Filofax Friday

It's been a fairly productive week.  I rearranged my office/craft room, and have all my Filofax/planning supplies on one side of the room, and all my sewing supplies and fabric on the other.  I'm loving my new setup so far.

Here's a view of my some of my paper crafting supplies that are stored on a shelf beside my desk.

On to this week's pages:

Sunday and Monday I didn't decorate.  Can you believe it?  And my pages just look stark.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Cats. I love these stickers.  They're so cute. 

And Thursday and Friday.  My boys have a baseball game this evening, and they're very excited about it because they get to play under the lights.  They're in Coach Pitch, so something like a lit-up field is very exciting when you're 6 and 7 years old.  It's going to be fun one to watch!

To finish things up, I thought I'd show you where I do my planning and decorating:

Have an absolutely amazing weekend!

Thankful Thursday, Week 19

Wow.  I'm feeling so blessed right now!  This has been a good week!

1.  That I feel better than I did yesterday.
2.  Hard lessons learned.
3.  Buses on time... This morning there was a mysterious school bus that flew by our house just a few minutes before my kids normally leave for school.  I thought it was their bus, so I rushed them out the door, but it was too late.  I thought I was going to need to take them to school, so we all loaded up in the van, but their normal bus came by, on time so I didn't need to worry about that.
4.  Music that inspires and motivates.  I have a VERY clean house because of music...  And it will probably be destroyed by the end of this post. :)
5.  Clean rooms.  Here's a glance of some shelves in my office/craft room.  I love how everything has its place.

6.  My chair.  I have a ergonomic chair with lumbar support because I have sciatica.  It sure helps!

7.  My space.  I love my office/ craft room/ mom cave.  It's my favorite.

8.  Productive days

9.  Ear buds

10.  The way that a clean kitchen makes me feel.  As long as my kitchen is clean, the rest of my house could be a disaster, and I'd still be semi-okay with it.

11.  Finding new things about old friends.

12.  A job well done.

13.  Favorite movies

14.  Tacos.  I love tacos.

15.  The Asher-man's ornery grin.

16.  Haven fixing her own hair.

17.  Jay's non-stop energy.

18.  That our hallway is circular.  My kids are always running "laps."

19.  This HUGE blessing.  One of my good friends' mother was cleaning out her sewing space.  She gave me a TON of stuff!

20.  Vintage fabrics and spools.  And buttons.  And patterns.  And books.  And Macrame.  Yes, Macrame.  I don't know what I'm going to do with the macrame, but I'll think of something. :D

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Make Something Monday: Mother's Day Gift

Mom, if you're reading, STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!  (Just kidding, go ahead and read, it just won't be a surprise.)
My mom loves to knit.  So, for Mother's Day, I decided to put together a knitting bag for her.  This was so much fun, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!  If I was a knitter, I would want this bag.

The fabrics that I used were repurposed.  They were once an old sheet and a duvet cover.  They made a gorgeous tote!

 The first thing I did was embroider this cute saying on the sheet.  I love the balls of yarn and knitting needles at the top!

I appliqued the saying onto the front of the tote, and then covered it with some ribbon.

Here's the straps coming together.  I just sewed the strips down the center then pressed them in half again and sewed a finishing stitch down both sides.

The finger?  Battle wound.  I was attacked by my embroidery machine while working on the saying above...

I pinned the straps to the bag and made sure that both sides would line up.

I like the sew the straps on by stitching a square first, and then do an "X" in the middle.

I LOVE MY SERGER!  I serged all the edges together and turned the bag right side out.

Isn't it cute?  

I added a little bit of bling, and there it is!  The perfect knitting bag.  I LOVE IT!  And I hope my mom will, too

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!  Love ya!

Oh, and Mom, Jim's contribution is embroidered on the inside of the bag... :D

Filofax Friday, and a look at the Month of May

Phew!  It's Friday.  I'm so glad it's Friday.  Here's the last week's pages:

Musical notes.  These are so cute.  I love that they have hair and some are wearing hats.

