Organizing my craft room.

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well.

This past week, I started putting my craft room back together.

When my husband had his motorcycle accident last April, 

all my craft stuff was removed from my room in order to make space for other furniture that had to be moved when my husband came home from the hospital.

 Because he is getting better, we have returned a bunch of the medical equipment that he no longer needs. That freed up my craft room again. Yeah!!!

I brought in some new storage units for my craft supplies.

I wanted open storage, so that I could see what I have.   

I got a cube storage unit similar to the Expedit unit from Ikea.

It has 16 cubes in it.

I have four of them organized now.

I made some inserts using foam core board to display my paints and threads.

I used this tutorial for my inspiration for those displays.

I also made an organizer for my ink pads. 

I got the directions from this tutorial.

I also decorated the top a bit.

Don't you just love those hand carved wooden stamps!!

Well, its getting there.

I still have  lot to organize, but it's a start.

Hugs

An update and a quilt top!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well. 

My husband is still in a long term care bed. 

He will not be able to come home until the end of August or early September.

He had a serious pelvic and left hip injury.

His pelvic injury is not healing well.

He may need surgery again.

But we are hoping it doesn't come to that. 

He had a cast on his left wrist.

He had surgery on his wrist as well, but it is healing well and he had his cast removed last week. 

He still doesn't have full strength of it yet. 

But it's healing we'll.

We are all taking things one day at a time.

It's been hard, but we are surviving.

 My daughter made another quilt for a school project. 

This one was a group project.

The other kids helped with drawing up the blocks. 

Brittany sewed all the sashing around the blocks and sewed the blocks in rows. 

I helped by sewing the rows together and putting the borders on.

I took the picture with my IPhone so it's not the best.

I hope you like it!!

Hugs

Ariane

My husband was in a serious accident

Hi all, I'm writing today to let you know that I will not be blogging for a while. My husband was in a serious motorcycle accident last night and suffered serious injuries. He spend 7 hours in surgery today. He will need a lengthy recovery. I will be supporting him and my kids during this time. Keep us in your prayers. Hugs Ariane

The dress and apron are all done!

Hi everyone,

I had to make a costume for my daughter's play.

She needed a dress and apron for the play "Alice in Wonderland".

So, I took the challenge and made her a dress.

This is probably the most complicated piece of clothing I have ever made.

But, I'm happy with the way it turned out.

It fits her comfortably, and is decent.

The original pattern has a really low neck line.

So, I had to make that adjustment.

I used the Burda pattern 7556.

I used a polyester to make this dress.

It did have a bit of stretch, but it worked out.

I hope she likes it.

I put a lot of hours into it.

Hugs