Work in Progress Wednesday (WIP)

This Wednesday I am giving a sneak peak of my latest birch tree painting. 

You may have seen my previous birch tree paintings in my Etsy store done  in gray and black. Birch trees are my favorite tree and bring back a lot of great "up-north" Michigan childhood memories.

I thought it would be fun to take a more whimsical approach to the trees using bright pink, blue and green paints.

It's turning out better than I had hoped, and should be ready for Etsy this week.  Check back soon for a link to the completed painting.

WIP Wednesday - Snow Day

Happy WIP Wednesday special snow day edition!  This is the view outside my windows this morning.  And this is a look at my neighbors sweet playhouse all covered in snow, it's a snowy fairyland.

I have been working hard at dwindling down the projects in my WIP box.  I was getting a little stressed about how many projects were in there and how long they had been in there waiting.  So I decided to tackle the less time consuming projects and leave the more labor intensive aprons til last.   As a result I have this fresh pile of baby wash cloths and burp cloths completed and ready to be photographed, bundled and listed on etsy.  Look for them to be loaded later this week.

Today I will be taking advantage of the snowy day to get started sewing up these favorite travel bags.  

Looks like I have lots to do, so I better get my cup of coffee and get started, I hope you all are having a fun and warm snow day.  Happy blizzard 2010.

WIP Wednesday - New fabric

I have a confession, I have not been too good about working on last week's WIP project. In fact it still has a long way to go.

The truth is I have been a little wrapped up in season 2 of a little program you may have heard of called True Blood. I have been quite obsessed watching the episodes end to end and am happy to say I have completed the season. I can't wait til season 3 starts, oh and by the way (channeling my inner teenager) I am so team Eric!

So in lieu of a new WIP Wednesday project to show you I thought I would give you a peak at some fabric that I picked up this week. If I can get thru my box of projects these fabrics will be making their way into new aprons very soon. Stay tuned!!!

WIP Wednesday - Coffee and Sweets

Happy WIP-Wednesday! What a change from earlier in the week the sky is an almost cloudless blue and I feel my mood picking up by the hour with each new minute spent soaking up the sunshine. If you could see me now I am sitting at my desk bopping up and down in time to Campus by Vampire Weekend (great band) with a smile from ear to ear.

Great sunshine and peppy music combined are putting me in the mood to create, create, create! It is in that spirit that I present to you this week's WIP Wednesday project.

This is my new gathered front apron, in Michael Miller's Sweets fabric. It is just sort of pieced together right now to give you the idea, I have quite a lot of work yet to do but it's fun to see how it is going to come together. The neck and waist ties will be in the little heart fabric as well as a ruffle that will be added to the hem. Enjoy!