Blue Cherry Faerie

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Poppets, poppets, poppets

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Some of the Crafts I've been doing lately

This isn't everything, but since my camera broke, I've had to take some of them with my camera phone. I'm not terribly impressed with the results of it all. Anyway here they are.

Brianna's Birthday present:
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I made her a purse out of the prettiest corduroy fabric. I found the fabric at Goodwill for a dollar. Can't beat that. I had the butterfly fabric and thought it was a perfect combination. I made her the purse, a personal tissue holder, a coin purse, a wallet and another drawstring bag. I also made some woven barretts. I've made a ton of these woven barretts lately and given them out as gifts to various people.

Valentine's men:
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These are bendy dolls that I made for my oldest son's classmates. He gave them out for Valentine's Day. Sorry the picture is so crummy. They really did turn out cute.

Acorns:
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I made these for someone on a forum I'm on. She wanted 2 of the acrons I've made but she wanted them in green. I think they turned out great.

I'll try to get pics of some of the other stuff I've been making soon. Hopefully my camera will come back from Kodiak soon.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

UGH!!! I promise I have been crafting

Our camera broke. I don't know where our old camera is and I keep forgetting to ask dh. Hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures up soon of my projects. I did get some with dh's camera phone the other day, I'll just have to remember to get them off his phone.

I made a purse with assessories for a friend's child for her birthday. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. I've been making braided barrettes lately too. Other than that I've knitted some alien wash clothes and wove some potholders. Oh and I also made some green on green acorns. And a few other things if I think on it, LOL.

I've also been reading alot again lately. E-books are my friend. I recently read 2 great books from New Concepts Publishing. Unbridled by Raven Willow-Wood http://www.newconceptspublishing.com/unbridled.htm
and Rules of Engagement by Kaitlyn O'Connor http://www.newconceptspublishing.com/rulesofengagement.htm .
Unbridled is a new series by Raven Willow-Wood and is about centaurs and an alternate world/dimension. Rules of Engagement is the 4th book in Kaitlyn O'Connor's Cyborg Series. I really love her style of writing. This series is about organic cyborgs who gain self awareness and begin to want freedom and families of their own and their rode to that freedom. I've read several others lately too that are just as good.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Dragons

I think I'm in love, LOL. I absolutely adore dragons. I may have to get this pattern and try it out.

http://www.smallwork.com/dragon.html

Its amazing.

Quotes - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

I love quotes from just about anywhere, books, bumper stickers, T-Shirts. I'm a sucker for a good quote. Anyway, here's a quote from one of my favorite characters in one of my favorite series.

Sookie Stackhouse is talking to Quinn as he's getting ready to change into his were form (in other words he's stripping).

"Oh, boy, You look better than a Happy Meal to a three-year-old"

I love that line.

If you haven't read any of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, its worth the read. There is supposed to be series based on the books coming out soon on HBO. The Series is called True Blood.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Criss Cross Coaster

I made some coasters yesterday. I found this tutorial on Allsorts' Blog... http://allsorts.typepad.com/allsorts/2006/11/crisscross_coas.html

They are just adorable and pretty easy to make. I made mine out of some hawiian fabric I've had around for a while and some coordinating blue fabric. I made 4 yesterday morning and 4 the night before.

I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with them yet but I'm really pleased with them. They are probably going to be presents for someone. Or I might just keep a few. I love this Hawiian print. I bought alot of it and I've used some on past projects. And I still have enough to make many more projects with it.

Shopping bags

I found a cute fabric shopping bag tutorial on Craftster.org and decided to try it out myself. The tutorial can be found here:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=177482.0

Here are my bags:

I used some Debbie Mumm fabric that has been in my fabric stash for a while. I had 5 or 6 different coordinating prints. Unfortunately since I used a Target bag as my pattern, I didn't have enough fabric to make more than one big bag and that bag had 4 different fabrics on it because I could squeeze more than side out of the directional fabric out of a yard. But I did get to make the cute little bag out of the scraps. I had a smaller bag that I got from somewhere and I used it for a pattern. I tried making the pocket on the smaller bag so that it could fold into itself, but I made the pocket too small. Oh well. But the big bag works perfectly. I absolutely love this fabric. Its not something I'm normally drawn to but hey when fabric calls to ya, you better listen, LOL.

Ball Ornaments

I made some ball ornaments for the the tree in the boys room. We "lost" (misplaced) all of the ornaments that normally go on their little white tree. So we had to get and make more. Well since my son's favorite color is green we went with a green and teal theme on their little white tree.

I made these ornaments out of styrofoam balls, fabric scraps, beads, and embroidery floss.

I took a marker and drew on the shapes that I wanted and took a butter knife and traced the lines with the butter knife. I cut out rough shapes to go on the balls out of the fabric in the shapes that I drew on the ball (plus seam allowance). I used the butter knife to shove the fabric into the seams. I threaded some beads on some embroidery floss and with a long needle, I ran that through (just the thread and needle) the styrofoam ball from the top to the bottom of the ball. Make the appropriate hoop at the top and knot at the bottom and your done.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Snowman Instructions

Body

I used 1 skein of white Red Heart yarn and 1 skein of pearled baby yarn (left over from another project and didn't have the name of the yarn. Sorry). I used a size H hook.

1. Create a magic ring and sc 6 sts into ring. Or ch 2, crochet 2 into the 2nd ch from the hook. (total 6 sc)
2. 2 sc in each sc; repeat until you get 12 sc
3. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next sc; repeat until you get 18 sc
4. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 2 sc; repeat until you get 24 sc
5-8. 1 sc into each sc.
9. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 2 sc; repeat until you get 18
10. sc2tog, 1 sc into next sc; repeat until you get 12
If using safety eyes, now is the time to place them.
Take time to stuff head now
11. 1 sc into each sc
12. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next sc; repeat until you get 18 sc
13. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 2 sc; repeat until you get 24 sc
14. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 3 sc; repeat until you get 30 sc
15. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 4 sc; repeat until you get 36 sc
16-21. 1 sc into each sc
22. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 4 sc; repeat until you get 30
23. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 3 sc; repeat until you get 24
24. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 2 sc; repeat until you get 18
25. sc2tog, 1 sc into next sc; repeat until you get 12
Take the time now to stuff the body.
26. sc2tog; repeat until you get 6.
Tie off leaving a long piece of yarn. Use yarn needle as pull 6 stitches together, tie off and finish.

Nose

I used 2 skiens of orange embroidery floss together as yarn.

The directions for the nose are approximate, since its up to the creator to determine how long they want the carrot.

1. 4 sc into magic ring
2. 1 sc into each sc
3. 2 sc into 1 sc, 1 sc, 2 sc into 1 sc, 1 sc
4. 1 sc into each sc until carrot is as long as you desire.

After tying off leave a long enough piece so that you can use it to attach to the snow man's head.

Assessories.... I made a scarf out of 2 pieces of wool/rayon blend felt. One piece was 11 inches and that went around the neck. The other piece was 9 inches and was tied around the first piece of wool. But you could easily crochet or knit a scarf for it. Or you could crochet a top hat or even sew one out of felt. You could also use buttons for eyes or wool felt for that matter. These are very easy to whip up and dress.

Have Fun!!!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My son's 7th Birthday party

I had to share what my husband did for our son's birthday party this last weekend.

Can you believe this cake? For those of you not in the know its a Transformers cake and this is Bumblebee's head.

He turns 7 today. Ugh I can't believe it. And he informed me yesterday that he has his first wiggly tooth. They grow up so fast.