Cold Blooded Killer

I was planning to post about my project, but something happened today and I really wanted to share it with you all, so here goes.

I have been very annoyed by four flies flying around in my house the past couple of days. I was cooking dinner when I spoted a giant fly in front of me, turned out it was two flyes stuck together. They were mating.

I was thinking to myself, "oh no you don't! You do not multiply in my house! Wait a minute, maybe they are distracted, I might be able to kill them easliy. One fly swatter and two flies!" :)

So, I tried to kill them and I missed them by a little bit, but they were definately slower than usual. The kids were watching me with enthusiasm and amusement, then they shouted "Wow! mom those flies are stuck together! I have never seen such a thing!"

After several attempts, I finally got them and was very pleased with myself. Two down, two to go.

I went back to cooking and almost forgot about the incident. Then, Michael (who is known for his Michalisms) came to me and said, "Mom, I know why thoes flies were stuck together!"

My heart was pounding. I was in middle of cooking dinner and I was not ready to have "The talk" with my 6 year old son. I kept my cool and said, "Oh, you do? Why Michael?"

"You know, the fly on the back had broken wings and the other fly was carrying him. He was a nice fly and you killed him."

You have to picture his innocent face and he was dead serious while he was saying this.

Thank goodness, my back was facing him, I tried so hard not to laugh out loud, but my shoulders were shaking. I simply said "Oh, maybe so, you have a very good imagination honey."

I would gladly take the title "Cold blooded killer who killed the nice fly" than to tell him the real story. Like I said earlier, I was not ready, not today.

Time to Celebrate

Last Friday was the last day of school. Michael graduated from kindergarten. It was such a special day for all of us. He loved his teachers, made many friends and did amazingly well academically too. He got a graduation certificate and was so excited about moving on to the 1st grade!!



Christopher, soon to be a 3rd grader came home with a certificate too. He was so excited that he got an award. Let me share the certificate with you...




I was so excited for him. I exclaimed, "Good job Christopher!", as I read the award. The award he recieved was for...


*Drum roll*







"ENERGY"?!!

Maybe in ten years if he finds out about this post he might hate me for this, but oh well. Christopher loved to talk during class and that was the area he needed to improve in. I did not know that you could get awarded for having a lot of enegy, unless he was generating power for the school or something.

The fact that he was happy made me happy. I guess I will frame both of the certificates for them.

My friends know that my boys are energetic but now it is official.

Between Everything

This week was our last week of school. On top of the normal schedule, I had lots more going on.

Between everything; "Mom and Tea", "Field Day" and the "Kindergarden graduation", I completed the quilt.



I stuck with the simple quilting design and love the results.



I also enjoyed spending time with my family doing school stuff.

The summer is here. Between the martial arts, swimming lessons, reading program and whatever else we decide to do I know I am going to "Create".

I will create memories with my family.

I will create whatever my heart desires.

It is going to be a great summer.

Coming soon--New items on my etsy shop--

I like window shopping because I get to see beautiful things, get some ideas and best of all, it's free!

Well, one day I was windo shopping at a high end department store when I found pretty corsage. Even though I tell my kids not to touch anything in the store, I couldn't resist picking it up and admiring it in the mirror against on my clothes.
Ahhh...it's so pretty, I wonder how much it is... then I turned the price tag around... I can't remember how much it was exactly, but it was over $30-$40!! It was way more than I was willing to pay for a corsage. The price hurt my eyes and almost blinded me.

If you know me well enough, you guessed right. I went home and made a similar corsage, and I LOVE IT!! I was so excited about how it turned out that I wore it last sunday to church.

The clothes I was wearing weren't new or expensive or anything. The corsage made me feel special and dressed up a little bit more than usual.

I made several. I will post them on my etsy store soon.



I promise, it will be a lot more affordable than the one I saw at the department store. :)

Tutorial--Modern square garden quilt--

Ok, I gave a fancy name to my simple square quilt. This is very easy to do, but I wanted a different look, so I chose ginghum check fabric for the sashing and the borders.
* You will need
1 charm pack (I used some for another project, so I only had 35 pieces left. That's what we will use for this quilt).
2 yards ginghum check fabric (for sashing, borders, and bias tape)

* Note--Always cut big pieces first and work your way down to small pieces. I cut all the long pieces from length of fabric.

* Cutting:
25P-- 2 1/2"x 5" (sashing for between the squares)
6P--- 2 1/2"x 31" (sashing for between the rows)
2P--- 4"x 38 1/2" (top borders)
2P--- 4"x 44 1/2" (sides borders)

* How to assemble the quilt:
1. Lay out the squares and decide where you want the fabrics to go.
2. Using a quarter inch seam allowance; sew 2 1/2" x 5" sashing between the squares. Then, press the seam towards the sashing. Repeat the process and make seven rows.



3. Join each row with 2 1/2" x 31" sashing to make the center of the quilt. Press the seams.



4. Add 4" x 44 1/2" borders on both sides. Press. Then, Attach 4" x 38 1/2" borders to top and bottom. Press.



Now you have the quilt top! The finished size is 38 1/2" x 51 1/2".

I like the batting and backing to have an extra 3" around the egde. So, when you baste them, they have enough room to move a little.

For the bias tape, check out my tutorial.

I basted my quilt and haven't decide what to do. I am still new to machine quilting. I am so tempted to hand quilt this one, but I have been hand quilting another quilt I started a few years ago. I need to finish that one first before I can commit myself to do another quilt by hand. I will post the quilt when I finish it.

Kung Fu Panda night!

I have a friend who is so much fun and very creative. A while ago, she posted an activity she did for her children called "Kung Fu Panda Night". They ate noodles and pot stickers while they watched "Kung Fu Panda".

Our whole family loves that movie, and my boys are in to martial arts, so I planned to do this when they advanced to their belts; as a small celebration.

I made noodles and pot stickers and we watched the movie. It was a huge hit! They thought that was such a fun idea and LOVED IT!!




The apples had nothing to do with "Kung fu Panda", I was just being a mommy.

Thank you for the great idea Becky!

In my last post I said I will do a tutorial, but I just had to post this one tonight.

Have a wonderful Memorial day weekend everyone!

My first spotlight and Interview!

A few days ago I was contacted by Ucreate. It is a very successful blog that features many different crafters and introduces them to her viewers.
She visited my blog and my etsy store and wanted to feature me on her blog!! I was so excited! This morning Tea Rose Company was featured on her blog.

Thank you so much Kari!!



I bought this charm pack and started working on a quilt top. It is a very simple design and is easy to do. On my next post I am going to do a very quick tutorial for this.

Well, now I am off to put the kids in bed, I like that it is bright till late now, but it is hard to put them in bed. They will say "Mommy why do we have to go to bed, it is sunny outside!" When I have time to sew tonight, I might sew a special curtain for thier rooms so the night will come early for them. Am I a horrible mom?...Nah!