Love a Good Theme

Miss Bella requested an Eiffel Tower cake for her birthday. After an hour of looking at possibilities on the internet, it wasn't looking very promising.

Did you know you can order a tower KIT from the UK for $140?

We couldn't find anything that I could possibly create, so Bella printed off her logo from her etsy store.

(Since we're speaking of her store, if you need an etsy store banner or other graphics, she's your gal. Take a look by clicking on her banner below.) :-)

I'm no Des when it comes to cake decorating, but I do really like it. I need some tips on how to get this smooth -- I tried.

Voila....

I'm for quick... those are inedible foam flowers. Stickers, to be exact, but they did not stick to the icing. Perfect color.

Another tip I need, how do you end the shell technique? I can never never quite tuck it back in.

The source of her obsession.

She's changed a little in the past 4 years.

Joyeux Anniversaire!

Happy Birthday -- Sweet Sixteen!

Sheet Fat Quarter Bundles

Whether you're in the woods or on the beach,

it's time to break out the picnic blankets!!

A quilt made from old sheets is just the right weight!!

New Vintage Sheet Fat Quarter Sets in Store.

Free Pattern Here

I want to make this zigzag one next, from Evelyn!!

(check out her sew mama sew giveaway!!! Photo from Evelyn)

You can easily make this with the same technique that is shown in the above pattern, you will just 'set' it a little differently than what is shown here.

Happy Picnic-ing!

So Your Mama Sews, Does She?? ~ Giveaway~Winner Chosen!

Winner!! Christina #154

Congratulations! Thanks everyone for the great ideas. Now if we were just that brilliant to be able to do all of those tutorials!

Thanks for visiting!

Does your Mama make you cozy quilts, fufu tutu's or groovy bags??

Does your Mama like to win free stuff this week and every Thursday of the year?

Does your Mama like tutorials and free patterns??

Whew! We're Sew glad!!

You're in the right place!

For this festive occasion, Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day,

we want to give you or your Mama a $25 Gift Certificate to Quilt Taffy.

And can we all just agree that SewMamaSew totally rocks??!! Thank you.

We'd also like to tell you and your Mama that we do a giveaway every week!

Join us here for Taffy Talk Giveaways each Thursday.

Sign up to Follow Us and you'll never be lonely again. ;)

To be entered in the giveaway, you or your Mama needs to take a lookie loo at our Freebies and Tutorials on the right hand side and let us know what you like or what you'd like to see more of.

We'd probably like to see more of it too!!! We'll be ordering more hours in the day with our next shipment of materials!

Tell Mama that we will have a random drawing on May 31st. And if Mama has any friends or cousins in foreign countries, they are welcome to join us as well. We will be so sad if Mama wins and we have no way of contacting her.
Some other Mama will be happy, though.

Good Luck and Thanks for stopping by!

Graduation Giveaway~ WINNER chosen

Update: Thank you everyone for your sweet words and funny stories. I enjoyed them all. Corrie came down and we had a nice time at the ceremony. No tears. All smiles. It was great and very rewarding.

Winner tonight is: Paintergal! Congratulations. Take a look in the store and pick a fabric with blue, white or black in it!! Let Corrie know.

See you next Thursday! My son is graduating from High School today.

I'm just not too sure about all of this.

I don't like the changes that are coming.

But I love the young adult he has become.

I'll try to focus on that today and not the fact that my little red headed boy is moving on in the world.

In honor of the Class of 2009, we're giving away One yard of fabric with blue, white or black in it, commenters choice!

Leave me a happy/funny graduation memory comment.

I don't want to be sad today.

Random Drawing after the Pomp and Circumstance.

Hum it with me.........

Infinite Wisdom

Corrie's cutie-pie daughter, Miss Bella,

collects all the extra odds and ends from the

endless cuttings of charm packs at Quilt Taffy.

Lucky girl.

In my infinite wisdom,

( I never say that, but that's what my friends tell me....

