happy holidays

cute pin cushion

thanks to pinterest, i found this little gem of a craft to make. and it was RIDICULOUSLY easy to make. gives me even more reason to drink more beer!

homemade halloween

i decided to try my hand at making costumes this year. i'm actually pretty pleased with how everything turned out - except the boombox. by the time i got around to making the boombox (the last item), i was over it. but it's ok..it's just a boombox.
Braden = DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba
Cooper = Captain America

feather headband

i whipped up a feather headband. so easy to make. of course now that i want to make a peacock feather one, the whole world is sold out of peacock feathers! wtf. in any case, it's way more convenient than those feather extensions, although, you know i'm just saying that because i'm jealous. but this does provide a level of convenience and ...frugalness. those feather extensions are pretty expensive! $30 a pop and you have to crimp those thingamajiggers. no thanks, i just throw mine off and on....of course probably not a good idea to go crazy on a roller coaster with it.....hmmm..

i'm here!

where have i been, you ask? the sewing room...



...and many more! i've made so many boxy make-up pouches that altho i love them, i'm growing a bit antsy to do something different. so next up, reuseable grocery bags! i just need to get some canvas and i'm well on my way to grocerybag-a-palooza!

pouchies

i've been sitting in a sewing storm and i feel like i'm completely sucked in. i started with those little snack baggies...now i got me some zippers and i'm ready to get to perfecting these little zippers box pouches. they are pretty small, but oh-so-cute! i can always adjust the dimensions of the fabric and make them bigger. but for now, these little things are perfectly trial-sized! the one i posted her is the last one i did with a laminated cotton lining and canvas exterior. i'm pretty sure that my sewing machine hates me for it. the laminate is way too sticky and the canvas and laminated cotton proved to be way too thick for my standard home-use sewing machine, even with a large needle. i'll just have to stick to interfacing.

snack baggies - trials & tribulations

oh man, who knew sewing would be this hard! i never even imagined that i would have a hard time sewing STRAIGHT! i can't even sew straight for pete's sakes! so i got the fantastic idea that making reusable snack baggies would be a great started project. i purchased all this cute material and got all psyched up for it. it looked easy enough, right? HA! i've produced 3...the first one was the most epic fails of all fails...no joke. it turned out not even being a bag. it was just a big rectangle. i wasted my cute dr. seuss material for that too. so for the next one, i got smart. i knew it wasn't going to turn out the way i wanted it ...for a while...so i used old material that i had lying around that probably wouldn't use for anything. unfortunately, the nylon had to be wasted, but that's pretty inexpensive. in any case...this time at least it ended up being a baggie! lines were not straight AT ALL..didn't even close my stitches..but the fact that it resembled a baggie was thrilling! #3, unfortunately, ended up looking alot like #2, even though i thought i was supposed to improve with each one. *shrug* so after talking to yuko about my struggles with sewing straight, we came to the conclusion that i wasn't trusting my sewing machine. the more i tug and pull, the less straight it will be. which leads me to last night's start on baggie #4. i had 5 minutes while cooper was poo'ing to get the velcros sewed on, so i took a deep breath and trusted my machine...it worked! well, of course it's not totally perfect, and it did go crooked a little bit and i forgot to close my stitches..but it was MUCH straighter! can't wait to get a few more minutes so i can work more on baggie #4!