Enough Already!

Isn't tomorrow the first day of Spring?

Well, the weather here sure isn't acting like it.

Yesterday afternoon I drove my daughter to tennis.  When we got to tennis is started to flurry...no big deal, it's been doing that alot lately.  While at tennis I heard someone say something about a storm.  I hadn't heard anything about it before this.  Unfortunately I am driving a rental car this week while my car is being repaired.  The rental car only has front wheel drive.  In the hour and a half we were at tennis the roads became a mess and for some reason they decided not to plow any of them, even the major highways.  It took me almost two hours to get home.  This rental car was slipping and sliding all over the place, something I am not used to since I drive a car with all wheel drive that is awesome in the snow.  There were accidents everywhere.  When I finally did get home,  it took me three attempts to get up the driveway (the car kept slipping down the driveway sideways).  My kids are on a two hour delay this morning.  

I am officially over this winter.

BRING ON SPRING...PLEASE!!!

It's time to change my Winter Blues Wednesday party to my Swing into Spring party.

  

Don't forget to stop back tonight for my Swing into Spring party.

The party opens at 8pm EST.  Hope to see you then.

-Judy

Snow Update and Pillow Talk - repost

Here in New York we got hit with a huge snow storm.  Here are a couple of pictures to show just how much snow we have gotten so far.

Look at the pizza oven and grill!!

Look at the before and after of the wall and fire pit.  That's a lot of snow!!


This is a post from the very first week of my blog.  I thought it would be nice to re-post it now.

When I think of my daughter at three years old, I picture her wearing her favorite Gymboree sweater.  The colors of the sweater were her favorite colors at that time, which coincidently... or not, are the same colors as her room.  I love pillows and got to thinking that I could make her favorite sweater into a pillow for her bed.

It was much easier than you would think.  I used a sewing machine, but you could easily hand sew the pillow.  I didn't want to cut the sweater so instead I pulled the sleeves inside the sweater which left me with a square.  I then buttoned up the sweater and turned the sweater inside out.  I simply sewed the neck, the two arm holes and the bottom.  I unbuttoned the sweater and turned it back to the right side.  I inserted a pillow form and buttoned up the sweater.  In putting in the pillow form I "hid" the arms behind the pillow form.

Since the sweater was a size 3, it worked very well as it was the same dimensions as a small pillow form.  But why stop at my daughter's room.  My son also had a favorite shirt.

His "Miners" jersey worked well too.  I didn't have those handy buttons, so instead I came up with a different solution.  First I started the same way by pulling the sleeve inside the shirt (again I didn't want to damage the shirt by cutting off the sleeves).  I then turned the shirt inside out.  This shirt had a v-neck that I had to deal with.  I was able to cover the v-neck by using the sleeves and hand sewing the "wrist" sections together.

I then hand sewed the sleeves to the back of the neck.  I decided velcro would be the best way to close this pillow.  So, I turned the shirt back to the right side, left about an inch on the bottom of each side for the velcro.  I bought the sticky velcro so that there was no sewing involved at all.

Both pillows were easy and took less than a half hour each to complete.

 If you don't want to use a sweater, you could also use a sweatshirt or team jersey to create the same look.  I hope you try this at home.  Please send me photos of your pillows.  I would love to post them.

Judy