Yet another page from the quiet book

Not as exciting as others...but it's in there so i'm sharing it with you! Just a simple shape-matching game but Des really likes velcro and pulling stuff off. I have another couple of pages yet to go but I have to scan them in and my printer is currently in a pile in my hallway. Ya know, with all the other stuff that's been moved so we can finish our floors? Yeah. Kinda makes me crazy but I'm doing my best to keep walking around it and not stress. Big piles of stuff and I don't really get along.

Next page to scan/post is a Noah's Ark page! I got the finger puppets from IKEA so its all ready for action. Soon to be posted!

While I figure out what I'm doing with my life...

I'm going to let you see another page in Des' quiet book!

In other news, the day after I got home from ABQ, we found out that the hardwood floor place was having a sale so we took the plunge and bought 500 sq ft of lovely wood flooring! So not only was I trying to catch up on laundry and housecleaning, we were tearing up our nasty carpet and scrrrraaaaping up our yucky linoleum and laying down beautiful "Golden Teak" floors. Hopefully we'll be finished with the kitchen this weekend and I'll post pictures. Next on the list: find an area rug and get our state tax return to *maybe* get some carpet for the upstairs. We'll see. I'm kinda tired. Kolt said we're paying someone to put our carpet in though so maybe it won't be so bad.  

That's it for now. I need to take some pictures of Des and his cute little hair-trim my sister did. Apparently last week was the week for haircuts (all the grandbabies on Kolt's side had haircuts, plus me and Des). 

Cars!!

Ok, so I feel bad to just post the boring, old apple tree for today PLUS I'm super excited to show you my newest page!

The wheels button on and off...and that's about it. Kolt says its dumb but I don't care. It's cute!!  :D

The Finished Apple Tree

I finished the Apple Tree page. I just added the basket so you can stick the apples in it when you "pick" them. I didn't want to do it out of felt because the velcro would just stick. I know its not that exciting but it's something. 

Oh and GLEE COMES BACK TONIGHT!!! AAAAAAAHHH I'm so excited. Oh man. It's replace my used-to-be-favorite-show-Bones-but-then-they-completely-RUINED-the-subplot-that-kept-us-all-watching and I am seriously hooked. 

Piggie Bank Page

I finished this cute page last night and I love it! I had to figure out how to make the "money" and I'm happy with how it turned out. The "coins" are just images I found on the internet printed on silver and copper silky-polyester fabric. Then I sewed with matching silver/copper thread around the images and cut them out. The paper money is actually fabric I ran across at Joann's that was PERFECT. Seriously. perfect for this page. I just cut it out and sewed up the sides. Unfortunately the fabric only had full images of the fronts of the bills so each one has the same image on both sides. But I figured it wasn't that big of a deal.

In other sewing news...I was thinking I might start a different blog where I stick all my quiet book pages and other sewing stuff in. And I'd allow google searches to pick it up (this blog I don't.) Also, the main reason for doing a sewing blog would be to round up contact info for fabric stores around utah because I've found THEY NEVER ADVERTISE IN THE YELLOW PAGES. All the fabric stores around here that I know of are just by accident or word of mouth. SUPER annoying if you are trying to find cute fabric and all you know is Joann's. They rarely have something special that you just gotta have. Perhaps I'd even write a little description of what they offer (i.e. Amy Butler/ or quilting fabric/ or contemporary prints--like IKEA) .

I was going to just have people send me the info as well as asking around for cute places. I dunno. What do all you sewing/crafting/cute people out there think? Would you appreciate the work that would go into this? Is it a waste of time? Am I trying to create a monster?! :)

OR even better... I just had this idea. We could set it up with several authors who could post stuff like projects and info and do it that way. I know several of the cousins are crafty, crafty, crafty... Or we could do the "guest post" thing too if you don't want to commit.

Anyway, let me know. Thanks!

The next page in Des' quiet book

It's kind of simple but way fun still. The flowers are removable and have pipe cleaners in the stems so they're bendy. We took this to church last Sunday and the little girls behind us LOVED the flowers so we shared.

Sewing the "vase" was tricky but after unpicking the sides a few times I employed my walking foot on my sewing machine and the problem was solved. The fabric was too slippery for the normal foot. I did the top of the vase a little bigger so it hangs out a bit for easy flower-sticking/access.

Under the sea

I tried saving this and posting it after a few days and it wouldn't publish it at the top of my blog...so sorry if it's messed up for you.

But here's another installment for the quiet book. The creatures have magnets and I have to make a fishing pole so Des can go fishing. Hopefully it doesn't end up being a catapult in the middle of church...but even then my ward is pretty awesome and would just laugh. There are BILLIONS of babies. Billions. in my ward. And who ever has the best toys during sunday school gets them all! haha it's awesome. ANYWAY! The critters were ok to make, the octopus was a pain and still didn't turn out how I wanted. But I figured Des wouldn't care. The boot was my favorite and the easiest too!

A page in progress

The classic Apple Tree page. It's missing the basket to put the apples in when you pick them but I'm still happy with how it turned out. The leaves don't come off, they're just cute. Des even stole it when I was scanning it in and started trying to pull off the apples! That's a success in my book. And the trunk is some cool felt I found at Joann's that had a pattern on it like wood. Neat, huh?

I'm in love

With this page!! I decided that Des needs a quiet book for church. The past two weeks he has been bouncing off the walls and the toys in the diaper bag WILL NOT DO. I finished this little beauty last night and I'm so happy with how it turned out. The boat is hooked to the zipper so it "sails" back and forth as you pull on it. The sun and cloud snap on and off and I think I'm going to make a rainbow and a seagull so that they can be interchanged (since there's a nifty pocket in the ocean to store stuff). I'm going to put some grommets on the left side so that's why there's a bunch of empty space.

I have a ton of other awesome pages planned including the classic "Apple Tree" and a Noah's Ark with Animal finger puppets from IKEA if I ever get there before they stop selling them. If they have, well...I'll figure something else out. Another one I'm looking forward to is an "Under the Sea" one with fish, an octopus, and perhaps a old boot. I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do magnets sewn in the creatures or if they'll just be velcro or what. Magnets would make for some fun fishing with a little pole...

Do you have any cool ideas for my quiet book?

P.S. sorry the photo wasn't working Friday. Stinking Picasa.