by Brenda | Sep 28, 2026
May your coffee be strong and your day be smooth. Here’s to a brew-tiful day ahead!☕️💪 Happy Monday morning everyone!! Welcome to Monday Musings. I think fall…at least temporarily…has finally arrived. Our temps were a bit cooler this past week with...
by Brenda | Sep 21, 2026
Monday motivation? Nope, haven’t heard of it. But my coffee mug is pretty inspiring. 🤷☕️ Happy Monday morning everyone!! Welcome to Monday Musings. Unfortunately, in our area, we still haven’t had any rain or heat relief. Fall begins tomorrow, so where is...
by Brenda | Sep 17, 2026
Greetings everyone!! I have finished the Little Princess’ aka Baby’s travel and storage bag! YAY! And, it is just in time to take to our guild QOV sew day next Tuesday. I am so happy and so in love with this bag! Instead of waiting to my regular Monday...
by Brenda | Oct 10, 2025
Welcome to the Island Batik Sew Stylish Challenge with ByAnnie! Our challenge this month is to stitch up a beautiful bag with the Byannie.com pattern of our choice. I always enjoy the ByAnnie bags that we make, and this year is no exception. I wanted to have my post...
by Brenda | Oct 11, 2024
I look forward to this challenge each year! This month Island Batik is partnering with ByAnnie’s / Pattern’s by Annie to bring you a fun look at bag making with that gorgeous Island Batik fabric! The pattern I chose this year is called PayDay. For the...
by Brenda | Nov 6, 2023
Welcome to my day on the Island Batik/ByAnnie It’s in the Bag Blog Hop! Our challenge this month is to make our choice of pattern from ByAnnie.com, using beautiful Island Batik fabrics! For my project, I am using fabrics from our “surprise” package...