I'm so in love with Heather Bailey's Paisley Fabric (Can you tell). The moment I glanced at this beautiful fabric, I knew I'd be buying a lot of it. The first thing I did was make pillow cases, way easier than I thought! Of course my favorite color is turqoise and yellow makes everything cheerful. I have to give a huge thank you to my awesome mother for making me this quilt. Maybe one day I will assess the qulting skills, but for now I'm sticking to clothes and small projects ;-) I love the quilt and luckily my husband hasn't had any complaints about the colors hehe. Did you get the hint that I love this fabric yet? How excited was I to run across a mouse pad made with this fabric on Etsy.com!! Some may say I'm going overboard, but now I can actually say I have a matching mouse pad for my bedding LOL! Thanks Heather Bailey for making such beautiful fabrics! Check her out at HeatherBailey.com

Did you say I could wear Navy?? Whew, not limited to Purple, I was able to incorporate Navy blue into my conference wardrobe! I got the dress pattern idea from my friend Janet's daughter who recently made it in some gorgeous Heather Bailey Fabric. I chose to use two fabrics from Anna Maria Horner's Garden Party collection and even though it was mostly Navy, it still had some of my beloved Purple :-P The dress is one of Project Runway's patterns, but here's a tip...it looks way better if you leave out the loops for the sash belt!

Sporting my finished dress at the conference with Coach's vice president, Jim Offutt. It was so comfortable for shaking my booty on the dance floor :-) and I recieved many compliments on it! Since the pattern doesn't give many details, here are some tips. I used two pieces of elastic for the waiste. First, I measured the a strand of elastic around my waiste to get the right amount of give, but not too tight. Then, I pinned ends together on one side of the dress and the middle of the length to the other side of the dress (on the wrong side of the fabric). Measure 1/4 the length of the entire piece of elastic and pin to the front center of the dress and same for the back. As you sew between the 4 pinned areas, pull the elastic so it is flush with the fabric. It took 4 hands (thanks again, mom) to pull and run through the machine, but turned out perfect!

I started out by using the same Fabric she used on her dress but in a purple fabric (of course). It was extremely easy to put together and super comfortable to wear. I can't wait to make another one!

I recently attended the store manager's conference for Coach in Orlando and one of the traditions of this yearly conference is dress code colors. There are only certain colors you can wear and this year was my least favorite, purple BLAH! But, I embraced it and decided to make my wardrobe for the event! One of the dresses I made was ispired by a post on Anna Maria Horner's (no relation) Blog. It had the pattern for a museum dress so I thought I'd give it a try!

What is more fun than cupcakes? During a shopping trip to our favorite Fabric store in West Palm Beach, my mom and I were talked into buying a pattern for this adorable cupcake oven mitt. Of course, it didn't take long for the lady to talk me into getting it and I instead of working on our original project (Pleated Skirt), we spent the rest of the afternoon making this cutie cupcake! Oh how I wish there were 5 extra hours in the day so I could make everyone a cupcake oven mitt for Christmas..sigh... maybe one day.