Stormy Weather

I have another plushie friend to intoduce you to today! 

This is Stormy.

Stormy is a little rain cloud.  Let's learn a little more about him.

Name: Stormy

Date of Birth: 2/26/2011

Favorite Color: Rainbow

Favorite Song:



Stormy is made of white fleece.  He has big plastic plushie eyes and a little felt rain drop.  Don't worry.  He's not crying.  That's just what rain clouds do.  :-)

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So, today is the one year anniversary of my blog.  I wanted to write a big post looking back at some of my favorite projects and talk about my plans for the future.  My internet is being mean to me right now so I ran out of time to write the post.  I hope to make an appointment with the cable company so they can finally come and fix whatever is wrong with it.  This problem is going on two months and it's making me crazy!  I have been so busy that I haven't been able to have the technician come look at it.  I've had all these things I want to share with you that I can't because I can't write blogs when I have time to sit down and write them.  Hopefully when it's fixed I'll be able to catch up and share all kinds of great things with you.

Oh well.  I'm really not that great at looking back posts anyway.  I'll just tell you that I have lots of fun things coming up this year and I can't wait to share it all with you.  Thanks for reading and being so supportive while I try to figure out how to do this whole blog thing.  I still have a lot to learn.  :-)

Hipstamatic 365 - Week Eight

Hello!  It's time for another week of Hipstamatic pictures! 

Ready??

Okay...go!

Blanton

 I finally turned in my group's Knitted Wonderland project on Saturday!  Talk about waiting til the last minute!  I stopped to take a couple of tree pictures before I left.


So Many Buttons

 Look at all the pretty jewelry!  These button pieces are the result of my craft marathon weekend last week.


Still Christmas

 I liked my felt Christmas light garland so much that I never took it down.  It's still hanging up in my living room.


Where the Sidewalk Ends

 Don't you love Shel Silverstein?  My week was not going very well so I decided I needed to wear my bright blue tights to work to help me feel better.  I've never gotten so many compliments before!  It totally brightened my day.  ;-)


Blame Marci

 The bad week continued on Wednesday so I decided to make it an official Blame Marci Day.  My friends are so funny.  They cracked me up with all the fun things they blamed me for.  It totally cheered me up.  I was worried that people might be running out of ideas for things to blame me for so I took a picture of the expensive gas to give them some suggestions.  Gas is now $3.19 so this looks like nothing!


I See You!

 This was my sneak peek picture of Sweetie that I posted on twitter and Facebook.  I think it looks so cute!  I might print this one and hang it up somewhere.


Sweetie Pie

It's another Sweetie picture!  I love the way she turned out so much!  I almost hate to part with her.  She's going to First Thursday and will hopefully be adopted by a nice family that will take good care of her.  It's so hard to let my babies go!  ;-)

Sweetie Darling

I am so excited to introduce you to the newest addition to my plushie family!!

Meet Sweetie!

Sweetie is a cookie monster. She is the first in a series of plushies that I will be working on.  Let's get to know her a little bit.

Name: Sweetie

Date of Birth: 2/25/2011

Favorite Color: Pretty Pink

Favorite Song: C is for Cookie - Cookie Monster

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Here is the story of Sweetie...

One of my friends posted the Cookie Monster song on facebook last week and the idea to make a monster that looks like a cookie popped into my head.  I pretty much try to figure out how I can turn everything into a plushie now.  I thought this could be really cute. 

This was a really simple pattern to draw.   It's just a circle with monster eyes and mouth.  The frosting is a random shape that I cut out of felt.  My favorite part of the cookie is the little sugar sprinkle beads.  It took me forever to sew those because I had to sew each one individually.  I think it was worth it.  Now it really looks like a sugar cookie.

My least favorite part of making plushies is closing the flipping hole.  I can never make it look good...especially on round plushies.  This time I tried making the stitches a little further apart and that helped a lot.  It almost looks like a circle!  ;-)  It's still not perfect but I'm happy with the outcome.  I think Sweetie might be my new favorite plushie!  :-)

I have plans for a few more cookie monsters.  There are so many kind of cookies out there so the possibilities are endless!  :-)

365 Project - Week Forty-Three

Today is going to be a really crazy day so I'm going to keep this short and sweet.  I have lots of new projects to share with you this week but I need to make time to photograph them.  :-)

Here's week forty-three...

