What We've Been Working On

Aaron and I have a couple of new projects going on around our house these days. They might not look like much now, but we are really excited about how they will turn out. A little while ago our apartment complex had a yard sale. Aaron and I made $40 selling off all our junk. Yahoo! With that money we decided that we would buy the wood to make ourselves a nightstand for our bedroom. You can see the drawing above (and I should probably mention that Aaron did this drawing and it is to scale. That's Aaron for you. If I'd drawn it we'd be lucky if the lines were even straight.) This night stand will be tall enough to look nice with our bed (our bed is pretty high up there) and it will fit in the corner of our room very nicely. The side that's on the same wall as the bed will have a cupboard with doors on the bottom and two drawers on top. On the other side it will be a bookshelf. Awesome!

Here it is so far. We took it to Hooper a little while ago and Aaron used Kerry's router to make the corners look really nice, and the nail gun to put in the shelves. We picked out a stain that will match our bed. Now all we need is for Aaron to have some extra time to finish it up. :)

For the last couple of weeks whenever I've had a free second (not very often, in other words), I've been working on my latest project which is a levi quilt. My mom's friend had a bunch of levi she didn't want anymore so I was very glad to take it off of her hands. :) The quilt I'm making isn't going to be entirely out of levi, about half. The other half is different colors of cotton fabric that I thought looked cute together.
I am sort of following a pattern, but I made a few changes to it that I think are a nice improvement to it. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do on the back, or how I will bind it together, but I have really enjoyed having another sewing project to work on. I guess we'll see how it turns out. Happy creating to us!