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Posted by susiebloom on April 29, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

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Easy Tips For Stenciling Fabric

Posted by susiebloom on November 2, 2012 in Budget Ideas, Decor, DIY | 0 comments

Do you ever have projects that you don’t want to start because they seem so colos­sal in your head?  Sten­cil­ing this fab­ric for a cur­tain was that project for me.  And guess what?  It was really very easy, and I can­not believe I put if off for so long.  I made a few mis­takes along the way, so I thought I’d share in case you plan on tack­ling a sten­cil project. Below is a list of the things that may make your life eas­ier if you sten­cil on fabric: 1.  If you are work­ing with a very detailed sten­cil, stick with...

Bean Bag Chair

Posted by susiebloom on October 6, 2012 in Decor, DIY | 0 comments

Yay– I’m finally knock­ing off some projects on my list!  I fin­ished this bean bag chair for my 8 year old a few weeks ago, and just found some bean bag filler after a long hunt.  I went to every craft store in town ask­ing about bean bag filler, only to be told no one car­ries it any­more– the bags get punc­tured and lit­tle beans spill all over the store.  I was then pointed in the direc­tion of a paper and ship­ping store, but dis­cov­ered that the store had just gone out of busi­ness.  Not want­ing to pay...

Kid’s Room Art on Etsy

Posted by susiebloom on September 13, 2012 in Decor | 0 comments

After three years of liv­ing in our house, I never really fin­ished dec­o­rat­ing my older daughter’s room.  I have so many lit­tle projects going on at once that I have a hard time fin­ish­ing just one thing.  Her room still needs: new cur­tains, a map for the wall above her bed, a bean bag chair for read­ing, and some art­work.  Sounds easy enough, but hand– sten­cil­ing the cur­tains and sewing the bean­bag chair are the two things I keep pro­cras­ti­nat­ing about.  My hubby says that he finally under­stands my...

Message Center For Kids

Posted by susiebloom on September 4, 2012 in Decor, DIY | 0 comments

A few things that made me happy last week:  my 5 year old joy­fully exclaim­ing “Look!  There’s a hum­ming­pecker in our gar­den!”, the bal­loon guy at Wal­mart rec­og­niz­ing me with­out the kids and giv­ing me lol­lipops for them, my hubby teach­ing my 8 year old the gui­tar chords to a Bob Mar­ley song and jam­ming with her, tast­ing an amaz­ing Paul Robe­son tomato from our gar­den.  Both kids are in school now, and tomor­row I start babysit­ting a sweet lit­tle 3 month old girl.  Our house now has all...

Quilt With Kids– Downy Touch of Comfort Program

Posted by susiebloom on August 23, 2012 in DIY | 0 comments

I can­not believe my kids and I made a quilt together this sum­mer!  It was a first for all of us.  I have to admit that it was not easy, but all our effort paid off for a great cause.  This quilt will go to a sick child in the hos­pi­tal– hope­fully bring­ing some com­fort and a touch of bright­ness to a hos­pi­tal room.  I have been want­ing to get involved with a char­ity where I can use my sewing skills, and this one is the per­fect fit.  DOWNY’S TOUCH OF COMFORT PROGRAM will send you all the mate­ri­als you neeed...

Life Happens

Posted by susiebloom on August 7, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Doesn’t this look like a nice place to visit?  It’s Grindel­wald, Switzer­land– a place that is beck­on­ing me to come and stay.  Last night my hubby and I were dis­cussing places we’d like to visit, and Switzer­land and Japan were tops on our lists.  Our com­puter crashed last week, and the hard drive was erased.  We have an exter­nal backup hard drive, but we hadn’t backed up since May.  Lots of pho­tos and other stuff I had worked on since May were gone.  The Apple repair store was mostly to blame for...

Weekend Links

Posted by susiebloom on July 30, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

This photo was taken on the 4th of July.  Our friends had us over for a bar­be­cue and dessert– root beer floats made with home­made ice cream and freshly brewed root beer.  My daugh­ter was eager to help with the ice cream churn­ing until she real­ized how much work was involved.  Luck­ily we had some nice strong hus­bands to fin­ish the job.  My older daugh­ter is recov­er­ing from her ton­sil­lec­tomy, and appar­ently the worst of the sore throat is still to come.  We’ve been doing a lot of sewing, some of which...

Summer Corn Salad

Posted by susiebloom on July 26, 2012 in Recipes | 0 comments

It’s been a while since I last posted, and I’m hop­ing I can get back to a reg­u­lar  post­ing sched­ule.  Yes­ter­day my 8 year old had a ton­sil­lec­tomy, and a lot of the stress from the impend­ing surgery date has dis­si­pated.  She’s doing well, all things con­sid­ered.  We’re tak­ing her to Diary Queen tonight.  Did you know that today only– July 26, 2012, pro­ceeds of $1 or more from every Bliz­zard® Treat pur­chased at par­tic­i­pat­ing DQ® stores will be donated to Children’s Mir­a­cle...

Funny Books For Kids

Posted by susiebloom on July 3, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Last week was a tough one– a wild­fire destroyed almost 350 homes in our com­mu­nity, and two lives were lost.  Even though we live across the high­way from the fire, Tues­day night was a scary one as thick pink smoke and embers came down in our neigh­bor­hood.  I am impressed by all the sup­port and pos­i­tive atti­tudes in our com­mu­nity.  This week I made a trip to the library and checked out some light­hearted books, which is just what we needed.  Some of these books will make you laugh out loud: 1.  Those Darn...