...that I have infinite wisdom.

Quick, name that movie!) :)

I showed her how to make this block I saw on the TallGrass Prairie Blog.

I think she's going to have something pretty spectacular when it's all done!!

Sew Bella Sew

Now, with my infinite wisdom....is there anything I can do for you?

Minny Muu Charm Packs

5" is the perfect size for these petite japanese prints!

Charm pack has 40 ~ 5" squares of the 10 prints shown below.

Packs are in Etsy or eBay.

Wonderland MoMo Lunch Tin

Flay Day Farm Red Print Panel

Pop Goes the Pack

Slave labor = Me visiting Corrie.

I like to cut the pretty stuff so.......

Pop Garden & Bijoux Charm Square Packs

A set of 46 or 92

You can purchase in Etsy or eBay

It's the Pitts....burgh Giveaway

Update: well,.... we're really feeling in the dumps now. That was a great PITTy party. One of us won't be sad -- vikingmom!! Woohoo! Des is a stickler for contestants leaving their email address..."No email, she's out." WAIT, I know that name...I can find her. Gotcha covered waagaa :-) Congrats!

Well, we're not at Quilt Market (in PITTsburgh, Pennsylvania) & you're not either.

Let's have a PITTy Party together.

Today's giveaway will be 1 yard of some cherry PITT themed fabric.

It will be surprise.

Leave a comment telling us what is the pitts in your life today.

We'll start:

Corrie Dawn is on Jury Duty. She loves her country, but really, I'm visiting her right now and her civic duty is getting in the way.

Desi Jean: I'm still trying to get over the pitty birthday cake from yesterday. :(

Random drawing later tonight.

Berry Delicious Fat Quarter Bundle

Bakerella doesn't live here

I just wanted to bake a simple layer cake for Marsha's birthday.
I am not Corrie.
I can't even imagine actually decorating a cake
to look like anything more than 2 circles.

I was going to go all out and put it on a cake stand, though.
{Me = Going all out = Cake Stand Cake}

I tried Martha's trick of putting the wax paper underneath so that the plate stays clean. This didn't even become blog worthy until I tried to remove the wax paper.
I think it's supposed to be parchment paper.
My wax paper didn't budge without the whole cake splitting in half.



So I smushed it all back together, added a pound more of frosting, sprinkles and candles and called it a day.

Dinner was still super yummy.
I simmered Marinara Sauce all day.
Oh, I could bathe in it. I look good in red.
Meatballs and I tried this psuedo Olive Garden Breadsticks and they turned out PERFECT. That's a first for me!

What is most hysterical is I was actually, truly contemplating making this.
No, seriously.

Bakerella has left the building.

LuV Your Mum~

We love our mom and wish she was here

to tell all these same sentiments to.......

She taught us all her yoga moves as well. :)

Happy Mother's Day, Friends~

Garden Cheesecake

Neighbors....

Mike to the rescue, as always. Mike is a fireman.

He tells you how it is. No fluff. I think you either really like him or you really don't.

I really like him (& his wife).

You don't mess with Mike. I doubt he would approve of his picture on the blog, so I had to snap it quick.

He very kindly came over & plowed our two large garden spots.

He won't let us pay him, so we had to do something.

Spent two days making this for him (and we had to have one too).

Okay, mine didn't look exactly like that, but it looked pretty good, don't you think?

It tasted really good.

Have you made cheesecake?

No, not the stuff out of the box.

Put it in the oven for two hours, take it out for ten minutes, run around the block, then put it in again for three hours, turn the oven off and let it sit for 10 minutes, turn the oven on and do a jig. Then place in the refrigerator uncovered, but exactly nine hours later, uncover. You can't leave your house for two days.

It actually tasted better the third day. I think Mike liked it. His wife was out of town, and I don't think he told her about it. It was gone by the time she got back.

Got the recipe out of this great cookbook that Des gave me.

I was thrilled to find the recipe online just for you.