Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Creative Back-Log

Well I haven't had a lot of time for crafting lately my little guy is teething and hasn't been sleeping great.  I have a whole pile of stuff waiting to get put together and some new ideas to try out too.  

Payton is about to turn 1 in September and I am going to try my hand at making him a special birthday shirt.  I saw some great 1st birthday shirts on Etsy that really inspired me to make one of my own.  

I am hoping to get some crafting time in over the long holiday weekend and will post my efforts!

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Back to Work

Well I am back to work now after a great vacation spent with my husband and son.  We relaxed took the baby to the zoo, Lake Huron and let him hang out on Grandma and Grandpa's boat for the first time.  It was a wonderful relaxing time and now I am ready to get back to business at both my full time advertising job and my crafting.

I posted two great aprons on etsy today, and I am ready to start on another one.  Here is the fabric I am going to use, how great are those roosters.  I can not wait to start.  

Over vacation my mother-in-law invited me to raid both her fabric stock pile and button tin.  I found some really great materials both new and vintage and am having fun thinking up ideas how to use it all!  

I also made a side-trip to the fabric store with husband and baby in tow.  It was the day after the holiday and they were running a sale on the Christmas fabric.  I couldn't resist and picked up some great fabrics for both Christmas and Halloween.  So be on the lookout for some new holiday treats coming soon.  A big thanks to my husband for some great ideas for Christmas projects too :)

Meanwhile in my "spare" time I have been sketching up some ideas for some fresh little pillows with summer fruit and yummy confectionary treats as my inspiration. Yumm, they look so cute already just on paper.  I am thinking about painting them too but I'm not sure if I want to go with watercolor or acrylic, hmm.  
Now that I am devoting more time and energy to crafting  it seems like inspiration is everywhere and I have more ideas than I can keep up with.  The flood gates are open so I am trying to be really good with my ever-handy sketchbook to capture them all for later.

So I want to know what inspires you? 
Till next time