hasn't it just been a long time? a year. wow! who would have thunk it?
to play a bit of catch up...and to just touch on some of the highlights of the year in crafting
one of the projects we worked on was the Simplicity 2365 blouse pattern. we even used french seams on the pattern, a first for me. we used a lovely medium blue lawn fabric, that i found at a garage sale, of course. we even tried teaming up on creating a quilt for one of the young ones. it turned out rather wonky. i assure you it had nothing to do with my sewing partner, the 221, just me and my quilting abilities.
last year i also became fascinated with ball jointed dolls and tried my hand at painting a face on a hujoo berry style doll.
i realize in this form she appears a bit creepy.
but i did have a lot of fun helping her look like this
I apologize for the funky arm position.
maybe she was trying to say "it took her this long to finally finish me." i realize the face isn't perfect. in this pic her eye shadow looks quite heavy, but in person, it isn't that strong.
my mum even got in the fun and knitted the lovely stripey socks. you can kind of get an idea of her towering height by the fact that she is leaning against my laptop screen, which is about 8.75" tall.
and then for Christmas i decided i wanted to try my hand at making putz/glitter style houses. i have never really worked with glitter. i loved the results of glitter but working with it can definitely be an adventure. trying to make sure one doesn't sneeze or that the young ones don't come up and try to explain something to you while using the standard sound effects.
an over all lights out shot
i decided to color and glitter the bottle brush trees. as you can tell from the lovely pink tree in the left hand corner of the pic.
i even tried my hand with making a semi snow globe-ish type glitter house
complete with a wee deer.
all in all a fun and successful crafting year.
and for the crafts for this year?
well so far I have tried my hand at making some peg/kokeshi style dolls. i completed one but then sent it to our niece and forgot to get a pic of her. duh! anyway's i'm working on another one and will get a pic of her. i am going to try my hand at making some jewelry using shrinky dinks, inspired by this necklace and then this bracelet tutorial. i also tried my hand a some wire wrapping. (and yes i realize there is a joke in there somewhere) and followed this tutorial
as you can tell by the last three links i am still having fun with pinterest. it is my go to spot when i want to find inspiration or a yummy new recipe. it's also lovely if your friends or family are using it as an easy way to share things that you find on the net. not that i'm trying to enable you or anything. heaven's forbid! (grin)
anyway it's been a hoot catching up with all and i am going to try and find a little more time to keep up with you all this year.
Cheers!