I had a lot to do at the beginning of the week... Lots on those To Do lists!

I got to go out with some of my best girls Wednesday night, so I decorated accordingly. :)

Today is one of my Sister-in-Law's birthdays.  She has a thing for whales.

PARIS!  Not that I'm going there anytime soon.  I can dream, though, right?

This month is only going to get busier.  It's already looking crazy, and it's only the 2nd!  I love the Paris theme, though.  It makes me smile.

Have a wonderful weekend!  Mine is filled with baseball and birthday parties!  

Thankful Thursday: Week 18

I just opened my office window at 8 AM to feel the fresh air and listen to the birds chirping.  I absolutely LOVE spring.  I love the morning air!

1.  The 80 degree weather we've been having.
2.  Haven dressing up my dress form.

This was only the beginning.  When she was done, there was also an apron and a tutu on it.  It was fabulous.

3.  Etsy.  I'm thankful to have a place outside the boutique to sell the things I make.

4.  Learning to make new things.  I love to challenge myself.  The dress that I recently made was just that: a huge challenge.  There was no pattern, and  I completely underestimated how much brain power it would take for me to put the dress together.

5.  Busy weekends.

6.  Nights out with the girls.

7.  Special days to remember things from the past.

8.  Gorgeous fabrics.

9.  That I have things to give to others.

10.  That it's May FIRST!

11.  My best friend ~ My husband.

12.  manicures.

13.  Good advice from those more experienced than I.

14.  Pinterest tutorials.

15.  Drunken donuts.  One of our local restaurants serve these, and they are A-mazing!

16.  Dark chocolate Hershey kisses.

17.  Friends' good ideas.

18.  Rainbows.

This kind.  Made by my oldest son.

19.  Rushed mornings.

20.  Praising in the storm.  This picture spoke so much to me:... And now I can't find it. :(  It was a picture of some of the devastation from the recent midwest tornadoes that had a sign laying on top of the wreckage with the words, "I will praise You in this storm." written on it in red spray paint.  It just was encouraging to me that someone who had possibly lost so  much would still look up and praise.  Just so cool...  I hope my attitude reflects the same thing.

Have a fabulous Thursday!

Tip Tuesday: Neutrogena Sonic Wave

This is not a paid review.  This is just a product that I love, so I've decided to share it with you.
I've been wanting one of those fancy facial brushes for a while... But, I just couldn't justify dishing out the cash for it.  I saw this at Wal-Mart, and I can't say that it works as well as a brush, (Simply because I've never used one) but I do have to say that I LOVE this, and that it's done wonders for my skin.

The Neutrogena Sonic Spin!  It's fairly small, and really easy to use.

It's got two different speed settings, which is great!

There's different types of pads that you can use with it, but I really like these ones.  I've been using it for a little over a month now, and the blackheads on my nose and chin are almost completely gone.  Not only that, but the redness in my cheeks has reduced quite a bit, and my skin just looks better!

I seriously love this thing!  And it was only around $10, which is a huge plus in my book!

Have a great Tuesday!

Make Something Monday

I've been super busy in my craft room today.  I got a lot done, including this dress, which I made for my friend's daughter.  I had never done one like this before, and I didn't have a pattern, so I was using one of my dresses as a template.  We're crossing our fingers that it fits her.  The shoulders on my dress form were too wide for it to slip over, so I couldn't check it on there... Ugh.  But, it's really pretty, and it's fully lined.  The lining on the skirt has a layer of green tulle on the bottom.  So very cute!

I also made this itty bitty hat to go with it!  It's on a  bobby pin.

My kids have had ear aches the last few days, so I put together some heat packs for them.  They're filled with flax seed and lavender oil.  I just pop one in the microwave for 30 seconds, and they're hot for 20 minutes or more.  The kids love them!

Now to go make dinner.  I hope your Monday was as productive as mine!