UpCycled Scarves ** Your Favorite Sports Team Shirts Turned Scarf **

This is the summer of thrift shopping!!  We LOVE going to Goodwill and other thrift stores to see what we can find!  My mom is/has always been a bargain shopper, sorting through racks of clothes, we always had great things at the stores on clearance and sale!  Saving money is key since I was laid off in December, so just finding cool things at the store is a great thing!! As Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are singing in "Thrift Shop", it quickly became a favorite song of my oldest son.  But now it's our theme song for the summer.  We are making UpCycled/Recycled Shirts Scarves! :)  What a better way to give a shirt a new life!! With the help of my mom we are selling them on my Etsy Shop.   

 We can use any knit shirts to make them! If you have some old shirts from your college days, or your local high school and you'd love another way to show them off, perfect way to do so!!  You can send us your old shirts and we can turn them into a scarf!

 I can't wait to go to a Detroit Tiger's game and ROCK my new scarf!! Too bad it's mid-summer and I'd be dying of heat right now! :)  But come fall, I'm ready!

Don't forget to check out my Facebook and Etsy Site!

Spring has SPRUNG!

Spring is finally here! The warm weather, the birds chirping and the mosquito's biting.  Yup, it's here.  Time to get out those shorts from the closet and realize that "maybe" they are a little too tight.  Time to watch what your eating a little more and not shove your face full of food you'll regret later on!

The sun and warmth also bring you in a better mood mentally.  After sitting home all winter without a job, you do get bored, you do get depressed and you do wish you had something fun to do.  Now that it's warm out we can go for bike rides, play baseball and just enjoy being outside!  My oldest is playing baseball right now so he has his games this week.  It's fun to see him doing something he enjoys.  My youngest wants to go on a bike ride everyday down the road.  But really I think he just wants to visit the older gentleman that gives him candy when he visits.

I am feeling very blessed with my Etsy Shop lately.  I'm 3 away from 250 sales and not that very long ago I was begging to pass 50.  It amazes me how I've done so well lately and that people enjoy my products!  Don't forget to "like" me on Facebook either! You won't regret it!

Large Polka Dot Beach Tote

Monogram Last Name Frame

Hello everyone!! Hope you had a great weekend! I spent the weekend at Crop for a Cause, trying to raise money for hearing loss.  My cousin's daughter was born with mild hearing loss and they are having a walk to raise money for the the foundation so I took part in it! We had fun crafting, some sewing, some scrapbooking and even some crocheting!!

She also did a raffle and I won an Origami Owl necklace! I'm so excited to get it! :)

I made this new style frame for a gift last week. 

I think it turned out so cute!! If your interested, click on the picture and you can contact me via my Facebook page!!

Catching up on orders this week, had a lot for these frames, it's wedding season you know!

Spring is almost here in Michigan, I can feel the warmth coming!

iPhone Charger Decals

Do you have an iPhone? How about an iPad? Almost every family I know has at least one of these items, in our case we have way too many.  And what about those chargers?  Are you always getting them mixed up, saying no this one is mine, this one is his, someone stole mine?  Well I have a solution!!  Decals for your iPhone charger so you can tell who's is who!!!

Great for kids going off to camp in the summer, making sure they don't get it mixed up with their friends also!!

Chevron Monogram iPhone Decal Wrap

I mustache you a question?

I have other patterns available also!  I've been so busy with orders, I just placed a new order for vinyl tonight! I can't wait to get more colors.  Also I'm getting in key chains soon, they are going to be so cute and perfect for that little gift you need!

Don't forget to check out my Etsy Page  http://www.etsy.com/shop/SewWonderfullyJamie

And "LIKE" my Facebook Page  http://www.facebook.com/SewWonderfullyJamie

Off the bandwagon!

Got a little behind on my blogging but it's only because I've been busy switching everything over to my new branding!!  I am officially Sew Wonderfully Jamie on Facebook and Etsy!  Plus along with the name of my blog too of course! ;-)

My friend made me a new banner for Facebook too! Love it! Thanks Lori!

Don't forget the new name, when you search for things for awhile, Brodacious Bags will still come up on your stuff since it's still out in googleland, but start searching for the new name also!

I have quite a few orders to work on in the next week, and hoping to get more coming in!! I ordered acrylic keychain blanks, so those will be featured soon on my blog also!

I'm having a contest on my Facebook page too, have your friend's like my new page and tell them to say you sent them and win a free personalized keychain!

