Flickr Favorites - Missing You

1. covered stool with hezlein, 2. vintage trim upcycled, 3. lace - madelinetosh, 4. Tiny Treasures, 5. Tuesday - a meal to adore, 6. papercranes, 7. you have my heart, 8. pick your poison, 9. pin happy

Ever since the words "it's a boy" were spoken I've been unable to do any crafts.

At first I didn't even notice because I was deep into "survival" mode. But it's been 5 weeks and I'm starting to get the hang of this whole baby thing. The unfinished knitting projects collecting dust on our coffee table have been catching my eye lately. I'm really hoping it won't take another 5 weeks before I can get back to them!

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Flickr Favorites - Crafty

1. Loquat bunnie . Coelho Nêspera, 2. garden_hoop2, 3. cheery, 4. 092 African Flowers, almost ready to be a cushion

I have been so busy lately that I have had little to no time to just sit down and do something crafty. This week I am hoping to change that.

The question is, should I work on my first knit sweater, or finish up my crocheted floral motif blanket?

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Buttons

Normally I don't get too into holiday decorating. 

I put up our little tree, all of my nutcrackers, and call it a day. However, after seeing this button tree on flickr I wanted to try my hand at one too!

900 million buttons later (my stash of pretty green buttons is now entirely gone) I made my own button tree! 

It's not perfect.

Rarely are any of my crafty projects.

But I love it. It looks so pretty next to my nutcrackers, and I'm so happy I spent hours and hours gluing my button collection to that cone. Here is a full size shot:

Now let's see yours!

Crafting -Day Two

Well it is a light crafting day here because I am also packing to go up to my cousin's wedding which is this Saturday, but I did make a few gift tags using Mitsy's awesome Metal Letter Stamp Tutorial. 

I will definitely be making more for the holidays, just as soon as I get some appropriate cookie cutters. I don't really bake cookies, let alone shaped cookies, so my assortment to choose from was kind of meager (and this is AFTER I took a couple of my family members cookie cutters):

I love all the fun shapes, but I need some Christmas tree type deals for the holidays I think. I still need to play around with how thick the clay is before I stamp, as a couple of them were a bit too thin, but all in all they are pretty great! I also like that they can double as ornaments for the tree after they have served their gift tag purpose. Here is what I've done so far:

And before you think, "is she actually so crazy as to make gift tags for dogs?!" Yes. I am. But my dogs, and the dogs of our immediate family members, always get a present or two. This year I think it is new collars and ID tags. See, I'm not too crazy :)

(Oh. Mitsy, did you see you have a tag there? That is for YOUR future Secret Christmas present! he he he)

I would definitely recommend trying out this tutorial. I thought it was a lot of fun, and I think kids would really get a kick out of it too. The possibilities are endless as to what you can do with them, and if  you have a bandaged up banged up finger like moi, you can still make something pretty without too much effort of your left hand.  Enjoy!

Crafting -Day One

Does anyone know what a Mandolin(e) is? Not the instrument, but the food slicer. Well we own one, and while they are very handy, they are very deadly on index fingers. I'm still in recovery mode after losing a chunk of my left index finger to our handy little food slicer, and so I haven't been able to draw any new prints.

Needing to fill my time with something fun I've decided to work on a couple crafty projects. Here is the first:

Any guesses as to what it is? I'll give you a hint; there will be some knit work attached to it. I won't tell you what it is though until it's completed!! Oh, and thanks to my mom for helping to sew this together! I am not the most adept person in the world on a sewing machine. :)

Tomorrows crafty project? Finishing up some metal letter stamped gift tags via Mitsy's fun tutorial!