Playing with Buttons

I wanted to decorate some hair combs to go with my dancing outfits - I was in need of something blue.  I enjoyed making the fabric flowers; now I wanted to play with buttons.  I wasn't happy with the buttons I had, so I found some blue and green (and unexpected gold) buttons at Swanson's.  The blues and greens are not as vibrant as I wanted, but I think they will look nice.  I fell in love with the golden-brown buttons and bought them without any specific plans.  They fit on a comb nicely and I can already think of at least one outfit that will go with.  

It was a quick evening project to wire them together.  

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Being Blobby Between Beggings

The Powerpuff Girls (my current fosters from Dakin Humane) are settling in.  Blossom is still terribly shy, but also happens to be the wheekiest of the bunch.  

Buttercup has learned that scritches are good - she doesn't run away quite so often and leans into me when I scritch her head and shoulders.  Oh, yeah, right there is good.

I often find these two hanging out on the third level.  Blossom is always in the cozy and Buttercup camps out as close as she can to the cozy, but never in it.  

Halloween Happenings

We had unseasonably warm weather on Thursday for Halloween.  I thought I would be going on a solo mission to the town center.  But last minute, my sister was able to come with her partner and brought our mom.  I also convinced Rob to come, so we were a crowd!  

I'm always so impressed with the decorations.  This buffet was my favorite.  A ghostly twisted Mad Hatter tea?  Down the street from them is a rocking graveyard which is always fun to see. 

I Like Thursday: October Is Not Quite Done Yet

One more I Like Thursday post this month.  Crazy, right?

Ooh - what do you think of this crazy-elegant Halloween lady with her pearls.  Totally styling, right? 

Mmm... black and white.  I spent Saturday buying yards and yards of black, white and grey fabric for a king sized quilt I'll be making.  How appropriate for October - I'm terrified to tackle this project and yet I can't wait to start working on it! 

Big Step, Little Step

My next project, by request, will be a black-and-white (I guess technically grey scale) king sized quilt (with 14" drop).  I offered the recipient a half dozen or so patterns I was willing to do, and they picked a quilt pattern named Midnight Garden.  The pattern is for a throw quilt - I'm keeping the block size and adding more blocks  and will skip adding the borders.  

I planned out the quilt, crunched the numbers and triple checked the yardage (I'm notorious for not getting quite enough).  I usually linger over that step of planning for a while, coming back several times to review my work with a fresh head.  On Saturday I was ready to take the plunge and buy the fabric... and came home with nine pounds!

New Invisible Wall

I was lucky enough to snag a large sheet of plexiglass on Freecycle.  Woot!  I was imagining all the quilting templates I could make from it.  First, though, I sliced off a piece to replace the rusted third-level grids for the guinea pig cage.  

I Like Thursday: Pigs, Poets, Pumpkins, Prancing and Paddling

Whew!  Lots going on in the last two weeks!  So many great things to make me happy.  Let's see - the Powerpuff Girls are settling in.  There's been much loafing when they're not fiercely demanding treats.

There really is a guinea pig in that photo... the first week Bubbles tried to hide under everything. 

They're learning to beg properly and they're enjoying the three level cage - everyone has favorite spots.  And they were pretty excited to check out the cleaned cage.

Fall Flowers

Years ago I "fixed" a stained tank top by adding flowers all over it.  It was a fun project and I get a lot of compliments on it at the dances.  The flowers were fun to make and I had always hoped for a reason to make more.

Lo and behold - an occasion presented itself.  Several of my dancing hair clips are falling apart and I could use more that match other outfits.  I thought these little flowers would be cute!

I've spent the last several days making these.  I rummaged through my scrap fabric for colors.  Then I had to recall how I made the first set of flowers.  Now have a dozen flowers.  Even though that's plenty, I'm ready to make some more!