#33 Mini Wedding Sampler!

Long time no post! Or completed project for that matter. :S I'm still working a lot on the pokemon pattern, planning wedding junk (and crafts!), and many more "in limbo" projects.

On the topic of wedding crafts, I've been brainstorming a lot of ideas for it because we've got over a year till the date. Just some of the diy parts include the ring pillow, paper flowers for centerpieces, invites, bunting, etc.

When I found this royal wedding sampler for Kate & William's nuptials, I just had to make it for myself!

Tadaaaa!

I used our theme colours, and also substituted the crown for something more appropriate to us - a Mario mushroom! I think I want to frame it and use it as a decoration at the table we'll have for guest book signing, or maybe make my own guest book and make it the cover? Another idea I had for it was to use the best picture of it as possible and make it into our RSVP cards to mail with the invites. There's a few things online where you can make your own postcards like on moo, or heck even Wal-mart.

I'm having a lot of fun planning out decorations and DIY projects for this shindig. Will thinks I'm getting a little ahead of myself for it, but hey, it may actually take that long to get everything done!

WIP Sailor Scouts Cross-Stitch

I took a week off my Pokemon stitch last week to work on some cute Sailor Moon sprites! Again, patterns from Alcnaurewen! I couldn't finish them up because somehow, out of the bajillion threads I now have, I still don't have all the ones needed to finish them up. Sailor Jupiter is so incomplete, booo. :(

The next time I get out to Michael's, I'll have to get a ton more threads.

WIP Epic Pokemon Cross-stitch

Well, it has begun! I received the aida cloth in the mail by the 28th of February, and started it as soon as I got the cloth. This is the progress up to last tuesday, but I've gotten a bit further than that by now. I just haven't taken a weekly update yet, lol. I made a picture folder on my facebook for all the progress pictures because it would probably clutter up the blog to post every single picture.

The progress:


I've also started a side project of the inner Sailor Scouts as sprites to work on. So far, I've finished Sailor Moon, and started Mercury. They're so fast to whip up! I'll probably have it mostly done by the end of today because a friend is coming over for some crafting, and collective crafting is definitely a motivator to finish something. :)

#32 Belle Cross-Stitch

I've been on a cross-stitch kick lately. Finally got the big sheet of aida in the mail to start on the epic GenII pokemon piece, but before that I tried something a little different.

Beauty and the Beast is pretty much my favourite Disney movie from my childhood. Belle was always my favourite character too! When I found these patterns by Alcnaurewen on Sprite Stitch, I had to stitch her up!


I want to frame it up, and maybe put around the house or give to a little cousin.

And a close up! I love all the yellows. :D

#31 Big Foot Pillow Case

I caved in and bought a pattern from the etsy seller, badbird, last week. I've been eying her patterns for a while, but finally bought it! I'd love to get all of them eventually. :D

Since the wall is cluttered, and big foot doesn't quite fit with the wall art we've got going on, I decided to make it into a pillow case. The embroidery took about 2-3 days on and off, then about an hour to sew up on Saturday afternoon. :)


Samplers are so fun to stitch!

And with a cross-stitch themed pillow my sister got me! Decorative pillows ftw!

#30 Button Embroidery

I found a really pretty embroidery pattern online - flikr I believe, but I can't remember exactly where. When I do, I'll edit in the link! The weather here has been bleak to put it mildly, so we haven't really left the house much in the past three days except to get food. On the last day of my wonderful three day weekend, I finally did something productive and stitched this pattern up. :) I love how elegant and simple it is, so I just had to make it too.

I used blue fabric with white thread and buttons.

The close up shot!

The whole thing. :) I haven't finished framing it, but mostly because I don't know where to put it or if I'm going to give it away or not.

In other news, the pokemon cross-stitch hasn't started yet, booo. I had to order some aida cloth because the store didn't have the right size and I can't afford to travel all over town on the bus, so I just bought it online. Unfortunately, the online store was based out of Ohio and apparently they had massive snow storms lately so the shipping was delayed. Two weeks later and still no aida. It'll probably be here this week or the next, I hope.

To bide my time, I bought some patterns I've been eying up on etsy such as the Bigfoot pattern from Badbird, and the wedding set from WildOlive. I got a sweet surprise from WildOlive from ordering on Valentine's - a free pattern! Yay! So I have plenty of embroidery to keep busy with until the Gen II can get started. :) Gonna be a crafty week coming up!

#29 Ipod Valentines!

I'm on a Valentine's kick!

I've always had a soft spot for the holiday, thanks to my mom being a total sweetheart to us. She'd pack us cute cards and goodies in our lunch boxes! Yum! Holidays in our house were so fun, even for the commericially based ones such as "spend-money-on-a-lover" day, haha.

I found a super cute tutorial on how to make iPod valentine's boxes! Tutorial is here! I improvised a lot because I didn't bother to look for candy boxes around town(can barely afford transportation lately, boooo), so I just made small boxes out of a cracker box and duct tape.

I used:
- cardboard
- duct tape
- craft glue
- construction paper
- yarn
- tin foil
- aaaand scotch tape
- Oh yeah and tons of candy!

Onto the pictures!

This is the one with the playlist the pdf file came with - you could also edit in your own songs too, which I did with the next one...

Kinda bummed I couldn't find any white string, so I just used this white/yellow/orange yarn I had around. I pretty much only bought the candy to stuff it with, haha.

I think I'll make more to take to work. Give some to my day shift coworkers then some to my bffs who come to switch off with me! :D