Etsy, I love you

I mean really. Whoa. This is a KNIT wool felted sculpture. Its for sale for $675 on etsy.

All I've gotta say is WHOA. (That's my wall-e voice, people)

I'm nearly done w seesters laptop bag. Internal interfacing is taking longer than I like, but tomorrow is strap day.

The onlt decision I've yet to make is how to close this bag. I hate a messenger flap, so that's out.  Suggestions?

CAD#3 8.3.2010

Its very late and after a midnight meeting with seester about kentucky music, I felt the sewing room calling my name.

I'm still on the hunt for the perfect jewelry for gran, but until I get there, little beauties seem to keep popping up.

I like the lime and brown of these. It's a shame I don't have better wire to wrap with... Then, my wire would match my ear hooks. One day I'll get fancy and coordinate all the jewelry making correctly.

As esty is going, it seems that earrings, passport covers, and hobo bags are definites. I'd love to get felted accessories in there too,but I'm not having the luck i'd hoped for with the final product of my felting. Well, except for this one beautiful felted ball. I really should use him somewhere.

Also, did you know you can turn your cat's fur into yarn? Oh man, I'm all about this crazy idea in theory. Brush kitty and collect in paper bag-the brushings, not random hair from the floor of your home. Once you've got enough you can wet felt or hand felt into a creation or just work into a yarn. There are also people on etsy who will create yarn for you if you ship them your kittys fur. Whoa! That's almost too weird. Even for me and my beloved Cole. I love her... but not that much.

CAD #2 8.2.2010

Wire wrapped tree art.

I'm thinking this would be a cool ornament. May be ill make a set of these for family for xmas.

Also, I think if I can make them smaller, then they'd be great as a pendant. Id just need to hammer some firmer wire for the outside.

CAD 8.1.2010: the coffee sleeve prototype.

victory is mine!

welcome to DROID posting. YESSS!

Craft-a-day

I might have a problem with completion... I mean, I love to do anything with my hands, be it typing, crafting, building, etc.

My dear elle is starting to give me a dash of grief about my stash and lack of productivity. Thus, I present for your delight, Craft-A-Day, during the entire month of August. The only problem with this idea is that I'm out of town/state some days, but I hope to offset this bump with doing multiple crafts during some days.

Yesterday I dabbled with coffee sleeves. I made one, and it's terribly small. Also, if you're going to get coffee to go, why don't you just use the 100% recycled cardboard coffee sleeve they offer? Well, because some people like personalized, quirky things. So, I'm going to perfect the coffee sleeve and hopefully it with the passport cover will be part of the 'sewn lovelies' going into larcreations at the end of this month.

Now, to figure a way to get pictures from my droid to my blog.

Happy Monday.

CAD 8.1.10: coffee sleeve prototype.

Success, thy name is UPCYCLING!

Great news. I just finished the cover up and it totally works! I'm finally satiated with the cover up challenge.




What you're seeing is an old, stained white collared shirt of elle's which she was goodwilling. I grabbed it, sliced some things off, including the collar, the buttons, and the permanently coffee stained belly section. Then, using the remants of jersey sheets (I know, I know, terrible fabric to work with! but it's the only white I have!) I added the 'skirt', took in the side, replaced the buttons, and VOILA! I have a coverup fit for a Duck destined lady.

frustration, thy name is cover-up

I want to make a coverup for the beach... and it's just NOT happening. So, I've taken to drastic measures.

First, I got these 2 ideas: one for a pinky, girly cover up. The next was for a tube kinda coverup. Both, FAIL.
Now, I'm working on a shirt top that elle was goodwilling. I'm hoping to upcycle it to a cover up that I can wear next week. I have 2 hours to get this done I'm calling it quits and buying one.

humpf.