I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life. Join me here every Thursday for a Stash Bash.
Thank you all for your comments and emails yesterday. I do not know what is going on with the comments section of my blog but I am trying to fix it.
This week, my stash bash project is a baby blanket but…its not for my baby. Poppa came home a few nights ago and asked me if I could make him a gift for one of his employees who is having a little baby boy. I looked at her registry and noticed that she liked fluffy, furry blankets. I immediately remembered that in one of those bags of fabric I packed up to sell and declutter my fabric shelves was some blue minky which I have had for over 5 years since someone asked me to make them something minky. I have never had a use for it because I prefer natural fibers. I was so happy to find a use for it and I found some cute and funky alien flannel to go with it. Now, I need to pull out that organic sherpa fabric to make a blankey or two for my own little one.
I also started some cozies for some mason jars that will hold salves and things like hair brushes and baby things in the nursery. Once I know exactly what will go inside of each one I will embroider a label to go on the front.
I have been planning a renovation of a small room off of my bedroom that I want to use as a new nursery and had the work planned for today but unfortunately we had a big problem here on our farm and had to use alot of our reserve funds to fix it (more on that horrible day tomorrow). I am hoping we can still get it done somehow before the baby comes but we will have to see and I keep reminding myself that my baby will not care about the decorated nursery, all the baby will care about are the arms that will hold and comfort. This keeps me from crying over the whole event. I am kind of picky about how things are when I bring a new baby into our home and I had what was the perfect room to me all planned out and when things don’t go my way, it is hard for me to get over it. God has a lot of work to do on me.
Here’s what to do. There are no rules.
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to
Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.
Then come back here on Thursdays and post a link to your post.
Don’t forget to link back to the Stash Bash so others can find us and get encouraged too.
Fair enough?
P.S. Its so nice to hear from other stash bashers so if you visit some of the links don’t forget to leave them a quick little comment.
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