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shala_beads
04 November 2007 @ 08:09 am
I don't have a stencil icon!  
But I make stencils. Not as often as I crochet, bead, do origami or draw on my computer, but I do make stencils.

So, remember I mentioned the little totes? E and I decided they would make great purses, and I worked on one this morning. Completely no sew, just sort of a "What can I do with supplies I have in the house?"
Well.. it's a family joke, but you know all my craft supplies can still fit in one box? Mike keeps insisting the box is actually a house, but we all know the truth. It's a box. For my craft supplies and books.
Supplies I had quickly at hand, acrylic paint, Halloween printed satin ribbon, fabric glue (the kind you can wash safely) and a bedazzler.
What I didn't have was a skull stencil I liked. So I looked, and couldn't find one I liked.
and now we come to the image part of our program )
The original skull I used to make the stencil is one I drew for Moo cards. E and I are both planning to order sets soon, she wants some for Christmas.
 
 
Feeling: content
 
 
shala_beads
23 August 2007 @ 11:30 am
Spontaneity  
Sometimes, Mike plans it. He's not really a spontaneous sort of guy, and you can imagine how living with me sometimes seems like chaos to him. But he loves me, and I love him, so I try to plan out more things, and he plans sometimes just to be spontaneous.
One of those spontaneous things was going to All Fired Up, still planning to go with Teri, and actually have stencils and such made, but last week we went spontaneously. No stencils, no plans to go, just.. went.

E and I each picked out a coffee cup and painted it, and we got them back last night.
wanna see? )
I talked to the kids, and we agreed the best idea for Dad for Christmas is having one kid paint a plate, and the other paint a cup, and give it to him with a box of oreos. Eldest child wants to try making an ocarina as well with the "buy a lb of clay" that they do.

Still looking for suggestions of things do to with an empty cereal box. Since you know, I want the list to eventually be 101 things, and so far it's 9.
Editing my sidebar to add versus to the list of tag links.
 
 
Feeling: amused
 
 
shala_beads
10 February 2007 @ 10:43 am
Aliens and Skulls..  
Loving the alien )

Last night, Emily found a print out of a pattern I'd written and was testing, and she read it aloud completely baffled. "I don't know what this means."
Well.. she's a knitter, not a crocheter, and is as bad as I am at following other people's patterns.
I'm growing out my bangs though, so snap clips are utterly essential while I decide if I want to give up bangs or not. Otherwise it's not even a question, because despite all the years I hid behind very long bangs, having them fall in my face now makes me nuts.
 
 
Feeling: sore
Current Music: Emm Gryner- Pour Some Sugar on Me