Hi friends! I have been busy, busy making so many stuffie friends offline, but time management has not been my strongest skill recently and I have not managed to work online sharing into my schedule. But today was the last day of school for the year and I am going to add sharing in where school pick up was! I will be at the Homefarm Market this weekend and then the Blaine 4th of July, which will probably be my biggest show of the summer, is in less than two weeks so I am on crazy making mode right now. Plus I am at the Lynden Farmer’s Market nearly every weekend through September. Like I said busy, busy! Here are some of the things I am making this week:
Here are some Large Darlings and Sweater Darlings that just need faces and ribbons. That stack in the front is more Sweater Darlings I sewed today that need to be cut out, turned, stuffed, closed, and faces and ribbons added. Lots to get done!
This is a basket of the Tinies I have finished so far this week. I sell Tinies the most so I like to have lots of them ready to go!
These are more in progress Tinies that I marked face placement with pins. Don’t they look creepy and stabby at this point in the process?!!
And here is a little sneak peek of something I am working on- little beds for the Tinies. I got this prototype done this week but will not have any for sale quite yet. Isn’t the tiny quilt and mattress and pillow adorable though? I can’t wait to get some more done. Maybe by 4th of July? We will have to see.
I’m happy to share a peek into my studio! What are you guys working on right now?
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Hi friends! I have been hiding in my studio hard at work recently and I thought I would pop in and share what I have been working on! I am signed up for lots of local shows to vend at starting with the Blaine Market By The Sea this Saturday and the Meadows Montessori Spring Fest this Sunday!
I have been expanding on The Darlings and now have lots of sizes and price points and some made using thrifted sweaters and other earth friendly materials.
These guys are made from a cute sweater I found at the thrift store and the backs are all fabrics from my stash.
These are from a yellow thrifted sweater!
These I make using up all the little leftover bits from the sweaters!
I think these are my favorites! I am calling them the “Tinies” and they are cute to wear as a pin on your jacket or make adorable dollhouse friends. This strawberry fabric is so cute!
I loved the Tinies so much I made a ton…..
And these are some house pillows I have started playing around with! I am planning to make some with a pocket for the Tinies.
In other news today is my oldest son’s 12th birthday! Time sure does fly these days.
What about you? What are you making this week?
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Happy Mario day! That’s what my kids have decided today is thanks to Nintendo. Mar.10 can be read as Mario, apparently. Personally, I’m more excited about Pi Day next Tuesday (You know that one, right math nerd friends? 3/14 is Pi day since it is the first numbers of Pi, 3.14). I might make a homemade pie for it! Anyway, here are some highlights from this week:
I try to get in and volunteer in my younger son’s classroom on Thursdays. Yesterday the 8 and 9 year old girls offered to give me a sparkle kitty face tattoo. I of course said yes, how could you not? Also, it is kind of difficult to take a picture of your dominant hand while in your car.
This guy had a birthday over the weekend! His teacher sent me this photo first thing on Sunday morning and it totally made my day. He doesn’t look very happy, but I think he’s adorable. He turned 9, which I can hardly believe. It is his last year of single digits!
I attempted to make a birthday cake for Maverick on Saturday. This is how it came out. Normally baking is totally my thing and I do great with it, but I think I am so used to dumping hardy breads from bread pans and my bread machine bucket that I dumped a little too hard on this one. So, I still owe him a birthday cake. Maybe he will accept a pie on Pi day?
And I’ll leave you with this lady. I swear every time I look at Juniper she is looking at me like this. This face means that she wants something that I generally can’t figure out, and she will stare at me like this until I get it figured out. Often there is grumble barking involved when I get wrong whatever she wants. She’s very demanding…..
How was your week? Leave me a comment, I would love to hear from you!
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Happy Thursday friends! Yes, this is a WIP Wednesday on a Thursday. Yesterday got away from me but I have been getting more projects in this week so I still want to share! I hope you are having a nice week. I think we have finally turned the corner on winter and I am gratefully feeling spring-y.
Not my normal projects this week, I have been on an embroidery kick. Here is what I have been making:
I’ve been staying up way too late working on the way too many embroidery kits I ordered from Amazon a couple weeks ago. I keep catching my thread on the screw of the embroidery hoop and thought to myself “I wonder if they make a hoop without the screw?”. So a quick Amazon search later I found this cool hoop that is basically “catchless”. It arrived this week and I love it! Not only can I basically not catch my thread and mess up my stitching, the hoop itself is thicker than any other embroidery hoop I’ve ever used which makes it way more comfortable to hold in my hand. I haven’t done enough embroidery to know that not all hoops are the same, but apparently they are not! This is the 7″ one*, but I also ordered the smaller 4 3/4″ one as well*. I highly recommend giving them a try if you are into embroidery (which apparently I am now, who knew?!).
This is one of my finished embroidery pieces of the week. I didn’t realize those were blue leaves until I started stitching, I probably would have switched to green if I had realized. But this was a kit so I went with it and I have to say I like how it came out. This is the kit it is from if you are into blue leaves as well*.
