More new Patterns coming soon!! Sneak Peek

I know I said I show you my new goodies, but wedding prep and other work has kept me quite occupied these last few days. What I do have for you is a peek at my two newest creations and a redo of an old pattern.
Also I snagged a cute little desk at the salvation army for a dollar and gave it a face lift, which of course meant a much needed overhaul of my craft space.

Here's my very snuggly turtle, who makes a surprisingly good pillow.

And my favorite Halloween critter yet, my baby bat :)

And the redone Jellyfish Scarf. The scarf itself hasn't changed, but it's one of the first pattern's I've ever wrote and going back to it, it was rough. It'll be given a overhaul of more than just the photos like I was planning.

My new desk before:

And after:

I'll getting some cute knobs and probably refacing the drawers, but's the perfect size and totally worth the dollar.

And the new craft space

work still to be done

the plushies  I haven't managed to give away

Wedding Goodies at the Thrift Store

As you may know my wedding is just around the corner, at the stroke of midnight between October 30 and 31st. Recently, thanks to the generosity of my family, I purchased some goodies for decorating the scene. :)
Take a look.

Bits that will be turned into my bouquet

An awesome reversible game-board that will be cleaned up and used as our guest book

Pretty Shiny bits that reflect candlelight quit nicely (did I mention that the ceremony will be outside?)

The checker board will be spray painted a metallic coppery color and used to displayed our mustache chocolate pops

and at last some pretty table clutter :)

We got some more pretties just yesterday, but I haven't gotten pictures yet probably tomorrow.

Enjoy and keep your eyes out for my super special project that I'll be sharing with you all soon.

Mwauh 

End of summer

I'm mostly happy to see the summer go, with me being pregnant it's been to hot for me go outside and enjoy it most days. With that in mind I am wholeheartedly looking forward to the cooler days of early fall :) I have lists and list of to-do projects, number one being my upcoming wedding on October 31st. After that is a host of crochet projects and new patterns for my shop (and hopefully some freebies for all of you) and even some sewing projects for the kiddies and around the house. So stayed tuned all.


And happy Labor Day Weekend!

The things I forget these days

It seems the pregnancy has really taken over my befuddled brain, it's not bad enough that i was already a scatterbrain to begin with :) It seems these days all I do is forget things. Like the fact that I finished a new pattern about two weeks ago and was planning on blogging ti that very night, which I just now remembered I didn't do.
So here it is in all it's tardy glory, my newest pattern: the third installment of my Bug Eyes Bugs series the Butterfly

As always you can find the pattern for this guy and all my other critters in my Etsy shop

Win a Silhouette SD craft cutter

Over at Dollar Store Crafts, a great site I only just discovered today, they are having a contest to give away one of these little bits of awesome,

And plenty of goodies to go along with it, the best part is how easy it is to enter. You get up to four chances, one is a freebie, the next you need to be a subscriber (totally worth the two minutes it takes to sign up).

The third is to tweet it or put it on your facebook, and the fourth is to blog about it (which I would have done anyway, cause it's awesome :)

And if you aren't lucky enough to win, they still offer some pretty nice savings and goodies if you buy one with their promo code.

And just in case I haven't enticed you enough to run over and enter, check out so of the amazing things you could do with the Silhouette SD craft cutter.

 found on flickr

from Scrapbook Boutique

and

from Belle Papier

And a video demo I found on youtube

This is my next christmas/birthday/everyother holiday request (or I could wait a few months andsave up for it I suppose :) 

So stop by Dollar Store Crafts and sign up for the giveaway and cross your fingers!

Finished at last...on to the next

I am so proud of myself for finishing this project, it took a couple of weeks and plenty of distractions and interruptions, but it's finally done and hanging on my wall.

here's a side by side to compare

it's a bit small, but you get the gist.

And now for some larger closer images.

Almost done

My scalded hand is almost all better and only hurts if I run it into something (which I do surprisingly a lot). But I've managed to keep on crafting through the pain, mostly because the pain is more tolerable than the boredom. So here is my project so far, it will be done by tonight - barring some sort of disaster, but I probably won't get to take decent pictures of it till tomorrow.  Bear with me there are lots of pictures

Once I've the added the girl I'll fill in the bubbly spaces with more french knots and it will be completed. I'm thrilled with the result and yet a little sad because I have no idea what to do next :)

A bit of progress and a hot hand

I've been making good strides with my 3d-ish embroidery project. I'm thrilled with the girl turned out I used woven picot for her hair I love the way it feels.

And then tonight whilst making taco shells for dinner I did this to myself, it hurts so very badly and worse I can't do any kind of crafting

A treasury of corn

Check out this awesome summery food inspired collection on Etsy
(plus my corn pattern is there :)
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c38dc9a4fcf6d91c40fb3f0/sweet-summer-corn

I'm still kicking!

So it's been a reeeeeaaaaaalllllly long time since my last post, my wrists and hands still hurt too much to do a lot of crocheting. But never fear, I have discovered I can do embroidery with very little pain (until the end of the day, but thank goodness for tylenol). So I've been working on that and teaching the kiddies how to embroider as well. They are having a ton of fun, I never thought they'd like it so much.

I also have an announcement  my husband-to-be and I are expecting a little squirming bit of cuteness come January, though he swears it's twins at least. So for the past few months I have been dealing with crippling morning sickness and some serious baby blahs. But I promise to be on here more and I'll still have some patterns and such for you. I'm hoping I can trick my mom into making them while I tell her what to do :)

And some pictures of my current project:

I'm taking this picture I drew and turning it into a 3d-ish embroidery project

not the best picture but I almost forgot to take one at all

 the bits of her body

 some the path of the star, ideally you won't see any white or black under all the stitches, we'll see how that goes.

I'll be back with more later, sooner than that hopefully.