Updates!!!

I have updated my blog page.. less colors but still a pop to it :)))
I have not been on lately but have been sewing new things.. 
I opened up a BigCartel shop for some new items I have been making.. I will be adding some different things as well later on.
My Etsy shop is still open but I want to try to see how this new shop works out!!!
You can find it here  Applehead Threads BigCartel
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Here is a sample of some items I'm sewing now for custom orders and have sewn in the past.

These are very popular with my stationary groups :))

These I call Sleeper Keepers.

Its just a fold down padded clutch can be used for anything.

And you can store your pretty planner inside so it won't get all scuffed up!

Thanks for looking. More updates are coming with new items! 

BlogLovein it!

Just a short post ... Since Google is doing away with Reader lets all join me on Bloglovin! You can go from here to there in a sec flat(depending on your internet speed...) by just clicking on the button on top right of this page. You can also sign up to get me delivered right to your email!!!  You can do that from the side bar too! I do not like Google doing this to us.... I liked seeing all my followers faces in my side bar!!! hehe SOOO...Its the end of the month and I did not do much sewing in June.. and that means I did not get my wallet tutorial finished for the LYOF of June.. BLAH! I actually have to start over as the one I did finished didn't turn out so great..  But I do want to show you something I ordered !!!! As most of you know I love planners and paper, stickers and pens!!  I ordered these cuties from my friend Sachiko over on filofaxlove. She does great work and love all the cuteness of her products!! I have ordered several times from her!! These fit my personal Holborn filo. I was using a pocket and wanted to upscale a bit to have more room to write in.  She lets you personalize the tabs whatever you want! I also got the month tabs .. giggly cute! She sent me a pocket today marker , magnet and smaller marker too! Thank you Sachiko!

Here they are set inside. (don't look at the messy background)

* since taking this photo I moved it all into my"Big Green" Franklin Covey binder!

I'll be taking photos soon of my set up with all my cute tabs ! I been going back and forth trying layouts.. ugh.what a hassle . so went back to week on 2 pages and just going to go with that. I also made my own month pages... 

I bought new Pilot Frixion pens and markers !!! These were ordered from Jetpens

The markers are on left. I love them! I also got the pencil like frixion gel pens..Love writing with these! and I had to get a single blue clicker pen , frixion also.. and the writing markers, they are post its like tabs and of course...they are doggies!

Does anyone know a stateside shop to order goodies like stickers and posties from?

I'll be getting back to my sewing soon.. I NEED to as my Etsy shop is bare!! 

Well anyways... Please follow from Bloglovin or some other sort of way you follow!! Pretty please!???

OHHH forgot.. you can follow me on Instagram!!! 

Have a good weekend !!

New things for me!

I can't find the time to sew but I can find time to shop!! HA! Been a busy week and really had lots planned to sew.. Zoey's summer clothes will be winter before I start on them!!!

I went shopping today and Hobby Lobby has a big sale on all paper punches and stickers and washi type tape and and and and LOTS.. I kept myself on a budget though.. I bought all this..

I also got some things in the $1 bin at Joann's. No I don't do smash books or scrapbooking.. I will use these in my planner. I might as well be scrapbooking.. my planner looks like one anymore... I bought the punches to use to make stickers from my decorative tape..I call it decorative tape as it isn't really washi tape but might as well be .. love it. I found a tutorial HERE I have to try out!

I did make some simple stickers the other day..

I took some round white avery labels and marked all over them with highlighters and TA DA!

My pink stickers are for my Zoey days.. and I have green for doctors, red is important and yellow are Dougs work days.. I will do a full post on my layout soon.. I made my weekly pages too! 

I ordered new page dividers from Sachiko over on Filofax Love. I love her stuff she makes!! I hope I spelled her name right....

I can't wait to get them and pretty up my planner!! I'm using a Franklin Covey binder again.. but more on that later...

