A Touch of Fall

Kitty in the window!
Ghosts in the dining room!

Leaves on the banister and a spooky sign to greet you.

I just love fall. =)

Candy Corn

This is another one of my mom's awesome creations. She loves making witches for Halloween. I just love them!! They are so cute. This is her favorite. What a clever hat she made. =)

A Wild Wreath

A Girly Wreath

I love the yarn I used for this wreath. I thought it was so cool how it just turned out looking striped as I wrapped it around the wreath.

I thought I had a great way to sell my wreaths without having to post them online and ship them out, but the place I was looking at was just too expensive. I'm thinking my Etsy shop will be opening very soon!

More to come soon. I'm working on a new way to photograph them. =)

A Saturday Treat

This is Holly Brook singing her song "Saturdays."

I love her!

Yarn Wreaths

I have been working on a new obsession. Yarn Wreaths! They are so fun. I make little mini stuffies and glue them onto the wreath. Probably opening an Etsy shop soon!

Pumpkins and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!

Being a fan of Twilight and the Sookie Stackhouse books, I had to make some little vampires this summer. To be perfectly honest, I saw a how-to article that was extremely un-impressive and decided that I could and would make much cuter vampires. Does that ever happen to you? Sometimes I just see things published that look like a child made them. It irks me.

Well, here they are!

These are my three little vamps. The lady in pink is unnamed, and then there's Bill the Vampire and Alice.
They are the perfect size dollies for my mom's fashion dolls. Each one has a pipe-cleaner skeleton so they can bend easily and sit with their friends.

This is a wreath I made today. I'm ready for October!

I took a styrofoam wreath (from a dollar store), wrapped it in thick, black yarn (hot gluing only on the back as I went. You don't want those stringy things and clumps of rogue glue to be seen.) and then wrapped it in the purple eyelash yarn every inch or so (again only gluing on the back). I made the pumpkins and ghost out of felt, blanket stitched them and put green grosgrain ribbon as stems for the pumpkins. After everything was stitched and stuffed I hot-glued them onto the wreath. The "Boo" is made of vintage anagram tiles I found on Etsy. Yay!

Pretty Pink

A few projects from this summer for my cousin who is expecting a girl. As if you couldn't tell from all the pink!

Kaylee should be joining us any day now! We are hoping for Monday.

This is the first time I've made a block letter. It was really fun and a challenge for my mind with all the measuring. I wanted it to flare on the ends, so it took maticulous measuring and cutting.

I hand stitched the stretch fabric onto the top cutout of the K and folded the edges over. I added ric-rac to the side panels. I love how it stands up by itself! It sure did require a great deal of stuffing to get it that firm.

These are burp cloths for my cousin's baby shower. The embroidery was done on a machine and I sewed the ribbon on with the sewing machine. I thought they turned out great. Which is your favorite?

My Best Friend's Wedding

My best friend Michelle just got married in New Orleans last Saturday. I am so happy for her that I can't even truly express it. She and Klint have been together for 5 1/2 years and their wedding was definitely worth the wait. It was perfect in every way. They live in Baton Rouge finishing their masters degrees in music. My husband and I are crossing our fingers that they will be closer to us after this year passes. We love them dearly and miss them terribly. They are our perfect match.
The St. Louis Cathedral where the wedding took place.

I took some portraits of her while we waited to walk from the hotel to the church. She wanted to keep busy. =)

Curtains

I found these curtains at Pier 1 and fell in love. They are our orange and paisley. Two of our favorite things! We got them home and realized we needed them to be longer in order to hang them high and have them touch the ground. I remembered they had the same print in green, so I went back and bought one panel of green to add to the bottom. I am in no way a sewing expert, so my mom helped me rip the seams out and add a foot of green to each curtain. They ended up looking very professional because my mom insists on doing things to look good wether you can see them from the front or not. She had me cut the lining and add lining to each one as well. I guarantee that if I had done this project on my own it would not have turned out as nice. Thanks mom. =)

We found the fleur de lis brackets at a garage sale for like $10 and they were originally around $60. It was my husband's idea to put the black finnials on the white rod. I love the contrast.

We are going to hang our black letter "B" between the windows. Any suggestions on how to organize all those dvds? I have two shelves in the garage that need to be painted. I can't decide on black v. white or where to put them in our cramped living room.