Fall!!

This was such a fast summer and I am busy designing for the upcoming season!! A huge highlight was our photoshoot and the beautiful Sonoma House in the middle of Boca Raton! It is such an amazing venue for parties and weddings and we felt so blessed to be invited to do a shoot with the cutest children ever!! Check out our maxis, twirly dresses, and of course, boys bow ties and suspenders!!! Love the Jenny Eliza fabrics, so bright and full of joy!

This photo shoot is dedicated to my mom, who after fighting a battle with liver disease went home to be with our Lord. I will miss her every day and she has touched my heart in such a special way! Not only did she teach me to sew, but from an early age taught me the value of children and family life. She loved her church family as well as her special girlfriends and will be missed by so many. Always a smile on her face!!
Three of her four great grandchildren are in this shoot, so adorable and I had a chance to show her the pics before she passed and of course she just loved them!!

 Love you mom!!!

My favorite SisBoom from this year!!!

Below you will find a fun project to do with Jennifer Paganelli's fabric lines! I thought it would be fun to look over the past year and pull up some of my favorite things we have made with SisBoom fabrics!! Jennifer, we love you so much and thank you for all the inspiration and encouragement you give to us with such a generous spirit!! You are such an amazing talent and such a great teacher!! Thank you for everything this year!!!xoxoJudy

Welcome to Celebrate Jennifer Paganelli Blog Tour!!!

SisBoom Love!

SisBoom Christmas Celebration!!!

I love Jennifer Paganelli and all her incredible designs all year long!! But Christmas time is such an amazing time to really do something special with her fabrics for my home! I am usually so busy creating goodies for everyone else during the year that I really look forward to making something for myself, only one just for me!!! So here is one of my favorite projects that is quick, because I don't have a lot of extra time, fun, and beautiful!! You can do this too and it will only take a few hours so put on your favorite Christmas music or movie and get busy!!!

 

Super Duper Sis Boom Christmas Tree Skirt!!

So first you will need to go to the dollar store and buy one of those precut tree skirts they sell for $1 made from felt. I like using the white one but it probably doesn't matter. Next you need your glue gun and lots of glue sticks! And last you need to rip strips of your favorite Sis Boom fabric into 4" strips, any length and any pattern you want!! Now you can probably tell why I like this project. If you want you can press your strips but you don't have too. I iron everything so I did but it is not necessary! Ok so starting on the outside edge by the slip starting about an inch in from the edge squeeze some glue for about 12 inches following the edge of the felt. Next hand gather the fabric onto the glue moving along the edge. When you use up one strip of your fabric just start the next one. Once you are all the way around start the next line of gathers staggering where the different prints stop and start sort of like you are laying bricks! It is so fun and when you are all they way done you can finish off the slit and top part with some glitter ric rac or another trim you love!! Have fun making something you love for yourself!! Have a blessed Christmas everyone and God bless!!

Lucky Girl!!!

Anytime Jennifer Paganelli releases a new fabric line is a happy day for me!!! Here is one of the prints from Lucky Girl and we feel sooooo happy to be able to show you all this today!! I really have no idea how she does it again and again but I am so thankful that she does!!! We have lots of exciting things to show you as we head toward our season so stay tuned!!!! Yeah Sis Boom!!

Summer!!!

I just love this little apron by Sis Boom! We will be offering them in her new fabric line, Circa!! Stay tuned lots of exciting things happening!!

New Things Coming!!

Art Show season is over and we are sooooo busy filling orders! Thank you to the stores and wonderful customers who love our creations! We have the most beautiful fabric coming, a new
collection called Circa from Jennifer Paganelli!!! Make sure and get your orders in early! It is
wonderful!!!

Art Season Is Under Way!!!!

Here we come!!!! We are so looking forward to our upcoming art shows and have been sooooo busy making new and exciting items for everyone!!! Working on our baby bubbles right now and Mommy Pom Pom Dresses, and we have some great new sundresses that you are going to love! First up, Artigras on Feb 16th through the 18th! See you then!!

Beautiful Christmas!

I am dreaming of a beauiful Christmas! Here Forty Toes Photography captures our Happy Land maxi!! More coming!! So thankful for our amazing fabric designer, Jennifer Paganelli who is incredible! Short version  available too!

Walk Right Into Fall!!

Well, in a very short time, Fall will be here!! So hard to believe it and I just do not want to say
goodbye to summer!!! But ahead is a really exciting few months of beautiful designs and even
a whole new fabric collection coming so stay tuned!!! Love this picture from two baby blues showing
off our adorable back to school skirt, yes you will need one!!! You may have heard some really big news, we were featured with our dear friend Forty Toes Photography in the current issue of Sew Beautiful!!! Such an honor and we feel so blessed by all of it!!!

So Chic!!!

I have been busy creating some super cute things for Fall!! Check out this chic baby in her Jackie O little pillbox and our "Becky" dress!!

Super Fly is here!!!

I have been waiting for this new fabric and it is so wonderful!!! Baby bubbles, hats, dresses, ladies halters and a special strapless sundress are coming!! Get your orders in before it is gone!!

Happy Home Message Pillows!!!

If there was a Jennifer Paganelli fan club, I would want to be the president!!! I just love her so much and think she is so talented!! Her fabric designs are incredible and on top of releasing collection after collection of everybody's favorite cottons, she somehow finds the time to publish over the top books too!! So you can imagine how excited I was when I heard she had a new book coming out called "Happy Home"!! What a great title and it was sure to be a winner just like her first book, "Girls World". When it came in the mail I just looked right through all the amazing projects and felt so drawn to do the message pillows. I had started my business 11 years ago with a girlfriend and we made pillows and wood signs, so those pillows with a message were really speaking my language!! The directions are so easy and believe me you will have success the first time around! Here are some pics of my progress as I worked on them!!

As you trace your letters on the fusible web, dont forget to reverse them or they will come out backwards!! You can use any font you like, I found that letters around 6" work well on a 21" square pillow. But they can be any size you like!!

Cut all your letters out like this when you have them traced!

I like to iron my pillow top in half horizontally and vertically so I can see where the center of my pillow is to place the lettering!

Iron you letters on to the wrong side of your fabric choice!! This is the fun part!! And cut them out on the lines!

Then before you peel off the paper backing place them where you think they look good!

I like to use a paper guide on both sides of the pillow so they come out pretty even!!

I also cute a piece of fusible interfacing for the underneath of the pillow top so it is just a little more sturdy when I sew on the letters!! Stitch on your letters and follow the directions to make your pillow back!! And its that easy!! You wont be able to make just one!! And this is a project that is sure to make not only your home happy, but your heart happy too!! Thank you Jennifer!!! You always know exactly what we will love!! Happy Summer everyone!