Happy 4th Birthday Caden!

I can't believe that Caden is now 4!  He was such a tiny baby and a lot has happened with our lives since he was born!  He's lived in Arizona, now back in Michigan. 

We had a party at Castaway Play Cafe in Howell.  The kids had a ton of fun running around like crazies!  They let out a lot of energy, so hopefully they all slept good that night!

I made this super cute shirt for Caden to wear.

I messed up on this since it was my first time making it, so he actually wore a red one at his party. 

He got tons of gifts and loved everything!! 

Thanks everyone who helped make his birthday awesome! He counted down his birthday for weeks and now he's counting down til he's 6 so he can start kindergarten like his big brother! Oh lord!

Project 365, Day 20

Today is my little brother's birthday!  Happy Birthday Jon!! 

It's starting to get a cold here in Michigan finally, it was just spring weather the other day and now it's FREEZING again!! 

Today we had hockey and I made this towel before we left for practice. 

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She just joined a sorority at her college so my Aunt asked if I could make her something!!  It's lime green, pink and purple! LOVE IT!

Tonight I'm going with my mom and we are taking the boy's to stay in a hotel in Frankenmuth, and then tomorrow we are taking them to Splash Village because Brody doesn't have school.  Should be fun!

Project 365, Day 19

Hockey starts today!!  Brody and Chris were excited that hockey is back on TV!!  Watched the game and had a few friends over.  It was fun!  I also cut out another design on my machine to try out!  I had a few extra blank shirts in Caden's size so I could know he was at least going to wear it!

Love it!! I can't wait to do more things with this machine! I can do vinyl for the wall now, so making quotes and names, also wanting to order some blank cups and other things to personalize too!!  Perfect for camping and having a cup with your name on it, so you don't have to waste cups and forget what one is yours!!   Using this one as an example: 

NOT MY IMAGE

Project 365, Day 17

I was super busy sewing today, it's amazing how productive you can be when you sit down to actually get stuff done!!  I can get so many more orders done now that I'm not working right now!!  Look at this little cute shirts I made!

Love it! I was also super proud of this because it was the first time I'd played around in my editing software to get the name to go that way!!  Then I turned around and finished this shirt too!!

Project 365, Day 16

Hockey, Hockey, Hockey!! It's that time of the year!!  Brody had hockey practice today so we went to that and came home and had Little Cesar's Pizza! YUMMY!! 

I also made this little cute shirt for someone who's expecting a baby soon!  She requested train shirts since her older son loves trains!  Turned out so cute!

Project 365, Day 15

I headed to JoAnn's with Caden today to try and find some fabric for a few shirts I got orders for.  They are Valentine's shirts and gonna be super cute!   I also still have to make a bag for a friend that she ordered so I had to get some interfacing for that.  Anyways, I made this super cute shirt! 

 

Brody had basketball so I ran him up there, started dinner, went back to grab him and we finished dinner.  I made super yummy dessert too! 

I saw this idea on Pinterest.  I just took small taco sized flour tortila shells, apple pie filling, sugar and cinnamon.  I rolled the apple pie filling into the shells and fried them on each side in the pan.  Then when they were out I put them in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon and they were done!  SO YUMMY!  Definitely a good recipe from Pinterest!

 

Project 365, Day 10

Got a little sewing done today.  This was for an order I had gotten before Christmas but just finally had time to finish it!! 

Tutu bags are the perfect gift for the little girl you know!! They can be used for dance class, gymnastics or to just pack their stuff for a trip to Grandma's!

Be sure to also check out my Facebook page!  Sew Wonderfully Jamie

Project 365, Day 9

Snow is melting and it's getting muddy outside.  Abby likes to get dirty, which dog doesn't!!  It's supposed to be almost 55 degrees on Saturday, I thought it was the middle of January??!

We had hockey tonight, so Brody skated and Caden ran around the outside of the rink.  He likes to pretend to play on all the games outside in the lobby too.

I'm trying to change my FB page for Brodacious Bags but FB is not being very cooperative and I may of already screwed myself by changing my web address to the new name already, but they won't change the real name.  So I can't even make a new page now with the name I want :(  BOO!!!  But maybe I should just direct everyone to my Etsy site anyways, since FB doesn't get many views these days with all their setting changes.  Between this blog and my Etsy, hopefully sales can pick up!

My Etsy Site