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Just a quick note to say - HOORAY! I have joined Twitter. All you tweeters out there send me a note @SherriSylvester. I'll be posting links to fun tutorials, notes about life and links to the most fantastic blog ever (this one of course!). All kidding aside, I think...
{hope you had a} Merry Christmas
We've been busy this season with visits from cousins and delicious dinners. I thought I would share a [very] few photos of what we have been up to. We've been to our local science center and had a great day off with cousins and grandpa and grandma. We opened a few...
Yum! Christmas Cookies
I think we might have time to make my family's traditional butter tarts - after Christmas - this year! Instead we baked up some melting snowman cookies for our friends and neighbors. These cookies are really kid friendly. The girls had great fun helping out. My older...
A Christmas Shirt
FINALLY! I have finished a second Christmas project (not counting the "zillion" things I have made as gifts). One more to go - hopefully tomorrow night.. and only after I finish the last 2 Christmas gifts. That means I will have finished everything a whole 5 days...
New Fabric
A few weeks ago we visited family in Ohio. Luckily they lived near a Jo-Ann Fabric store, unluckily we didn't have much time to spend there, luckily I didn't have time to buy the store out! Here's what I found in half an hour... The two fabrics on the left were...
YaEEEeeeeyyyy!!!!!
Ok, so I'm super excited to say that my tutorial was posted in "Today's Top Patterns" (ie: the FRONT PAGE - YaEEEeeeey!) on the SewSet website today! Okay, I'm more than super excited, I'm ecstatic! Just ask my husband, he can confirm that I am grinning like a crazy...
Made by Me Monday – Easy Merry (Christmas) Pillow
I have seen so many Christmas tutorials in the last few weeks and I'm dying to try all (or at least some!) of them. Finally last night I took a break from my Christmas present sewing to make this. Easy Merry (Christmas) Pillow I have been wanting to make one of these...
Mini Art Kit (mini) Tutorial – Printable!
For those of you who are on pins and needles waiting for the Mini Art Kit Printable Topper - you are in luck! Here it is. I posted the instructions for the mini birthday goodie bag kit last week and here is the finishing touch. Instructions: 1) Use the Mini Art Kit...
Made by Me Monday – Stroller Blanket
Last year while walking to and from school I tried at least 7,000 things to keep a blanket on my youngest daughter. I didn't really want to put snow pants on her if she was just going to stay in the stroller, but the blankets kept falling off and getting caught in the...
Happy December 1st!
Yesterday we started putting up our Christmas things. We put on some Christmas music, and then the perfect thing happened - it started to snow! Big, beautiful perfectly white snow flakes. The girls were so excited to go outside. We scrambled into snowsuits and new...