I am a huge fan of the TV show Falling Skies so when fellow craftster Graverobbergirl sent me a 2nd Mass patch for Christmas I new I had to make a new bag to show it off on. For the pattern I just used a standard peice of computer paper since I wanted something small and portable. The fabric is leftover scraps from a Halloween costume, its a really heavy almost canvas like fabric so the bag is nice and sturdy and retains its shape well.



Lining:


Close up:


Thanks for looking and long live the 2nd Mass!

A Jack Sparrow lapquilt that I made for my sister in laws birthday as my OWL project in the HP Winter Semester craftalong. Im sure you can guess she is a huge Johnny Depp fan.



It was definitely a much bigger undertaking than I first thought. Its made of thousands of 2 inch squares, one of those ideas that sounds fine until you start cutting and sewing it together.

In Progress Pic:


To make the pattern I took a photo of the Captain and then turned him into squares. Here is my Pattern, as I worked on it I started cheating and eliminating some of the rows because otherwise I wasnt sure I was ever going to finish in time.

Pattern:


Once I finished my husband and our bird practically rejoiced to see the sewing machine being put up. I am officially quilted out for a while after this. Thanks for looking!

For Halloween this year my husband went as a weeping angel and I was the Tardis.



For the Tardis I made a blue apron and then painted the police box logo across the top and attached the window pains.



Here we are playing croquet at my friends annual Halloween party



For the Weeping angel I made my husband a grey robe and we found a mask at the dollar store that I repainted to look like the angel. Lastly for the wings I used large pieces of cardboard that I cut out into the shape of wings and then painted grey with feather details.

*The Aimee and Rory dolls were not made by me, they were commissioned for our wedding and made by craftsters own amazing "spookypooky"


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For our wedding a few weeks ago I slaved over hundred of origami flowers from scrapbook paper to make these centerpieces.


I used tree branches that I glued into the flowers for the stems then wrapped them in brown floral tape. The flowers were then arranged in Mason jars. To add some decoration to the mason jars I hot glued a picture of use around it which helped to make it more personal. I designed and printed out the table number hearts and added them in among the flowers. Then they were filled with sand to keep them from tipping over.


All in all I do love how they turned out but I don't think I want to see another origami flower again for some time 




Thanks for looking!

[Flower Girl Baskets]

I am currently in the end stage of crafting for my wedding which is in June. I needed a break from folding hundreds of origami flowers and thought I’d share some photos of my current projects.

Flower Girl Baskets
For the wedding we have 5 flower girls due to the huge size of my family. So I needed a cheap way to make five baskets that would be beautiful but affordable. I found these baskets at Joann’s on sale and with a coupon they cost less than $10 for all 5 baskets. I spray painted them all brown, wove teal ribbon into them and then sewed a fabric basket lining that was glued in.




Boutonnieres
I love to sculpt so I decided to make the boutonnieres out of clay instead of purchasing flowers. I love how they came out and they are a lot simpler to make than you’d think. Simply roll out multiple stands of clay in the colors of your wedding that are about the same length. Then twist the bottoms together about half way up to create the trunk of the tree. The just artfully arrange the top strands to look like tree branches. They can be left as is or in my case I just twisted little circular flowers to give them some more color and plop them on the branches. To attach them you can just glue a pin back to them and you’re all set to go with a lasting and beautiful boutonniere.




Felt Tissue Holders
These were super time consuming but also not difficult and I cant wait to see how they look arranged on all the wedding chairs at the ceremony. I purchased sheets of felt from Joann’s and Folded the sides over and then sewed down the ends to create a large pocket. Then I trimmed the edges with shears to give it the zigzag effect. Then using additional felt, or any material of your choosing such as ribbon, I glued a decorative strip over the sewed seem and added little felt hearts for additional decoration. After about 130 of them you never want to see them again but they were definitely worth all the effort.




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Now that Graverobbergirl has opened her Christmas presents I can post it here. I give you an exploding Tardis Shadowbox.




