Sewing Table

I've had this post sitting in my drafts folder for awhile now. Guess I forgot about it. Anyways, here is the sewing extension table that Matthew and I made sometime ago. I wanted one for my larger sewing projects, like blankets and quilts.

First part, we cut the table down to the size I wanted and fit it for my sewing machine.

We then sanded all the edges and corners.

Next, we made some legs using a dowel rod and some leveling feet.

Our helper, look how tiny she was!

And the hard part, making the legs level.

My mostly finished product. We had to lower the legs some more so the table was flush with my machine. I also have a teflon sheet on my table to make moving the fabric around easier.

Here's the quilt I've been working on for Anneliese and the reason why I really wanted the sewing extension table. I have the top all finished, but I suck at the actual quilting part so haven't started that. I probably will end up doing something easy like straight lines which still gives a neat effect.

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Cross and infinity lariat

So I saw this cross and infinity lariat on etsy and I fell in love with it. I love crosses and I love infinity. So I then thought "I could make that". My mom happens to have lots of tools for jewelry making and I had the items I needed for the lariat, so why not?

Here are the starting products, the cross was a Christmas gift from my mom actually.

First was to take off the fastenings on the necklace. I used that chain that the cross was on for the lariat.

Next I used these little guys to fasten the cross and infinity to the chain.

Ta-Da!

Now to take of the pesky little loop on the other side of the infinity.

These cutters had a warning printed on them to wear proper safety glasses when using them. I'm a rebel, I didn't use safety glasses.

And the finished product!

Just slip the cross through the infinity loop.

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Attempting Art

 My dear friend Jesica have been talking about doing one of those BYOB painting classes for quite some time now. So when we saw a deal for one we snatched it up. We had such a great time together that we have already purchased another deal from groupon to do another painting class. Anyways, in this class we painted a cute scene with some birds.

Jesica and I

Kind of excited, yet nervous about the painting. 

Got my glass of delicious moscato.

Intimidating blank canvas. At least it's intimidating to those with no artistic skills like me. Probably why the wine is a must.

First step - blend base color with white.

Second step - add more base color to the white.

Third step - add yet even more base color to the white (this was where I had to get more brown and Jesica need more red as well).

Then take a break with chocolate and more wine!

Now to add the moon.

Branches for the birds.

Now the difficult task of adding the birds. This was terrifying to me. Everything else so far was relativity easy to do.

I thought he turned out pretty well.

Birds done, now to make the trees pretty.

Bam!

I know you're jealous of our awesome paintings. I ended up hanging mine up in my master bathroom.

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