Wowzers!!

I am just overwhelmed by the response that "The Dude and Maude" have received over the past few days.  After it was featured on Feeling Stitchy (accckkk, my first time!!!) it pretty much blew up.  I knew that The Dude had some crafty fans but holy cow, I had no idea it would be that many.  This little ol' blog even got 5 new followers, just that day.  (Hi there, guys!)

I just wanted to say, thank you from the bottom of my heart.  All of the nice comments have been so encouraging for me.  Besides painting, embroidery is pretty much my life.  I hope to make it my career someday and all of your words of encouragement are making me think that I might just get there someday.

THANK YOU!!!!

Snapshot Friday!

This how I've been feeling today... all week, in fact.  Happy and laid back.  I'm loving everyone and everything.  Life is grand.

Maybe it's the weather.  Maybe it's all the creating I've been doing lately.  I don't know, but either way, it's going to take a lot to rain on my parade.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!  Any fun plans?  I'll be working on swaps, doing a bit of painting and a bit of gardening too.  This weekend is the Harmony Festival.  Steel Pulse, Lauryn Hill...it's going to be a great time, but it wasn't in the cards for us.  Too bad I can't just sneak into the Bazaar part.  There is always a huge Craft Market with handmade goods from around the world!  Can you picture it, "I swear, Officer.  I'm just here to buy some crafty stuff.  You know, like stationary and pretty stuff!?"  Right, that would go over well.

Join The Toy Society!

Okay, so that sounded a bit like an order.  Sorry about that, I'm just really excited!  

Have you ever heard of The Toy Society?  Well, it's all about handmade toys and smiles.  People make toys and then leave them public places so they can find a good home with a kid.  Isn't that fun?  It started in Australia but has spread around the world.  In fact, it's come right here to good ol' Santa Rosa, California!  I made some toys and dropped them off.  I had a lot of fun doing this and will participate again.

These are the toys I made-

This is the back of the little girl bunnies.

I used a freebie pattern from Wee Wonderfuls, I just embellished their outfits a bit so that each one was unique.  Another de-stashing project, I had everything on hand.  Including the vintage fabric I used for them.  I loved that the patterns were so tiny because I was able to salvage the front, blue fabric.  A large portion of it was discolored from sun damage. ( Of course that was conveniently hidden when I bought it...shady people, lol.) Because of the way it had been folded the ruined part was a very odd shape so I thought I would never be able to use it.  Thankfully these worked out perfect.  The color is so gorgeous it would have been a shame not to get any projects out of it.

I dropped them off on April 1st.  I put them out early enough that they could have been found that very day.

My 1st Drop!

My 2nd Drop!

I hope they went into happy little hands!

So, now that you've seen how much fun it is don't you want to join in?

Thanks so much for looking!  Have a craftastic day!