Martha Stewart to the Rescue!

Posted by on July 4, 2011

We survived a week at the beach (pictures down below) and MOVING! We got back from the beach last Saturday and moved this past Wednesday in to our permanent new home! It was an exhausting week full of cleaning, 457 trips with my car looking like this (below) and more cleaning, and then actually moving on Wednesday. We’re still unpacking but for the most part we are “IN” and loving it! We did have movers move us, but also took many many trips with our cars full of whatever we could fit in to them! Don’t you love how the ironing board is just thrown on top? Did I mention we moved the last week of June in close-to-100 degree heat?

Here is my NON-dining room NEW SEWING ROOM (and the offices of Applique Cafe, i.e. Jeff, too). This was before:

This was after a little organization:

Better? I say BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have dreams of a fantastic colorful sewing room as seen on my Pinterest Sewing Room Board. I’m trying to gather ideas so that eventually the above can be something that you’d see on Pinterest and “re-pin”!!

One of my “wants” is a big bulletin board, so Sissy & I went to Hobby Lobby the other day and I found a couple that I liked (white and black frame). My room is white (all white), so I’m not sure if one of these would work, or if I should paint one, or make one?

THEN… the other day someone posted a link on Facebook to Home Decorators Connection and more importantly, Martha Stewart’s Craft Space Collection. It comes in all sorts of neat pieces suitable for a sewing room and also comes in 3 colors (white-ish, gray and this green). PLUS, this weekend they have $50 off your order of $150 or more. SO…. Jeff liked it so we ordered 3 pieces (separately so as to get $50 off each order). I am SO excited! All of the reviews I read were great so I will be sure to report when we get them (and put them together). Here are some of the pieces and how they’ve been put together for this craft room.

On one wall of our SEWING ROOM, we will have 1 of these in the middle:

And 2 of these ~ one for Jeff and one for me. There are other pieces I’d like, but we’re starting with these to make sure they will work in our room. I’m so excited! I can then work off of these and start making this room a place I want to come work in! p.s. I love green! I’ll keep you posted!

One evening at the beach I literally threw these clothes on my children and said “we’re going to take a few pictures”. I think we also bribed G with something. Had I planned ahead, forewarned them earlier that day, etc. they would have never turned out! I got several great ones and also took some of my nephews! I’m no photographer but I did take a digital class once in 2009 so I think these turned out pretty good for FREE!

This beautiful white sand is Seagrove Beach (FL) sand! Love it!

This was our 6th annual family trip to Seagrove and our 6th annual Shrimp Boil. We go every year with my whole family and we always have a wonderful time!

This pic makes me want to go back to the beach!!

I sampled 4 new designs today (zig zag squirrel, zig zag paw print, lion face & pumpkin trio) and we will get them posted ASAP. Designs are still 30% off through July 10th, and Patriotic are still 50% off. Check them all out at Applique Cafe. BTW, so far we’ve sold 106 Virginia’s Cross designs and 183 total Awareness Ribbon designs (50 since we sent our first check). Thanks for adding those to your collection!

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MAY!!!!

Posted by on May 17, 2011

I promise I’m still here! May is a crazy month at our house with birthdays (May 8 – Mother’s Day too, 10, 11 & 25), anniversary (12), soccer (ended last night), several golf tournaments (Jeff), and SCHOOL IS ALMOST OUT! If we did not keep a calendar we would never make it anywhere. I have pictures for a decent blog post on fabric, and will get that one out soon!

Here are 2 sample tees I have available – both are Kiddy Kats brand size 5/6. I did one of these for Garrison, but he just turned 5 so in reality he needs a size 6 or bigger. I can either squeeze him in to these or pass them along to someone a little smaller! If you’re interested, please email me (rosemarygulledge@appliquecafe.com or @gmail.com). I’d like to sell them as is and can strike a better deal if they go to the same place! I also have more of these blanks if I could line up the right person for more sample tees!

 

Did I mention we are in temporary housing? Our summer home is great! However, we are back in the process of trying to buy a permanent home and our “goal” is to move to said home by the end of June. That way we can move, unpack, get settled, enjoy a little summer, etc. before school starts back up in August! SO>>>>>> I am back to taking VERY VERY VERY FEW FEW FEW customer orders! I took some stuff in the past few weeks and am still trying to get it all done on top of end-of-school madness!

Better post coming soon, promise!!

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A Cool Find!

Posted by on May 4, 2011

I came across a website recently after seeing several posts on the Facebook Applique This & That group page. It’s called Meringue Designs. I asked the owner, Cynthia, if I could do a post and borrow some of her photos to share what she has to offer, which are some super cool applique and embroidery designs. I love funky and modern and different (and VINTAGE too), and these are all of that and more!  Check her out! A lot of her embroidery designs are shown on pillows, which is a great way to give her customers ideas! I can’t sew much, but there may be a pillow in my future. I’m sure you could even buy blank pillows here & there and spruce them up!? LOVE the look of the linen pillows!

Here is the Scribbled Daisy and this is shown on a women’s adult tee. L.O.V.E IT!!! There is no telling how much this would cost in a store. $30? $40? Do it yourself!! She recommends using solid fabrics and I agree – I love the contrasting stitching too.

Next, Scribbled Vine. This one comes in applique and you can use fabric for the leaves, and also a stitched version which is thread only. This is shown on a little apron – cute!!!

Scribbled Roses ~ This one comes with 8 different designs including the middle “heavily scribbled” rose and the “lightly scribbled” roses on the ends as well as a variety of sizes. You could also just use 1 (or 2) of these on a pillow or shirt or whatever you’d like to put them on. My head is spinning with ideas for these designs!!

This one really caught my eye ~ Branches Monogram! This is the type thing I see in Pottery Barn and those type catalogs and drool over! Leotine Linens come to mind??

Drifter Alphabet ~ I see people ask all the time about raggy applique alphabets and this falls in to that category. The edges are meant to be raw so trim loosely and see what happens! I love the little dragonflies too ~ didn’t see them on her site but will ask about those! (I asked and she said the dragonflies were coming!)

Scriptina Alphabet ~ Love it! This appears to be on a stocking!

Bird on Branch ~ looks great on the pillow!

This is the design that originally caught my eye ~ I think it was Cynthia’s profile picture on Facebook and it’s so cool! Technicolor Vine – the smaller version comes in a fill stitch and the medium and large are applique.

Last photo ~ Paper Roses. Again, C-U-T-E!!

These are the designs that immediately caught my eye! She has many many more and I could go on and on. It’s unfortunate that we are in between houses and I can’t decorate anything! Making mental notes of what I can do in our next house…

There are gobs of embroidery and applique sites out there (ahemm… Applique Cafe), but I haven’t seen much of this type design and thought they were very cool!  BTW she is also on Facebook so click on over and LIKE her page!

AWARENESS RIBBON news ~ so far we’ve sold 35 designs, which means $35 will go to Tornado Relief! Thanks to the 35 of you who have added this design to your collection whether you already had an awareness ribbon design or not! We hope to sell many many many more! I have gotten some great suggestions as to where to send the donations when we reach $100. After that $100 we hope to sell 100 more and keep on donating!

Lastly, 30% off ends SUNDAY (aka Happy Mother’s Day)!! We’ve sold a few gift certificates this week and there may be still time to mail!

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