A kid approved gift.
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Posted in embroidery, handmade, kids, sewing, toys | 4 Comments »In this day and age, children seem to have it all: dolls that speak to them, bears that know their names, crazy cars that do back flips, robots that double as pets....amongst many other amazing toys that my generation didn't ...
Sophie’s quilt
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, crafts, general crafts, general home, sewing | 1 Comment »Lately "minky fabric" has been all the rage for making baby blankets. I had seen it described as extremely soft; so I was very curious to feel this fabric. I found out just how soft when i went into a ...
Hawaii Five-O
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in crafts, sewing, top | 1 Comment »Last year, in a trip to Joann's fabric I was lucky enough to find a ~1 yard piece of acetate in the remnants rack. The background color was black; but it had beautiful bright happy print of hibiscus and orchids ...
Butterflies in my bread!
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | No Comments »Remember how I embroidered a Monarch butterfly for the Eternal Spring table runner? That I was tempted to make another one in the same table runner? Well, I liked it so much I had to make yet another one...this time the butterfly ...
Spring cleaning and crafting
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in crafts, general crafts, general home, knitting, sewing | No Comments »While I've been quiet around here, it hasn't been the case around my sewing machine and crafts. I've been working on a few projects that I couldn't upload right away; also known as baby shower gifts. There were also projects that ...
Eternal Spring: The Monarchs
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, sewing | 3 Comments »I love Flickr, I get a lot of ideas by looking at pictures....but it can be dangerous for me to visit it while working on a project. As I mentioned, after seeing this picture, i just had to add a ...
Eternal Spring – the sweet smell of vainilla*!
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Flowers, The Internet and The Web, architecture, crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | 3 Comments »I bet everyone thought this had become a photography blog huh? Wrong! I've just been lazy (well, lazy to blog; trust me, I've been quite a busy bee!). Not much progress has been made on the runner as I keep on ...
Eternal spring 2
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="First Dahlia finished"][/caption] So the first bunch of bougainvilleas was finished...i moved onto the dahlias. First Dahlia was done with satin stitch only. As you can see, the edges were done in a darker pink than the middle...at ...
The place of Eternal Spring
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Flowers, crafts, embroidery, sewing | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_260" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Bougainvillea in parents backyard"][/caption] Early in May of this year, we took a small vacation to México. Boombadeus got to meet some of my first cousins in Guadalajara, we went to one of the youngest volcanoes in ...
Scrappy pincushion
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »What does a craftster do when she's bored or stressed? She grabs fabric scraps and makes craftsy things with them! Check it out: The yellowish fabric scraps are from a Purl Soho order placed a few months back. It is ...