We are both huge Doctor Who fans and I was dying to make this scene with clay after seeing the Van Gogh painting of it in the show. The shadow box actually started out as this hideous and unloved beach shadowbox that I found at the Family dollar and when I saw it was clearanced down to $1.19 I had to re-purpose it into something amazing.

Original sadness:


I pried out all the nails holding the back together and then I gave everything a repaint. The I hot glued the tardis scene into the repainted shadowbox and re-nailed it back together. It was allot of fun making the tardis scene but it was really difficult to roll the delicate strands of clay. Lets just say I had to redo each one allot.



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I'm clearly too evolved for driving.” – Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory

   I am a huge fan of the Big Bang theory and when I heard this quote the other day watching reruns I knew what I wanted to make for my childhood best friends Christmas present.

  The quote was perfect because all of our best and most embarrassing stories involve a road trip, like the time we got the car stuck in a snow bank on a beautiful sunny day under perfect driving conditions. Needless to say neither of us enjoys driving and we understand how poor Sheldon feels.



  The lettering is painted on using acrylic paint because my embroidery isn't very neat. Then I made little felt flowers details which I sewed on to make it more fun. Thanks for looking!

I was in the Alice in Wonderland One Tiny Thing swap and my swap partner loved the Bandersnatch so I decided to try my hand at a polymer clay version after seeing this adorable bandersnatch on deviant art which is much nicer than mine but its my first time sculpting.
Original inspiration:
http://buzhandmade.deviantart.com/art/FIMO-Bandersnatch-158186630?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Aartisan%20wonderland&qo=549

I actually ended up making two because the first package got stolen off of my partners porch after it was delivered, curse you mail thieves! But the second one came out even cuter so take that! Overall I am definitely loving fimo clay and I might have to get some more to keep experimenting.

First Bandersnatch:



Second Bandersnatch:



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My boyfriends little niece loves Robin and since finding a nice sidekick doll was proving to be difficult I decided to make her one. I used a pattern by BabyLondonStar, the link for anyone else interested in this free pattern at DeviantArt:
http://babylondonstar.deviantart.com/art/sit-pattern-tutorial-91598784?q=gallery%3Ababylondonstar%2F5061515&qo=9



The pattern is just for a human base so before I sewed it together I laid out the different pieces of clothing and basted them onto the base to form his costume and then sewed him together costume and all.







Thanks for looking!

Alice in Wonderland Shadowbox Locket





This piece is a birthday present for my best friend, and fellow craftster,
Graverobbergirl. I got the inspiration for this piece while looking online
and saw a beautiful Alice in Wonderland locket but at over $700 I decided
that I would have to make one instead.
The hardest part of this project was just finding all the pieces, the
shadowbox locket being the most difficult because most of the ones I found
just weren’t big enough or too much money. But after about a week’s worth
of surfing the internet and etsy shops I finally found a reasonably priced
and amazing shadowbox pendant to make it in.
Because the back is also visible I took a circular piece of cardstock and
using a very thin layer of glue applied a piece of fabric to each side to
then add all of the pieces on top off. I considered letting everything
roll around free but then when you wear it not everything would be visible
so I decided to glue it all down with hot glue.





Interior of the locket:
-One miniature Alice in Wonderland book that I made, the pages actually
opens up and has a few passages from the book. The theory is you won’t
ever open the locket but if she did she could open the book up. It’s a
little added bonus.
-On top of the book I attached the miniature pocket watch I found.
-One tiny silver key to unlock the doors to Wonderland
-One miniature glass vial (to create the liquid inside I filled it with
some glue which hardens to give it the affect of their being liquid inside
without having to worry about any real liquid leaking out). It may make
your grow or shrink but you will have to test it to find out.
-Miniature playing cards that I printed out and laminated.





For the chain of the locket I added the world’s cutest little flamingo
charms that I found and a little Initial A to stand for Alice that is hung
on the front of the locket.






Happy Birthday Graverobbergirl!