Excuse the Lack of Blogging

Family life has been busy the last few months and gotten in the way of creativity. As most military families do we moved. We said "Cheers!" to England for the second time and came just about as close to home we can get moving back to Illinois. Moving is a long process for us, first there is the wait to find out where we are going, then the wait to actually start going there. Now we are at our new base but we have another wait to be able to move into our new home. We decided to buy a house, if we were going to live on base or rent the wait would not be so long. On the upside we don't mind the wait since all our earthly possessions aside from 8 suitcases are still somewhere between Europe and us. Sleeping on the floor is not on our list of favorite things to do.

I got the camera out the other day and did some playing while the kids played outside.  Between rain/storms and not being used to heat and humidity we have been pretty cooped up the last few weeks.

Right before we left England I did take some time to be creative.  I did a little bit of scrap busting making some cuffs and headbands.

These will be going up for sale on the Military Wives Creations congo on Hyena Cart on May 21st.

There are small items listed in the ETSY shop and I'm looking into putting a storefront on the Facebook page.  I'm looking forward to getting re-established and getting to use some services like paying for postage online and having the mail man pick up my packages.  Shipping times will be much faster for you guys as well.

Just a Little Fun

I have been a little obsessed with silhouettes lately, I figured out how to make them on GIMP and did one of Olivia, then my nephew Wally, I'm still trying to get a good profile shot of Erik.

Then I started thinking about making art out of them, like this pillow

I got the image from The Graphics Fairy then rescaled it in GIMP to make it fit on a 13X13 square.

After printing I traced it onto wonder under backed fabric.

Cut it out and applied it to the pillow cover I made out of this adorable print. Which I really want to make a shirt or dress out of but I have a lot of it so why not use some?  Vintage lace dressed it up a bit.

Simple to try yourself, or you can find this one in the shop.

Floor Pillows

My husband put me on a fabric diet a while ago.  He said I was accumulating way to much fabric and needed to use it up, I have no idea what he was talking about as I live by the you can never have too much fabric rule.  Then again we are a military family and that means we will move sooner or later and the military will only pay for so much weight so it's in my best interest to make something out of the fabric and try to sell it you all of you out there.

This tutorial from Living With Punks was posted a few times in various places I hang in the online world.

I made a  couple for the kids, they love them.  Erik takes his around the house with him randomly throwing it around and plopping down on it.  I have even found him sitting on his hunched over a bowl of oatmeal chowing down (sorry no pictures I had extra kids that day and I'm pretty sure he was trying to make sure he got to eat)

Now a word about my model.  This girl I tell you what, she used to pose pretty for the camera all the time.  Now I have to beg for a half way decent shot

Because she would rather make silly faces like this!

You can find these pillows and some boy themed pillows in the shop.

Something Different

Adding some new products to my inventory, this is a peak at some new bibs I'm doing up.  This one is in the ETSY shop already.

 

I know I have lots of baby gifts to do up in the next few months, this would complete a gift basket perfectly.