WANTED: THESE GREAT CRAFT BOOKS

I've got a good collection of craft books going, including these . . .

- Bend the Rules Sewing
- Craft Challenge: Dozens of Ways to Repurpose a Pillowcase
- Pretty Little Patchwork
- Pretty Little Presents
- What Shall We Do Today?
- The Apron Book
- The Big-Ass Book of Crafts
- Freestyle Handmade Bags and Skirts
- Friendship Blocks: New Settings for Sentimental Favorites
- 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity

. . . but I'd like to add these to it!

- Sew Liberated: 30 Stylish Projects for the Modern Sewist
- Chic and Simple: Skirts, Dresses, Tops and Jackets for the Modern Seamstress
- Button It Up: 80 Amazing Vintage Button Projects
- Material Obsession: Modern Quilts with Traditional Roots
- Sew What! Bags: 18 Pattern Free Projects
- Quilts, Baby! 20 Cuddly Designs to Piece, Patch and Embroider
- Make Your Own Contemporary Quilts
- Simply Sublime Bags

(ps - they are available on my Amazon wish list)

REDESIGNED

Lately I've been wishing to rearrange my bedroom, but with all the walls/windows/doors/closets being where they are, along with all the bedroom furniture, there isn't a very good set up other than the one there is now for watching tv from bed without messing with my neck. It's just not the tv thing, it's that if I moved the bed to the few other places it could go, everything else ends up looking a little squished together. Plus, no matter how I could arrange things, I live in a rental and can't paint the walls (and I love to paint), so I will never be totally satisfied.

Same goes with the rest of the house. . . the living room has only one good layout with all the furniture and its size, the craft/guest room was just recently changed, the dining room is as good as it gets (unless I somehow come into an extra $1000+ to get a new dining set), and our roommate's room - which I would love to rearrange, but it's not my place to.

So. .. here goes a new blog. . . maybe not completely new or redesigned, but at least it's a new start. I'd messed around too much with all the formatting on my old one that it stopped listening to me. My old one was started with the idea as "crafts only", but now it'll be a "me" blog and include whatever I'm doing -- crafts, cooking, books, music, lists : )

What's going on now?
Over the weekend: lots of nothing! I did get some of Christmas project worked on, but more on that later
Tonight: there's a school Christmas concert to attend, the little girl I watch is in kindergarten and has a solo
Tomorrow: dinner with some of Chad's family at their new place (hmmm .. maybe I can rearrange their stuff?)
Rest of the week: baking, finishing up with Christmas gifts, a few movies, cleaning before my brother arrives on Sunday, reposting some favorite projects and putting up some new ones!

Have a good week!