Prepare to Get Real Sick of Disney Posts

There won't be *that* many Disney posts, but we did have a really great time with my mom, my brother, and his girlfriend Becky and we got lots of great pictures. There are kind of two main types of pictures you get when you go to Disney World. Adorable family pictures.

It looks like mom is gnawing Eddy's elbow in that picture. Why? No idea.

Also, there's this.

You're welcome.

The second category of pictures is ride pictures.

On Spaceship Earth (aka the EPCOT golf ball) they take your picture and then insert it into hilarious videos. Needless to say there were some good shots from this ride as well.

We look a little different when we're posed pretty than when we're on rides let's just say.

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The One Week Bathroom

Two houses later, Eddy and I are getting decidedly better at home renovation.  Our latest claim to fame is that we renovated our guest bath in just one week. Gasp!

Here's a before shot.

Granted, it wasn't a total gut job, but we did repair major plumbing,

remove and replace tile,

and take our first stab at wallpapering (wallpaper courtesy of Janelle!)...

to mention just a fraction of the work that took place in that room.  Not bad for a week's work!

Since these photos were taken, we've added some really schmancy towels and towel hooks and some other finishing touches, but we've also basically moved into this bathroom seeing as we have now gutted our master bath, so it's not currently so picture perfect.

We are crazy people. Truly.

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8 Is A Lot of Legs, David

This year for my brother's birthday, I practically couldn't help but make him a Mario Bros. one up pillow.  You might remember I made him a Mario quilt last year for Christmas.

It all started with my own pattern (which I totally pieced together from several quilts I saw on Pinterest).

At first, this seemed like a quilt that would take, oh, about 10 minutes. But anyway you slice it 400 blocks measuring 1 1/2" square is a lot of blocks. All I could think about was that scene from Love Actually where Natalie's mom observes, "Eight is a lot of legs, David."

Maybe you had to be there?

Then I used this weird method for piecing wee little pieces of fabric that I love/hate. Great for accuracy, but so. much. pressing.

Finally I pieced all of my pieces together...

added some super cute backing and, of course, one of my 2015 quilt labels (hot off the presses)...

and wrapped it all up to give to him on our Disney trip!

Remember, kids. 400 is a lot of blocks, Evan.

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The Office of Mr. Moose

Ever since Eddy got his very own (not shared!) office (not cubicle!) at work with his name on the door and everything we've been talking about decorating it so that it wasn't so workplace drab in there.  It only took us 2 years to get around to it.

Here are some before shots.

See, "workplace drab."

Then we spent a couple of weeks making paintings, lamps,

pillows, vases, and a shelf shaped like the letter "E".

Here's Eddy's new office!

Yep.  That's a moose rug.

Don't look at me. I mostly just sat around eating popcorn the whole time.

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2014 Quilt Catch Up

New Years resolution: blog more!  I thought I would kick things off with a catch up of what I've been quilting since October (the last time we made a blog post...  oops.) Here are just a few of my favorite more recent projects from 2014.

Perhaps one of my favorite projects this year was the pillows I made for our couch! I made a small bunny pillow and used lots of fancy stitches to quilt the pillow top.

My favorite pillow I made (and one of my favorite little quilts I've ever made) was our house pillow. It all started with me designing my very first ever paper piecing pattern.

Here's the finished top.  Ten points if you can figure out how the picture above corresponds to the finished top...

And a view of the quilting (one of my first attempts ever!)

Here's a peek at the backs (complete with label)

Here are the two together in their new home!

Eddy and I also collaborated on a quilt for Eddy's half brother Ian's wedding with his new wife Allison. Eddy picked out all of the fabrics and I also made him bury all the threads (because I am so nice!)

Here's the layout (un-sewn and un-quilted...)

and a shot of the binding!

Here's the finished top.

I even made a fancy back!

It says "Ian heart Allison" or "Allison heart Ian" depending on which way you read it.

The last quilt project I'll share was actually started years ago! Like, on Road Trip 2013, when Eddy and I gathered fabrics from practically every quilt shop we passed. I also did the piecing way back in 2013, but just now took a stab at quilting a large (queen sized!) quilt myself. Here's a close up of the front with quilting and some of the back (the gold and white) showing.

This was my last project of 2014, finished December 27!

And here it is all cozied up to another quilt in its new home.

Looks like there's room for some 2015 quilts in that cabinet!

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