Guest Room Decorating

This morning I returned from exciting weekend of boating on Lake Billy Chinook and was ready for a nice relaxing day around the house. I did a little unpacking, some weeding, some vacuming... Then my mom and her dog Sophie came up for the afternoon and we decided to do some decorating. She decorates so well I always trust her opinion. I had some things in my guest room I had been wanting to hang up. One was the apron I bought last weekend! This is the one room in my house that I can decorate as girly or pink as I want without my boyfriend complaining. Thanks mom for the help, the room looks great!

Movie & Shopping!

I just spent two great days with my mom Galye in Salem! I took off of work at 3:00 Friday so that I could get to my parents house in time for us to catch the movie Julie & Julia. So cute by the way!! I didn't realize how funny Julia Child was. The movie was based off of a book that I may just have to go buy now :)

We then got up early Saturday morning to go to Molly Mo's Summer Antique Faire in Sublimity. The vendors were so great and there were so many cute things to look at. I bought a pink vintage apron and a table runner. I liked the table runner so much because it was made with blue and brown fabrics which I would like to start using more of together.

After shopping we have a nice lunch in Silverton and checked out an antique store there. But we still had more shopping to do back in Salem. Both of us want sewing machines for our birthdays this year so we went to a sewing machine store in downtown Salem to check out the Janome machines. Since my mom's sewing machine of 35 years recently died we have been sewing on an old Singer featherweight machine (which we love), but we are each ready for something with more features!

Organization

I was so excited to go to my parents house on Saturday because I told my mom that I would organize her sewing room. The goal was to get all of the fabric organized and to basicly see what we had. Since I am in school I am on a budget so I don't buy much fabric. On the other hand my mom Gayle has the cutest fabric ever and plenty of it!!! I loved looking at all of it imagining what I could make. Its like our own private little fabric store now!!

Posie Gets Cozy

Posie Gets Cosie. That's my mom Gayle and I's favorite blog to read right now by Alicia Paulson. She has amazing crafts to try and offers her patterns on her website. We recently made her Jane Market Bag and Summer House Pillow. Both turned out great considering that I have not sewn in ages. The projects have insipired me to to be creative and get back into sewing. I even bought a pattern so that I can make a poodle skirt for my Halloween costume!