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The Day Before, The Day Before Thanksgiving

So here it is "pre" Thanksgiving...it's hard to get work done when you know it's such a short week. For those of you overseas who don't know about Thanksgiving, most people in the U.S. get Thanksgiving day and the day after as holidays. Most people, I know there are a lot of hard working folks out there that don't. But Greg and I do, so it's a mini holiday! And of course I'm looking forward to it! So when you don't see me around after Wednesday you will know I'm eating too much Turkey and visiting family. :D

Thanks for all the nice comments about yesterday's post. I am sorry to say that no I can't provide a tutorial for the Crown Pillows. It did come from a book that I purchased at JoAnn's fabric store and I don't feel it's appropriate to break their copyright. That being said... this is not a difficult project. It's your basic pillow. Front piece, back piece sew together and embellish. SO, if you are handy at drawing, get a big 'ol piece of paper and draw yourself a pattern. C'mon it's not hard! You make the pattern as big as you'd like the pillow to be. These pillows are supposed to be around 10", but I foofed it up and mine are maybe 6". So it's not a precise thing...heck you could use one of those crowns kids get at Burger King as a template. ;) I got the stuff to finish mine off, I bought some fuzzy trim and some fabric flowers and used fabric glue to attach them. Here's how it turned out:



If you want to see a larger version go here and click on the pic of the embellished Crown Pillow

Here's an update of my Santa, the bottom is taking forever...it also doesn't help being distracted by pillows. ;)



Greg has been busy! He finished his cat sampler and is now onto another project...I hope he finishes those calla lilies soon... ;p







My car did get fixed (yay!), but unfortunately the mechanics place broke off one of the horn buttons, so now I've got to get them to fix that too...what a pain...

At least the 'ol car runs again! I just can't honk at annoying drivers... LOL -YES- that was bad. ;) Okay gotta run! Have a great day!

posted by Kim at 8:53 AM