All posts tagged: Inspirational

Sunday Sew Love: 4 January

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First up… new year, new look for the blog! What do you think? I’m still working on it, but I love how simple and organized it is. And the home page lets me play around a bunch with formatting without getting into coding, which is wonderful because as much as I’d love to learn it, it’s definitely not on my priority list :) Also, here’s my lifebyky.com Bloglovin page if you’d like to follow along (I’d love to have you!): Follow my blog with Bloglovin I didn’t realize back when I switched over from the worpress page that it made a new page on Bloglovin. They both get the updates, though, so I suppose it doesn’t matter too much. So here we are… new year, new makes! I love these tops, and I really couldn’t get enough of Horatio the stuffed horse. Pretty sure I would have gone ca-raaazy over that as a kid! (top/left) Velvet Ribbon Last Garment of 2014 | (right) Threaded Wo(men)’s Plaid Flannel Shirt (bottom/left) Sewaholic Party Top! | (bottom/center) Kestrel …

Sunday Sew Love: 28 December

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Today marks my last Sunday Sew Love post of the year! Crazy! I also can’t believe I’ve kept up with this so long! It’s really fun though so I hope someone other than me enjoys these posts too :) And thank you all for so much inspirational sewing!! (left) Feather’s Flights Wedding Dress Alteration | (top/center) Suzy Bee Sews Lady Skater (top/right) Sewn By Elizabeth Tate Dress | (bottom/right) poppykettle Safari Blouse Until next time,

Winter Handmade Gift Exchange & Sunday Sew Love: 7 December

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For today’s Blogmas14 post (topic: DIY Christmas Present), here is my DIY contribution to the Winter Handmade Gift Exchange from Craftaholics Anonymous. The package totally looked like that (above… so pretty, right!?) on my way to the post office. You would think having just moved I would’ve had a million and a half boxes sitting around to use for mailing, but we did a fantastic job of piling all of our boxes into the trailer and having my dad haul them off! So anywhoo… I got to the post office with no box – it ALMOST fit in the small size priority box… I mean it was so close! Ugh. So I resorted to tossing the bow to make it fit… and it still didn’t fit! At that point I frustratingly stuffed the sad little bow-less box into a big envelope. Thinking back, the bow probably would have fit in the envelope. Hmm… next time :) Either way, that’s what it was supposed to look like :)   Find more DIY Christmas Presents at the …

Sunday Sew Love: 30 November

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This week was extra exciting for me… Thursday was not only an awesome day of eating and family time, it was also my official official last day in the military! On Friday, I received my “Certificate of Release from Active Duty” form and email and it was such a weird feeling. I’ve been on terminal leave for the past month, so I haven’t been at work, but it still feels different. More on that later! I hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving had an awesome one! And for everyone else, I hope you still had some great food and a very happy Thursday. We had an awesome meal with the fam; my aunt and grandma made it down for the day. My grandma has a hard time getting around so my Aunt told her if she wanted to come see her great grandbaby she needed to be able to use her walker. So she got up a few times a day to practice with her walker so they could come visit! So sweet… she’s so excited to …

Sunday Sew Love: 23 November

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(top/left) My Salme Vegas Blazer | (top/center) Closet Case Files Watson Bra (top/right) lower your presser foot Burda of the Month | (bottom) K & L Hack Attack Is it weird to put my own make on there. lol too bad :P I love love love Heather’s rendition of the new Watson Bra. Not sure I’m ready for undergarments yet, but when I am, I’ll definitely go to this pattern first! And the pattern hack from Katy is so adorable… the grey and black is my favorite! Have a great week! Until next time,