New Items I've sewn!

I made a few tissue holders and little pouches, but thought they looked kind of plain. So I decided to put felt flowers and hearts on them! :) Here are my first attempts at appliqueing.

My favorite is this one, cause the flowers look like plumerias. And I love plumerias! :)

I made some fun pointsettias, so we'll see how they will look on Christmas ones!

Gameboard table cover

Years ago Phil built this game board for his WW2 game, Axis and Allies. He cut everything out of wood, and I painted and decopaged the flags and numbers on for him. It's 8 foot by 5 foot. So, it's HUGE!

And while cleaning out the garage, I thought it needed a cover. So here's what it looks like now with the cover on it! It's the largest sewing project I've worked on. And I just love it! Isn't it beautiful?? LOL Not perfect, but I think it's beautiful! LOL
While I was sewing it, Oreo decided that he needed to hide in the material.
So, I call the material, Oreo Camo now! LOL I don't know why he decided he needed to be in it, but everytime I needed to sew on it, he was wrapping himself up inside of it. Good thing it was only for me, and not for a gift or anything!

Here's the tank top...

Here are the tank tops! LOL I think they're too cool. What a great way to incorporate stamping and sewing! :)

Yay it's Fall!

Don't you just love the fall weather? It makes me so happy when the weather starts to turn cooler. And even though we're in California, we do have some trees where the leaves will start to turn colors.

Hope you all are enjoying the nice fall weather too.

Cool Sweatshirts

We saw these when we were on our trip to Santana Row a few weeks ago. I think they're too cool! I love how they dyed the different strips and then stamped and painted on them. Then sewed them all up together! I'm seeing these more and more nowdays, they were at the flea market a couple of weeks ago. And I first saw them at the gift show a couple of months ago.

Maybe I'll get the courage to actually buy one and wear it! :)

Ok, just one more....

It looks like Oreo when he was a kitten. And for a second, I miss him being a kitten, then I remember all the running around and getting into everything. I don't miss that! LOL

Kung Fu mouse...

This just made me crack up, so I thought I'd share. LOL
Again, from Icanhascheezburger

What a neat surprise!

Today was all my freecyclers pick-up day. And I had the nicest surprise. One of the women left a bag of organic tomatoes with a thank you note. I've never had anyone leave a thank you note before. So that was a really nice surprise.

I love freecyclers! :)

More etsy

This is a Halloween bracelet I made today. I changed it from what it used to look like just to have something different. It's going to be a one of a kind cause I don't have any more skull beads. But I think it turned out cute. I have to make a pumpkin bracelet next cause I love those little pumpkins.
And I finally put up the Webkinz sleeping bags on etsy. Aren't they cute? LOL I think I might have posted them here before. I actually sold a few at the flea market the other day, and the kids really love them! Here's a picture of Allie with her Webkinz! :)

I'm also excited because 4 people have added me as their favorite shop! How cool is that?!?! And a couple other people have marked things as their favorites. I'm glad they like the stuff!

Hope you all are having a good weekend!

Fantastic Contraption

So, Philip sends me this link today:

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

All I can say is, "Dang it Philip! It's almost 5:30 in the morning, and I am at level 13. I don't want to be up at 5:30, but I want to keep playing that game." SHEEESH!!

LOL

It's really cool. You make contraptions to get a certain shape into the pink colored area. You use wheels that spin clockwise, counter clockwise, or ones that don't spin. Plus you connect them with rods or water. You wouldn't think it's addicting, but it is.

So, if you want to play a game that will use up a ton of your time, play this!

I'm going to sleep. LOL

Sadie's new band

Sadie is in a Pat Benatar tribute band. And here she is in her Pat Benatar get up with the rest of the band.

Pat is one of my favorite artists, so I hope that Sadie can do her justice. I mean I'm the person who can't listen to any of Journey's new songs because they're not the same without Steve Perry. And Van Halen wasn't the same with Sammy Hagar, even though I LOVE Sammy, it wasn't right having him in Van Halen. LOL

Yes, hard core fan here.

