VBS is tomorrow

Well the rest of the weekend was quiet and I got some rest and had a wonderful father's day dinner with my family at this local BBQ place...it was so much fun.

We all dressed up for VBS today at church in our best park ranger outfits ...its going to be great getting to see all the wonderful kids and are there faces light up when they see the church and the decorations ...but especially the wonderful lives that are going to be changed with this week and all the hard work that everyone has put in to it.


The first lesson for the week is PEACE! So I'm asking anyone who reads this to be praying for peace in the midst of the storm that will be the first day of VBS!

Thanks...and
Enjoy!

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Gone but not forgotten

Well, VBS decorations are almost done and just a weekend away from one crazy week of kids, crafts, and crazy-ness!

My room turned out great and I am so proud of how it turned out. I can't wait to see the kids faces when they see it for the first time.
I wish there was a way that I could do this for a living...just craft, create and decorate away and make a pay check...instead of spending all my money on making crafts...lol...but seriously I would love that. Sigh...lol




I haven't been able to check out many blogs or even write any of my own lately because of the crazy busy schedule ...but I have not forgotten the koi pond and have lots of pics and tutorials to post after Vbs.

Till then check out these amazing pillow's...
http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2011/03/tutorial-sprocket-pillows.html?m=1

Enjoy!

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An oldie, but a goodie

In my attempt to make ruck sacks for the vbs kids that will be in my class week after next...i some how broke my Baby Lock sewing machine...or atleast mess up the timming on it. So after a few choice words and a "bobin-emergency"phone call too my mother I decided to pull out my old Singer 301 sewing machine. I had snapped the cord for the presser foot...so I thought but I think the sewing farry came by some time and fixed it because I could not find the broken spot in the wire.

Thank God too because I have sew much to do before vbs starts up. :p

In making the straps for the sacks I realized that I had forgotten how much I love sewing on this machine. It is incredibaly fast and strong and sews really straight lines (without the other presser foots...it will only sew a straight line...lol)

And there is some thing about these old all metal sewing machines...the sound is like music. None of that clickity-clackity like the plastic ones...no offence to my baby lock which I love. But the sound of a 50+ year old machine is like music. And the SMELL...man, the age and grease and metal on metal creates a smell that instantly brought me back to my child hood and the smell of my mother sewing away at christmas time...making presents for us.

There is just no beating that experience coming rushing back at ya...

I'm pretty lucky to have been given such a treasured antique that was first my grandmothers and then my mothers and now mine...i plan on passing it down to Betsy some day ands I hope she too will appreciate it's sounds ands smells and sewing some day.

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Pillow Case Back Packs and VBS

It's been one of those weeks. I have been going non-stop Monday through Today and I am worn out!
One of my biggest jobs right now is planning for VBS (Vacation Bible School). We are doing the Sonrise National Park theme at my new church and I'm loving it. I have the Park ranger outfit all ready to go and hiking boots...etc. Now I'm just looking for good ways to decorate my room. I have already come up with a few ideas for bunting banners, wall decorations and such...but my biggest chore has been an Adventure Trek Guide for all my kids (I'm teaching 3rd grade class this year).

I finally added the finishing touch to the file on Publisher, now I just need to proof it and get it printed and ready to make copies. I plan on binding them like the MADE post from yesterday by sewing down the middle of the book. Check out the POST on how to do that here!

I would really love to have little backpacks for each of my kids to put their books and prizes and crafts in each day to take home with them...but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that much sewing in the next week. Right now I'm working on a "lanyard" idea for there name tags...we'll see how that turns out.

Check out this Martha Stewart tutorial that I found tonight while looking for bags to make for the kids!

Martha Stewart Living, June 2007

Give an orphaned pillowcase a new home -- over your shoulder.
1. Trim 1/4 inch off the closed end, and cut the case in half on the diagonal. Turn the fabric of each of the four diagonal cut edges over by 1/4 inch, twice; pin, and hem.
2. Place one pillowcase half inside the other, lining up bottom edges; pin, and sew at front where fabrics overlap. Repeat on other side. Turn fabric inside out, and hem case's cut bottom. Trim with pinking shears. Turn case right side out, tie top ends into a knot, and you have a carefree summer bag.
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I also found this one on making pillowcase backpacks from
 Little Birdie Secrets
Pillowcase Backpack Tutorial

Sewn Journal from MADE Blog

Check out this amazing tutorial by Dana on June 5, 2012

on making little books for your childs summer adventures.

I think I'm going to make some of my own for the kids in my VBS (Vacation Bible School) class to keep track of there scripture verses and if they memoriezed them or not, as well is if they were good and listened and obeyed! As well, I think Betsy would love something like this for her coloring and Mickey Mouse Sticker Collection. (When I make some I'll post pics!)

ENYOY!
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These are pretty self-explanatory:• cardstock
• photocopied papers
• then sew it down the middle.

Check out the Original Tutorial HERE!