Dec
06
Crafting for the Duck the Malls craft show this weekend has been all consuming. Particularly since this is my first craft show and I have no idea what to expect – or how many of each item to make. And….truth be told….I am a bit of a “last minute” kind of person so it’s going to be down to the wire.
As a consequence of all of crafting activity, there is a fine dusting of glitter EVERYWHERE. Glitter on face (which I notice at work), glitter on the husband, glitter on the cat…glitter! In the photo above I am holding a wee mushroom that has become a spun cotton mushroom ornament, via this Martha Stewart tutorial. I will most definitely be making these again, all for myself. I love how they turned out. I’ll get a photo of the finished product to show you, before they are all sold out!
Fingers crossed.
Nov
21
I spent the weekend crafting, crafting, crafting my butt off. It’s funny how you can start out with one idea and move in a completely different direction. My initial idea was to make skate stockings, to echo the ones the little gnomes are wearing in my card, but I ran into technical difficulties and decided to shelve that particular project. I’ve always wanted to make large stuffed mushrooms, after seeing some in a magazine that were made by Tamar Mogendorff, so I decided to see if I could whip something up.
I have to say they are pretty darn cute. I am turning them into Gnome homes with a little front door. I am envisioning them arranged under a tree in a little gnome community.
Nov
16
Ever since Spoonflower launched I have been dying to try it out. Spoonflower, for those uninitiated, is a service that digitally prints images on to fabric. It’s a little spendy, and I never had the opportunity or right project to try it out—that is until now! I ordered a yard with these little guys set on a pattern repeat so I should get quite a few. I am anxious to see what the quality of the printing is like. I plan on stuffing them, or perhaps filling them with something smelly to create an ornament/sachet. They should arrive on Monday and I can hardly wait!
On a completely unrelated front…we are meeting with our flooring guy to on Friday to talk about carpet for the upstairs. When we moved into this house, there were three different colors of burnt orange carpet scattered throughout the house, and we have managed to get rid of two of the three. Remember the Orange weekend? That guest room houses the remaining orange carpet…I can’t wait for it to finally be gone!
Nov
15
I got word last week that my friend and I have been officially accepted into the Duck the Malls Holiday Craft Fair in December! I am working like crazy to get my stuff done in time, running into obstacles, finding solutions…rinse and repeat.
This is a sneak peak of some of the greeting cards I am going to sell. I’ve got a lot of crafting to do in the meantime and I am trying not to freak out about it!
AAAGH! Stay calm!
Jan
07
I don’t think I ever posted the final product of the 35mm lampshade I made this summer. It’s a project that has far, far exceeded my expectations and I love how it turned out. It would look a heck of a lot better without popcorn ceilings, but hey – you can’t have it all. Not yet anyway.
We are starting off the year in serious home improvement mode. We have purchased materials for new floors which we are thinking will go down sometime in March. So to prepare for the glory I am going to repaint the entire downstairs. One thing I have learned is that a dark color and dark curtains in this house = cave. It’s way too dark. We are thinking of doing a light grey (I know, grey is so hot right now) with a hint of blue. I went to the paint store the other day after reading about Benjamin Moores Aura paint line and got a sample. It’s so amazing how light affects color:
Yes, it’s the same color on the right in both swatches. It’s perfect and I love it in the living room (left) but it’s too dark and too blue in the hallway (right). Oi, the dreaded hallway. It’s really important to me to have a paint that is low VOC and has amazing paint coverage over the darkness in the living/dining area, but I am starting to think that I am going to need a REALLY light color in the hall. I am not going to make the same mistake and settle for something I don’t like, so…back to the paint store!
P.S. Don’t you just looove the texture on my walls? WTF?
