DIY Day

April 30, 2015 by KTgreen

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

My new DIY blog will be up NEXT WEEK!!

Can you hear the trumpet fanfare???

This little web design challenge shouldn’t have taken so long but…

I had the new blog all ready and up and beautiful and then decided that it wouldn’t work. Beautiful yes. Useable no.

So, back to the drawing board. Or computer keyboard. And it’s a month later. Maybe this one will work. And I’ll be happy. And there will be peace in the world.

Or maybe not.

But next Thursday, I’ll post the new website. I’ll also put up the new DIY for the week on this website. Because I don’t want to lose all my Pinterest peeps who have been faithfully following for years and years. Just kidding. But I do get a lot of web traffic from Pinterest.

On the new website I plan to put a new project every Thursday. Sewing, quilting, mosaics, gardening, photography, or anything else I might be working on will be covered. I’ll also be featuring one of my older DIYs at least one other day of the week. Re-worked, re-designed, and re-cycled!

When Michelle is ready to do some DIY, she’ll own Wednesday.

One more week!

Ch-ch-ch-changes, part 2

March 19, 2015 by KTgreen

I usually put up a project on Thursday. Didn’t do it last week, not doing it this week.

But I will take a few minutes to explain what is going on just in case you only check out the site on Thursday for the DIY.

When I first bought my domain, KTGreenDesign.com, the “design” referred to web design. I thought I’d make a little money creating websites. But I really hated coding in HTML.

(Incidentally, the K is for Kathy and the T for Terry. Just in case he ever wanted to jump on the blog wagon.)

Then I thought I’d just blog about a healthy lifestyle–exercising, cooking, diets, places to go and the money from advertising would follow. That’s when Michelle came on board with her recipes. But I discovered that there is no money from advertising and I’m not really all that healthy.

So I started blogging about DIY and our adventures here in Perfect. Posted lots of photos. Decided I didn’t really care if I made any money on my blog. It’s just fun! And that was working out well. I get a lot of visitors from Pinterest and other DIY websites.

But the blog has gradually taken on more of a local view and now my readers are primarily from the state of Florida. (Or people that want to be in the state of Florida.) And that’s been really fun because there is so much to do here and places to go and things for me to write about.

I’m still sewing and quilting. Doing a few mosaics here and there. Decorating my house. Refurbishing furniture. Working in my many gardens. But it just doesn’t fit here anymore.

So, I’ve decided to move all my DIY to a new website. When Michelle is ready to start posting again, she’ll be on the new site as well.

The local stuff will stay right here on Just a Slice of Life in Perfect.

I thought I’d have the new site up by today, but that would mean I’d actually have to stay home and work on it.

Come on, I have parades to attend. Pictures to take. Banjos to play.

My new goal is to get it up by next Thursday. So be here next week and I’ll give you the new URL,

or a new excuse!

Kathy

Works in Progress, March

April 6, 2015March 5, 2015 by KTgreen

Today I planned on showing you the third and final pillow in my series of cool and funky pillows. But……

I wasn’t happy with how it was turning out.

It was okay. But it wasn’t cool and funky enough.

So I ordered something to help make it cool and funky. And hope to get it by next week and I can then finish the pillow. I think I will LOVE it. (That’s a quote from my granddaughter Piper when she opened a Christmas present from my niece Michelle–clothes with kitties!)

But I got a lot of other projects finished.

I made a 12″ x 16″ pillow case for Colton.

Pillow Case for Colton

I don’t know him but I met his Grandmother recently and thought he might like it. I had the fabric left over from a quilt I made for my grand-nephew Tyson.

A Quilt for Tyson — Tyson’s quilt. I LOVE this fabric!

I made a pillow case for Jack because I had a wee bit of that pirate fabric left.

Pillow case for Jack

I said “do you like it?” and Jack said “Yes, (big hesitation) but can you make me one with Mickey Mouse?” Oh yes. I would love to make you one with Mickey Mouse! And maybe a sleeping bag with Mickey Mouse. And pjs with Mickey Mouse. That’s how sweet this kid is.

Got some new fabric that I’ve been obsessing over. I saw it introduced on the quilting blog nanaCompany back on February 6th and I’ve been trolling all the fabric websites waiting for it to be available.

Milk sugar and flowers fabric — Love that pink with the kittens and bunnies!

I like looking at it and thinking about the wonderful quilt I will make with it.

And my biggest project!

Riley’s quilt.

The top is done.

Now all I have to do is,

baste it,

quilt it,

and bind it.

(Many Many Many Hours)

The goal is to have it finished by April 15th. (It doesn’t have anything to do with income tax!)

That’s when I leave to spend THREE WHOLE WEEKS with my THREE BEAUTIFUL GRANDKIDS in the frozen tundra. Which is also known as Mandan, North Dakota.