Scrap-a-doodly-doo!

While chatting with my friend, Laurie, on the phone this morning I was clearing the mounds of scrapage (a real word... it's in the Bari J. dictionary, so you can look it up) I had accumulated on my cutting table.

By the by, did I tell you that Laurie moved just a mile away from me? So now my virtual bloggy friend is a real friend!

But I digress... back to scrapage. I mentioned the scrapage aloud to Laurie and she asked do I ever make covered buttons. 

Why, just last night I had covered one to go on a pillow, so beneath the mounds of scrapage somewhere I found the buttons and button kit and started plugging away at that little job. 

Do you know that there are not enough buttons in the world for me to make in order to use up all of my scrapage? I used up all the buttons I had in my possession, and tossed the rest of the fabric into the laundry basket under my table that serves as overflow (it's a disgrace). 

Then I got back to work on what I was really working on in the first place which was creating a pattern for this... also a good use for your scraps. With the fabric line, I'm bound and determined to have some patterns to offer as well. This little birdie (the bird obsession rages on...) is my slow start to that project. I hope to have the patterns available ... uh... let's just say... in the near relatively near future. 

Right now, it's back to the cutting table for the next project of the day... and at least now I can find my cutting table. I'm thinking though that I need a skirt to go around it so that one can't see the carnage that lies beneath it.

Have a nice Thursday!

~b

Comments

[Kim]

1.

Scrapage and carnage and birdies? Oh my!

[Patti]

2.

Oh, thank you! It's comforting knowing that there are others who cannot find their cutting table and have baskets of overflowing fabric nestled underneath. As a matter of fact, I too, made an ornamental bird today. I was thinking that they'd be lovely to hang on the Christmas tree.

[Patti]

3.

Oh, thank you! It's comforting knowing that there are others who cannot find their cutting table and have baskets of overflowing fabric nestled underneath. As a matter of fact, I too, made an ornamental bird today. I was thinking that they'd be lovely to hang on the Christmas tree.

[Laurie]

4.

Oh Bari!
I'm so glad to be close by!
Those buttons are A-dorable!
I'll be right over for a sewing date! :)

[andrea]

5.

Oh my goodness Bari- I have 3 big gift bags and a basket full of 'scrapage'!
That is an excellent idea to make covered buttons-I might go try that,soon as I get a chance...Love the little birdie and can't wait to see your patterns....Andrea

[Lisa Chin]

6.

Oh oh oh! A skirt to cover my scrapage under my sewing table! What a great idea! It would make my husband happy not to have to look at it! Sorry about all the exclaimation points but I am VERY excited by this idea. Now if I could just get my 11 year old to put the scrapage back into the box when she's done rifling through it. Btw - love the new word and so glad to have a word for the lovely scraps I have a difficult time getting rid of.

[missficklemedia.com]

7.

What a fun post!
Those buttons would look soooo cute in one of your be-ribboned brooches!

[marie]

8.

ooooo i'm so happy that you will be putting up a pattern for that little bird! and who isn't infatuated with birds these days!?! they're so darn cute!!!

[Missy]

9.

Bari,
Was it you that posted a long time ago about the perfect place to live? Well, I'm thinking it's gotta be your neighborhood! You and Laurie together? Save me a house around the corner. Your bird is divine. I don't know that the bird obsession will fade soon. At least not for me.
xo-
Missy

[Missy Severson]

10.

I am soooo in touch with the scrapage! My scrap bin overfloweth... I have been making all sorts of random crafty things with all of my scraps lately, preparing for a craft market that we are doing in early December. But, I haven't even put a dent into the scrapage!!
Love the bird, by the way!
Missy

[Laurie]

11.

The buttons are really sweet and don't be so hard on yourself about the scrap basket, we all have one!

[Dana]

12.

Now whatcha' gonna do with the buttons?

[Regina]

13.

What a cute birdie pin cushion!!! Adorable!
Regina