Lucky Kitty

A Sleepy Bunny

Back in December, I put together some embroidery patterns for Craft Mag's Pattern Podcast Friday. 

It was such fun, I thought I would try my hand at it again - this time for the Year of the Rabbit - and now for sale in my Etsy store!

Presenting... Sleepy Bunny!

 

Embroidery is quickly turning into my craft of choice lately.  It's portable, doesn't require me to lug my sewing machine in from the garage, and most importantly, I can pick it up and put it down a million times without losing my place, which is a valuable trait to have when you have a 19-month-old in your world...

Both the PDF download pattern sheet and the actual finished product itself are up for grabs!

{this moment}

{this moment} 

 

A Friday ritual started by SouleMama that I discovered on Curious Bird. 

A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Happy Weekend!

 

{this moment}

  {this moment}

 

A Friday ritual started by SouleMama that I discovered on Curious Bird. 

A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Happy Weekend!

xoxo

Dainty, delicate, and breakable.

Dainty, delicate, and breakable - this is the theme to my office decor.  You see, I live with a husband, 4 pesky destructive felines, and one crazy pants toddler man, so, dainty, delicate, and breakable are three things that I am not allowed to have at home.  It's a recipe for disaster and disappointment.

Now that I have my own office, however, I have decided that I can fill it full of things that would most definitely get destroyed in my house! 

 I've also decided upon white as my main color in my decorating palette - yes, white, because there's nobody here at work that's going to throw a sippy cup full of milk at me or throw up cat food on anything... at least I hope not.

It all started with two delicate vases from my favorite Swedish modular furniture store...

 
Ooooo!  Look how big they are! Look how thin that glass is!  So delicate...

Then, I wanted to have a deer head mount - thought it would help me bond with my Work Daddies...

 
Not what you were thinking?  This super sweet little fawn is made out of something so amazingly breakable it was shipped in a crazy container surrounded by a foam mold of itself...

I've always wanted a set of these tiny dainty Ashley G porcelain mini's...

 
So small!  So cute!  Made of porcelain... fits all three criteria for being in my office!

I happened upon this beauty at Room Service one day...

 
Unicorn bookend?!? Yes, please!!! So fragile...

It dawned on me over the holidays that I didn't have anything green or alive in here, so, had to get some cute planters and a plant or two...

 
Thanks once again to my favorite Swedish modular furniture store for the awesome $1.99 white planters... woot! 

But the real gem here is my amazing mini terrarium...

 
Behold!!! This is quite possibly the most dainty, delicate and breakable thing I have EVER owned.  Ever.  In my whole life.  Seriously.  Okay, maybe my newborn baby might have been a smidge more fragile...

Where did I get such a dainty, delicate and breakable object?  Check out Sea & Asters over on Etsy... 

Off to see if I can find an occassional chair made from a single mold of one continuous piece of glass...

xoxo

Oh, I'll Stencil You In...

I'm a sucker for cool stencil books.  Some of my favorites include Ed Roth's Stencil 101, and Lotta Jansdotter's Lotta Prints.

So, when I stumbled over Marthe Le Van's Stencil Me In, I knew I had to hurry up and hit that purchase button right quick!

Where to start?  Well, first, I happened to co-host a baby shower for a buddy back in early December and what a perfect excuse to use stencils for a onesie decoration station!  Even people that say they're not crafty can join in the fun!

We forced... um, I mean encouraged everyone at the shower to take a turn with a stencil...

Here's a pic of the decoration station...

 

Kinda sad that all I had to purchase were the onesies and bibs... everything else I had on hand... think I'm a craft supply hoarder, but that's a different post for a different day...

...and here's the awesome fruits of the party people's labor...

 

So fun!!! Lil Weezy is gonna have super awesome custom onesies for at least a couple of months until she out grows everything... ah babies...

But what about my Little Man?  Poor cobbler's kids, they never get shoes.  I thought that in addition to the millions of toys he would be receiving from Santa, he might appreciate a custom tee or two - time to break out those stencils!

I specifically only used stencils from Stencil Me In this time around, since it is my newest stencil book and therefore my favorite... for now...

Behold!

 

Three new shirts - all cool and custom for Mr. Toddler Pants!

First I had to do robots - that boy loves him some robots, I tell you what...

 
I didn't realize that my orange fabric paint happened to be orange glitter fabric paint... bonus! 

Then I did a cool jellyfish...

 

...and finished up with what I thought was three things that begin with the Letter B...

 

The Hubs informed me that the image on the bottom is a rocket ship, not a bomb... So, this shirt is now 'two things that start with the Letter B and a rocket ship'...

Stenciling - it's fun, it's easy, you don't have to have a single artistic bone in your body, just grab a tee, a little paint, and your favorite design and you're good to go!!

xoxo

Happy New Year!

 

Happy New Year!  Can you believe that it's 2011 already?  It's kind of blowing my mind today.  The last decade has blown by so quickly and yet, it was really the decade that I became so many new things - a wife, a mom, a crafty business owner... I even managed to switch jobs three times - from Marketing Director at a indie record store, to office manager of a commercial real estate office, to my current job of being the Mr. Wolf of a start-up orthepedic implant sales, design, and distribution company... crazy, right?

 

So, what will 2011 have in store for us?  I'm pretty darn excited to find out.  My Little Man will be turning two this year, The Hubs will finally be graduating from school and starting his career - 8 years in the making, we will hopefully be able to find and purchase a new house - maybe even one that has two bathrooms... what?  I know, crazy...

 

What about resolutions for the New Year?  I always try to make resolutions that are simple and that I might be able to keep.  In 2007, I resolved to eat more mint.  Yep, mint.  It was my biggest failed resolution ever.  I don't think I've touched anything minty in years.  2008 was to take more pictures.  I didn't realize this resolution until the birth of my son in 2009, but thankfully, I'm better about keeping this resolution nowadays.

 

So, for 2011, I resolve to try and do the following:

1.  Take more pictures - always need to keep this one on the list.

2.  Blog more - My blogging took a nose dive this year and that's a shame because I enjoy it, so, I am going to try to commit myself to keeping a better eye on it this year.

3.  Find time to be creative - with a Little Man around, my crafty business has fallen by the wayside, which is okay, I'd rather hang out with him, but I still need to have creativity in my life, so, this year, I resolve to creatively find ways to be more creative and crafty.

4.  Stop being a stress ball - this last year of my husband's schooling has been the most challenging yet - financially, emotionally, pretty much every aspect of our lives has been affected by school and not necessarily in a good way.  I need to resolve to go with the flow more and find solutions to situations instead of freaking out about them.

5.  Continue to try and be the best mommy I can be - not that this even needs to be a 'resolution' - it's just good to have it on the list... as reference...

...and that's it... for now!  I hope each and every one of you has a happy and healthy New Year!

 

xoxo