Here’s where I saw this one: go here
simple, quick but I love it.
doesn’t it look cute? terrible photo, i know.
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I saw these monster chunks a long time ago and loved them instantly. So I decided to make some of my own:
Mine isn’t nearly as awesome, of course.
But I still love it. Sitting on my shelf.
Quite fun to do. This was inspired by these awesome keychains I saw here.
Mine is much simpler of course. But I love it nonetheless.
makes me happy. I am almost embarrassed to post this since it certainly does not do any justice to Pam Carriker’s amazing portraits class but here is my first attempt at painting a portrait.
It can use so so much work.
But I will practice. I like doing these. I am excited to practice. I’ve been doing my art since the beginning of the year but I still hadn’t sat down to create an album for my Gratitude photos. I knew that I wanted to go with a simple album from Target or something but I didn’t go and buy one until last week. I knew I wanted a simple 4×6 album but nothing more than that. As I walked down the album aisle in Target, I found exactly what I wanted. A simple 4×6 album with exactly 26 pages (so good for 52 photos) and it was a happy blue with a happy green strap. I took it home and put some pretty letters on it.
And I added my photos inside:
and voila! we’re done. I love the way it looks and it makes me happy each time I glance at it on my shelf. I had saved a link to this simple, pretty necklace a while back, way before I knew how to crochet. And then, just after I learned basic crochet Rebecca Sower posted this tutorial so I decided it was time for me to sit and make some. I am not sure why but I wasn’t able to get good photos for these. I first made this one:
And then wanted to make something more subtle and daintier.
I love wearing this one on my wrist.
simple, fun and sweet-looking. Nathaniel loves touching it, too.  When I saw the photo of these booties a long time ago (I don’t have the source of these particular ones, I am so sorry), I really wished I could make them but I also knew the chances were slim. I am not that proficient a knitter. I have only made scarves before. But this month, when I was making my list, I came upon them again and decided I would try to tackle them. Even as I was putting them on my list, I didn’t think the chances were high. But on they went. With many many many thanks to YouTube and Google, I was able look up anything that stumped me (and there were several instances of that.) but I did manage to make a bootie.
and while it’s far from perfect and a bit super-sized, it’s here and done.
And there’s no way I’m making a second one 🙂 As it turns out, it wasn’t horribly difficult, just very. But I am a slow knitter so it took a long long time. But I did it. I know I said I was taking a scrappy break but yesterday I was on My Mind’s Eye’s blog and I saw this sketch and I never work from sketches but this one spoke to me and I had an idea immediately. So much so that even though I’d planend to do it this morning, I sat down and did most of it last night. Since my photo was landscape, I rotated the sketch clockwise by 90 degrees.
I made this layout to remember that David helps out a lot around here. With the food, diapers, cleaning, playing and anything else I might need. He’s a truly amazing little boy and I don’t thank him nearly often enough. So that in my weaker moments when he’s driving me insane, I can remember how amazing he is. And so he remembers that I do appreciate him. so very much. All products except for the letters are My Mind’s Eye. I put my border punch collection to good use. details:
I moved my schedule around for June but it seems I haven’t saved it, so while I fix that, here’s the project from this morning. Here’s the link to the tutorial for these fun and super-simple balls. And here’s mine:
I literally did it while I was waiting for Jake to pickup the baby sitter.
David’s a fan.
And so is Nathaniel.
Love easy peasy projects that are also fun for everyone! Here’s this week’s item: My first few attempts to learn to crochet were immediately aborted. I couldn’t find a video that was clear and kept messing up over and over again. And then finally I got lucky about ten days ago and found these amazing videos (thanks to this post) and they finally helped me unlock all I needed to know. So, then, I went searching for a doily which is all I’ve wanted to do. I found these videos and here’s the motif I picked. And here’s my finished one.
a bit crooked but for my first project ever, not terrible. Then I decided to get more adventurous and make a butterfly:
And finally I went back to this heart I’d bookmarked a long time ago and even did one of those (I used it on an upcoming catalyst which is why it’s glued to paper.)
I am still FAR from a crochet expert and have yet to join threads but it’s certainly a start and I do know how to crochet now. When I saw these counting bags I knew I wanted to make them. I didn’t have any fusible webbing so I just glued and I am not nearly as good at hand stitching as I should be but it doesn’t matter. Also, I didn’t have any beans to stuff them with so I just used the stuffing I had at hand. They look like mini pillows. Since they are for David, he got to choose the fabric. Since his favorite color is green, there’s a lot of green.
For the cover, I used white muslin:
Here’s 1-2-3
4-5-6
7-8-9
and 10
here are all the backs:
here are all the fronts:
and here they are on his shelf:
This was a super-fun project. Highly recommended. This is layout number 4 with the June AMM Kit.
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