Here’s a yellow and pink one I finished this week as well, those are my favorite colors so I enjoyed this one a lot. This was another kit* if you want to make one too.
This is the one in the first image but finished. I really enjoyed the French knots on this one! I’m not entirely sure what I am going to do with these, maybe make some sweet little drawstring bags? That seems like something handy for gift giving to keep on hand. Or pockets on tote bags? Or little pillows? I haven’t decided yet, I’m just happily stitching away. Here’s the link for this kit*. And yes, it is different from the other two kits above, I told you I bought way too many! They were just inexpensive and have everything you need, and embroidering while my kids are around works since I can listen to them and not have to put much brain power into my project. As much as I enjoy thinking about crafting and what I am making, somewhat mindless projects are nice sometimes, too.
I got this one loaded into the hoop this morning so I am ready for more stitching! This one is also in the kit I linked above*.
I am also currently soaking my embroidered necklace fabrics to get the markings off so I can load them into their necklace frames. This looked like some crazy mad scientist experiment to me with all of the jars and mugs and bowl so I took a photo. I can’t wait to share these once I get them finished! These were also from this kit* and this kit* which I am sharing the links for again because they are super cute and fun and quick. Well, quick-ish since I have let them sit for a few weeks and not finishedmbroidery them…..
Wow! That was more than I have managed to get done in like the last three weeks combined. I’m so glad to be getting my crafty mojo back.
What about you? What projects have you been working on this week? I would love if you leave me a comment and let me know!
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Happy Friday! This week went so quickly! We had a snow day on Tuesday and then my older son had no school Thursday or today. Plus, my younger son’s Birthday is on Sunday, so my older son and I went and dropped cupcakes at school this afternoon. Fun! Since I am back to full pick up and drop off duty with Mr Danger starting his new job, I did not mind having a few less drop offs and picks ups this week! Here are some highlights from the week:
I like to pick a theme each year to focus on. I probably could have shared this earlier, but this is my theme for this year. I have definitely felt myself making more joy based choices this week. I ordered a little pocket talisman from Soul Mantras and last December and I keep it in my pocket. You can order your own custom talisman here.
Part of why I haven’t gotten a ton of crafting in this week is I have been reading a lot. I have pulled out all of my Byron Katie books and have been rereading them. I find them so helpful. If you are interested in living more peacefully, I can’t recommend Katie enough. I would suggest starting with her first book, Loving What Is*.
We got a coupon in the mail from Imperfect Foods so we’ve been trying them out. I ordered these chocolate bars earlier and we ate them this week. Um, yum! They were delicious, I highly recommend them if you see them anywhere. And chocolate and other tasty groceries delivered to my door? I might be able to get into that.
That book the chocolate is sitting on is one I bought for my bread machine. It was inexpensive and the recipes are all good. I have been slowly working through the first chapter which is all basic breads. I think we only have dark rye bread and a pumpernickel left to try and then I’ll move on to the next chapter, which is spice and herb breads. My favorite part of the book is that it isn’t like all the recipe websites I find on Pinterest that have ads jumping in my face as I try and figure out what ingredients I need!! It is so worth the $6 I paid to save my mental health. You can find the book here*.
I’ve broken my normal Jack Johnson listening habit in the car and have been listening to Death Cab For Cutie this week. What a flashback to high school! I have been enjoying the essentials playlist on Apple Music.
I’ll end the week with this crazy puppy. She knocked her little house over and was jumping all around in it. I pulled out my camera just in time to capture her popping out. She will be 2 years old in a month, but she very much is still a crazy puppy!
What were the highlights from your week? I would love if you leave me a comment and let me know!
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I am still on my heart project kick! I’ve just been enjoying making heart things so much and they have all been very well received. Several of the kids in my boys’ classes said the Happy Heart Ornament they got for Valentine’s Day was their favorite and both of my boys heat up their heart rice bag to snuggle by their feet every single night. So fun! So today I have a cute little heart pincushion for you to make! The best part of this project is I used a couple of my precious, most favoritest fabrics that I have a hard time cutting in to. But, I made these heart pincushions and I use them every day now with all of the embroidery I have been doing and also just around the studio. I love that I get to use something made from my most loved fabrics so that I can enjoy them every day! If you scroll to the end of the post I made some heart pattern weights as well. Let’s get making!
Happy Wednesday creative friends! I hope you are having a wonderful week. I am, I am in a great mood today. With the job change and getting back into a groove I haven’t gotten much making done still, but I am feeling better about life in general than I have in a while. I can’t remember if I have shared it on the blog (and I am feeling too lazy to go read my past posts) but I am definitely impacted by Sad this time every year. We often joke that living in the Pacific Northwest in the winter can feel like living in Mordor. My happy light was missing and I finally broke down and bought a new one (then immediately found the other one) and between that, getting back on a schedule, and the sun showing its beautiful face here a few times in the last couple weeks, I am feeling a bit more like myself again. And I do have a couple things to share!
