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| Lost Spirits |
| 09.28.05 (11:48 am) [edit] |
I'm making good progress on the Lost Spirits project. This pic is from a couple of days ago, currently I am nearly done w/ the pumpkin head. It's going a lot faster than I had thought and I love all the colors, although I've had to change most of them because the fabric I chose is just a little too light for them to show up.
Greg is almost finished with his Vision project, he's got all the yellow filled in now, need to get a new pic. :lol: And it just so happened that a while back I had bought a black frame that I thought was so unique but had no idea what to put in it. Well it will be perfect for his project! I love it when it all works out like that. :D
Lastly I'm leaving you with a pic of my newest Halloween acquisitions. These are cute little bud vases that I found at the local supermarket. I was picking up a few things and went by the floral dept and there they were. These remind me of Halloween postcards from the 1920's. Of course they had 4 of these all different and I just couldn't decide on which one to get. I debated and debated and finally thought I'd just get 2 but then I loved the girl in the devil costume so I *had* to get her as well. I thought well at least I didn't get all four. I took them home and showed them to Greg and told him I had "restrained" myself by not buying all of them, he just laughed and said you should've got them all. :lol: I guess next time I will throw caution to the wind!
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| No Sew Cube Project and Finishes |
| 09.19.05 (10:50 am) [edit] |
:D Here I am back after spending most of last week out sick. I am amazed at how much I was able to get done despite not feeling well. By Sunday I was my old self and got a lot of projects framed, etc.
I have noticed that a lot of people have been asking about "no sew" cubes on some blogs I read. I decided since I have made a lot of cubes and I had a small project that needed a finish that I would make a step by step instruction on how to make a no sew cube. If you are interested go here: http://www.angelfire.com/art2...
I have included my email address in case you have any questions you would like answered.
Here is a pic of the cube that I finished for the tutorial:
I also finished the last Eekology project and framed it. I love the frame for this one and was so happy to find just the right project for it.
And while I was sitting around waiting to expire from my virus. :lol: I also stitched Heart in Hand's Halloween Medley, it was so quick! I finished it in a couple of days. Very fun to work on! I made it into a wall hanging and the fabric I found for it is quite wild, but a lot of fun.
I also started on Birds of a Feather Lost Spirits project. I had some trouble w/ the threads, I didn't have everything they called for so I had to do substitutions, but in the end I think the colors I chose look great.
Greg has been stitching again! He finished this little sunflower project.
We are still trying to decide how best to finish it off.
And now he is working on another Vision Bicycle logo.
And I have to leave you with this picture of our poor tormented puddy tat... :lol: Greg was doing his best Shrek imitation "Aarrggggh I'm a terrible Ogre!" using her as the puppet. She was not amused...she is giving me a look like "why do I tolerate you mere mortals?" :lol:
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| Eek! |
| 09.12.05 (5:36 am) [edit] |
Every year when I begin to celebrate fall/Halloween I am reminded of how American culture has become somewhat isolated and to varying degrees self centered. I am one of the lucky Americans that is exposed on a regular basis to foreign cultures and peoples. But even I forget that not everyone out there celebrates the same holidays I do or even understands them. I feel lucky to have been introduced in a small way to other countries holidays and customs. This is my chance to share my love for Halloween (a tradition that I have celebrated w/ relish since I was a young child) and other American holidays with all of you. I hope that you will take the time on your blogs to share your favorite holidays and customs as well! I look forward to reading all of them. :D
:D 2.5 down and 1 to go! I finished and framed 2 of the EEkology projects and am nearly done w/ the 3rd. I should've been done, but I had some color confusion w/ black and finally got it sorted out last night. You know how it is there is "black" and then there is "sort of black" :wink: So my "black" cat has gradiations of dark grey to black as I grabbed the wrong threads at some point during stitching it. (oops) :lol:
Here are the first 2 framed:
I love the EEK the best, the ghost was a bit of a let down, but the fabric looks wonderful. :)
I also finally got Greg's EduCATed framed!
I love this one, glad I finally had time to finish it up! :)
And when it rains, it POURS, cuz I also got Scaredy Cat and the Marriage Tree framed as well.
I found some great stickers that I used to embellish this frame, which I bought for a couple of bucks. It had some ugly picture in it that I knocked out. You can see a larger pic of Scaredy Cat here: http://www.angelfire.com/art2...
I love the frame for this project, I think it's just perfect...well almost. I had originally intended for this project to be in an 11" x 14" frame and this one is 10" x 13" so I will have to recut everything. This is taped to the back so I could see how it would look and it will fit fine! I love the sky blue w/ the white frame. Sometimes all it takes is the perfect frame to make project even better. Best of all I got it 1/2 off at the craft place, gotta love those frame sales. :D
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| That was Relatively Painless... |
| 09.07.05 (6:36 am) [edit] |
:D I finished Scaredy Cat and found that it was so easy that I hardly believed it was done! The only problem I ran into was that I didn't have enough of the recommended threads and had to do a quick substitution. Now I just need to frame it up.
Now I'm onto Eekology by the Trilogy. I'm doing the projects individually and olny plan to 4 out of the 5 on the page. I have several mini frames that will work out great for these projects! And best of all the are mega fast!! :)
Oh and I decided to decorate for Halloween already here are some pics of my newest acquisitions! http://www.angelfire.com/art2...
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