Posts from the “Crafty” Category

Halloween!

Posted on November 1st, 2008

Happy (belated) Halloween everybody! Last night we went to a friend’s loft for a costume bash…lots of fun. Then of course we had to take a stroll down 6th street to check out the crazy costumes. There didn’t seem to be many original ones this year, though…probably because our friend Bud, who comes up with outrageous costumes, wasn’t in town this year. My friends Bryan and Bru did a great job on their costumes as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction. They had the EXACT shirts that John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson wore in the film, as well as a briefcase (with glowing wonder inside) and the famous wallet. Hilarious. I was a bee… And Justin was a bird (he made…

Charming

Posted on April 23rd, 2008

My boss’s birthday was last week…I usually bake something yummy for office birthdays, but my boss has been adhering to a strict weight loss plan for a while now, and I didn’t want to tempt him with anything sweet. I still wanted to give him something homemade, so I crafted these wine charms for him. They were a lot of fun to make. I used regular old Shrinky Dink material, cut it into rectangles, and rounded the corners. Then I traced the words (I chose words that are often used to describe wine, and sometimes used to describe people) from a sheet I had printed and colored them in. I punched a hole toward the top and baked according to the directions on the…

Baby stiches

Posted on February 6th, 2007

Just look at this baby! Isn’t she fabulous? This is Freya, the daughter of my friends Courtney and Mark. She’s a little over two months old now, and she’s smiling, holding her head up, and generally looking cute. I started embroidering onesies for her a few weeks back, and I bought them a size too big so I would have enough time to finish them before she moved on to the next size. This was a Sublime Stitching pattern, but I made three more…an elephant, a penguin, and an octopus. I used one of my trusty Japanese craft books for the design, then free-handed it to make it larger. I suppose I could have used a copy machine, but I was impatient (we don’t…

Sending out cheer

Posted on December 19th, 2006

This year, Justin and I decided to make our own Christmas cards. I don’t send cards out every year…some years Christmas sneaks up on me and is over before I know it, and most years we head to West Texas to be with parents and it seems there’s not enough time for holiday preparations. Since we’re staying in Austin this year, we’ve decorated the apartment, put up stockings (even one for Roux!), and sent out cards. It’s been so much fun! I found the idea and instructions for this project here. I gathered the ribbon and blank cards from Hobby Lobby, and used pinking shears to make the ribbon edges a bit more fun. Justin has been wanting to sew on paper for ages,…