Sewing adventures: kitty pillow!

I was quite excited to set up my sewing machine after a few years of it sitting in a closet. As much as I love sewing by hand, golly, I am completely enamored by the speed and accuracy of a sewing machine. Am hooked! 

One of the things I aspire for most in life is making cute things. Thus, I was quite pleased with this test sewing project. 

If you're interested in what I used to make the cute faces of this two-faced pillow: some felt and a hot glue gun. Also this project took less than an hour. :) 

Happy Sunday!!!! xxxx

Vintage magazine pages make lovely wall decorations!

When I go out antiquing, I usually end up at looking at old magazines or newspapers. I'll then usually end up buying the magazine (prices typically range from $1-20). Then, some of my favorite covers and ads end up on the wall. Here are some we have up in our current apartment. It's an affordable, unique way to decorate empty spaces in your living area!

Needlecraft Magazine. The cover from March 1928. I love the illustration--so sweet. I actually received several copies from a museum I worked in a few years ago. This adorable cover hangs above our craft supplies.

Even in the heat of the summer, Campbell's Vegetable Soup is a prudent choice! An ad from Women's Home Companion, July  1927. We have this hanging in our kitchen, of course.

So very persuasive. A close-up of the soup ad.

James and I found this magazine cover at an antiques store in Essex, Vermont. One of Norman Rockwell's iconic drawings for The Saturday Evening Post. This was his April Fool's Day cover for 1943. Only $5 for an original cover!

This isn't actually from a magazine, but it's still an advertisement sign from the late 1800's. This adorns a wall in our bathroom.

That's all for now! :) Thanks for reading/viewing. Happy Easter!
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Cheerful Alphabet Block Magnets!

Do you ever get in lulls where you cannot think of anything to do that is of remote interest? I find myself in that situation quite often. Especially in the middle of winter! Anyway, I was especially bored one evening a few weeks ago. So was my boyfriend. We were bored of playing video games, definitely weary about the prospect of cleaning, and not interested in venturing out in the cold. On reflecting on our lack of interesting projects, we found ourselves in the kitchen looking at our very unexciting refrigerator with absolutely nothing on it. In an ah-ha moment, we set out to decorate it.

Our idea: homemade refrigerator magnets! But with what? 

Digging around my cluttered craft bin, we found a bag of wooden blocks. What could be more cheerful than making our own alphabet blocks? 

We used acrylic paint and fine-tip markers on the wooden blocks which worked just lovely. We bought a pack of 48 small round magnets at our local craft store for $5 and hot glue-gunned the magnets to each block. 

Yay! Our refrigerator looks infinitely better now! 

I imagine there is so more you could do with this! :)