enough to have some extremely mild weather here in O-H-I-O. Like.... my girls were wearing shorts and t-shirts playing soccer outside! Yes - and that was in February. Now I've heard through work that there's an old wives tale; "if it's green at Christmas, it'll be a white Easter." So.... I'm not saying goodbye to any snow just yet. Even though multiple gardening mags have found their way to our mailbox, I promised myself not to do anything "gardenwise" yet. We'll see how long that will last... I started making this colorful quilt about a month ago. This was one o...