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Tacky Craft Tuesday

Tacky SnakeOriginally uploaded by R.A.M.O.N.E. This is a little odd at first glance (colorful) until you realize those are all colored press on nails. Crazy, eh? Thanks to r.a.m.o.n.e. on flickr for this one! *Ahem, this has taken me forever to post on blogger….no idea what’s up! Issues in Blogger

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Illustration Friday and a new project

Illustration Friday and a new project

Gosh, I haven’t done illustration friday in so long that I’d lost the button off my sidebar. Funny tho, this one came and I just knew what I wanted to do – the theme this week is “Forgotten”: Call it the “Jessie the cowgirl” or “Velveteen Rabbit” syndrome, but there

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I’m Sewing Mama, I’m sewing!

I’m up late, stressing about life and yet updating my sidebar with my projects I’m working on. Oddly, with too much going on, I’m actually finding a lot of comfort in digging out some old projects and completing them! The baptism pillow is in the mail (hooray) and I dug

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Tacky Craft Tuesday – the Loo Roll Lady

Tacky Craft Tuesday – the Loo Roll Lady

This first photo was titled “nana’s Loo Roll Lady” and I love the term. They are kind of the ultimate tacky craft. However, some are done lovingly and with some charm. Gotta love them! So, do you have a tacky craft? If you post one, feel free to use our

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Shrinky dinks the cheap (ahem, I mean green) way!

Shrinky dinks the cheap (ahem, I mean green) way!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea from Curbly.com (which I just found by surfing around) for FREE shrinky dinks out of #6 recycle containers. I don’t know about you, but Denver doesn’t accept #6’s, so I’m always (gasp) throwing them out. Note: which containers are #6? After a quick survey of

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The lace edit and a 6th Birthday

The lace edit and a 6th Birthday

I always forget how manic May is, with the end of school and all sorts of drama. However, I had a wonderfully quiet night with my stitch friends last week and figured out how to solve the lace addition on the side of the pillow: I’m fairly proud of the

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Join me in “Tacky Craft Tuesday”

I’m not sure if you have read my post on “tacky or craft” or the follow up here but I thought it was about time to get some feedback on what people thought was tacky. I think the important thing with this is that it’s your opinion…there is no wrong

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The Friday Archives

Loobylu – who is one of my favorite artists and bloggers around has started the Friday Archives. I’m not sure how many of you have ever checked out my gallery, and soon it’s going to undergo some major reworking…..BUT I put it up so I could look at what I’ve

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Crazy quilting group today – 2 posts in a day!

Crazy quilting group today – 2 posts in a day!

OK, so, as mentioned in my last post, I had my Crazy quilting Groups class today and learned how to do these spectacular flowers! There are more to come, but this was the first one…fairly easy and pretty spiffy results, eh? It’s done with peyote stitch. Then, my round robin

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