Saturday afternoon I brought Elsa over to my Aunt and Uncle's house for a visit. When I arrived I was surprised to find all of my Aunts gathered around the dining room table, painting bird houses. I am not exactly sure who's idea this was but it was certainly a good one! Surprise craft parties are always awesome! Here we are, getting started. Jill and Margy discuss color schemes and the history of READ MORESaturday afternoon I brought Elsa over to my Aunt and Uncle's house for a visit. When I arrived I was surprised to find all of my Aunts gathered around the dining room table, painting bird houses. I am not exactly sure who's idea this was but it was certainly a good one! Surprise craft parties are always awesome! Here we are, getting started. Jill and Margy discuss color schemes and the history of READ MORE in Crafts
It's always hard to find the right wedding gift, especially in the age of wedding registries. It's easy to order something online but it's difficult to make it from the heart or personalized. Being that this is a special wedding I decide to make Erik & Jenn some hand made embroidered napkins. These guys love their cats a ton, so a napkin for each cat it is.This is my 2nd attempt at embroidery, READ MORE
A matching present for a new mom and her little lady.These will be perfect for the fall and early winter and will surely go with all Elsa's other pink outfits.Mom's cozy/coozie/koozie comes with some "key" features, including a useful key pocket and convenient shot gun holeA close up, you get the picture.And just because we can't get enough of her, Here is Mom and Elsa in the hospital, only 1 day old. READ MORE
It's 50's 28th birthday and I decide to make him a Stix case. This case can be used for one of two things, he can either put his drumstix in here, or his paintstix, or both. Either way he now has a styling new case made with love.Just in case anyone gets confused as to who's stix case this really is.All rolled up, there is two button holes depending on whether or not Matt is toting a lot of stixs READ MORE
Finn and I went to the fabric store last week to buy some felt and pick up some sequence for the Christmas stockings that I've been wanting to make. It hard to find restraint when looking at all the sequence, edgings and trimmings but I think I did a pretty good job of being thrifty and buying awesome things at the same time. I've also bought a few vintage stocking patterns on the interwebz over READ MORE in Crafts