But she did pretty well singing Rock and Roll. So she's probably really good at Pat's songs too. I'll let you know. ;)

Love that internet!

I love the internet! My cousin is a DJ on a Morning Hawaiian radio show Island 98.5 And it's way cool cause of the time delay I am up and can listen to him on the radio through the internet! He's the one with the guitar in the above picture. LOL

And he also sings and has his own entertainment company. www.jrkjr.com

It's so funny to hear someone I know on the radio, and it's even cooler that I can listen to him everyday. It really makes me want to go to visit the family though. Maybe next year? :)

Earrings

I added some earrings to my etsy site. I love making earrings and I hope people will like them too. :) These are a couple of the pink earrings I was working on. I have got to do other colors too! LOL

Looziana Designs

Ok, I finally did it! I overcame my fear and put a couple of things up on Etsy. They are the pink and fall colored bracelets. I am hoping that they will sell. Cross your fingers everyone!

Here is the link to my shop. Ok, I should say OUR shop. The boys and I are going to sell things in this etsy shop. I'm hoping that Al will make some of his welded animals. :) They are too cool. LOL

And Phil and Philip always come up with neat off the wall things.

So we'll see how we do.

Bracelets

I made these bracelets to sell at the flea market. I love making these dangly bracelets, and I thought maybe they would make someone happy.

I love the amber color one, it just reminds me of fall.
My favorites to make are the multicolor ones. When I was in kindergarten, I would make flowers with petals that were all the colors of the rainbow. My mom thought something was wrong with my eyesight at first, because my dad is colorblind. But then realized that I just love color. LOL

And this last one is my idea of a princess bracelet. It's pink, of course. And just a simple bracelet. Not too many danglies. But I think if it doesn't sell tomorrow, I may just add more! ;)

Wish me luck!

Tissue cozy

I found a pattern to make these tissue cozies. These are for the pocket tissues that have the plastic wrap around it. They were so fun to make I made a bunch of them! I had some sample fabrics too, so I made some with those too. I'll have to carry tissues in my bag now just so I can use one of these! LOL

Instant Pineapple Upside-down cake...LOL

So, Phil decided we needed to jazz up our pound cake today, so he made Instant Pineapple Upside-down cake. What is IPUDC? Well, he cooks pineapple in brown sugar and butter, pretty much caramelizing it. Then he pours it over the pound cake with the whipped cream.

Now, I could have done without the whipped cream, well, he cheated and used Cool Whip, and it made it way too rich for me. He had no problems woofing it down. LOL

It really did taste like pineapple upside-down cake. LOL

Fremont Flyers Logo

Here's the second logo that we've digitized. It's for the FGSA tournament softball team, the Flyers. Phil helps our friend Rusty coach the 14U team. This logo was a bit tough, and I still have to work on the softball. It doesn't look all too great, but I'm working on it.

The old logo has a white softball, and it's always bugged me because the girls use a yellow softball. :) So, I hope they like it!

I can has cheeseburger

So, everyday I check out the icanhascheezburger website. On this website you look at the pictures posted, and I guess you write whatever you want on it, and people check it out. It's probably more involved than that, but that's the gist of it. LOL

Anyway, I saw this one on the site through twitter today, and cracked up! LOL How funny is that?? It totally looks like the Puma logo. Cats are so funny.

September already

Wow, it's September already. I love the end of August and the beginning of September, why? Because all of the school supplies are out in the store! I just love the smell of new notebooks and pencils...

Ok, say it now...GEEK!

And it was always great cause the kids would be going back to school, no more laying around the house bored cause they had nothing to do. And my mornings and afternoons were my quiet time again.

It was always fun watching them get so annoyed that they would have to go back to school. Nyah nyah nyah! Well, I always loved going to school, so I couldn't understand why they didn't want to go.

Yes, again...GEEK!

