Helllloooo Summer?

School's been out for almost 15 days now, but me? I've still seen the inside of a class room for the last 10 days. Yes, I'm the idiot who thought she wanted to get ahead and take 9 hours of classes this summer. Honestly, it hasn't been that bad...yet. I think this first class is ok due to the fact that 3 of my friends are in it, too! Which was a wonderful surprise that first day of class. Just a little over a month left until I have complete freedom and summer at my finger tips, and paint, too!

Paint? Well, I have recently aquired a house!! Yipppie skippppie, I'm super pumped to have a house to DECORATE and make into my very own!! You have NO idea how excited I am. None. Don't even try to comprehend it. I'll save you the trouble. I'm SUPER excited.

Unfortunately, that means I will be moving home for a month until it's ready to move into. But, while I'm saving money on rent....of course, I'm going to use that money for the house! Let me show you a few things...Oh, but first, did you know? Urban Outfitters has decor?!?! When I stumbled upon that little fact, I about lost it...and then spent the next few hours dreaming about what I would order...

Mmmm, love this! If you've been in my room since I've moved out 3 years ago, you'll remember my cream floral bedspread with pink/brown/green tiny flowers and birds. I think this complements the design of the bed as well as the whimsical look. But no gold. Ew. I'll be using my BF, spray paint. The cure to giving anything a fresh look :)

Ook, so I may have a thing for birds, it's not weird I promise! I love this hook with the heart cut out, so charming. Again, blue is not my color, spray paint will come in handy here. I'm thinking about stacking the birds above my bed and attachng ribbon to these frames I already have and hang the frames from the bird hooks. Same with the curtain tie-backs: spray paint.

Left: Um, if anyone wants to buy this $600 couch, it would look really great in my room. K, thanks!

Let me explain about the fabric above. It's a tapestry. Know what I'm talking about? It's a HUUUUGEEE piece of fabric that you can do ANYTHING your little heart desires with! My heart desires a couch cover. Mmmmhmmm. Just wait.

Well, I think that's all I will divulge now. Maybe another post later with more house details. HOUSE!! Can't wait for you :)

April Showers Bring May Flowers...

  

    I finally finished my cousin's first baby gift, eek! I must say, I am very happy with the outcome. I got the idea from this gal's blog when she was stitching on trees and owls onto simple onsies (sidenote: it's a MUST that you scroll down on her blog and look at the adorable onesie with the owl! SUPER cute!). I loved the idea of various fabrics to create a shirt instead of the norm screens or iron-ons. Since there are no babies in my family, I thought of the next best thing: My newly preggo cousin. She's expecting in November, but we're all praying for an early delivery since big babies run in the family (I'm just secretly hoping she goes into labor on my birthday a few weeks before).
     Anywho, I just drew a stork with a basket on stencil paper that you can find at any craft store and cut my patterns. I mixed cotton, mesh, and satin fabrics to create my "scene" and finished it off with some fancy stitching on the basket. *See those cute little knots in blue? I thought it gave the basket something extra ;)*
     I was kinda stumped on how to add detail to the stork to create his wing. I remembered that I had this mesh material left over from a trip to FM and started to play around with it and came up with his wing! I stitched on an old button to create a landing place for the wing and just to give it that something extra ;).
    I chose to make this gender neutral because she doesn't find out until mid-June whether she is having a boy or girl. I found some cute blue and pink patterned fabrics that I am currently working on to sell in Baglady. **Would also LOVE to custom a shirt for anyone, too!

I know, I know. It's a trend that's fading, but I just couldn't help myself! I saw this tutorial on how to make fabric flowers as you read in this post and just went for it! Then, decided to be a bit more imaginative and crochet the orange flower you see in the far left of the picture. All the headbands are secured with antique buttons from my mom's collection ANNND what's even better is I figured how to allow movement for the flowers on the headband. I don't know about you, but some of those headbands have the most awkward positioning when you place them on your head. These flowers are made to move to fit the individuals head. These are in Baglady right now for $12-$15 and custom orders can be placed.

I got a little creative with this last shot.

 

I love being crafty. It feeds my soul and inspires more and more projects. I think what makes it better for me, is when I can take someone's vision and create something for them that they uniquely laid out for me to create for them. Hmmm, what's next ;)?