New Bed Plans

Yesterday we got fantastic news! We are getting a new bed!! What!! What!! A new bed!!! And it's gonna be a king sized bed which will perfectly fit my blanket plans!!!
And I finished the stitch work on my baby blanket gifts. Now tomorrow I will hopefully be attaching them to their knitted blankets. More pictures to follow!

Stitching Madness

Everyone I know seems to be having babies lately and I'm 100% excited for all of them! So I've been cracking the whip on my poor sister and has been making her knit baby blankets. And I believe that she has finished all of them now. Now it's my turn. I'm stitching little corner patches with names and a small design. I would like to get two maybe three done this week so I can get them to their rightful owners next week!
This one is for one of my oldest friends.

One of life's simple joys... Fabric

My spoils from yesterday. These will all be made into bunches for my quilt. I'm ubber excited for the blue fabric with the Elephants. That will make the bedding truly special for me and LB! I cannot wait to show him one of those flowers! I also bought a charcoal grey color just for the edge and the Spaces between my flowers that need to be filled in to complete the pattern I want! Very excited for this! I cannot wait to start putting pieces together!

I also picked up this fabric! I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with it but I love Winnie The Pooh and the whole gang! I love that he has his head stuck in the honey pot and that there are little bees buzzing around him. I'm extremely happy with this find! Thanks to my sister who pointed it out... or I think thats how it happened!

Mushroom flower Wednesday

Today was supposed to be a gardening day but the weather didn't hold up for that. I did get a lot done though. I cleaned up my house and went running and spent some time playing with my new camera lens in the garden. I took some fantastic photos of a fly and a bee. I also got this flower done. So all in all success! 

One Flower Wednesday Part 2

Yesterday I was at the dentist and there was this great picture that my dentist's partner (the other dentist who works in the building, not life partner) took. It was a great shot of this beach with a palm tree and a rainbow. It inspired me to finish one of each of the solid colored flowers for my quilt for my One Flower Wednesday posting today. 

So I did manage to get one of each color completed for my post today. I had all these great ideas about taking a photo of them on the grass (which I freshly mowed yesterday) under the bright sunlight. And then the day got in the way. It was Tim Horton's Camp day, so I went there a few times to get coffee and help them raise money to send kids to Camp. And I played with my beasty boy, see part one for photos. And I went to Chapters to see if they had any good books on EPP. They didn't have a single book! Like WTF? A whole row for knitting, another for crochet and very very little for hand stitching. Disappointed I was. (If anyone knows any good books please comment and let me know. I would love to get one or two.) 

Although my biggest distraction was The Big C on Netflix, I was trying to not watch the show because it seemed like one I would really get emotionally involved in. I should have followed my gut. What an amazing show! 

Soft Kitty

 I stitched this pillow case set a little while ago now. And today as I worked out adding things to my side bars I saw this guy on my Etsy Page and thought that I would share him with you and maybe my Instagram (which I just started today) sherry_bscrafts if you'd like to follow me.

E.P.P Weekend one!

 I've gotten four flowers done, although from now on I will be referring to them as "bunches" because *LB* (Boyfriend) doesn't want to sleep under a flower bed.

 This will be one of the black pieces

 Another one of the black pieces. I love the music notes!

 Black piece. I realized I'll need a lot more black pieces than I will of the colored pieces But The black pieces will be fun with their colorful ways! :)

This is my first (and only) colored flower. I'm hoping to make it to the fabric store today to pick up some more fabric and get a bunch more cut out. I think I can do this project while I'm at work! I should be able to do at least a little on my lunch breaks!

Another Craft That I Love!

I've been doing a lot of embroidery for the last few years and I love it. I love finding a new picture or coming up with a new pattern.
Currently I am working on a pillowcase for one of my Co-worker's Daughter. Its based on Jake And The Neverland Pirates cartoon. She loves this show and when I went to Disney World (Another love... Travel and running I was there for the Goofy Race and a half challenge). I couldn't find anything there :(

 The pillowcase is white but the photo is a little dark. I was taking photos with my Iphone and they are unedited. Sorry. Above his Cubby (Not to be confused with Chubby)

And this is Jake! The main pirate. His "J"'s on the boot just need to be washed off and then redrawn and stitched in shiny gold.

A Slightly Slow Start

Today I got the pattern option picked out. I think Idea 3 is the winner. Then I went through all my fabric and picked out what I would like to use. I picked out the stuff I'm going to use for the black squares!

The bright blue will be paired with some new items from the store :) Those will be the colored flowers! Getting the Hexagon pattern was a bit of a pain. I thought that I could use my Cricut to cut out a hexagon only to find that all my cartridges don't have a hexagon. Then I thought about printing. But as I said before my printer wants no part of this craft activity. It's holding out until I refill its ink. Tracing was the best option. Right from the computer screen to a lovely white piece of paper. Yup I did it! Well not me. Mine turned out looking like a five year old on a sugar high tried to trace them. However my awesome sister was able to do it. Then to make her even more awesome she cut 5o of them out of "Freezer Paper" for me while I watched TV with the boyfriend. *Best sister ever* (She's the B in B.S. Crafts, which is really named for our Grandma, but it works out perfectly with our names too)

A New Idea

So this last weekend while at work I finally decided that I wanted to start hand quilting. So I spent the weekend hunting things down on Pinterest and checking it all out. Then I thought about it more and decided that it would be a good plan. All good ideas start with a simple plan. I have good even stitched when I hand embroider things.
So I continued with the investigating. And I found a link to English Paper Piecing... I think I may have found my new craft. *evil grin*

I'm super excited to get started on this!

And also I started a new blog! So hopefully I will keep up with it and you can follow all my crazy crafty genius ideas!!!