season's greetings!

A tad bit belated, but hey... I made it before 2008 ended!

This holiday season has been such a whirlwind, I'm finally getting to post photos of some of the stuff I made for Christmas gifts. (But mostly because the recipients just opened them a few hours ago.) And, I didn't even get a chance to take a picture of the felt pine cones I made for my mom before I gave them away. I was inspired by (cough cough, okay I copied) Stephanie Barnes' snowcones. They turned out lovely and my mom loved them.

And oh my. How many fabric wreaths I made from jcasa's free pattern. My sisters loved them.





















My little girl turned one at the end of the year as well. This was her party dress... the pattern is "analise" from Portabellopixie. The skirt fabric is vintage barkcloth-era drapery.

here's to new beginnings

My best friend from middle/high school and I lost touch after she got married and I moved away from our hometown. Nine years later, after reconnecting through the internet, we got together for the first time at my baby shower last year.

My friend told me that after all this time she still uses a quilt I made for her back in high school. She just recently gave birth to her second boy... so I thought it appropriate to make another quilty something special.

today's project

Actually, there is more than one project going on around here, but this one is the most fun:
















brown kraft paper + carved eraser + acrylic paint = wrapping paper!
This stamp design is great because it can also be leaves on the top of stamped pears or apples, or back-to-back it could look like a butterfly.

Also, my fabric swatches from Spoonflower came!
















The yellow is a little too lemony bright for me, and the red apples have a darker border I'll have to get rid of (neither of which can be seen in the photo, actually).

And a far more tedious project... I decided to check out my blog posts in IE rather than just Firefox... and discovered some posts were laid out terribly! It took forever, but I fixed them. Having done some web design before, I should have known to check that a long time ago.

Hope you're having a crafty holiday season!