Oh the Cuteness!

Just a quick little post to show off another finished project: Johnny and I went to San Francisco for Valentine's day this year and bought this tea towel. We collect moon-themed things and had to have it, but we have so many tea towels in the kitchen that I decided to turn it into a pillow! I just sewed it into a tube, sewed one end shut, and added 3 dark blue satin ribbon ties to the other end so the pillow case can be removed and washed. The inner stuffing is an inexpensive travel pillow form from Ikea. Only took 15 minutes to make and it will be a special reminder of our first Valentine's day together for a very, very long time. Cross another one off the list!

Dennis and I have been slowly but surely adding goodies to the house to make it more cozy and warm, but our tiny little bedroom was feeling a bit boring as of late so I decided to add some colorful touches. While we were in Portland a friend of mine told me to check out Bolt, a charming little fabric boutique she used to work at. So for one of the days Dennis and I separated and while he went to a game shop to play cards with his brother I went off in search of Bolt. The neighborhood it was in was absolutely amazing, and if we ever decide to move to Portland we are living. Right. There. Unfortunately I have no pictures, but all along Alberta Street there was one crafty shop after another. A yarn shop named Close Knit right nextdoor to Bolt, then a music store that had a wall of ukuleles and even a banjolele (WANT!), a co-op market, a little art store called Collage that had everything I love, an open sewing studio/machine shop called Modern Domestic, a place called Make House that had...