My Daily OM horoscope for today

This was my Daily OM horoscope for today:

"This would be a great time to really reflect upon the nature of your relationships more closely. Perhaps you can consider the people you spend the most time with and what they contribute to your life. As you delve into this today, try to remember that the time you spend with others is the most valuable when it provides you with a certain level of engagement, that is, when it fuels your spirit. Knowing what your friends bring to your life could give the time you spend with them so much more meaning.

The company of our friends influences the quality of our lives. Many of us have different types of people that we hang out with, but it is truly the people who feed our souls who really make the time we spend together something that is cherished and precious. It is when our friends are people who enhance to our lives that we are able to truly understand just what it is that they bring to our interactions. Appreciating your friends for what they give you will only add to the enjoyment you feel when you are with them today."

As I am going through things in my life today, all the people who are closest to me have been running through my mind.

And the people that I am closest to are the people who bring joy into my life. I've had the drama friends and not nice people in my life. And you know, right now the people who are in my life are the best in the world. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

So, thank you to all my friends who have been there for me, who have stuck with me through good times and bad times. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it weren't for you all, and I love and appreciate all of you!

Second try at embroidering a shirt

Well, my second try wasn't as successful as the first. Ribbed knits were a challenge to me, I think I have to put an extra layer of stabilizer in, and then the letters were too thin. So part of the embroidery got lost in the shirt. But it was a fun try, and maybe if I make the letters thicker it might look a little better??

We thought we'd surprise Sadie with her first t-shirt! LOL I'm going to try it larger on a regular tshirt to see if it works out better.

My first T-shirt!

So, I've been a bit hesitant on actually embroidering a t-shirt cause, OMG, it's like a tshirt! And you can't go back if you mess up! So I thought I'd practice with something simple, my mom's mon (family crest). I've had it drawn for a long time, but hadn't done anything with it. And I wanted to practice digitizing too.

So here is the machine stitching the mon:

And here's the finished product! I think it came out pretty good. There are a couple of places where I'll need to tweak it a little but overall I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Happy Tuesday!

Hope that you all are having a great Tuesday! I've spent today trying to find more things to put out for the garage sale we're having on Saturday. :) And I should look through stuff more often, I found 2 pliers that I didn't know where they had gone, and a pair of diagonal wire cutters. LOL And a couple of chalk pencils for sewing. Good thing I got into sewing before I decided to clean, cause now I'm gonna keep a ton of stuff that I would have put out for sale.

I went to the pet store today for cat food, and they had the cutest black and white kitty there. I swear black and white kitty's personalities are a lot alike. They all love attention and are very affectionate. Well, the black and white kitties I've seen anyway. LOL I wished I could have taken her home, but I think the other two black and whites would have been upset.

I finally signed up for etsy, and will have things up on it this weekend. It's under Looziana Designs. We are all going to do a bunch of creative things, so we thought that would be a great name. :) I'll post when we have everything all set up!

Have a great Tuesday!

Perpetual Kid

I was on the I Can Has Cheezeburger site, and saw the widget for a site called perpetual kid with a unique looking cat towel holder. You will have to check that out for yourself cause OMG, it is too funny.

What a perfect name for a site, Perpetual Kid. that is totally me! So of course I had to click on it and check it out. And there I found these really fun items!!

Gnome be gone gnome bearers! ROFL! how cool is that! I mean gnomes are totally done to death, so this is a really great, unique lawn ornament! I love how they are carrying the offending gnomes away. It's made out of metal, just like the ones Al makes. :)

A really fun category on the site is called USB gadgets. Now I'm thinking, what, just a bunch of thumb drives like the star wars ones?? NOT! there are some way cool gadgets that are run through your USB ports. there are Lamps, beverage warmers and coolers, and of course thumb drives. But the one that really caught my eye was this missile launcher. It shoots nerf missiles, and can be guided through your computer to shoot at objects. Yep, No WAY! LOL
So, if you love fun and unusual things check the site out. :)

Dan in Life

Last night I watched the movie Dan in Life with Steve Carrell. I really enjoyed the movie. I saw the previews for it last year, and thought that I'd like to see it, but life kind of got in the way and I didn't have a chance to see it till now. It was a cute and funny movie.

