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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Christmas on a Budget, Gift Ideas, Sewing, Sewing Tutorials

Grommet Bow Gift Bag Tutorial – Part 3 Installing the Grommets

Place a pin in the center of the front of the bag.  Measure 2 ½” from either side of the pin and mark a dot with a pencil. Measure down  Â˝â€ť from the top edge, place grommet piece against edge of ruler.   With the pencil, trace inside of grommet. Using the punch that came with the grommet kit, punch hole…

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Budget Savers, Christmas on a Budget

Christmas on a Budget – Building Traditions

Earlier this month I wrote a post about an activity that Dave and I call memory builders.   For this month’s Christmas on a Budget post, I will be discussing turning memory building activities into traditions. As a military family, we rarely lived close enough to family to have the traditional Christmas of visiting Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house on Christmas Day…

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Quilting, Sewing

I’m Ready for August’s Friday Night Sew In

On my Unfinished Projects list I have listed two table runners/toppers with a notation saying they needed to have borders added and then be basted, quilted and bound.  The blocks in these two items were made back when AmandaJean over at crazy mom quilts was hosting her first quilt-a-long.   Not only was it AmandaJean’s first quilt-a-long, it was my first…

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Gift Ideas, Quilting, Sewing

Beaded Christmas Tree Garland and Flying Zebra Quilt Finishes

I’ve moved two more projects from the Unfinished Projects to the Completed Projects list on my 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done page. First, is this crocheted beaded Christmas tree garland: I made two of these garlands a couple of years ago and then one again last year, but that still wasn’t enough garland to go all the…

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