Steph's Simple Life

Okay, it seems like everyone that has a baby now has a Boppy pillow.  After seeing them in action, I do not know how I, or my children, ever survived without these miracle devices.  Anyway, since the grand daughter will be here in a few months, I've decided to see if it was possible to make one of these wonder pillows.  I was able to find a pattern on Pinterest  @ https://sites.google.com/site/sewityourself/   this site's instructions were okay, but she only had drawings and I thought pictures might help those of you who are new to printing the patterns and actually putting them together. Here's what you'll need to get started: Scissors Pins Printer, to print the pattern tape 1 1/4 yards of fabric 1 bag of stuffing matching thread Step 1 , print the pattern and cut it out.  It will print on 4 pages and you will have to cut each piece out, then tape the pieces together. Step 2 , tape the pattern together matching up the lines.   ...

Can you believe that we are already in March?  I can't, where is the time going?  This year is already proving to be a busy one and doesn't seem like it's going to slow down any.  The realtor is coming this weekend to look at the house, since we're getting ready to put it on the market, so I spent this week staining and sealing tile grout....it was a pain, and I'm in pain now...but it turned out good.  Here are the before and after pictures. Before it looked like this in the high traffic areas. After   It turned out better than I'd hoped for, so that was good.  Plus the floor is really clean now, and I guess it needed it.   I've still been making my soap, and am now ONLY using my soap!  I love it, some more than others.  I shipped out a box this morning, so hopefully I'll get some "unbiased" feedback.   I've also been making some things that I thought I'd already posted on here, but I couldn't seem to find,...