Dan is an advice columnist, and throughout the movie, he really needs to take on his own advice. I love how his life is paralleling his daughters lives, but he can't see it. He falls in love with his brother's girlfriend, and her feelings are mutual. And throughout the movie you see how he begins to see how much he needs to follow his own advice on everything.

It is a really cute and charming movie. And like most movies, after going through a bit of hardships, the characters get what they most desire....

I think there's a theme going on here! LOL

Jane Austen book club

I finally watched the Jane Austen Book Club this morning. And I loved it! I've always wanted to watch it, and it was on Cinemax this morning. It was like having 6 Jane Austen stories in one movie. The characters lives kind of paralleled some of the book themes. That was really fun to watch. You know, "after some difficulties, they get everything they desire."

I love the line, "What would Jane Austen do?" I think I have to embroider that on a shirt! LOL

If you haven't seen the movie, it's about 6 people who form a book club to discuss the 6 Jane Austen novels. 4 of them already know each other, and the other two meet members of the group by chance.

I won't say any more to ruin it for anyone if they're planning on seeing it, but if you're a fan of Jane Austen and haven't seen it, it's a must see!

Our first Embroidered logo

So, I've been playing with the embroidery machine all week, and digitizing logos into the computer. This was the first logo that we digitized and embroidered.

I was sad because it didn't fill in the right places, and since it's our first try with different stabilizers, it was kind of puckery. I was thinking, hmm, there's got to be a better way of doing this to make everything work out.

So I played on the computer and moved stitches around the logo so they'd kind of overlap. And I thought I would use a thicker material, I used canvas. And this is what it turned out to look like:
I felt SO much better after seeing it turn out better. all I keep saying now is: "Take that, JoAnn Fabric's woman!" LOL Rookie my sweet patootie! She who couldn't demo any of the machines, take that! LOL She had told Phil that we would not be able to do that, and of course, I'm out to prove her wrong!!

Next step, a T-shirt. I need more thicker stabilizer, and the kind that adheres to the material, cause t-shirt material is so flimsy.

So, you'll see where we go from here.

The San Francisco Zoo

Today I went to the zoo with Debi, Alex, Allie, and Shania. Allie and Shania are visiting here from Colorado. And of course I had to play Japanese Tourist with the camera. LOL

The zoo has these wonderful metal sculptures everywhere. And of course I have to get the girls to take a photo op whenever I can, cause I love to take photos. :) So, here they are at the geese scuplture in the children's zoo portion of the zoo:

Here's Shania on the lion sculpture. She was great! She kept wanting me to take her photo on a sculpture, of course I can't say no.
This is a funny story. This Silverback Gorilla walked over to this stump. And we were cracking up cause he was sitting kinda funny with his hand on his side. We didn't understand why he was doing this until Alex cracks up and says, "He's gonna take a dump" We're thinking, no way is he gonna do that. Boy were we wrong! LOL That is the Gorilla potty right there. And when he has to go #1, he walks over to where the strap is hanging and goes right there. No kidding. lol What was even funnier was he kept looking over his shoulder at us the whole time.
Here's a picture of Debi with the penguins. She's never seen the penguins live in person before, so we had to take her picture with the penguins.
And when we first entered, Shania yells, "There's a heart tree!" And yep, the top of the tree is shaped like a heart! So, of course I had to take a picture for her.
It was a really nice day to get away. I love going to see the animals at the zoo. I'll post more pictures in another post. :)

Sadie Singing

I'm not sure if this is going to work, but here's a video of Sadie singing at the wedding. She was singing "I'm here for the party." And she did a great job! :)

Sorry I've been MIA

This has been a busy week for us! And OMG, I thought I was busy before with the store. :)

One thing that happened this week was our friend Dee got married to Mark. Here's a picture of Dee with her son Bryan:

And here's Jackie as her Maid of Honor (or is it Matron of Honor since she's married?)

