day 28 : purple

(Yum!)

Well, today is the last day of thing-a-day for this year. February was a long month! Thanks everyone for hanging with me. I think next year if I play along I'll do it a little differently, like maybe four larger projects, one for each week, and I'll work a bit each day on them.

I'm going to take a few days off from blogging, but I'll be back next week. Have a great weekend!

day 27 : blue

Close up of a very fun button on a vintage handmade dress I found this week at the thrift store. Love it!

day 26 : green

A warm welcome to those of you coming from the Sew, Mama, Sew blog! :)

(Sew, Mama, Sew pulled together some really cute fabric bookmark tutorials (you can find that post right here) and one of them was my fabric bookmarks I made back in August. Cool!)

For my green photo today: green stuff that I found on and around my craft table. Makes me want to stop sorting things by type and sort them by color instead. :)

And I thought I'd share another photo of the daffodils that I posted about earlier in the month. They're still doing ok. A little yellow, but ok. Soon we'll have flowers!

day 25 : yellow

day 24 : orange

I've had this quilt top finished since early last summer and I pulled it out recently to quilt it. My original plan was to hand quilt it, but the other day I started machine quilting it to get it finished faster. Unfortunately, I'm not liking it! I still haven't decided if I'll rip it all out and hand quilt or just keep machine quilting.. Ever notice how some projects just don't want to get finished?!

day 23 : red

Today is day one of color week. If you decide to play along on your blog, please post a comment on this post! :)
Heaven is a fresh strawberry paczki straight from Hamtramck (paczki is pronounced "poonch-key"). Am I cheating because it's not Fat Tuesday yet? Oh well, it was so good. And I'll eat a custard one tomorrow. And then workout.

day 22 : socks!

My first knitted socks! I had so much fun with these, and it's not difficult at all. I have no idea what took me so long to try it. I already went and bought more sock yarn (I'm thinking about Christmas gifts! Hand knit socks would be the perfect gift, don't you think?).

The heel wasn't scary for me, because I've done the same sort of thing when I made those felted baby balls. The toe needed to be grafted, which I had no clue how to do but I did a quick search on You Tube and found this video. At about 5 minutes in she walks you through grafting the toe.

I used Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Sock Yarn in HS08 Marino and this sock "recipe." I wear size 9 shoes and they are a bit too small for me, so if you have big feet like me you might want to make them a little longer. :)

day 21 : little house

Just a silly craft today, little paper houses. I printed a house template (found here) and used that to cut them out of scrapbook paper. I just layered the printed house on top of the scrapbook paper and cut them both at the same time.

I added a roof, a different colored door, and even curtains. I had some scraps of chipboard that I made the bases from and covered them with more paper. Wouldn't these be cute all decked out for Christmas?

day 20 : paint chip notepads

Today I made these cute matchbook notepads out of paint chips and old computer paper (you know the kind that's all attached with ridges on the sides?). I love them. Don't they look perfect for spring and Easter? I have them available here in my shop.

day 19 (and 18) : tomatoes

Sorry about not posting yesterday. I'm a little bored with this thing-a-day thing but I'm too stubborn to quit it, so I worked on these little tomato pincushions instead. I finished two of them last night and a few more today so I'm counting this for both days. :)

It's the "homegrown" tomato pincushion from Martha. I made the heirloom ones. Quick and easy and pretty cute. I'm thinking of putting them in my shop.. is that allowed or would it be a no-no because I got it from Martha?

I'm not sure what I'll do for the rest of this week for thing-a-day, but next week I'm thinking about color week. Red for Monday, orange for Tuesday and so on until we get to purple on Saturday. Anyone want to play along? I was inspired by Erin's yellow week.

day 17 : soap

I've been making this shaving soap for a while now and I just love it. The regular shaving creams freak me out with their crazy mystery ingredients and overpowering synthetic fragrances. So this is what I use. I know it's not pretty but it works really well and has a nice mellow, herbal scent thanks to the herbal infusion and a little essential oil. And one bar will last months and months.

I got the recipe from a book titled "Ageless Natural Beauty." You can find a free preview of it right here, and the recipe for this soap is on page 181.

day 16 : yellow

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for spring. Only 20 more days until daylight saving time starts again.. Why do we stop with daylight saving time anyways? That would certainly make winter a little easier to handle, don't you think?

That rose photo somehow made me think about these amazing moss terrariums I had stashed away in my Etsy favorites and I thought maybe you'd all enjoy them as well. Here's a photo of one:

(Photo by made by mavis)

You can find them here in her shop. And here's the one that's pictured above. I love moss. :)

day 15 : knitting

Working on my first pair of socks! I thought it would be scary and difficult but it's been fun.

day 14 : candlelight

yesterday's thing-a-day : Day 13 : chocolates!

I didn't post my thing-a-day for yesterday yet, so I'll do that now and later I'll post my photo for today (once I take it!).

Yesterday my sweet Valentine brought home chocolates for me from my favorite shop. God, these things are good! And they're so pretty..

Hope you're all having a lovely Valentine's Day!