Time Keeper
Finally a post about sewing! Monday night I got a phone call from my mom, my step dad was in the hospital. He went in for a routine procedure and ended up having an allergic reaction to the anesthetic! We have a 2 hour difference between where they live and where we are in Illinois, so I stayed up fairly late waiting to hear news. I found that my new sewing room was just the place for me to keep my mind busy while waiting for her phone call. I dove right in and whaaaallaaaa here is what I did. Kind of ironic now that I think about it, I was waiting for her to call, up late and yet I make a handbag with clocks and call it Time Keeper. Hmmmm?
I have good news to report my step dad is doing fine, is he back to normal and at home. Gave us a bit of a scare! I talked to him last night and he is being as ornery as ever, so he is definitely feeling better!
Here is the front of the handbag. I love the buttons!
I even made a card holder to match the bag.
The inside of the carholder.
I put the handbag with card holder up for sale in my Etsy Shop!
xoxo
Hannah
Filed under Sewing Projects | Comment (0)Sewing Room
I posted about how I packed up my sewing room and made it into an office instead. Since I am going back to school I thought it was a good plan. I had planned on using the dining room as my “sewing space” but it turns out that it wasn’t such a good plan after all. It seems that people like visitng us and when I was in the middle of something and someone stopped by I would hurdle everything into the closest hiding spot. Needless to say when I went to resume my project there were pieces of it scattered everywhere. We have a 3 bedroom house, one is our room, the other my “office” or more of a library and the last one was my work out room. Granted I do workout everyday, but it was such a waste of space. I had been pondering what to do about this situation and then I recieved my May issue of Martha Stewart and the answer was staring me right in the face! Not only did I decide to re-do my workout room to a new sewing room, but I painted three other rooms as well. Now I have to appologize, I have been working on my room for three days and I am so excited to be almost finished that I just had to post pictures. I don’t have all of the curtains done, I need to repaint the doors to white instead of cream and the sun was very spuratic so it looks a little gloomy in the pictures. Really my room is quit bright which I really love. So here you go…
My color inspiration:
This color reminds me of chocolate chip mint.
Those cabinets to the right are 80 years old. They are the original kitchen cabinets that were in the basement when we moved in.
I love this shoe holder. It works great for all my little things and I can see them which makes it super easy to find what I am looking for. I just love it.
I hope to have this filled with a whole bunch of purses that I have made. As of now I only have one up there that is by me, the black and white one.
I finally organized my patterns. I also put a lot in the garage sale pile. It is so nice to have them organized and in one place. I just hope they stay like this.
And of course I coudn’t leave out my assistant Miss Bella. She is 13 weeks today! Jason got her for me for our five year wedding annivarsary. It isn’t until July 26th but we just couldn’t pass her up!
xoxox
Hannah
Filed under My Sewing Space | Comments (2)New Jewelry
I know this is supposed to be my sewing blog, but sewing isn’t the only craft I enjoy doing. I suppose I should have taken that into consideration when I went looking for my domain name. I hope you ladies don’t mind me posting my jewelry, seeing as it has nothing to do with sewing. I wanted to share what I made today:
I call this one “Heart of Passion.”
And I call this one “Graceful Dreamer”
I hope you like them.
xoxox
Hannah
Filed under jewelry | Comment (0)Garage Sales!
Today after I dropped the dogs off at the groomer aka babysitter, Jason and I went out some garage sales. Yay! I only spent 12$ can you believe that? I came home with some great finds! The strawberries are a sheet set, but I am thinking I could use the pillow case for a handbag I saw on Martha Stewart. The sheet could make a cute apron, the chairs are going into my new sewing room. Yes thats right, I am re-doing my sewing ….. again! The 4th time can you believe it. It will be the last I promise! I just haven’t gotten it to a point that I can stand back and say, yep thats it. Hopefully with all the hard work I am putting into this re-do I will be able to say that. I can’t wait to post pictures! Tomorrow I am going out garage selling again, try to finish my room up and then at 7pm we are taking our neice to see Jeff Corwin live!! We are so excited! Hopefull I will get my room done tomorrow, can’t wait to see it finished.
I just love these chairs and they were only a buck a piece!
I am going to attempt a handbag out of the pillowcase. I saw Martha Stewart’s tutorial on it and it looked pretty easy. Now just because I said that, I won’t be able to do it.
If you are like me, you love buttons. I don’t know what it is about them, I just love jars of buttons and these jars were so adorable.
This were tablecloths I think. They are really a pretty heavy fabric, I don’t know what I am going to do with them yet. I really like the orangeand white one!
xoxo
Hannah
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House cleaning… what? hahah I came across this wonderful blog Made By Molly I saw these adorable little pouches that she makes, so I thought why not try my hand at it… So I did. I was supposed to be house cleaning and well seeing the photos below you can tell how that went. It was a lot more fun to sew hahahah. Ok so I did do a little house cleaning, I cleaned off my sewing machine :) 
Spring Planting
So I was reading one (of my many) favorite blogs the other day Posie Gets Cozy and I got totally and utterly overwelmed with needing to buy flowers. Sooo out I went to the farmers market to get some colorful geraniums. I just love them. I had them last year and loved the flare of color, but this year I went a little further and got some english ivy to go in the pots as well. I want the ivy to grow down the sides of the pot and give it that cottage type look. I hope I had the right idea hahah. Things never seem to turn out just how I had planned LOL. We’ll see what happens! Thanks Alicia for your wonderful inspiration!
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Inspired by Love, Enchanted By Nature
About 2 years ago I started my own little business called The Enchanted Lily. I hand craft organic and all natural bath and body products. I haven’t had much time since we moved to make anything but custom orders… until now. For some reason when I have so much to do (since going back to school) I decide hey why not start a whole bunch of new products hahahaha. Anyway long story short I made two small things this morning and now have an esty shop for my Enchanted Lily. Here is what I made today.
Lavender bath and body oil. I just love this stuff!!!
and Lavender Bath Salts!
All of my items are made with out chemicals, dyes, harsh synthetic fragrances and best of all they are cruelty free.
It feels so good to be back making things again! Wait until I get done with this current essay I am working on for class, then I am dusting off my sewing machine… uh oh! hahahah
My website is www.EnchantedLily.com or my etsy shop www.Enchantedlily.etsy.com
xoxox
Hannah
Filed under bath and body | Comment (0)Inspiration From Spring
I haven’t messed with my jewelry stuff for a long time, but today the sun was shining, the birds were chirping and I just felt like it hahaha. So I made these earrings with the inspiration from spring. They remind me of the buds that are on my rhododendron outside my window. I made them with sterling silver of course, rose quartz, red garnet, swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls. They will be available in my etsy store, if I don’t keep them for myself 
xoxox
Hannah
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