Summer Blog Challenge: 5-10 blogs I love.

Wow this is easy and hard at the same time. I can come up with tons of blogs I love and read daily, but narrowing it down is harder.

The first would have to be my friend Jess' blog Craftiness is not Optional. I've known Jess since before we were married. We were in the singles ward together and she was one of my bridesmaids. I've been reading her blog since back in the day when it was the Adventures of Rory and Jess, Before she started her sewing obsession. =) Now that we don't live 10 minutes from each other but instead live two states from each other its nice to see what she's up to, with sewing and how her adorable girls are growing.

Next is Make it and Love it. I love this blog! Its one of the first craft blogs I started reading and totally random, but when I moved to Idaho, I found out some of my neighbors know her, and she used to be in the student ward we were in before we switched to the Family Ward. Wow I kind of sound like a stocker! haha I swear I'm not!

Next is Made. Oh man Dana from Made is totally my crafting idol! She is a total Rock Star and I hope I get to meet her some day. I don't know how she gets all that done, I have a hard time with just two kids and getting projects done!

Next would be my beautiful friend Cathrine. She is pretty amazing. We met in our singles ward and she is just such a genuinely sweet person. I just love her, and I'm so bummed that right as we moved out here, her family moved back to CA. But I can still keep up with her on Facebook and her Awesome blog Cat on a Limb.

Next is Nicole from MamaNYC. She is Amazing. She has been such a help to me as I've started trying to take my blog to the next step. Her blog is AMAZING. She's got humor, giveaways, blogger resources, family and parenting tips, couponing. She has so much going on but her blog isn't busy. Its welcoming and inviting. I love it!

Next is my bloggy friend Tash of The Quirky Crafting Shmoogle Bean. She is amazing and we have the same geeky taste so We are usually pinning each others pins on pinterest. Her blog is awesome and I love it!

And Last but not least I chose LDS Women Converse. It is written by two women from my old ward back in San Jose. Their posts are always thought provoking and inspiring. I really enjoy reading their blog and I have learned a lot from both Julie and Ariane.


I hoep you have time to check out all these great blogs.

Summer blog Challenge day 4

Today's theme for the summer blog challenge is the reason behind your blogs name. Well When we first moved to Idaho i put my desk in a little alcove in the corner of our room but its right behind the door. Tabitha would always throw the door open and hit me in my head with the door nob, or my stuff would get stuck behind the door and it was always a mess. So we moved the dresser to the alcove and moved my sewing stuff into the closet. I was able to put all my stuff on the shelves and hang my dresses in a small corner left in my closet. My closet was my sanctuary when I was having a bad day. I could go in there to do what ever sewing or crafts or whatever I needed to do and it was great. So I named my blog Crafting in My Closet.
Since naming my blog we have again rearranged our bedroom to make room for Evangeline so now my desk is under the window. When it was in the closet my sewing stuff had a tendency to make its way out and all over the room. Although its already started to do that again. I definitely want a sewing room when morgen graduates and we move. The girls can share a room, I need a sewing place! HA!

Blog overhaul

So since we've moved, I
1. don't really have the hook up on all the cheapness around here yet, most of my friends are in CA so you all don't care about what is cheap here in idaho.
2. I've been focusing on making clothes for Tabitha as one of my goals for the year was to make most of Tabitha's clothes this year.
3. I'm working on getting better at making my own patterns and I want to share them with all of you!
4. Since we moved I have no Sewing room, so we've turned our bedroom closet into a sewing room. Our room has a nice little nook next to the closet that fits our dresser and we are putting up a poll up across to hang our clothes.

So there you have it, I'm Crafting in My Closet now!
Hope you stick around and enjoy as I work on my crafting addiction!

Blog overhaul

So its time for a blog overhaul. I haven't been using my blog much lately and I've decided I should. But I think its also time to review what I want this blog to be about. So look for some major changes around here as I reinvent this blog.