I just finished cutting and ironing all the fabric for the solids for prints swap. Whew! That was a big job. I was thinking about the history of each of the pieces – some of them I’ve been lugging around since high school, some are from my mother-in-law’s fabric stash, some I found thrifting recently…
Solids for Prints
Okay, let’s get some swap action going. I’ve thought about doing this one for a while and I think, now that the craft area is finally getting a facelift, the time has come. I would like to do a little solids for prints swap with anyone interested. Over the past few years I’ve seem to…
The flock
I finally finished the flock. Five lambs. Two of them are already sold, but if you had contacted me about one, they are up on the shop now. I think these will be the last lambs for a little while. I’ve been doing some sketching for a new softie. Perhaps a chicken or a cat…
Snowy Day
I finished up these valentines for a special order today. I made them on my new (to me) work desk! Yesterday afternoon we moved a bunch of furniture around to transform the current guest room into the new baby’s nursery. This included dismantling and moving two beds and two desks. Roxanne helped out by banging…
Soft Yellow Lamb
I made this little sweetie yesterday. He is actually the first in a series of five (Why am I making five lambs? I really don’t know. I just do that kind of thing sometimes). The weather is warm again today – in the 50s – and Roxy and my mom and I are headed out…
Year of the Dog
This photo will be part of the postcards I will mail for the Postcard Swap. I designed an original dog for this. I think we’re calling it a rat terrier (like our friend Jen’s little dog, Wendel). The only requirements for the postcard was that it incorporate a picture of a dog and the words…
Cards
Roxanne and I managed to make it out to the mall yesterday afternoon to return a gift. I bought some beautiful cards with birds on them at Anthropologie by Saturate Design. I really need to buckle down and write some letters to my friends back in the Delta. Many of them don’t have ready web…
Fuzzy Green Owl
I made Sidney a little girlfriend. She is made of a very soft, fuzzy and nubbly olive material with white and dark fleks in it. She cheered me up on Saturday when, for various reasons, I was having a bad blog moment – feeling like maybe this thing is making me and my family too…
Sidney
My grandfather, Sidney, loved owls. He and my grandmother had a wonderful collection of owl figurines in their apartment, many of which I got after he died. I don’t have them here, though. They are back at my parent’s house. My grandpa was a sweet man. He always had Carefree gum and orange Tic Tacs…
Valentines
Today I made some valentines. The fronts. Each one is different: The flip sides: I have always loved making valentines. My sister and I would spend long hours in my room when we were young cutting out doilies and gluing them to pink construction paper and making a big glittery mess. In the last several…