Ahoy me matey's! My nephew just celebrated his 3rd birthday. This years theme was pirates. So Auntie went to work making him an embroidered pirate map!

Everything was done freehand!





















Arrrrgh!

I received a beautiful package from mama24boyz today!














So beautiful! I love it! Thank you!!!

This guy was made for the recent Unicorn Swap!









<3

This was made for my sister and brother in law for christmas!







It's based on a pattern in Geometrics: A New Way to Crochet. It has 7 points to bring good fortune!

I received from Sarahdipity85!



Here's the contents of the stocking... minus some m&m's...





SUPER awesome fork hooks I had favorited on etsy... never expected anyone would make this!



LOVE the cupcakes and little owl... so cute I get so much use out of little cards!



AND awesome christmas cupcake ornaments



Thank you, Sarah! Goodluck with everything

This year I expressed my affection for cupcakes by being one!









I realize that's more or less the same 4 pictures but oh well.

The cupcake wrapper is made out of cardboard, tape, and a yard of aqua satin. I wrapped the cardboard around myself to make a little tube then taped the hell out of it! Next I sewed a long long tube of aqua satin (I cut the yard in half length wise and sewed the two pieces together then folded it over), made a casing for elastic around the top, put the cardboard through, and taped the ends of the cardboard together. I pleated the satin as I went.

The frosting is made of a yard of pink satin. This took some effort... I've never made any kind of shirt before and it was a little tricky but my guess work paid off! I cut the fabric to kind of look like a triangle, I used elastic at the top and bottom, and sewed the sides together- leaving space for my arms.

And last but not least! My bow! Sewn from red cotton fabric. Nothing too exciting there- I used a safety pin to pin it to my frosting.

And voila! A cupcake!

Hooray! Happy Halloween!

I made this recently for this years round of vintage Halloween! My partner, KarenLouiseM, mentioned her love for the craft of the wonderful rackycoo and posted a link in her questionnaire to this project: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=199329.msg2115700#msg2115700

...which this cat is most definitely based on. It was my first time working with paper clay which is AWESOME. And it was also my first time painting a folky kind of face like that which was intimidating at first (cause painting is not my favorite) but it was SO easy when there's no pressure to look perfect.




















The book form I got at A.C. Moore- it came brown and I painted it black and used gold paint to give it some vintage flair. The pumpkins I cut from card stock, the tiny bats are made from a dollar paper punch from A.C. Moore, the cat and candy corns are made from paper clay, and the tree is wire wrapped with yarn. And nearly EVERYTHING is covered with Modge Podge!

Happy Halloween, Craftsters!

Here is the lovely package I received from KarenLouiseM!

She went above and beyond with this swap!

Here's the caboodle!



A lovely decorated set of stacking boxes





Some brooch and hair accessory extras!



Bunting that I mentioned wanting...



Clever Karen made it double sided for Thanksgiving too! (It says "Thankful")



And lastly the Halloweeny wreath that I had also hoped for!!! I took down my summer wreath and put this one up today!



Thank you, Karen!!! And a Happy Halloween fellow crafters!

Christmas came early from silentblair!!!

The whole kaboodle together! With a delicious smelling bag of coffee beans...



Front!



Back! (depending on my mood)



Close up!



Look at those gorgeous stitches! Thanks, silentblair! I love my little nice and naughty skunk!

Newest edition to my home decor:



I've had an obsession with tiny crochet burgers recently. It started with the cookie which looked like the bottom of a burger bun which led to other burger fixings and fries to accompany!

Yum!