Talented Mommies

About a year ago I found this great “support the troops” Marine Corps colors fabric. It’s a red background with white stars and yellow ribbons. I thought it would be great to make a travel neck pillow for my Brother-in-Law, the no-longer enlisted Marine (once a Marine, always a Marine!). Turns our he’s not doing as much traveling for business and most of us can’t afford to shelp 4 family memebers anywhere on a plane these days, so I was deparately trying to think of how I could use this fabric. In the meantime I then found a really nice Marine Corps emblem fabric that I thought would go nicely if I ever figured out how I was going to use the first fabric, so I bought the second fabric! Tooling around the internet one day, I found a great pattern for regular, standard pillow case and thought….hmmm, “Great way to use the fabrics AND give a little something special to ‘Uncle Mike’ for Father’s Day”!

Well, it went together like a dream, nice and easy! So much so, I’m going to be making PLENTY of these to come! I’m going to make some for my Hubby a former Navy man (I also found the same support fabric in blue for the Navy, just have to find a Navy fabric I like to go with it! heheh), and some to match our Daughter’s Ariel quilt for her Big Girl Ariel room! I will probably use it to make pillows to match our bedding (whenever I get around to THAT monster of a project that’s been in the works for YEARS! hehe), make some for other gifts, etc. etc!

Anyways, just a little tidbit of something to blog about in my crafting world! I know Heather’s been anxiously awaiting my getting projects done and blogged, so I think I’ve finally satisfied my INITIAL contribution! hehehe Soon to follow, though, will be a blog about my Daughter’s Ariel sundress. I have to put the ribbon ties on and it’s done, so that should hopefully be soon!!! Take Care all!!!!

Nikki

Hi everyone! Sorry I have been such a slacker about this blog as of late. We are still trying to recover from the fires that took place 8 months ago! At least the new roof is FINALLY on. Now I am working on getting a check from the insurance company! wooo hooo! I was supposed to have said check BEFORE they evern started the roof but that did not happen and now we are hoping before the end of the week. The roofers also took an extreemly long time to get anything done. Between all of this and a 2.5 year old I have been totally swamped! That and my DH will be deployed for 3 months starting in just a little over a week. We are ramping up and trying to get everything possible done before he leaves I am also working on another co-op with another WAHM in an effort to make purchasing our goods a little easier. I will keep you posted!