Elisabeth

We have been so blessed with wonderful women in our lives. One of them is Elisabeth, I met her some 12 years ago and our ties are bigger than life. She has always been a great inspiration to me she and her girls introduced me first to scrap booking and later to quilting. I made my very first quilt with her. We had the opportunity to see her in Idaho for Miss M's birthday and I asked her for a picture with us. I love her, she is amazing.

Erika

little Guy's Ties

My Parents are safe home and we are getting back to normal, I usually send presents to family and this time I made something very special for our little guy. He is the youngest grandkid and the only boy. Since is kind of hard to make things for boys I struggle until I found this pattern and I just imagine my nephew. the Ties turn very cute and I made 12! not all for him but for a couple more little guys that still my heart too.
Have a great Day!
Erika

Enjoying Grandparents

It has been two weeks since mom and dad arrived to our home it has been great! Last weekend we all went to Darlette's place to celebrate the baptism of miss MC into our Church. I got this picture of my mom enjoying the grand kids at the supermarket. They are like bees with honey (and she loves it!)
Tomorrow I'll posts Blocks 2 & 4 of the quilt along, Stay tuned!
Erika

Long time not see you

Yes I am still here, this is the first time I have been gone for so long. but hey tomorrow fall starts so officially my summer is over LOL.
We had a great summer family visit us from all over and miss A started K school! She is loving it and her sisters are slowly adjusting to the big change.

Miss A loves school
meanwhile miss G and miss K are bonding...
and wishing they could go to school too Cheers,
Erika

Miss G

Miss G turn 4 this weekend. Last Friday I started sewing a Hat for her using this tutorial. I bought enough material to make for all girls using Sweet Water fabric; the other material was a repurpuse a kaki skirt that I ruined with a highlighter. Miss G saw the material and asked me "mommy are you making me a dress too" So I felt very obligated to make her a dress. so here is the result:
Miss G cumplio 4 anos este fin de semana. El viernes pasado empece a hacerle un sombrero usando este tutorial. Compre suficiente tela para hacerles a todas sombreros, use tela de Sweet Water un rosita muy lindo con estrellas, la otra parte del sombrero es tela que reutilice de una falda de lona que se me aruino con un marcatextos. Cuando Miss G me vio cosiendo me pregunto si tambien le iba a hacer un vestido. asi es que me vi obligada a sacrificar mi projecto para hacer a una linda nina feliz y esto es lo que salio:

I love the picture Miss G had no problem posing for me!

Me encanta la foto Miss G no tubo problema en posar para mi!

Have a great day!
Erika

CSA Farms

Last time Darlette came to visit she asked me if I know of a place where she could buy organic meat or grass grown beef. At that time I couldn't give her an answer. Yesterday Hubby brought a flyer advertising Roberts Ranch I went to check it out and found out that is part of the CSA farms project to bring organic foods to people.
I also found this video PBS documentary Food Inc. and Nation wide you can find local farmers at local farmers.org great place to find quality food.
On the other hand and talking about gardening. I planted all my tomato plants (13) Bell peppers (7) Jalapenos (6) zucchini, and spaghetti squash. I hope to plant the rest when the weather gets better.
Cheers,
Erika

Pioneer Dress

First of all, Happy Mothers Day! I hope you had a wonderful day.

Darlette's oldest daughter is participating a play called "Stone Soup"based on pioneer times. So Darlette made her this cute dress. The pattern is McCalls M9424
La hija mayor de Darlette esta paticipando en una obra llamada "Stone soup"basada en los tiempos de los pioneros. Asi es que Darlette le hizo este lindo vestido. El patron es McCalls M9424.
Have a great Day!
Erika

Crazy Weather

Nothing like the crazy Utah weather, Friday and Saturday we enjoy this:
Nada como el clima loco de Utah, el Viernes y Sabado disfrutamos:
Seeds germinating yay!
Semillas germinando yay!
Daddy and girls making their versoin of "butterfly catchers"
Hijas y esposo haciendo su version unica de "redes para atrapar mariposas"

Flowers blooming,
Flores abriendo, and baby girl tryed her first sandals, something new and interesting to her.
y una pequena usando sus primeras sandalias, super lindo verla que hacia con sus pies.

On Sunday we woke up with no power and lots of this:
Para despertar el Domingo sin luz y un monton de nieve.
Crazy!

Enjoy your day!