Give away time! -- closed!----

 I am participating in Sew Mama Sew Give Away Day!!  I have different followers.. not all of you do crafts I'm thinking so to make it fair I want to do TWO give away's! You can only enter one set though.. sorry , I want to make this fair for all! I hope that sounds fair??? AND ITS OPEN TO ANYONE! INTERNATIONAL AND STATE SIDE !! Heres the deal.. tell me in the comment below which set you want..  And PLEASE PLEASE tell me your name and email.. PLEASE!!! because if you are a no reply blogger how will I know where to send your email to you telling you won!!! We can't have that!!!  I will draw one and if it says the sewing kit , then the next draw I will draw until it says the Paper/pen kit.. sound good?  Ok on to the goodies!!!! First the sewing kit.. ( I gave a sneaky peek yesterday) I made this skinny pencil pouch the other day and thought oh I must put this in the give away.. so it wasn't planned.. and worked well with what I giving away! I used what I had handy.. 

and look at the cute little strawberry! cute! 

wow I just noticed everything is pink LOL Also included is a Sewline Fabric Pencil... I love these pencils.. It includes a set of pink and yellow marking refills. I use the pink alot and white.. I thought the yellow would be different.. 

Oh I made cute little magnets too!

Ok now for the paper/pen set..

First of all I want to say I am making another fabric pencil case to go with this set!! I have not finished it yet but by time the week is up I will post a pic to new post! It will be in different colors too.

***** UPDATE*******

I finished the pouch that will go with the pencil/ art set below!!!

what is included in this ..

2 post it note pads...

1 removable label pad 

4 sheets of white Avery round labels.. (I stamped on a few to show that they are stickers.. thats how I use them in  my Filofax planner,) 

A GOB of paper clips and binder clips..

A pack of 2 Easytouch Pilot retractable Pens. black ink.

1 Rolly Pentel 4 color pen .7mm (refillable)

1 red ink Deluxe Micro uni ball pen

2 BIC mechanical pencils

1 little pen (Staples brand) 

plus a fabric case not shown...

OK now for the rules..

This is open to anyone!

There are two chances to win to win one set!

• As I said PLEASE include your name and email if you are a no comment blogger.
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• I will pick by random draw.

• Please tell me what set you want!!! If you don't give me a preference I will have to redraw a name !
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• For a second chance !!! Let me know what project you are working on and if you have a blog let me know and share it here! I love inspiration!!! 
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• If you follow my blog already thank you so much! If you like to (but don't have to) you may follow me through RSS feed or Face book or any of the other buttons I have on top of the post here!

This give away is open from today May 6 until May 10 at 5 p.m  PST!  I will pick a winner by random on May 11th and post it here! (and email the winner )

If you like to join in other give aways and there are TONS to enter!! Go HERE to Sew Mama Sew

! Good luck!! and have fun!!!

------------UPDATE>. this give away is now closed. thank you!---------------

For Sale... A Pocket Petal Filofax!!...SOLD !

Update....I sold this..to my mom ! Haha she saw ..she wanted.... I'm doing two part posts here. One for a Filofax and one for my sewing stuff.... I debated on selling this.. I bought two of them last November ...One was a gift but I had got them on sale.. I see on filofax usa site they are on sale for $8.80 right now.. so that is little cheaper then what I bought mine for... On the United Kingdom site they are 9 pounds.. (sorry did not have that little mark on my keys!!)  wait is that right?? pounds? euro?? ugh sorry I'm not sure...Please correct me ... As I said I'm debating to sell this as its so cheap now on line.. So here is the deal.. I will sell it for $7 plus shipping.... I will have to weigh and stuff to find out shipping costs..I will try to do it as cheap as I can.... OH as of today on the US site they are out of stock.. Ok here are pictures...

                                  Its a Black Petal Pocket.. you can read up on details HERE .

I did a close up on this.. on that top red petal there is a slight nail scratch.. yes I did it..first day I had it out and my stupid finger nail scratch it a bit.. but its not noticeable but in the light like this.. 

There is a back clear pocket with a pen tab..

This is the front opened .. 

It comes with all that came with it..I didn't use any pages.. (2013 year)

• Transparent flyleaf
• Front page four colour Petal print
• Week on two pages 18 month diary, 5 language
• Ruler-page marker, black
• A–Z index, cream, three letters per tab
• Pink, beige, yellow, blue and lavender ruled paper
• Addresses, five language
• To do, five language
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 *I will add some little surprises in with the package!!! As a pen and paper lover/hoarder/collector I might need to de stash!!!

