My weekend projects

Happy Friday and what a beautiful fall day it is!

I am so glad it is Friday!  I am super excited.  First, I am going to go watch my favorite A Capella group On the Rocks practice at UO.  They are great!  If you have yet to see it, this Lady Gaga cover they do is great (and kinda famous - over 7 million views!)

Then I am going to work on cleaning my house some and even get a massage!

And I am going to start working on two new sewing projects.

First, I am going to make myself this jacket out of my new-ish sewing book I shared with you all - Sew Serendipity. 

But I am making it out of this fabric....

I am so excited!

Also, I am making this skirt....

with these fabrics...

The green and brown fabric on the bottom will be the main color, and the busier fabric on top will be the contrast, with the brown satiny fabric on the very bottom as the ruffles.  Yay!

Have a wonderful weekend!  

Ash

Fun at the Thrift Store-

Ric and I got a hair to finally re-do the bathroom here.  We rent, but the landlord told us we could repaint.  I will post the before and after pics soon....but it has been begging to be repainted for some time now!

Anyway, we are thinking about also taking out the sink cabinet and replacing it with a vintage-y looking desk.  So we took a little trip to Saint Vincent de Paul's Thrift Store.  They rock!  They had beautiful furniture, but nothing that we went for today.  But when you are at a thrift store, you have to take a look around!

These are a few things that I loooved!

First, we saw this great couch!

There was bad light, so it was hard to get a pic of the whole couch, but it wraps around....

You can basically see it here. (And my hubby in the back! hehe)

Then there was the treadle machine!  I learned how to sew on a treadle machine, and I loved this machine.  If I had $350 I would have snatched this up!  

 

Check out the enamel design....

Soo pretty!  And it seemed to run pretty well.  It even had this cute little desk with a little shelf on the inside with an old sewing tin inside still.

We did find a few things to buy.  They had a huge bowl of buttons to go through and we found some great ones!

Awesome!  

Have a great night!  

Ash