I think my favorite part about this photo is the poodle in the background. I have actually finished all of the branches and am about halfway through the leaves on this now, but I thought this photo was too cute not to share! See that ball in her paws? She really, really, really wanted me to throw it and couldn’t figure out why I would rather be working on my embroidery project. This is from a kit I bought from Amazon*. I am loving embroidery right now and just enjoying working on improving my skills. Embroidery has never spoken to me before, but it has been loudly yelling my name the last few weeks…
I say I’m not making anything, but I still have been making our bread in my bread machine and other kitchen basics like veggie broth and granola for every one. I am so frequently hard on myself for not getting more done, but I actually do get a lot done in a day if I stop and think about it. I just pulled these homemade burger buns out of the oven. I wish you could smell how good my house smells right now! I did the dough in my bread machine and then shaped them and baked them in the oven (this is the recipe I used). We are going to do boca burgers and homemade fries in the air fryer for dinner tonight, yum! I think next time I might divide the dough into 8 buns rather than 12, some of these came out rather small.
That’s about it friends! But I did spend way too many hours on Pinterest this weekend and I am feeling more inspired than I have in a long while. What about you? What projects are you working on? Leave me a comment and let me know!
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Hi friends! Life sure seems to moving at a lightning pace right now, I know every post says it, but I can’t believe it is Wednesday again already! Mr Danger has been working as a real estate agent for the last two years but has now gone back to a 9-5 job which started yesterday. We are glad to be on a more consistent schedule again, but we are just working out what the new routine looks like. In that process I haven’t been getting into my studio too much, but I will share the one project I have actually worked on the last few days.
As soon as I went to take a photo of my project Coco jumped up to inspect what I was doing.
She seems to approve of my project though! This is my current WIP. I bought a kit from Kiriki Press recently after seeing a couple in a local shop (you can grab them on Amazon too*). I thought they were so cute and I have been enjoying embroidery so much right now, which means I have been looking for more cute projects to stitch!
My other WIP is I have been cleaning out my studio and studio closet. That project I am not wanting to share a picture of right now though! I think with the schedule change I was feeling like I needed a bit of a clean out myself. I wasn’t planning on cleaning it out, I just sort of started on it and now I need to get it done before I can do anything else in there!
What about you? What are you working on right now? Leave me a comment and let me know!
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I can’t quite believe it is Friday again already. I am not entirely sure where this week has gone! But I dug through my photos and found some fun highlights to share.
I found a cute little tea set for The Darlings and Louie Lovebot decided to try it out. I am going to finish my Rainbow Quilt this weekend and then my next project will be starting to get The Darlings patterns ready to share here on the blog.
In looking for tea sets for The Darlings I came across a cute Etsy shop full of antiques and bought this amazing poodle necklace. It is even cuter in person, I love it so much!
Some of the ladies from the Bellingham Modern Quilt Guild had told me about Fabric Bubb so I put in an order as a “reward” after finishing all of my heart ornaments and tutorials. This unicorn fabric made my day when it arrived this week.
I just finished the last of my little necklace embroidery projects last night, and now I don’t know what to do with my life anymore……..They have just been such a fun little make! You can find the kits I used on Amazon here* and here*.
And a cute doggo to wrap up the week. She just had the sweetest expression on her face all snuggled up in her blankets with her fluffy hair!
How was your week? What were your favorites that happened? Leave me a comment and let me know!
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Happy Wednesday friends! I hope you guys had a lovely Valentine’s Day yesterday. Ours was nice, we spent lots of time together as a family which is always enjoyable.
I’ve mainly been working on hearts all week still! I’ll show you what I’ve been up to.
Here’s all my finished hearts for handing out in classes! I made 54 total for giving away. I also shared the stack of Happy Heart Rice Bag Warmers yesterday that I made this week as well.
I made the pink version of the heart pillow I shared last week. I don’t have any fabric in my stash that looks right for the back of either pillow so I am planning to head out to a fabric store this week. Because there are so many different shades of red and pink in these I think they might be a little hard to find the “perfect” fabric for the back of the pillow. I’m going to take both blocks with me and I’m sure I’ll find something.
I decided I wanted to make some little embroidered necklaces right after Christmas so I ordered a couple kits from Amazon (This one* and this one*). I figured they would be cute gifts, or even cute in some way with The Darlings. Plus I want to add some embroidery projects with The Darlings so I thought this would be perfect practice for anything I decide to do. I picked them up this week and have been working on them in the evenings. I am finding embroidering very soothing and enjoyable right now. And they’re coming out cute! They will get cut out around the oval and placed into little frames that hang on a chain.
This is the one I am currently working on and I have two or three more and then I will load them into their little necklace frames.
I also wrote up and photographed another tutorial to share with you guys tomorrow. The only hint I will give is it is also heart themed!
Did you get time to make this week? What are your current WIP’s? Let me know in the comments!
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