Cute little yoga bag that I made:





I made this bag from a free pattern available on Amy Butler's website. I lined it with pink flourishes. Super fun!

So ... I've gotten on the re-usable grocery bags band-wagon. But I refuse to buy them from the store {isn't that just more consumerism?}. There's an excellent tutorial on craftster for making your own bags, using a plastic bag as your pattern. TUTORIAL. Here is one that I made:





I will be grocery shopping in style :-) Extra points for making a re-cycled out of an old t-shirt or doing a re-fashion with old clothes from Goodwill {or Deseret Industries, if you live in Utah!}

"Sixty years ago, if I'd had the opportunity to lay out my life just the way I wanted it to happen - whatever I would have planned would have paled in comparison with what's actually happened. All I can say is, fortunately, I wasn't in control." -- Willie Nelson

Here's a photo of the plants that I'm growing from seed! This is chives, cilantro, zucchini and green peppers.

I also did a quilt pattern on the top of my nightstand.

Here is a photo of my dresser. I papered it with Amy Butler paper.

“Do not be too timid in that which you undertake. All of life is an experience.”

"Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips." Psalm 141:3

"There is power in our thoughts. We create our own surroundings by the thoughts we think. Physically, this may take a period of time, but spiritually it is instantaneous. If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts." -- Betty J. Eadie