laura's birdnest

11.01.2009

happy halloween!

hope you had a spook-tacular halloween. happy november. looking forward to getting back to some sewing. i'm in need of a stress buster!

10.26.2009

yes, that is my living room with 2 sofas and 4 chairs, one of which is on it's side. and what you don't see is that to the left there is a ladder and a sheet spread out with 3 different types of paint out. you also can't see the ceiling fan that is half assembled on the ceiling and the disassembled ceiling fan pieces spread amoungst the mess. wait, there's more hidden from view, there is a pile of boxes behind that chair, yeah, the sideways one.

and this is stress....

trying to mud and tape on a rainy day hoping that it dries quick enough to sand and mud again.

this is that state of my house right now. won't be blogging about sewing for a little while longer because to tell you the truth, there's about 5' of stuff piled in front of my machine right now :(

p.s. sorry for the bad photos the computer with photoshop is somewhere amoungst the chaos.

10.21.2009

amazing grace - 6 months

i went to visit my niece, grace, yesterday (and my sister) and we had a 6 month photo shoot. she is getting really fun because 1) she is the most content, happiest baby ever 2) she giggles at everything and 3) she has been sitting up on her own for about a month now so we got to do the photos outside. yay! the lighting was perfect after her afternoon nap and the park we visited offered up an awesome setting. i would say these are my favorite photos that i have taken with my camera. i would like to show you all of them but i'm afraid they won't fit on this post so here's just a little taste.

today i played around with some of the best-of-the-best in photoshop (even though sooc were pretty good).

how can you not love this face?

now that i've blown through the entire morning i'm going to go clean my entire house in only 4 hours. wish me luck!

10.19.2009

my first tutorial

i wrote a tutorial on quilt binding. i really just did it for myself, or for fun. go visit even if you already know how to sew on a quilt binding. TUTORIAL i have seen several tutorials for quilt binding but they all stop after the machine sewing and nothing continues to illustrate how to fold the corners and complete the hand sewing. i hope it's informative. let me know if you have any questions.