my little leprechaun
It was boring bright green, so I thought I’d paint on a little rainbow, and then I potato-stamped on some clovers, but it came out looking more home-ec than silk-screened awesomeness, so…. it’ll be perfect for playing in the backyard… ps- is there such a thing as a female leprechaun, or are they all dudes?
another trader joes dress
for D’s Valentine….
caveat: we ate tortilla soup immediately before taking these pictures.but the dress is SO cute, and my munchkin was in the mood, so… please ignore the soup spills all over!THIS is the 4th dress I made during my 4 dresses in 4 hours personal challenge… (which, btw, I actually finished in less than 3.5, INCLUDING […]
4 shirts to 4 dresses in 4 hours…
I gave myself a little challenge a few days ago, to make 4 dresses for Lilly (D’s girlfriend) from 4 of her mom’s old Trader Joes tshirts, in 4 hours…this one’s my favorite, maybe. LOVE the colors, love the logo placement, love the flutter sleeves…thisone’s just a regular peasant-dress, but it’s still pretty cute!it’s actually […]
fluttery and pink and covered in berry juice.
this was a Nike shirt from my friend Angel, and it had a huge swoosh across the front…so this is a shirt, not a dress, but MAN, does the Bean ever LOVE this.she insisted on wearing it as soon as she saw it, (though she put it on backwards, hence the seam in the “front” […]
my crafty husband….
….made these for me: I pruned the grapes, and he sat and wove these for me! Aren’t they FAB! (we learned last year that he is MUCH MUCH MUCH better at wreath-making than I am. not sure why, he swears it’s just a natural talent that he discovered last year, but I think secretly he […]
Garage girl…
It’s probably no surprise, but our little princess has her father WRAPPED around her little finger. It was only fitting that I make up some girly little dresses from his old t-shirts… this combo, (a brown striped polo, and a light blue Pedro shirt), just reminded me SO much of C, that I HAD to […]
Time management
Um, I need help. My crafty to-do list today is:1) Make paper bag roses (the pic is of the paper bags we painted already, but I need to figure out how to import my templates so my silhouette can cut all the petals and leaves)2) embroider the designs from weeks 3&4 for the stitchalong3) iron […]
my daughter, the HAM
I made another peasant top, this time long sleeved… it’s to be a top for an older child, but my daughter assumes that she gets EVERYTHING I make (seriously, if I’ve got anything in my hands, she walks up and says, in the cutest possible way, with a head tilt and smile “what you making […]
bits of a weekend…
I finally took down our Xmas/evergreen wreath, and the door was very bare, so I took the sunday LA Times, and made this wreath. it’s a biggun, like, over a foot wide… LOTS of roses from strips of newspaper, print, comics, ads, etc. I really really REALLY love it. It makes me SO happy!I’m not […]