#40 Mini Pinwheels

Pinwheels are so cute! I'm toying with the idea of using these as cupcake toppers for the wedding, but Will's on the fence about pinwheels. That's okay, I just wanted to make something cute!

I used the same craft paper that I had for the escort cards again. They sure are getting some mileage! I coloured in the whites after doing a few plain, and I think they look better two-toned, just I'm horrible and colouring evenly. :S Aaand the tape is showing where I stuck the edges and hearts together. I'll use glue next time, but glue is messy too.

Picspam time!

And I've made about 5 total.

#39 Escort Cards

This project is totally premature, haha. But I just couldn't resist! I got the idea from Martha Stewart's wedding crafts section, so I'll be making a stand for these babies later on...but for now it's just the cards. :)

I used some left over card stock paper from the bridesmaids invites project, and created mini flags as escort cards! The pack actually had a lot of colours that go with our theme. Well, the pink is in place of our red for this but the rest is exactly how I wanted it. I'll make more for more people as I think of them.

I just made little cut outs in Word, and used a paper cutter to slice them up. Everything's been glued together.

Onto the pictures!

The flags pre-tooth picks.

All done!

And a close-up.

Overall, I really like how they turned out. Not much fixing to be done, but I still consider these in "mock-up" phase.

I'll be making the stand for the flags later, with a Styrofoam base!

#38 Troll Face Embroidery

I think I have a good system now for crafting...Make shit when I'm angry! Haha! It's therapeutic, and creatively displays my hate in cute/funny forms. :) And hell, it'll probably make me more active.

This week's beef - everyone I deal with irl has been being all troll-like. Well, not everyone. Mostly just Boss #2. Such a dick for no reason.

Trolololol face!

Almost one year!

It's almost been one year since I started this blog! The project was posted on May 28th, 2010. Now, I did say that I wanted to reach 50 by that time this year, and it seems I haven't quite made it. I'm a little bummed that I haven't been as crafty as previous years, but I want to keep posting here and talking about crafts.

I have a lot of DIY wedding stuff planned out, but it still seems too early to start them. I might just anyways because I've got nothing but time at the moment, but it's a pain in the butt going out to Michael's all the time.

Anyways, here's what I want to DIY for the wedding:
Escort cards
Table numbers
Card box
Bunting decorations
Pinwheels to go with the candy favours
Bridesmaid gift bags
The invites... probably more but I can't think of it right now!

#37 Cream Eggs

I love Easter, but this year I've been totally lazy about Easter crafting. Instead, I caved in to my sweet tooth and just made some sweets. :) I used a tutorial on how to make homemade cream eggs from Instructables. Mine don't look as pretty because we tried to dip them instead of buying a mold. Yes, we. Will helped a lot with the dipping process because as we found out, that shit melts so fast and you need to keep it as hard as possible. They were in and out of the freezer a lot that afternoon!

Here they are!

#36 Heart Embroidery

Another easy embroidery that I whipped up on my one day off. Making something quick is so satisfying for the need of instant gratification. It always feels good to complete something, especially after a loooong week.

Here's the love :)




I'm also trying to build an etsy "portfolio" because I want to sell some embroideries or odds n' ends on the side to earn monies for the wedding. I may also put up for sale some old embroidery as well that I haven't done anything with, like my Dawn of the Dead piece.

#35 No Embroidery

This past week at my crap job has been, well, extra crappy. Normally I just get through it but Tuesday I wanted to scream "NOOOOO" at the world.

Simple project is simple!

And closer up.


It was really relaxing to embroider this to let out the frustration, especially while watching a marathon of a movie (Twin Towers, lol).