My daughter needed a full length formal dress. She’s enrolled in a Junior Cotillion, a Southern tradition of taking your awkward middle schoolers and making them feel even more awkward by having them dress up in fancy clothes to learn...
Who doesn’t love tacos? Taco Tuesday doesn’t come often enough, I say. I seriously think I could eat tacos every day and be a very happy woman. I don’t actually know how it crept into my mind, but the other...
It's been pretty quiet on the Orange Bettie blog lately. There's been a lot of Girl Scouts and sewing and holiday stuff happening behind the scenes. That's just life. It comes in waves and I've learned to just ride them....
How many times do you pull fabric out of your stash and ask yourself, “Has this been prewashed?” Me, ever single time. Whenever I buy fabric, I have good intentions of prewashing it all and getting all ready to sew. ...
I’ve made quite a few Snappy Composition Book Covers over the past few weeks. And as I’ve been making these covers, I’ve been thinking about variations to make to them. Because the fun of sewing is being able to change...
We pulled out our Halloween decorations this weekend! Time to put up all the inflatable cats (5 of them, one for each of our actual cats) and display our rather bizarre collection of foam pumpkins. All of the pumpkins are...
I made a happy craft discover the other day, and I’m sharing it with you today! I had made a simple little fabric pumpkin and I needed some leaves to go at the top. I tried just cutting the leaf...
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I've been on a linen kick lately. I've got a nice long scrap left over from a baby wrap I made for a relative several months ago, and I keep coming back to it. It...
My mother’s birthday was earlier this week. This is a woman who has already has everything she needs and most of everything she wants. I was stumped as to what to get for her, until she let a little hint....
Turn an inexpensive notebook into a beautiful journal with my free pattern for a fabric covered notebook! The Snappy Composition Book Cover features a snap-closed cover, an elastic bookmark, and inside pockets. This post may contain affiliate links. If you...
