Heat Packs

I needed a break from the pillows I was making so I did my best to find something new to create. I don't know where the idea came from, but I randomly thought that it would be pretty cool to be able to make those handy hot/cold packs with rice. My mother and grandma always used them on cold days or when their backs were sore from a hard days work. I looked at some different ones online until I found a style that I felt would work for not only me, but my customers as well. I have come across some that were sewn only around the four corners. I didn't like that. I had an issue with the fact that, when holding one side of the pad, all of the rice would fall to the bottom. So I found a way to make mine in a way that would keep the rice even and flat no matter how it was held.

So, here's a few finished products

This one is smaller. It's more for (ladies, your menstrual cramps) or you can keep it in the freezer on those hot days to cool you right off.

I got in the groove of these things, I made probably ten of them.

Hope you enjoyed!!

Pillows, Pillows, Pillows

I am really getting the hang of this. I made 4 new ones today, check them out!

They're so much fun to make, but I think I will need something more challenging soon. Easier than the wingback chair though /: that's for sure.

Cushion covers

I bought some cheap fabric from Walmart thinking that I was going to try to use my sewing machine, but assumed the idea would jut fail like the many other ones I tried to use it. I measured a couch cushion and just started to cut and see fabric together. Without any template or direction at all, the first one I made didn't turn out too shabby. So then I was googling a fabric store that didn't have too expensive of fabric. I found a store called Home Fabrics in San Diego. They have tons of great patterns and quality fabric and they are fairly reasonably priced. I got a couple yards of two fabrics that weren't too girly (for the hubby) and a zipper and went home and measured, cut and sewed that new fabric. The zipper ended up being the most difficult part. I think I did each zipper a different way. But this is what it turned out to be, and in my opinion it looks darn good!

Please don't mind the can of beer (oopsies /:)

And those pillows I made in the middle of finishing the covers. I'd get bored of working with the same fabric for hours so I got some fun pattern and made pillow covers as well. The piping for those was really not how I pictured the process to be like, it was a definite challenge until I got the hang of it.

The above pictures are a couple of pillow covers I made. Super fun and cute! (Too girly for my husbands liking, though)

I just took some better pictures of the couch cushion covers, take a look

The others were taken at night, these new ones have more natural light which makes them look tons better.

The $5 Dresser

...into something I wasn't supposed to keep. Oh, but I am.

Wing-backed Chair

This has been a pain to take apart. I'm learning as I go. There's been tons of Google-ing and YouTube-ing to figure out just how to strip this disaster. I will try to take a picture tomorrow of the progress, but for now this is all you get. Chair $9 from Consignment Classics in Point Loma When this project is done I;m not sure any amount of money will cover what I feel it's worth.

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