Writer's Club T-Shirts

At the school I teach at, I run "writer's club". I wanted to buy T-shirts from NaNoWriMo for them but everytime I check their website they are out of stock, so I decided to make them.



I used iron ons for inkjet printers and it took me FOUR trys to get it peel off without completely destroying the t-shirt. So yes... I have four crappy looking shirts in my closet and don't know what to do with them!

Stained Picture Frames

I bought a pack of three for $2 of these

at IKEA. (Okay well actually I bought 4 packs of these so I had 12 picture frames).

I went to Home Depot for the wood staining product. I used "Early American". I applied two coats to the frame. I gave them 24 hours to dry and applied a glossy finish, again two coats, that I had picked up at Lowe's.

Each frame is a 4x6 and I bought them so that I had something to do with all those cross-stitch patterns I've been doing!

Here's the completed product:

Lego Love

I've always admired those critters and things that geeks make out of legos so last night I thought I'd give it a try. I'm working on a large Mario brothers related project (to be revealed when it is finished) and this was something semi-related to it:



It took a while to figure out and he's nowhere near perfect but I'm pretty pleased with it considering the fact that I spent nearly 30 minutes on it. Yes, yes, I know the coloring is all wrong, but *shrug* my lego collection is severly limited.

Happy Easter!

I saw this tutorial on how to make an easter wreath out of plastic eggs, easter grass, and hot glue. My first and only thought was, "I have to have one!"

Here's how it came out:


Up close of the ribbons:


The ribbon I will use to hang it up:


And one more picture for good measure:


Overall this was a super easy project. Just watch out for that hot glue gun! It never fails, I always burn myself.

Christmas Apron

I made this WAY back in December but forgot to post it:



Another one of those fantastic premade/predesigned fabrics where I just had to cut and sew! Eventually I want an apron for each and every holiday! :)

Butterfly Dress

I made this back in October, and I just now got around to posting this. I made this over my fall break when my fiance was out of town. He's always saying how I never wear dresses so I made this for his homecoming.

The dress:


A close up of the fabric and the straps:


An action shot:


Action shot of the back:


Close up of the fabric:


I used a pattern from New Look (6468). I just love the New Look patterns, they're cheap (about $3.95) and SO easy to make. I'm goin gto make a dress similar to this one for Halloween this year (I'll be Vegas for Halloween!)

Virginia the shepherdess

The one thing that I love the most about these little sprites that I'm working my way through is that they come together pretty quickly. I have another Tenth Kingdom sprite:



She only took about an hour!