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Lovely Year of Finishes.. Jan FINISHED!

I am posting about my Lovely Year Of Finishes that I mentioned I joined few weeks ago.. I had it done the first week and then almost missed my deadline to post about it finished!
I made the Island Tote Bag by Ala Mode. It was pretty easy and went with the clutch style.. I wish now I made it as a longer tote. I don't like everyone seeing down inside my purse ! I didn't put a closure on it either..  but here it is...

 Please excuse my backdrop.. I somehow managed to lose my white boards I used for backdrops for my pictures.. how can I misplace or lose 2 large white sheets of poster boards?? I have no idea!

 The inside stuffed.

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 Instead of inside pockets I went with a insert .. I found this tutorial on Pinterest from freshcrush.. Its made using a cereal box! ha!

 I had to show you my Holborn Slim Filofax I'm using as my wallet.. hehe

 I will being a second post later today .. I been making some teddy bears and cats from some flannel shirts a friend gave me to use as personal memory items.. stay tune!

My layout.. finally.

Yikes! If it wasn't for my friends, I wouldn't know how to blog!!!! haha Seriously though, for some blonde reason I had switched over to google + account and did not know I did that! Having done that, it switched me to a no-reply comment blogger! NO NO NO !!! I have to be a yes-reply comment blogger! I like reading and responding to my comments from email and it was still letting me do that.. but it wouldn't let another blogger respond to me from the comments.I like having people contacting me through the comments. = 0)  I received this link (from another good bloggy friend!!!) to help me get it switched over.. phew.. what a hassle.. but this page HERE will get it all fixed for you.. well you have to do it but it gives you the step by step info to lead your way!!  A special THANK YOU!!! to Jane and Sasha for helping me with this!!!
Now photo time.. As you know I am a big planner/journal/diary/post it/Filofax/paper/pen nut... among other things.. I got my new Filofax set up pretty much now.. It took me a few weeks to find the right weekly layout I liked.. I reverted back to my original ways.. just simple and printed my own.


This is last weeks. I have the weekly page on the left..  the right is my do to lists and notes.  (the pink dots are for Zoey when I have her)

I guess I should of showed you a before photo.. I started putting washi tape on the top.. so cute! 

I add the squares down the middle.. well as straight as I can... put some stamps on it.. I will alternate with stickers too... I don't like how the stamp ink shows through. but by time I write on the pages its not noticeable..

This is this week's. It already looks like a mess and it is just the first of the week!

On my Today tab I put some stickers I ordered from JapanCorner on Etsy HERE. She has some adorable stickers and tab dividers and monthly layouts for personal and pocket size FF!!

I made me a post it with my daily medicine/ vitamins. I still miss some days! But this has helped me mostly.

 Then the notes page is already ready for my week to check off things! I have my little sewing box too! Not too much to do for Christmas.. I'm sure after the holidays it will be full up as I am going to try to stock up my Etsy store (link over there on the sidebar!!!!)  I want to get back to sewing purses again and trying to sell those.

On the bottom of my pages I have been writing what I'm reading for the week. I use to be able to read about 2 books a week. HA.. no time for that anymore..  OK I might as well show you the tabs.. these are my side tabs.. I made them and they do not stick up very far but I know what they are .. so it don't matter to me.. I use my weekly pages the most.. they are first tab.. then I have notes. I write random things there... and my ORDERS tab.. then I have blog/Etsy , books, (keep track of books I want to read) ADDYS, and VET. then a tab that says TOP SECRET.. for my passwords lol I added a sticky tab for that says CHECKOUT. I write down things I want to look up later. or blogs or something.. I do use a monthly page but just for reference to look up a date or something.. I didn't take pic of that...

 I have top tabs as well!!! I had laminated and made my own monthly tabs but decided it looked messy or something.. so I took them out and just stuck a sticky tab on each month. Better.
I have a page for Filo info... ideas for pages or what nots..

 This is my back page.. not too impressive lol I have a zippy pocket from a Day Runner planner I use to use..

