This'n'That...'n'The-Other

I have finally gotten around to cleaning up my various craftiness-strewn messes around the house, and have a few pics to share of a couple recent projects. The dawn of my new camera is literally on the horizon, so hopefully I don't have to torture you wonderful readers much longer with my less-than-adequate photography.

Here is my little bunny, made from Jennifer Murphy's instructions on Martha's website. I hope they have her on the show much more often because her critters are so adorable! Of course, my little creation isn't perfect (1st try, and all), and never nearly as cute as the real-deal. I have spoken to her a couple of times via email, and she just seems like a super nice, down-to-earth kind of craftista. Check out her website for more about her, plus links to Martha's site for the instructions/videos of her 2 segments on the show: www.jmurphybears.com

Here is a pic of my little pom-pom bunny riding my new, wonderful brass grasshopper. For a grasshopper, he moves pretty slow. Maybe he is a cricket? My 4 year old thinks so!

I got a couple of comments from my last post re: the quilling. The poster who left the link to her website should definitely be commended, because there is some really useful info there! I just decided to sit down one night and just start, already! A new episode of "Deadliest Catch" was on, hubby was finishing painting my kitchen, and it just seemed the right thing to do. Verdict: If you haven't tried quilling, just try it! For about $5 at Hobby Lobby, you can buy a kit ($2.25) and a slotted tool ($3) to roll the paper, plus some good craft glue and tweezer are pretty essential. It really isn't hard at all, and the Lake City Craft Co. stuff has really good directions and diagrams. It is a bit time-consuming (probably cuz I am a beginner), but the results are really amazing.

I will probably tackle this project in more depth when I have more time... when might that be, perhaps?

I shall be back with some pics of some wonderful yard sale finds from this past weekend!

Not a lot of nothing today

Today was spent walking to the park with the girls, cooking, cleaning... all of those lovely domestic activities. I have a rug project in mind that came to me via Martha's "Craft of the Day" a while back...but with hubby working around 70+ hours each week, I can't get the help that I need with stretching the duck canvas over wood and stapling it so that I can paint on it. More about that later, when the project at least gets STARTED!

I was pleasantly surprised today when I checked out Sublime Stitching's blog and saw some very familiar looking stitched-projects! Somehow, Jessica found my blog and posted my pics of the Black Apple wall hangings I made! I was filled with a bag-full of warm fuzzies ♥↓♥ I was really thrilled because my blog is sooo new, and I really enjoy doing it. My goal is some real interaction with my readers (oh yah, and to get MANY more regular readers), and I hope people continue to come back here and read and POST! Anyway, here is the link to the blog... http://sublimestitching.com/blog.html

One quick craft-related topic... a while back, I was introduced to the topic of paper quilling via a segment on my girl Martha's show. Intrigued, I went to the website that seems to be the main distributor of materials, tools, kits, etc. Lake City Craft Co. (http://www.quilling.com/ ). There is a lot of cool kits, and basically it is just rolling thin strips of paper up very tightly to make shapes. Then the shapes are put together to make pictures. Hobby Lobby is now carrying their supplies, and I bought a little kit for around $3 to start with. Here is a pic from their website of the kit I bought... lets see how mine turns out! I will let you know how hard it is.

ps... Good luck to Emily of the Black Apple in her pending move to Portland! I will surely miss her wonderful blog as she readies for the big day, but I am sure all of us "Applets" can't wait to see what kind of stuff she will be involved in once she moves!

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