Googly Eyes

I don't know what it is about them, but googly eyes are always funny. Take an unfunny thing and add googly eyes and it's instantly funny. If you are familiar with my little felt cards that I make, I use ALOT of googly eyes. The past couple days, I have been working on a batch of about 100 cards - that's alot of googly eyes. And even though I have been making these cards for a couple of years now, I never cease to giggle when the googly eyes get attatched to the felt bacon, pear, banana - what ever it is - hilarious.

So, you can imagine my delight when I stumbled upon this skit from Saturday Night Live - it contains both Christopher Walkin AND googly eyes. Enjoy.

Bundles and Bunches

Today I was doing a little crafting outside after all of my weeding and watering chores were taken care of. I have been working on getting a little sampling of goods together for a press packet of sorts for DaWanda. I am super excited for the opportunity (Thank you Elizabeth!!!)

So here is the outside work table:

Here are my new business cards I have been working on. I felt like they should have a little felt on them, I added a little felt heart from my scrap bag:



And here is the little basket of cards and pins that will be on their way to Dawanda tomorrow!



Other than all of this good stuff, I have been restocking some fall designs and have just started a huge restocking of cards. I will be a busy bee with this for a while, hopefully I will have more to show soon (including flower pins Q, R, S!)

Two old favorites and three new designs

Years ago, Ed and I were out book hunting in a nifty little part of the nearest big city (nifty because it contains two used book stores, a vintage clothing store aaaaand a bead store!) Almost too much for one little gal to handle and luckily there is also a music store or two in between for my poor boyfriend.


Anyway, among my finds on this particular excursion were two very vintage and very mod embroidery books. (Gotta love those "Golden Hands.")

There are so many great things in these that I don't even know where to begin, but there is a footstool done in crewel embroidery that I particularly love and my three new flowery pin designs are the result of my love for this said footstool.





(Of course, when I bought these two books, I was planning on making each and everyone of the projects . . . that has not even begun to happen yet!) But, here are three new flower designs that will be available in my Etsy and DaWanda shops. I really love these little lovelies and it will be hard not to keep one of each for my self!

Design #1: 5 little flowers

Design #2: 3 Little Flowers

Design #3: 2 Little Flowers

That is all for now, here's hoping you had as beautiful a sunset as we did tonight!

P is for Poppy

Just a quick show-n-tell today, here is the latest installment of my flowers A to Z project. It is one of my favorite flowers, the poppy. My parents have a red poppy plant in their front yard. It gets more beautiful every year! I have wanted to make a one of these for a long time, really anything with a pretty poppy design on it is okay by me!

Here is a little detail of the stitches:

Little Birds

This year, it seems like I have been trying out lots of different projects and ideas. One of these things started out as printmaking and has taken a turn towards stamp making. So far, I have attempted a few flowers but this is the first one up for grabs in my shop, a little bird!

I love the very handmade quality of it all and they were very hand made! Each one stamped individually, cut and finished.

There are tags:

And there are flat note cards:

Both the tags and the cards are in both of the shops. Here and Here!

I have lots of other stuff to show you too! For another time I suppose. After a long day of digging flower beds and mulching, I am relaxing with a glass of wine and awaiting on our first thunderstorm of the season.

Here's to a lovely weekend everyone!!!

Ladybugs, Campfires & Squirt Guns

I hope that everyone had a fantastic kick-off-to-Summer weekend. Mine was pretty wonderful.

Why was it so wonderful you may ask?

Well, here's a short list:

First farmers market of the season

sunshine

planting

picnic

a campfire accompanied by campfire stories

corn on the cob

squirt gun/hose battle with my Dad, sister, brother and two squealing nephews

I don't think it gets much better people!

To celebrate, I have posted this little lady here and here.

Sketching and Sewing

After a couple of days without a computer, we are finally back in action! And I am back at the studio table, playing catch up and restocking some items. I realized that I haven't shown all of my crafts cards, so here are the last two:

This one is a little drawing card, don't they look happy!?

And this one, it's a little skein of thread and some embroidery! Inside it says this:

All of the little items are hand made, it reminds me of being little and the many happy hours making miniature items for my dolls and their doll house, grocery store, fabric store, department store . . . not much has changed! Sometimes that is a good thing.

Oh, and these are available in my shop!