Circle zip earbud pouch.

This was an easy easy project. That's I had to do three times to get right lol, there are some steps in the original tutorial seen here that I removed and it worked like a dream..... after the third try.

ROUND 1: I used a Solo cup. (A red Solo cup I believe hahaha.) As the circle pattern for the first and second go rounds. I soon discovered that the Solo cup is about 1/4 inch too small. But practice makes perfect, right. In the original post and tutorial I'm not sure why  batting was used. Maybe the original poster used a bigger circle I don't know, but what I do know is the batting made it almost impossible to work with. And this lumpy mess is what resulted.

 ROUND 2: This one turned out much better. I skipped the batting and used a duck fabric with a thin cotton fabric for the liner. The edges are not as smooth as I would have liked but its usable and I'm the only one that will notice. It measures 3 inches

ROUND 3: This was my best of three. I used a small cereal bowl for the circle and the edges came out quite nice and smooth. I used this one to carry my tanning stickers. It measures 4 inches

Matching dyi flip flops

Yesterday was super busy so I didn't have time to post the flip flop tutorial that I promised. Click here for the original posting with instructions. This was what I would call a semi-fail. I wore the shoes out on the town and man did my feet hurt afterwards. The knots in the bottom are too big and they felt like I was walking with a rock stuck to the bottom of my thin flip flop. Also it was a little stressful cutting up a brand new pair of shoes in the name of crafts and fashions. So here is my version of the Knot so hard flip flop.

 The finished product

 As you can see in the above photo I didn't use knots like the original tutorial instructed. I tied knots in the fabric over and over and couldn't get them in the right place so I opted for a little band made of scrap fabric and hand sewn on the back side.

 The knots on the bottom side were too big and uncomfortable, they are fine for wearing on carpeted floors but hurt on concrete. I think they would be OK for short term wear, like say to church on a casual morning.

And in case your wondering about the fabulous nail polish I'm wearing its Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Heart of Stone. I purchased it at Walmart for I don't remember how much. But its a fantastic color that reminds me of taffy, and two coats is all it takes.

Tank top dress.

So here goes on my first post in my as seen on Pinterest series. Its a lovely little dress that was so insanely easy that anyone could do it, and it was very inexpensive. Here the link to the original posting. I made flip flops to match, which will be tomorrows post.  Disclaimer!! These pictures are awful, So remember to look at the dress and not the model, my daughter was making me laugh.

Of course the fit isn't the nearly the same as in the tutorial and I think I may have gotten the waist a little high but all in all I'm very pleased with this dress and it only took me an afternoon to finish. It would make a really cute mid-pregnancy maternity dress.

A little bird told me.

I am going to be working on a series of fussy cut log cabin quilts over the course of 2012. This is a sample of some of the fabrics that I picked up on my shopping trip yesterday. The colors are so cute and work so well together.

I think the bird fabric would also be very cute on a little girls dress or pj's.

More pictures to come as I get started in my year of sewing. Yay I cant wait, I just love to sew.