Free Swatch Day!

Today, Spoonflower is having a free swatch day, where you can upload two of your designs and have them printed on 8×8 fabric! I designed these two dolls (and the little mini ones so I didn’t waste any fabric) and am very excited to see how they come out!

I’m thinking of entering at least one of them into the Momiji Couture Contest. Hopefully they’ll come out and be adorable.

The Dune Box is Complete!

As of Wednesday last week, the Dune Box only looked like this…

But by the next day it looked like this!

And on Saturday it was finished, and I was giddy!

Best part was that Dune likes it too! Sometimes he gets lonely and cries, but he is better once I sit in there with him. Yes, I sit in there with him. It’s 3 ft tall, so I’m not squished. The neighbors don’t know what to make of any of it. Some can’t even believe that he is a cat, he’s “so big.”

And I finally have my side of the garage back. No more nightmares about my car being broken into! (These dreams are crazy. I live in a very safe neighborhood, but since I had my GPS stolen from my car in the townhouse, I’m super paranoid.)

Ok, so Dune Vet Update: He has surgery tomorrow morning.  I have been giving him antibiotics every night since the vet’s appointment.  The vet thinks it might be cancer, so the tumor growth on his ear and the one on his neck (that you can’t see) are being removed.  He should be all done by noon, and I think I’m going to bring him into work with me so that when he wakes up all groggy and confused he’s not alone.  Send good thoughts his way please.

And, so that Twilight doesn’t get jealous, here are some pics of her:

Painting!

The weather was crappy, and I couldn’t mow the lawn. So, I went to Walmart and picked up a cheap canvas and started painting. The sky outside was my inspiration. It’s not done yet… Tomorrow I am going to paint some kind of silhouette in black over it. I think trees would make the most sense. Thoughts?

Not too bad, considering I haven’t picked up a paint brush that wasn’t intended for walls since 2005. I think I blended the two greys pretty well.  I was going for a swirly cloud look.  I don’t think the above is the way it’s going to end up facing.

Is it Slander if it’s True?

I want my sewing machine fixed nooooooooooow. Dr. Carl, you said it would be done June 19th… it’s now July 20th. Why did the woman tell me you would do it first thing in the morning when I called just now.

I want to sew thiiiiings.

Family Day Outfit

I photoshopped this little mock-up of the outfit I was thinking of putting together to wear next week on Family Day, when I go down to GA for John’s basic training boot camp graduation. I can’t tell if it’s adorable (which I think it is) or if it accidentally mocks them. I just don’t want to trivialize the medals/stripey pins that real soldiers get that actually mean something… mine will just be embroidery thread glued to a Popsicle stick, lol.

I’ve already heard from my mom’s friend Linda, who is an military wife, and she likes it, even if the navy is “so air force.” So that’s good. What do you think?

Edit: I’ve decided not to wear the outfit. Maybe the dress, but not the whole thing with the ribbons and what not. An American flag pin, yes – and the army wife thing as a necklace. Much more subtle. My friend John who is in the navy pointed out that with all those ribbons, even though not real – it would look like I out ranked *my* John! LOL. Not good! Thanks for all of your input though!

My New Studio!

I got my studio all fixed up in time for my Insider photo shoot. And I love, love, LOVE how it came out. I played a little with the arrangement of furniture, and ended up taking out a chair, and I think it’s perfect. See those bags on the bulletin board? I hope to get those (except for the DARE one, that’s mine!) listed on etsy by the time my article gets published. See what happens when I set TIMELINES to things I want to get done? THEY HAPPEN, WHO WOULDA THUNK IT?

I have so much storage! I started neatly folding all of my fabric and wrapping the different prints around cardboard, and I think that helped fit more fabric into the bins I already have for them. I still have a little that doesn’t fit, but I guess that means I’ll just have to get my sewing machine fixed and start making stuff again, huh?

And I love that I can peek out into my back yard while I’m sewing. (Dune likes sitting on the drafting table and the desk and looking outside, so when I’m not using it, the sewing machine lives on the craft hutch. I sew at the desk otherwise though.)

So, what do you think of my space?

Mail Inside

We have a mail box that is, quite literally, a box that sits on the side of our house.  And there isn’t a red flag or anything to signify when we’ve got outgoing mail in there.  Now, this isn’t a problem when we’re sending out Netflix or cards or something…

But it’s a problem when we’re trying to pay our bills.

See, the mailperson doesn’t always look inside first to see if there is mail.  So we could put something in the box on Monday, and it might not be picked up until Wednesday or Thursday.  This is unacceptable.  So I decided to do something about it this weekend.

It’s made out of felt and embroidery thread, and I sewed it all together while watching TV with John.  The same message is on both sides, so if the wind blows, the message is still displayed.  As you can see, my embroidery letter skills need a little work.

I put each end of the ribbon through the holes in the back (that mount the mailbox to the house) so it can fit inside or go outside the mailbox as needed. So far, it’s worked perfectly. Yay!

PS: Watchmen was AWESOME! Go see it when it comes out.

Haha Cheeseburger Dress

I know I said that I was going to post pictures of my current knitting project.  I have the pictures taken, I just don’t have time to edit them!  So, until then, here is a hilarious crocheted cheeseburger dress.

I don’t know why the creator calls it a hamburger dress though. It obviously has cheese!

Birds of Change

Here are the birdies I made for the exchange. This picture is my attempt at making them look like they’re outside without me actually having to GO outside. It’s figgin cold out! I mailed them to Regina yesterday. They should get to her by this weekend.

You can check out all of the birdies in the exchange over in the flickr group.

Contest!

Here is the 6th birdie I made for the Birds of Change Exchange, and I’m giving it away right here! Just comment below with a change you would like to see happen, (could be personal, could be for the country; anything goes!) and I’ll randomly pick someone next Tuesday.

PS: There was a dumpster in the office yesterday. WTF??? I can’t wait to move into the new building. The people here just don’t care anymore. I tried to “jump” into it, but after I hit my head on the ceiling, I decided posing was fine.