Erika

Art Gallery B-Day Party

Last Saturday we had an Art Gallery party for Cosey. We ate a rainbow of fruits, cake and cookies.

El pasado sabado fue la fiesta de Galeria de Arte para Cosey. Comimos un arcoiris de frutas, pastel y galletas.

We had different stations to do art projects.
1st. a self portrait.

Tubimos diferentes mesas de actividades para hacer diferentes tipos de proyectos.
Primero un Autoretrato.

2nd a Watercolor
segundo, una acuarela .

To be safe I made an apron for each of the guest with their names embroidered. It was part of the favors.

Para estar segura hice delantales para cada una de las invitadas con su nombre bordado y como parte de los regalitos que les dimos.

3rd a clay sculpture of a Bird

Tercero hicimos una escultura de un pajarito.

4th we had face painting and 5th we took pictures with an old frame.

Cuarto les pintamos la cara y quinto usamos un marco y sacamos fotos.

I made this cookies for the party.
Hice estas galletas para la fiesta.


And this little cupcakes for the parents, and the big cupcakes for Cosey's school class on Monday.

Y estos pequenos pastelitos para los papas, los pastelitos grandes fueron para la escuela de Cosey el Lunes.


We had a lot of fun. I found the party Idea here. and the cookies her and I learn to do the cookies from here.

Nos divertimos muchisimo. Encontre la idea de la fiesta aqui y las galletas aqui y aprendi a hacer las galletas aqui.


Have a beautiful day.
Que tengan un hermoso dia.

Christmas Gifts

I have been so lucky with dear family that know what I love, Monika and Darlette send me these presents. Darlette made me a beautiful stocking (one for each of us), the book Simplify by Camille Roskelley, and a Bliss charm pack. the book is wonderful, truly a perfect gift for me. Now the rest of the things you see are from Monika, she went to Japan in November and thought I might like all this things. She wraped them each one separately so I was truly feeling like kids happy happy! Monika send me a beautiful patchwork book, a crochet book and a craft Magazine so cute, two fat quarters, silk buttons, wood handles and wood beets. I am already planning all the projects I want to make form all this books. Happy for my family and their kindness and love for me.

He sido muy bendecida cun una linda familia que me ama, Monika y Darlette me mandaron estos lindos regalitos. Darlette me hizo la bota (a cada uno de nosotros), ademas el libro de Camille Roskelley Simplify y un charm pack de Biss tambien disenado por Camille. El libro esta lindisimo lo recomiendo en verdad un regalo perfecto para mi. El resto de las cosas en la foto me las regalo Monika, Ella fue a Japon en Noviembre y penso que me gustarian estas cositas! imaginen la sorpresa pues envolvio todo separado y me sentia parte de las ninas abriendo regalitos. Monika me mando un libro de patchwork, uno de crochet, y una revista de crafts ademas de dos fat quarters, un paquete de botones de seda, cuentas de madera y unas agaraderas de madera. Ya estoy planeando que es lo que voy a hacer los proximos meses. Feliz por mi familia que son tan especiales y me aman mucho.

Mini quilt

Last week I made this cute mini quilt for my future nephew. I used some brown and blue minky, and part of a charm pack from Lily and Will by Moda. The pink fabric will be for a mini quilt for KayLee.
La semana pasada hice este mini acolchado para mi futuro sobrino. Use cafe y azul de una tela de punto y parte de un charm pack de la line Lily and Will de las telas Moda. Las telas rosas seran para una colchita para KayLee.
To be honest I did not like working with a mix of knits and cotton it was a pain, but the end result is worth the battle. I quilted it using the lollipop design by Leah.
La verdad es que no me gusto mucho trabajar con la combinacion de la tela de punto y el tejido plano de algodon realmente fue una batalla, pero el resultado bien valio la pena. Lo acolche usando el diseno de lollipop de Leah.

Saludos,
Erika

Warming Up

On black Friday, I found this fabric on sale (regular 19.99 /yard) so I got 1/2 yard to make some ear warmers and scarfs.
I made one ear warmer for my DH and each of the girls and a scarf for Cosey and me. At the end each piece was $1, No bad.

El dia despues de Dia de gracias encontre esta tela en oferta (precio normal 19.99por yarda), asi que compre media yarda para hacer unas bandas para las orejas para las ninas y mi esposo y unas bufandas para Cosey y para mi. Al final cada pieza salio en $1, nada mal verdad.
I embroidered a snow flake on the girl's ear warmers with her names
Le borde un copo de nieve a cada banda de orejas para las ninas con sus nombres.