Here is a cute picture of Sadie and Jordana:

It's so cool, I finally got to go to a family/friend event since I'm not at the store on Saturdays anymore, and it was really fun.

Kristen, this is the wedding that we made those invitations for! LOL :)

A slideshow

I just wanted to see how a slideshow worked on Blogger.

Day at Santana Row

The girls and I met at Santana Row today for a Gal's day out. We started out the day going to Counters, a really great burger place. You can build your own burger there, and the onion strings are wonderful! Thanks Debi for the suggestion!!

Here I am with Joanne:
Here is Karan and Debi:
And here we are at the movies:
We went to see Mamma Mia at the theater there, and OMG, that was the best movie! I didn't realize that Meryl Streep could sing so well. Pierce Brosnen not so much. He could have used a stand in for his voice. LOL

Loved Colin Firth, he's so cute! LOL And the other dad in the movie was Bootstrap Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean. It took me awhile to figure out who that was, he sounded so familiar.

The girl that played the daughter really was very good. I've seen her in other movies before but didn't realize she could sing so well.

I thought I knew a lot of ABBA songs, ummm, not so much. LOL I really couldn't sing with you at the end, Debi. I didn't know that song. I loved how they incorporated ABBA songs into the whole play/movie. Makes you think that you could pretty much do that with a lot of songs.

Pat met us there at the movies, I'll post a photo of her when I get one. It was great seeing her, I haven't seen her in awhile. It was great catching up with everyone after the movie too. And I think we all just needed a day to play and talk.

I hope we get together again much sooner!

Olympics

I'm so excited, the Olympics started today, and yes, I'll be watching them every day. I just love watching the different sports, that yes, I don't normally watch on a day to day basis. I remember watching them every time they would come on with my folks.

Gymnastics is always a favorite. Although, I don't know who is competing this year, I'll tune in to watch all the events. It's just so cool watching them hoping to see a perfect 10 performance.

I love watching the softball games, and it's sad that this is the last year in the Olympics unless it gets picked up at another time. Starting the 12th, I'll be watching CNBC for the USA games. I'm bummed that the Medal game isn't scheduled to be shown on TV. I hope that they show it on NBC primetime.

Diving is also a favorite, and swimming. And of course Track and Field. I love track and field. Yes, it could be that I was on the track team in high school as a manager. I couldn't do sports cause of health issues, but I could help out. Yes, I was a geek back then. LOL

And we'll watch everything else too I bet, I'm just glad that they're gonna show more of the events this year. I was so bummed during the last summer olympics cause I missed the events that I wanted to watch cause they only showed highlights!

Enjoy!!

My first Quilting project

This is my first quilting project! It's kinda crooked, and things didn't line up perfectly, but I think it's so darn CUTE! LOL. I found the project here.

I had a lot of the material in my material bin. Yes, I had a ton of material even though I've never sewn before. LOL I used to do iron on appliques before, cause heck, I didn't want to sew.

Now I just can't get enough of sewing! I'll post my other tries, I just wanted to see how easy it was. It took a long time for me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I was trying to watch Majide (I survived a Japanese Game Show). But I hope that the more I do it, the easier it will get!

Baby Opossum

Tonight Phil looked out the back door to find a baby opossum! It's so cute! It's a little smaller than a beanie baby. It looked like a little rat! LOL I had to try 3 times to get a picture of it. And taking pictures through the screen door at night just does not work!
It was enjoying the cat food that I leave outside for the outside kitties. I wish I could put something to scale next to it so you can see how tiny it really is!

Mac and cheese

Phil made this really awesome Mac and cheese tonight. He put ham in it too. He used velveeta, milk, colby jack cheese, baked it, then before it came out put cheddar cheese on top. Oh, it was very yummy, but a heart attack waiting to happen! LOL