so long yellow...

I really don't like yellow on walls. My apologies to those that love it - it just isn't for me. It took me two rooms of yellow to come to this realization. Our first house we painted the nursery yellow. I couldn't stand it. When we finally got around to painting it a soft pink I was in love. Fast forward to another house and a kitchen. When we built the house I had it painted empire gold. I like the color - it is even in my livingroom, but I just didn't feel it was right for my kitchen. It didn't go with the black and stainless. It just wasn't right. I felt maybe it was because it was too dark so I had the idea to go lighter. Guess what that was ------ yellow. I was in denial. I thought wow it looks so much better but really I was thinking - not loving it. I was also pregnant at the time so I chalked it up to hormones. Well I never grew to love it and begged hubs to help me paint it another color. I knew exactly what I wanted - a coastal blue. He finally agreed.

good riddence friendly yellow!!

Mucho improvement!!!

Nice, Happy, Hopeful

word of the year - SIMPLIFY

quotes to remember:

Stages of life dictate the pace of life.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

My irresponsibility leads to someone else's responsibility.

Don't let anything ever be ordinary.

Enjoy the little things in life... For one day, you will look back and realize they were the big things.

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

It's ok to be nice, happy, hopeful, imperfect, silly, yourself.

Love everyone!

Work while you work, play while you play; this is the way to be happy each day.

All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

Valentine heart initial shirt

I've been seeing shirts like this all over the blog world so I thought I would try to make some for the two little ones. I think the oldest would freak out at the thought of me making one for her. I started with a long sleeve shirt I found at Walmart.

I then cut out a heart using cotton fabric.

I also cut out an e with a plain red fabric. With both I applied a fusible interface to the fabric and then traced the pattern on and cut it out. With the heart I did not reverse it when I traced but I did reverse the letter.

After fusing the heart to the shirt and the e to the heart, I added a stabilizer to the back of the applique. I then started sewing my applique to the shirt.

Finished product!!