The Blog Police

Hey, guys!!  I bet you're thinking, what the hey?! Didn't this used to be a craft blog?  What's with all the random pictures of cats and green benches?  Well, don't worry, the blog police came home for lunch and Officer Alwaysright wrote me a ticket for my lack of activity.   So, I'm back in the saddle again.

I've been stitching like crazy lately!  I've got so many things to show you, but first I've got to keep crossing oldies off the list.

 

I made this for a special lady I know.  Sorry, for the horrible picture.  Sometimes with presents, getting a picture is an afterthought.  I realize I don't have one right as I'm about to wrap it up and snap one quickly.  Obviously, with no thought to it's potential quality...or lack of it, haha.

I've been experimenting with painting the hoops, I rather like it.  Here, I just used black gesso, but it's matte quality was a perfect contract to the silver beads.  Yeah, you can't tell with the crappy photo, but that's actually green floss with silver beads.

Anyways, more fun stuff coming your way soon.  Gotta get back to work, I have an itch to stitch.  Have a craftastic day! 

My Crafty Man.

I spent at least an hour of Christmas Eve watching Dillon torture poor ol' Bessie.  I'll be honest, I was terrified the whole time.

It all started when I set up the sewing machine to stitch a little something up.  It was meant to be a really quick project, 10 minutes max.  The kind of thing that takes you longer to set up then it does to actually stitch.  Upon hearing that I had not yet taken advantage of some of then fancy stitches I have, Dillon insisted upon showing me.  Not that he knew how to do it really, but he'd been shown by the man he purchased it from.  Gotta love him for trying!  Admittedly, my hubby is a genius and a whiz with machinery so I trusted him.  For some reason, after hearing about how crafty his Mom is, I just figured maybe he'd played around with one as a kid.  It wasn't until after he'd started that he casually mentioned he'd never used a sewing machine before.  Great.

 

This happened.  A lot.

Yes, the manual was consulted.  Several times.

The end result.  Lovely isn't it? 

 Needless to say, I never got around to stitching up that one little thing.  Such is life.  And I heard some noises that I don't think are good to be coming from a sewing machine.  I'm hoping that it was just the thread that I had loaded in there in a pinch.  I know, shame on me, cheap thread is the worst for ol' Bessie.  I went to the craft store to get some nice, high quality thread and I'm hoping that makes her all better.  I've been too frightened to fire her back up since then, but that's on my list for the beginning of this week.  After all that Bessie has been through this holiday, I'm going to do something nice for her, I'm getting her some ink.  I can't wait to pick up some paint pens and give her a tattoo!

Mas ATCs

These are ATCs that I made over the weekend.  Crafting is my coping mechanism for the death of my little Princess Franki :(

I started by making backgrounds with watercolors, all are on bristol.  From there I just tried to think of what the colors reminded me of and I went from there.

 The lion card managed to use a few of my pre-cut squares.  Yay, now I only have 899,935,867 more squares to go before they are gone.

This lovely bride features vintage lace and buttons from my stash.

 

Apparently, stitching baby onsies put me in the mood for this one. More vintage lace.

 

Glitter is fun!  (I used to hate it, I'm finding a new me, lol)

 

 

More little lovelies.

I made more clips!  Normally I wouldn't include pictures of myself, however, I love the coincidence that I happen to be wearing the same shirt as the day I made some of them.  My "I <3 NY" shirt, after all today is September 11th.  (ha ha two NY posts in a row!)  And yes, I like to enjoy a cocktail or two when I'm crafting ;)

I finally figured out the packaging.   Of course, incorporating my favorite, super-awesome font, Corleone!