( couldn’t say Sunday Scribblings because that is already a pretty popular Blog prompt)
This morning during the contemporary service I was running the media (slides) and I don’t do well with paying attention if I am more than 20 ft. from the pastor.
Reason # 3 on why I sit in one of the front 3 rows.
I did the tape page project, but didn’t really like the result much and because of that, I am not posting it.
My blog.
My choice.
The prompt for days 10-15 were to create “your house” and “your family”
It was SO much fun!
My house on the two page spread.
The left side of the two page spread, and I have to admit-my house is nothing like this, but there was no easy way to create a tri-level home with a pocket (for the dolls).
And this is my neighborhood, if I didn’t live in suburbia…but, I like it. Who wouldn’t want to live in a ‘hood with newsprint buildings?
My family.
Aren’t we cute.
Confession time, I have an issue with legs..the 14 yr old and spouselet have really short legs.
Oh and I forgot my hands-Art therapists can have a field day with this project!
I am the smallest one in the family, which actually IS now the case. The 14 yr old is taller than me by almost 2 inches, so there isn’t an issue there
The family all tucked into the house for storage.
This was my favorite page to do so far, but NOW for day 16!
Sarah Whitmire has created this incredible site with tons of prompts for creating a Soul Journal.
I have been working on this purse for months.
I thought I did a blog post on it, but I can not seem to find it anywhere (this is the problem with having more than one blog!)
And, It appears that I dreamed it.
Instead of getting a how too, you get a glimpse of the finished product!
and
and the interior with out stuff
and finally, the inside, the blackberry and my camera fit in the outside “front” pockets!
YES! The inside lining IS made out of old shirts, and thems the pockets!
I got the handle at Joann’s, not exactly what I was looking for, but I really didn’t plan making this thing, it was an afternoon impulse over 7 months ago!
What have you crafted lately?
I started a new “art” journal this week.
This was one entry for today.
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I have saved old t-shirts for my son for about 4 years. Everytime one got a stain or a goofy hole in it, they went into the quilt stack. I thought I needed either 36 or 42 t-shirts to make it a size he would enjoy (I was thinking by college for his dorm room bed) but, once he realized how snuggly it would be, he ramped up the process.
Starting this weekend, I had 37 shirts…the 14 yr old decided he wanted it to be 7 X 7 so he could hibernate in it (and he does) so, he had to come up with 12 more shirts. I sense some shopping in our future, the boy is going to be naked! There are only 2 of my shirts in this whole mix, that Kiss concert T (that he took over as soon as it didn’t look like a dress on him) and my tye dye (above the lion king). The rest of them are his, from his life.
I love this project, because it is not only a great conversation piece and memory preserver, it is also pretty green (and could be even MORE green with a minor modification).
SO, here is what you need for this project:
I cut out all the shirts and the fleece before I started, so I could lay out the rows and plan what shirts would go where, I didn’t want to many black shirts or soccer shirts bunched together on one side.
Once I had those stacks planned, I was ready to sew.
Be sure to line the peices up as close to perfectly as you can, the materials tend to shift a bit while sewing and that makes a difference when you get to sewing the rows together! (You may want to start pinning now, but I didn’t use pins until I got to the row sewing).
If you want all the images and logo’s facing the same way, that takes some planning (back to back and upside down):
Once I had 7 shirts sewn together, I was done with a row and moved on to the next one.
It helps to sew these all in one sitting, if you can, because you get a grove going and don’t forget your “plan” (yes, I had to rip seams on more than on shirts because I stopped and came back and got one upside down AND backward!)
After you have all of your rows sewn, you are ready to sew them together, and this is where I started pinning and if you can sew on a large table to support the weight, you might want to do that as well. The pull from the weight of the shirts got to be a lot to handle.
My son has issues with texture so I put all the seams on the front the back would be smooth with worn shirts, you can reverse the process, but I really ended up liking the look of the frayed edges on the front.
I also planned on finishing the quilt with some knit edgeing, because I just don’t think that blanket sateen edging would work for this…but, I can’t get my son out of it long enough to finish it!
I have more pictures on flickr to show the process if you are interested, you can find them here!
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I think my favorite thing about Christmas is wrapping presents.
I know, I am odd, but I LOVE it.
Especially since I bought this roll of butcher paper at a yard sale for 5 bucks-I can stamp or paint or doodle all over the paper and make it part of a theme (in the case of Christmas) or specific to the person getting the gift.
I only buy wrapping paper when I am giving a gift to someone who doesn’t know me and my “peculiar-ness” -like for angel tree or secret Santa-wow that craft paper would be a dead give-a-way-so much for secret. heh.
I also created a cool gift card package, but I can’t post that until after my cousins open their gifts-because it would show them exactly what they got!
But, I can start with this:
I have about 3 tons of butcher paper in two different sizes, so for my family gifts and people that know me…they will be getting decorated brown wrapping for a REALLY LONG TIME. I do love it for its versatility, because i can totally choose colors to coordinate depending on the occasion. However, I didn’t think that a kid would appreciate Santa delivering their packages in homemade and decorated packaging…so, I had to buy some.
This is what I came up with and dang, I like it.
I do realize that I have enough of the red and green to use as coordinates for my family packages and those will be interesting too.
I got the paper at Walgreen’s, but it is Hallmark-has those cool cutting guide squares.
And the boxes that go with it, from Target.
I <3 Target.
This morning I was up and at the dentist by 8AM for my new crown, and if I could have gotten my blackberry in my mouth to show you how pretty my new tooth is, I would!
Back in the car by 8:20 and on my way to the office to fill in for the receptionist who had physical therapy (she broke both, YES both, of her wrists back in September)…
I was at home by 11 to check on the 14 yr old who apparently has a touch of something that has caused him to sleep for about 15 hours straight.
In between publishing on this blog and my work blog and keeping with reader and twitter I have been a little crafty.
I had tons of blank notebooks that I was going to cover with polymer clay, but I just don’t have the clay-mojo anymore…so, well you can see what happened, papers and stickies and all sorts of other craft material threw up on them.
I do like the result!
I also transformed my spouselets iPod box-man that is some awesome packaging…
I made the cross a few years ago and had always planned on using it as a bookmark, but I like this application better. I might use it as a “worry box” or a “God box”…either or…
I was doing all this craftiness when the guy came to install this:
Oh yeah, that is an elliptical and it is MINE…all mine.
(as soon as I am done here and the guy comes back to pick up some tools he left…I am on that sucker for at least 30 minutes.)
I CAN NOT WAIT!
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