 AND........... looky what I bought!!!Filo had these cute things on sale for 11$ each! with free shipping! They are Petal Pockets.. or Pocket Petals?? They are so little and cute!!! I wish I could use a pocket size but I don't think it would work out with me but never know.. maybe???
I bought one for a friend as a gift.. shhhhhhhhhh I don't think she even reads this!!! I thought I would save one back just to .....hmmm well...........just in case............a gift?? or just to look at it from time to time lol
I noticed I go to my FF first thing (after i start the coffee pot) to check what I have going with my day.. I use to check emails and blogs first.. lol

I have also bought a Holborn slim and use it for my checkbook. I have some diary pages and other inserts/dividers for personal and pocket. I might be able to let go if anyone is interested in them!!

So... thats my set up for my Holborn Personal FF.. I love it..Hope you enjoyed and hung in there with me!! 

Will be posting sewing next post!!!

Some sewing.. and purchases for my Filofax's

I got so many things on my list to do I can't decide what to do first! I just stare at the list and end up reading a book! haha I did manage to cut out a project and sew it all in ONE day!  I made this little cuddly robe for my sweet grand daughter !!!

It looks big in this photo but its for a 3 year old and its littler than what it looks.. I used soft fleece and oh it is nice and warm! I'm going to make her a second one to keep at the house, this one goes home with her.. I got to thinking though, her dad moved out of our house and now I will have to make her a third one to stay with her dad... "poor" kid will have so many things and toys in 3 different houses!! haha

I had a custom order for one of my feminine product pouches and I went and just made 3 while I was at it..They are easy to put together and I wanted my customer to choose. I have 2 of these newly listed in my Etsy shop! (the Zebra and Mushroom prints)

On this next project I am not quit finished with but wanted to show you the cuteness!!! I still have to add my buttons for the closures... 

I made these doll house purses for gifts.

I love my polka dots!!! 

 The inside are just as cute!! They fold down to have a little garden path up to the house.. I tried adding a window in my first house and it didn't work out lol so I left the next one alone.. still cute! I am working on a boy version now..

I HAVE to show off my new purchases from JapanCorner . I have been following Sachico's blog for a little while and she makes her own stickers and stamps and more goodies , you have to go check out her stuff!!! She custom made this keyring for my son. (a gift and he doesn't read my blog so I'm safe!)

He has been studying Japanese writing and learning to speak it and I knew I had to get this for him. It says his name , Stephen, (pronounced STEFEN) on one side and on the flip side is Zoey's name, his daughter. 

The writings around the name are names of fish. He will have to look them up his self what they say! lol 

 I also had Sachico make me some adorable stamps! She had these whipped up in no time.I Love them! They are oh so tiny and work very well with my Filofax!  I have started making my own stamps but not so little ones yet.. I'm not that good yet!

 She designed these little mushroom stickers for me!!! Also tiny and cute and they will be used sparingly!
(kinoko means mushroom)
She just designed some monthly FF pages and new dividers! OHHH MY GOSH so cute! go check them out HERE!!!

 Sorry about the glare, I took these at night and with just my lamp.

I will have to do a post on my stamps and stickers being used in side my FF soon.. I'm just set up in it yet and still arranging things how I like. 

The Filofax US site had a sale each day this last week.. a cyber monday sale everyday. I just couldn't hold back.....yes...........I purchased.. lol

not one,, not 2 but..........3..gulp..

HUSH SASHA! lol

I been wanting the Holborn slim in brown and they just happened to have it marked down 30%!!! I wanted to use it for my checkbook, finance planner. And I can carry it with me..

The other two are Petal pockets. They were marked half off! At 11$ each I had to get one and they are cute! But as much as I would to use one of them I got them for gifts.. Oh I'm tempted to go back to get ME one lol should I???? They had free shipping over 10$ too!!!  Isn't it pretty? 

I guess when I get a addiction.. I go all out for it! lol I won't talk about my fabric's I keep. But I'm not as bad as someone I know!!!!!! =0)

I will be getting my Holborn Slim today and will show a post on my set up soon! I have my cut up inserts ready for it already!! 

I'm going to try to finish up some more sewing gifts today...I'm doing better then I was last year!!! 

Have a great weekend!