Yearly Archives: 2007

The Ele-purse, part deux..

December 31, 2007 | Topic: craft, Featured Craft

elepurse - kids purse made from sweaters

I made another Elepurse, this time for Erin for Christmas. This one is made from thicker wool, which felted much heavier, so it’s smaller and sturdier. Also the original sweater was multicolored, and I like how that gave it a totally different look. Read on...

Illustration Friday – Soar

December 31, 2007 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday, my art

Well, it took me a few days to get around to it, but here’s a quickie for Illustration Friday. I just started playing around in Adobe Illustrator, so it was a good exercise. The cow was taken from a previous project… Read on...

The Elephant Purse

December 18, 2007 | Topic: craft, Featured Craft

edit: Welcome to those who came over from Craftzine.. and Ciao to those from ri-creazione! 7/15: Welcome stumblers! We’ve done alot since December, check out some more recent stuff while you’re here! So, I bought a whole bunch of sweaters from the thrift store the other day (half… Read on...

the Lip Balm Project

December 17, 2007 | Topic: craft, Featured Craft

Oooh ooh! A finished project! I’d been toying around with making homemade lipbalm since I read about making it on not martha ages ago. I even ordered some cool watchmakers tins thinking I would use them for something like this, and/or jewelry … The Materials:

First Batch:
.25… Read on...

Illustration Friday – Backwards

December 17, 2007 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday, my art

Just a quicky i did this weekend for Illustration Friday. I love the silly little robot. The background is pretty slack, but i got tired of messing with it :) It’s funny, because people i’ve showed this to have… Read on...

Illustration Friday – Little Things

December 7, 2007 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday, my art

As a quickie for IF, I took one of my old doodles, and played around with Vector Magic on it. Here’s another version, not quite as dramatic…not sure which i really like better:

December 4, 2007 | Topic: art

http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh
This looks like it would be cool to do, and easy. Plus the doggy looks like Claire! I’m thinking a picture of the boy with the Christmas tree in the background, with stars could be very cool. Link via photojojo

Project Planning…

November 20, 2007 | Topic: craft

So what’s in the queue for projects that I want to try… -Jewelry: I had my mom bring me back some beads from India, and I want to attempt something with those (I bought some supplies, but except for one failed attempt at a bracelet this summer–the beads were too… Read on...

Halloween Food

November 8, 2007 | Topic: food, Halloween, my food

For the past 12+ years, we’ve thrown a halloween party, and it’s a goal every year to come up with some new project for the food or decor. D did make several cool new additions to our halloween decor, but took them down before I got a… Read on...

Bunny love

November 8, 2007 | Topic: craft

I picked up Sock & Glove after reading about it on futuregirl(via whip up I think). And I loved the idea of the glove animals. Now, realize that I’m usually better at visualization than execution (i.e. I can think up all kinds of really neat things to do,… Read on...