Cosey
Cami Andy
And some Snowman on the scarf.
(No embroideries on DH's)
Y un par de munecos de nieve para las bufandas.
(No bordados para mi esposo)

Have a wonderful day
DarletteCraft

Thankful

I am thankful for a loving family, that teaches me everyday the meaning of true happiness. The little simple things are the things that make life worth living.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Erika

Busy?

Well busy is an understatement of our situation over our homes. At the end of October Darlette and I decided to join Elizabeth Hartman's Tokyo subway quilt along. One of the great things is that my dear sis and I love the same things and we decided to share our scraps to make the quilt more interesting. So we technically started when Elizabeth just finished showing the last two blocks of 25. The construction of the blocks is really not difficult what makes it a challenge is when you add a helpful 5 year old, a curious 3 year old, and a always needy 8 month old baby (oh yes, and 3 visits to the dentist this last week). So some days I just can sew a line, some others I could do as many as four blocks. In short, I am on block 21 of 25, hoping to finish some time soon but next week looks as busy as it ever could, (one more dentist trip, one doctor's checkup for baby and big sis and a trip to meet BIL to send goodies to sis and then Thanksgiving, and black Friday, any thing else?).
Decir que estamos ocupadas es poco, Al final de Octubre Darlette y yo decidimos unirmos al quilt along de Elizabeth Hartman Tokyo subway. Lo mejor de tener una hermana gemela es que somos muy similares en cuanto al gusto y nos gusta hacer muchas cosas juntas, compartimos nuestras telas para este acolchado y asi hacerlo con colores y telas mas variados. Tecnicamente empezamos cuando Elizabeth termino de dar los blocks 24 y 25. El hacer los blocks no es dificil pero si le agregamos, una ayudanta de 5 anos, una curiosa de 3 y una bebita de 8 meses que necesita que mama le de de comer cada rato esto realmente se complica. Hay dias que solo he podido cocer una linea y otras que he podido hacer hasta 4 blocks. En resumen estoy en el block 21 de 25, espero poder terminar pronto aunque esta semana se ve aun mas ocupada que las otras (visitas al doctor, dentista, encontrarse con el cunado para mandar cosas a mi hermana ademas de que el jueves es dia de gracias (igual de importante o mas que navidad) y el viernes es el famoso viernes negro en donde hay las mejores ventas del ano. Necesito algo mas?)

I decided to make this quilt for many reasons but mostly because it means a lot to my hubby, you see he lived in Japan for more than 12 years and even though he spend most of his time in the Osaka-Kyoto area, Japan is Japan and is very dear to him.
Okay that is my side of the story.
Darlette's story goes like this: besides the Tokyo subway quilt, she decided to make quilt for her family for Christmas, two queen and two tween size quilts! so she is working on all of them at the same time.. you see no much to show you just lots and lots of work and nothing done aggh!
I hope you are less busy than us...
Decidi hacer este acolchado por muchas razones pero mas que nada por que representa mucho para mi esposo, veran el vivio por mas de 12 anos en Japon, habla perfectamente el japones y aunque paso la mayor parte de su tiempo en el area de Osaka y Kyoto pero el sentimiento de los metros Japoneses esta alli.
Okay esta es mi historia.
La de Darlette va asi: Ademas de el metro de Tokyo Darlettedecidio que para navidad iba a hacer acolchados para toda su familia, ahora ella esta haciendo dos acolchados tamano queen y dos tamano individual todos simultaneamente... asi es que como ven no hay mucho que mostrar pero mucho que terminar aggh!
Espero que ustedes esten menos ocupadas que nosotras...

'till next time
Erika

A Little Something for My DH

A few weeks ago I found a picture on the web about a nice project and I loved it, specially because I could make one for my DH. So I made this.
Hace unas semanas encontre en la Web una foto de un proyecto que me gusto, especialmente porque puedo hacer uno para mi querido Esposo. Asi que hice este.

He is going to Texas on a trip next week and I found this useful, Maybe he will say it is too fancy for a tie, but I don't care.
Mi esposo va aTexas la proxima semana y pense que seria util en su viaje, Alomejor el va a pensar que es demaciado para las corbatas pero no me molesta.

Have a wonderful Weekend
DarletteCraft