Giant Food Pillow Giveaway!

Hey, my crafting hero is giving away giant pillows that look like slices of pizza and stacks of pancakes on her site.  Go on over and post a comment for a chance to win!  SO awesome.

Christmas In June

My fellow craftdactyl has been mad at me for not posting in a while, so I'm going to try to make up for it by posting twice today.

Here is another project I've been working on lately - I went to a workshop on making felted wool animals at Craftland a few months ago, and absolutely fell in love with the whole concept. I bought all of the supplies I needed to start crafting my own little cuties, and here is what I've come up with so far...

I ran into a slightly terrifying set-back before the photo shoot - this fuzzy little miscreant...

....decided my poor polar bear needed a make-over!

Phew - could've been a lot worse, just needed to be tamped down a bit :)

New Art

Whoo! It's been a while since I've been able to post anything new - I lost my reliable internet connection a couple of months ago, but, AT LAST, I am back in business! First things first, here are a couple of new pieces I recently added to my portfolio. I meant for them to be part of a series of three, but thus far only two pieces have manifested themselves - I got distracted and started another series before I finished this one! Haha, that happens a lot :) Anyway, I was listening to this beautiful song while I worked on "Ghost Of My Old Dog" (I named the painting after the song) and I was just feeling like my poor, aging brain had been causing me a lot of grief lately when I created "Dunce Cap."

(Fancy frames can be found here and here. Thank you FrodoBabbs!)

Pillow case

It has only been since this past Christmas that I finally figured out how to use my sewing machine.  At first I couldn't even thread the machine without consulting the manual, every...single...time.  So with that being said, I was looking for an easy sewing project to use for Christmas gifts, and came across this awesome tutorial.

It totally worked out and was a great beginner sewing project!!  I mean I definitely had my share of tribulations from cutting big pieces of fabric to sewing straight lines, but I made five pillow cases for gifts and they all turned out well.

Anyway, one of the cases I made in December was for my little nephew who is turning three in a couple of weeks.  I came across this incredible dino fabric perhaps months ago and bought two yards of it before I even knew what to do with it.  Sooooo, I made him another one :)

And I have to say, this go-around was a thousand times easier.  Why I never thought to fold the huge pieces of fabric in half for easier measuring and cutting, I'll never know.  But it took way less time, and everything came out evenly and most importantly---the cuff matched up on the seam which meant I could go to bed in peace.  Aaahh!!