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Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 12:00 PM
Hope you all had a great Mother's Day. I sure did! My kids and husband know exactly what I like...Food! I was treated to a fantastic buffett Sunday at 103 West AND they gave me new gardening supplies and flowers to plant! I also had the opportunity this week to work with Hilary, my oldest and design some beach totes....which she has been selling! Yay! We've been designing and making these totes for graduates, Mother's Day presents and they have made great teacher gifts. |
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Rene': Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012 8:30 AM
This week I had the pleasure to work with a customer who wanted to design her own nap mat. I welcome this opportunity and have done this before. It's really rewarding to see the final product, not only for me, but for the customer who selected her own fabric. This customer, Megan, was really easy to work with and had a great eye for choosing fabrics that worked well together. I had no idea what fabrics she ordered until they arrived Wednesday. I fell in love with the soft pinks, browns and off-whites she had chosen. |
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Rene': Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:35 PM
 Some girls get excited over new shoes, and I DO love sparkly sandles...my daughter calls them my B**** shoes, but I'm sooo excited about my new sewing machine. Finally, after years of sewing on my good old Viking, I was able to upgrade this week to a Juki Commercial Sewing Machine. This thing flies!!! And even better, I'm now able to quilt through 2 layers of 1" batting... Which got me thinking, "What a great way to streamline my whole operation!" |
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Rene': Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:44 AM
 | Sweet 16 Quilt 15 t-shirts were used to make this quilt in celebration of a daughter's 16th birthday! |
|  | Backing fabric and label Colors of Aqua, Hot Pink and Lime green in Floral design were used for the backing. |
|  | Personalized Label Favorite Movie: Dead Poet's Society |
|  | Hand Painted T-Shirt with Lace This block was made with lace found on the bottom and sleeves of a sweet handpainted t-shirt. I stipple quilted the block then added the lace all around. |
|  | Greek Key Design on block A little free form quilting on the corners of this block make it easy to read the team mates names. |
|  | Modern Millie Block Free Form quilting to highlight motif |
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Rene': Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:16 AM
My daughter, Hilary is home from KSU for the holidays. We spent a couple of hours yesterday creating these 'Holiday Sweaters' for a party she and her boyfriend are attending Friday Night. (after he sees our look for him...IDK) ha! It was so great to spend time together and get tacky.... Fun Times :0 More pictures to follow. Maybe we can get Nick to wear this thing? Thanks for reading, Rene'  | Finished! Look how proud she is! LOL |
|  | Hilary's Tacky Christmas Sweater Assembly After we ironed on her antlers and face for the raindeer, she glued on buttoms, ribbons and well,...crap. |
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Rene': Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:09 AM
Aside from making t-shirt quilts, blankets and napmats, I LOVE to re purpose clothing. This project is so easy to do and you can turn a favorite t-shirt into a new tunic, just like the ones in department stores. I'll show you step by step how to create your own one-of-a-kind tunic for fall which work great over jeggings, leggings, and skinny jeans.  This is the before picture. Just a plain navy blue t-shirt.  Next, cut off the hem to leave about 14 inches under the arm seam. |
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Rene': Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:03 PM
I'm so thrilled to announce that janiebee Nap Mats may now be purchased at The Purple Ladybug in Lawrenceville, GA.  The store recently relocated to the same building as DSW and are next to Ted Montanas. Their address is The Avenue at Webb Gin, 1250 Scenic Highway. Lawrenceville. Email them at purpleladybug1@bellsouth.net. The store has a beautiful layout, a warm, friendly atmosphere and is filled with all sorts of goodies for your little ones, boys and girls, size newborn to 14. |
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Rene': Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:23 AM
 The Duluth Fall Festivalwas held in Duluth, GA, September 24th and 25th of this year, and I was lucky enough to be chosen as a vendor. I had been designing and selling my janiebee quilted nap matsfor about a year and was working part-time for a law firm. One of the paralegals there suggested I try some festivals to market my nap mats so I completed the vendor application and was accepted! This was in the Spring, so I began making nap mats day and night. Summer came and it was all I could do to fill my on-line orders. |
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