Things Making Me Happy

Just thought I'd share :)

I'm glad it knows who it is.

This makes me think of my kitchen :)

And these make me think of my dream vacation.

Waaaaaant!

Yes, please :)

Thats all for now :)  Thanks for reading!  I'll be in Chicago from tomorrow until Sunday morning for my cousin's wedding (yay!) and probably won't have internet access, so I guess that means I'll see you on Sunday!  Keep smiling :)

xoxo Alyssa

Best Day in Recorded History

Don't you just love it when things work out your way?  I got a text message this morning from a great friend of mine, who lives far, far away, saying that she was going to be visiting a town near my parents house in a few weeks.  Just a few minutes later I got a facebook message from my soon-to-be-sister-in-law (who you can find here) asking me if I could meet her at my parents house that SAME WEEK to help her work on her crafty-filled wedding to-do list!  I was elated!  

I can help Trinity with wedding tasks during the day while Courtney is in job training, and then spend the evenings with Courtney!  AND get to see my parents and their adorable new puppy!

     

Isn't she the cutest?! Her name is Daisy May and I can't wait to meet her! :)

In addition to all of this exciting news, I made a new discovery via Wild Olive, the embroidery/graphic design blog of Miss Mollie Johanson.  Did you know there's an image pool on Flickr that is ALL vintage embroidery patterns?!  It's my new favourite thing.  I downloaded literally hundreds of patterns and I CANNOT WAIT to use them :)  Here are some of my favorites.

       

Haha.  You know, just a few of my favorites ;)  I cannot wait to stitch these AWESOME little illustrations :)  Particularly the last two. hehe.  Expect to see that victrola very soon ;)

Thanks so much for reading! I'll be back sometime this weekend (probably) with pictures of some quilts I just finished and the fabric for the next one!  Keep smiling!  And if you forget, just take a look at this cutie, who is also from the Flickr pool :)

xoxo 

Alyssa

Home Sweet Home

I've finally done it!  I finally got the apartment in decent enough shape to share with the world!  So, here goes . . .

The bed! With a quilt made by Indonesian women and an afghan made my my roommate from DC, Mary, who was mentioned in a previous post :)

Directly across form the bed is the sitting area/library :)  Our apartment is small, only a main room, a kitchen, and a bathroom, so everything sort of runs into everything else :P

Kitchen! Repainted :)

Kitchenaid and Thermos collection :)

My favorite wall in the entire apartment :)

Josh's new teapot :)

Photos of the bathroom are coming (hopefully) soon.  We have a bit of a hole-in-the-wall problem that is prohibiting us from painting. Hopefully that gets cleaned up soon . . . 

Thanks for joining me!

Keep Smiling :)

Alyssa

Make Over!

My background mysteriously disappeared, so I declared it a good time for a blog make over, and renaming :)  I hope you all like it as much as I do.

Here are some things that have been inspiring me lately.

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I can haz?

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Thanks for joining me today!  Keep smiling :)

Alyssa

I'M SO EXCITED

Guess what I get to do?!

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I had written off getting to take this class because of the cost, but when I brought it up to Joshua he encouraged me to take it because it would be an "investment" :)  I have a pretty cool husband.  I'll be sure to keep you all updated on all of the cool stuff I get to make! OMGICAN'TWAIT.  Check out this post and this post to see if you might be interested as well :)

XOXO

Alyssa

Czech this out

I follow this design blog called BOOOOOOOM!.  They post some pretty spectacular stuff, so I thought I'd share it with you.  All images were found on BOOOOOOOM!'s website where they are linked to the individual artists' websites.

Photographer Michael Schmelling

Photographer Naomi Goudal

Installations by Guerra De La Paz

Photographer Tang Chan

Painter Yosakay Yamamoto

Installations by Anouk Kruithof

Lovely, aren't they?  Be back later tonight (hopefully) with the apartment pictures after a never ending quest for a functioning laundry. BUH.

Keep Smiling,

Alyssa

I'm such a good wife.

While Joshua has been away this week counseling a church camp, I worked on these for him.  

He's been wanting a sleeve for his laptop and I found this black one for a decent price but wanted to snazz it up a bit :)  The patch is for his new guitar strap which was a similar situation--just a black strap with nothing on it, so I made this patch that I'm going to stitch on when he gets to come home for the weekend between the two weeks of camp.  He comes home tomorrow and I can't wait to see him!

It's been a lovely week and I've had a wonderful time.  I got my lip re-pierced today, pictures of that as soon as the swelling goes down a little :)    

I plan on spending the afternoon and evening watching these and taking pictures of the apartment to share with you all:

Quite the combination, right?  An Education was suggested by Miss Hannah and I've never seen The Matrix, so I figured it was about time.  The apartment pictures will FINALLY be posted tomorrow! Woo Hoo!  I know . . . you're all on pins and needles, right? Right.  That's what I thought. ;)

I hope you all are having as great a time as I am :)  Thanks for reading! 

Keep Smiling,

Alyssa