Day 295

 I turned in my Knitted Wonderland project at the Blanton Museum on Saturday.  It was so great to be done with the project.  We install everything next Friday!  YAY!!

Day 296

 These pretty flowers sit on my front porch.  I love them because all of the other plants are just green and then there's this pretty pop of color.

Day 297

 This huge dandelion was in my front yard this week.  I love to make wishes with them!

Day 298

 I ordered this really pretty necklace from Uncommon after a terrible day.  I needed something to cheer me up.  I had been thinking about buying the rings before but then they had the necklace!  I couldn't resist. Isn't it pretty?

Day 299

 This is my scrap fabric box.  I love it!  I try to keep any piece of fabric that's big enough to be cut into something else.  That's how I make the buttons for my rings and necklaces.  There's lots of pretties in there.  

Day 300

This pretty sunset picture was taken in my neighborhood.  It's so weird that the street in front of me is Main Street but you can go two streets back and this is what you see.   

Day 301

Yep. It's that time of year again!  It's time for Easter candy!!  I'm not really a huge fan of Peeps but I feel like it's not Easter without at least one Peep!  My favorite Easter candy is the Reese's peanut butter egg but it's not nearly as cute to photograph.  ;-)

Why are there so many songs about rainbows?

Holton Rower is why!  Have you seen his paintings?  They are amazing!  I first saw a video of one of his paintings on The Whimsical World of Laura Bird.  I love the idea of using such a simple concept as layering paint to come up with such a beautiful, elaborate result.

I love the different layers of the wood pedestals, too.

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Marathon Weekend

I had a very busy weekend playing catch up on craft projects since I was sick most of the week with really bad allergies. 

This is how I spent my craft marathon weekend...

On Friday night I worked on button necklaces.

I didn't get very far on Friday night since I took allergy medicine.  I finished them Saturday morning.

I also turned in my group's Knitted Wonderland project on Saturday!!  YAY!!!

After that I got to work on my small button rings.

aka Jellyfish Rings

I finished up Sunday with large button rings!

This is the result of my craft marathon weekend!  Isn't it pretty??

That's 25 necklaces, 25 small rings and 25 large rings!  I had so much fun!  My fingers are killing me from making buttons but I think it was all worth it.  I was worried I wouldn't have enough for two back to back markets in March so I went a little crazy.  I'm feeling much more prepared now.

Oh yeah!  I also worked a little on a craft experiment I started a couple weeks ago.  I hoped to finish it but ran out of time.  Fingers crossed I finish this week so I can show it to you this weekend.  More fingers crossed that it comes out okay.  ;-)

Here's a little peek at the before picture.

Happy Tuesday!

Hipstamatic 365 - Week Seven

I'm a day late with this post again.  I have been having problems with the internet at my house and Time Warner Cable is making me crazy!!!  Don't worry.  I won't waste time complaining about it here.  Let's get to some pictures!!  Here is week seven of my Hipstamatic 365!

Downtown

This picture is a little dark, but I liked the way this building downtown looked in it.  I stopped to take a couple of pictures before I went home from working on my Knitted Wonderland project with a friend on Saturday.  This is my favorite building downtown.  I actually have no idea what building it is.  I just like the way it looks.

Valentine

Here's another picture of my Valentine heart hoop.  I think everything looks cooler when photographed with Hipstamatic.

Mail Time

This is what I had waiting for me when I checked the mail on Monday.  Tons of craft supplies..and some pretty blue tights.  :-)

Wall of Hoops

I started hanging my embroidery hoops in the hallway at my house.  I don't have anything on the walls there so I figured it would be good decoration for now.  It's temporary of course, because most of these will be going to craft fairs, but, I like looking at them when I walk down the hallway for now.

Spring

I know it's not technically spring yet, but I was so happy to walk outside and see that some of the flowers are starting to bloom again.

Buttons

This was kind of a last minute picture.  I was feeling so terrible last week because of my allergies so I took medicine as soon as I got home and went to sleep.  I almost forgot to take my picture so when I woke up between dosees of medicine I took a picture of the first thing I saw.  Luckily it was super cute buttons!  ;-)

Necklaces

I was still feeling pretty bad on Friday so this is all the crafting I got done before I needed to take medicine and go to bed.  I'm happy to tell you that I felt a little bit better this weekend and made a LOT more buttons.  I'll post pictures of the results this week.  :-)