Inspiration for my son's "new" lamp...

I stumbled upon this wonderful  blog of a Supermom, and she is absolutely inspiring with what she can do with a can of paint! My son's walls are going to be painted something like what's on her living room wall, and I loved the combination of orangey/ice blue!
Here is the before:

With the primer/3 coats of spray painted Krylon "Blue Ocean Breeze":

I didn't have any black paint, but I had some bronze acrylic left from another project, so my son & I dry brushed it into the lamp; then I went back & added a little more into the creases, and used a newspaper to blot to make it look even a little more weathered:

After it's dry, off comes the painters tape and on goes a new white drum shade from Target. Total cost of paint and brushes was about $10 (used Michael's coupon for 1 can), new lamp shade for $14, and we have a gorgeous "new" lamp for $24!! The lamp I bought at a yard sale for $5 several years ago.

I like how it turned out so well that I want to try to do something similar for our room! Thanks so much to "Supermom" for her inspiration!!!

And I'm sharing this on the wonderful Tip Junkie site:

And on Remodelaholic's Link Party

The wonders of longarm quilting, and more Anthropologie quilt

I picked up a customer's quilt from my awesome longarm quilter last night on the way home from work, I hadn't even attached the binding yet but I had to take some pictures to show off, I LOVE how it turned out and our choice of quilting design is absolutely a perfect reflection of the border fabric design!! I'm so excited, she will definitely be quilting all my quilts except baby quilts from now on, lol!!!

Where have I been???

How to know I'm tired?? I stopped to buy mayonnaise for my hubby's sandwiches and chocolate for me, and I FORGOT TO BUY CHOCOLATE!!!! lol, going to bed now...
Just got off my 2nd 12-hour shift in a row, 1 more to go tomorrow.

Finishing up my Anthropologie-Inspired "Whimsical Rhapsody" quilts

There are 2 custom quilts for my wonderful Etsy customer.
These colors are based on the Anthropologie curtains shown in the last photo. The border fabric is by FreeSpirit, Tina Givens' "Treetop Fancy".
As requested, I made each quilt differently; one has a turquoise border and the other has a black print border. One is machine quilted in sections by me and handsewn together; the other is machine quilted by my new best friend, my wonderful longarm quilter.
I have truly enjoyed working on these, they stretched my creativity because black, mustard yellow, and turquoise aren't my usual pallete; but I love how they've turned out.

For Our Soldiers




I am inviting any of you who are quilters, or who know any quilters/sewers, to join me in making at least 1 star block for quilts for our soldiers.
This is the only block I've pieced so far; I have fabric but not time right now to make more. The deadline for them to get there is May 1st, so I hope to make at least several more.
Blue calico for the star is from my Grandmother; I don't know how old it is, but the texture feels like feed sack material. The white on cream background is from a sheet I bought to use as backing for another quilt.
If for any reason, the link I post up on here doesn't work, and you want to see more about it, do a Google search for "Moda Just One Star" and you will find it.