I recently found this painting I did from a few years ago and thought I'd save it for this holiday!
I am kicking myself for not taking photos of all my Christmas time projects, but oh well. I have a lot of things lined up for the winter. I am making tons of decorations for my friend's wedding and I have made a little "to do" list on Pinterest... a bit addicting.
Be back soon with some completed projects!
A few weeks ago, Becky asked me along with others to send her some drawings of buildings to create a little "city of craft" to represent City of Craft at Canzine in Toronto. Here are some photos by Glowing Doll.
Be sure to come by Mercy High School tomorrow between 10am and 4pm for their craft show!!
1437 Blossom Road
Yesterday, this package arrived for me. I did a trade with Sarah McNeil- a very talented illustrator who lives on the other side of the world. It made my day. I can't wait to frame and hang all the lovely little drawings inside.
Here is Fred the Fortune Teller- my son. Ella refused to wear her homemade butterfly costume. She's been sick all week, so I could see why. It's funny how sometimes I'll buy things and have no idea how I'll use them, but then the perfect opportunity presents itself. I bought that star and vintage feathers a few years ago and was so glad to find them in my stash of things. I also have far too much black velvet, to Fred's benefit. His cape is the same material I used for Ella's first costume 2 years ago.
I am doing a craft show this Saturday November 5th at Our Lady of Mercy High School (my alma mater) from 10 am until 4pm, 1437 Blossom Road. It's a fundraiser so please come!!
Also on Saturday is the Mayday Underground Show. I keep wanting to do this one, but it always seems to fall on a date I can't do. Should be good though!
This is a custom map I have been working on for a couple on etsy. We decided on doing a little image of the Chicago Theater for the front. In the end, this will have a bluish tint to it like the Baltimore map. I came up with little envelopes for these too- sewn heavy weight vellum. I want to find some striped tape for sealing the back of the envelopes. It wouldn't hurt to have a little calligraphy by Kelly Place either :)
Ever since we moved last year I have been keeping busy with all sorts of home projects. My favorite thing to do is to make things for Ella and Fred. This is a pretty simple DIY (do it yourself) canopy. I had originally made it to fit her crib, but she just got a toddler bed from Ikea, so I had to make some adjustments to make it fit. Her new bed is much lower than her crib was and so the curtain shears didn't fit around the base of the bed. I ended up taking apart her striped crib skirt and sewing it to the bottom of the shears.
My original inspiration came from this photo I found on Ohdeeoh.
I basically followed two tutorials to make this- and total the whole cost was about $20. The first tutorial can be found here. I know this is for a chandeleir, but the concepts are very related. First off, I too used part of a hoop from an old lamp as the starting structure. I sewed 3 floor length sheer curtains together along their long sides, leaving the top part open so that they could be hung on the hoop. I then used this tutorial to make the tassles from embroidery floss. I used a very large needle to thread the end of the tassles along the edges of the canopy opening, approximating their intervals. I cut the lamp hoop with wire cutters and then threaded the hoop through the shears. Once they were on, I taped the hoop back together with masking tape. I used 5 ceiling hooks to then hang the canopy from the ceiling, just like the chandeleir tutorial shows. It's hard to give a time estimation for this, certainly an afternoon's work, but considering the cost of a store bought canopy or some other artwork to fill the wall, I think it was worth it. Ella also finds it to be very cozy!
Here's a little "before and after"
Ella last year...
Ella this year
One last photo from Sarah's wedding. This one's by a family friend Annemarie Maurer. Sarah wore a veil for the ceremony and then a barrette I made for the reception.
My sister Rose took these photos of my sister Sarah's wedding. The top one is a cake topper I made and the bottom photo is a hair piece I made for my neice (one of the flower girls). I glittered all those leaves myself! This is the same wedding back in May that I did the butterfly place cards for. I am glad Rose took photos (she took the photo of the pink rose a few posts back too) because I was running around like a mad woman on the day of Sarah's wedding. I have 6 sisters by the way! Hopefully I'll unearth some photos of my sister Kristen's cake topper from last summer- was also running around like a mad woman that day too. Thank you, Rose!
Just a little pillow. I printed these tulips on fabric a while back and framed them, but I needed the frame for something else. I also found the handmade trim a long time ago, but couldn't figure out what to do with it until... voila.
