My husband took time last weekend to frame in and add walls around my craft area in the basement, making it a full fledged room.  Yay!  The problem is, my crafts are out of control and my room is reflecting that.  With all the yarn, fabric, threads, felt, scrapbooking supplies…it looks like a craft store exploded in there!

I’m looking for some organizing tips!  I need help getting this under control.  How do you store your scrapbooking supplies?  Your yarn?  Fabric?  Miscellaneous craft supplies?  Beads?
Thank you for your ideas, and I’m sure my husband thanks you too (he’s tired of looking at the clutter in there )

So I wanted to make a pincushion that was jazzier and more *me* than the generic red tomato ones everyone seems to have. So with the inspiration of Heather Bailey and a pattern I drew myself and my new fabric I got on clearance, I made a new one!

Ain’t she beeeeeeutiful? One would think all was well and it turned out almost flawless. Until you look at it from a different angle:

Yipes! I have no idea why it did that. I cut each piece into equal pieces and was careful sewing the seams, and even tried to stuff it evenly, so I don’t get why it’s uneven. Any ideas?

I had previously posted that I have started sewing cloth diapers for my daughter, and since then I’ve fallen in love with them! They are easy and fast to work up, and you can make them so cute and functional. Plus, I love seeing Elizabeth wearing them, and knowing that my work is getting used

I went to get some more diaper flannel from our local fabric shop the other day, and I fell in love with some of the printed flannel that they had on sale. I decided that I wanted to try some diapers with a hidden waterproof layer, so I can use the fun prints on the outside. I just couldn’t resist the cats and lions:

These will make some cute diapers, and they will be unisex so if our next child is a boy, he can wear them too! I also couldn’t pass up a couple of more girly prints – multi colored dots and purple hippos:

But the cutest fabric I found was the monkey print…I just fell in love with it because it is so darn cute!! In fact I had to buy all that they had, just because I loved it so much! I can picture diapers with this print and a chocolate brown inside, and I just know they will turn out adorable.

However, I will not be using it all up for the diapers, so I think I’ll be making a taggie for Elizabeth out of it, and then I will have so much left over. What should I make with it? Any thoughts or suggestions?

If you know me at all, you know I am not a tea set kind of gal. I was a tomboy, and at the age of 25, I’m just starting to get a little girly. But I have been in search of the perfect tea set. My great grandma had one that I remember playing with, but after she died it got lost in the clean up, never to be found again. A lot of antique tea sets I have seen are super cheesy and well, ugly. Gold-rimmed, scalloped edges – totally not my style. But when I found this on eBay last week it was pretty and reminded me of the tea set my grandma had. So I began the frantic (and blood-pressure raising) bidding. Obviously I won and I can not tell you the relief I had when I saw the green check on the screen followed by the words, “You won!”

It arrive on Monday and I can’t stop looking at it. I think it’s one of the prettiest things I’ve ever seen. It inspired me to make some tea towels and embroider what else but tea cups and flowers on them. However, I’ve never made tea towels before. I’m just getting into sewing and learning about fabric, so I don’t even know the best material to use to make kitchen towels. I suppose I could just buy some plain white ones, but how fun is that? So dear Daisy readers, can anyone enlighten me as to what kind of material to use for tea towels?