Twilight Stationery Sets

Team Edward? Team Jacob? All Twilight fans will love this stationery set. Each envelope features a page from "Eclipse" and comes with coordinating flat note cards.  Now available in my Etsy shop.

 

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Wine Glass Charms – Upcycled Newspaper

Don’t you just hate it when you go to a party and lose your wine glass? Is this one mine? No. Wait, I think I left it over there… Nope. Darn.

It is apparently rude to use a Sharpie to label your name on your host's good glasses (I've been reprimanded more than once), so the next best thing is a set of wine glass charms. Just remember your color and you're good to go!

This set of six charms features bits of newspaper crafted into sturdy beads, accented with colored glass bling. Fantastic as a hostess gift or for use at your own party (assuming you aren't serving wine in Red Solo Cups). Cheers!

   

Never Had One Lesson!

My sister gave me the most awesome Hanukkah gift this year: A cross-stitch pattern featuring the characters from Ferris Bueller’s Day off, complete with canvas and threads to complete the project! As you may know, I have a love for all things ‘80s… so this was absolutely perfect.

It came from weelittlestitches on Etsy and they have tons of adorable pop culture patterns. Right now I’m eyeing up some super-heroes for my son’s bedroom.

Here’s the finished product – I can’t wait to frame and hang it!

Resolutions

Happy (almost) New Year!! ‘Tis the season of making plans and promises. Eat better, exercise more, have endless patience with the children, yadda, yadda, yadda.

My professional goal is to be more free and flowing with my shop. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but I tend to get bored easily. I’ll spend a couple of days furiously making tons of upcycled stationery, only to find that I’m bored by it. Then I’ll move on to wrapping pencils with my scrap stationery paper.  Fun for a while, then – Whammo! Bored. Newspaper coasters? Cute, but tedious. Custom painted picture frames? Lovely, but they take an enormous amount of time to do for the amount of money that I charge. For some strange reason, I feel like I need to stick to painting and upcycling because it says “An eclectic mix of handpainted designs, custom pieces and upcycled eco-art” on my facebook page. Um, HELLO!? Why don’t I just rewrite the tag line on my facebook page? Or, even better, I could go with it and embrace the phrases “eclectic mix” and “custom pieces.”

I hereby vow to make 2012 the year of my creativity. I’ll make what feels fun at the time, and see what happens. Maybe if I write it down here in cyber-space for all to see I’ll actually do it.

It Wasn’t Me

If you have kids like mine, you hear this all day. “It wasn’t me!” or “He did it!”

My appliqués are embroidered by hand on hand-cut felt and hand-sewn onto shirts. I designed these for twins, but this set would be cute for any siblings…

Dial 1-900-MIX-ALOT

My latest obsession: cross-stitching. I know, when you think of cross-stitch you think of intricate Thomas Kinkade-ish scenes embroidered on pillows. Or fancy samplers hanging on your Grandma’s wall.  Are these things that I would EVER make? No. (Apologies to your Grandma – No offense intended).

Instead, I have taken the traditional sampler and turned it on its head with snarky sayings and song lyrics. These have been a lot of fun. Let me know if you have a clever one you’d like to see!

 

The Cutest Little Caterpillar

I recently designed this set (inspired by Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar) as a newborn gift for a friend… The little peanut was born a few days before Halloween and didn’t have a costume! I just couldn’t let that happen.

 

Hat + Swaddle Blanket = CUTENESS.

 

Although originally created for use as a costume, it could be used anytime and would make a fantastic prop for a newborn photo-shoot!