My belated Valentine's gift.....

My hubby and I don't typically celebrate Valentines. But since we have been so busy lately we thought it would be the perfect time to spend some much needed time together. So on Saturday we celebrated Valentine's Day our way. Which included antiquing in Old Town Tomball and then dinner at BJ's brewery. When we got home Aaron surprised me with my Valentine's Day gift that finally came in. It is two yards of custom made fabric from Spoonflower.

I had never heard of this before, he actually found it online. He designed the fabric himself with my little angel Abby on it. Little does he know that this has just opened my eyes to a whole new fabric world of custom fabric!

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!
In Texas we had perfect weather which made for a beautiful weekend!

Adorable Quilted Baby Boots

We are home from our small town fun. Before we left we made these adorable quilted baby boots.
They where pretty easy and of course fun to make. I got this Curby's Closet pattern from Quilters Crossing.

We had problems finding Western fabrics but finally came across this little buckaroo flannel fabric at Hancocks. I did the pointy toe option but you could also do a round toe. I'm going to try to find blue jean fabric and bandana fabric and maybe try the round toe. I liked this pattern so much that I'm probably going to get the little girl Mary Jane pattern also.



When downloading the pictures off my camera I thought these ones where cute. The first one is Abby's mother Roo looking down on her babies and grandbaby "in jail." They where in the backyard playing while we where trimming nails so only three of them have made it into jail. These three jailbirds are Condi (Abby's sister), Abby, and Stitch (Abby's nephew).

The second one is Abby enjoying her couch sleeping time. She is not allowed on the couch at home so she spends as much time on it as she can when she goes for a visit to see her family.

And after a long day of running the field and playing with her family she was wore out!

Now introducing Miss Abby

I realized that I have not officially introduced my little helper.
So I'm proud to introduce you to Miss Abby Lou

She is a wonderful helper that is always by my side! She often finds things that I have dropped on the floor that I can't find. She also helps me bake, she is always a willing taste tester! And of course she always reminds me to take a break so that she can go for a walk!

So here it goes, about me........

So here goes my first attempt at craft blogging. I have been photo and family blogging on my personal family blog, but now I gonna attempt to blog to my fellow crafters. I have been reading so many amazing craft blogs and participating in the wonderful tutorials so I thought it was time to give back to the craft blog community.

So let's start with introducing myself. My name is Christine, I am the wife of my wonderful husband Aaron and mother of my adorable 6 year old basset hound Abby. I am a senior at Sam Houston State University at the College of Business.

I remember as a child watching my mother sew and her making clothes for me and my sister. Sadly she died of cancer when I was a preteen so she never had the chance to teach me to sew. I have hauled her sewing machine with me throughout my life and have said one day I am going to learn to sew. So this past summer I decided it was time to pull it out and finally learn how to use it. Since it hasn't been used in at least 18 years it wasn't working very well and would need a lot of work. So my husband bought me a slightly used Singer sewing machine from a friend. Since my Grandmother, Aunt, cousin and some friends all quilt, I decided I would give it a try.

So here are my craft and baking projects, since I am a college student I am going to try to do them as frugally as possible!