Scottish Vandalism

While sightseeing in Edinburgh, Scotland I noticed some street art: strange black and white dots.  Weird.  Step back and BOOM stormtrooper.  Thank you Scottish vandalism for making my day!  I snapped a picture and turned it into vinyl wall art for the hallway at home.  Might look strange to the nonbelievers but to those who see it, wonderful.

Steampunk Wedding

So I was lucky enough to have a friend throwing a steampunk themed wedding, costumes required.  Well *cracks knuckles* I think I can handle this challenge!  1. black corset 2. blue and black lacy dress 3. mini top hat 4. navy blue tights layered with black fishnets 5. golden key shoes 6. bustle 7. bracelet, 8. test tube garter, 9. purse, 10. Party!

Lets start off with a doll's top hat, a metal clock scrapbook addition, a tulle veil, bit of ribbon and a giant peacock feather.  All found at your local craft store and hot glued together to a standard black headband while watching too much Life.



Next up the purse, 'cause let's be honest, my corset and dress won't have pockets.  Also it's rare to find to find any woman's clothing item with any reasonable sized pockets, we do have needs clothing designers!!  One cheap fake leather black purse, another metal clock from the scrapbooking section, bronze chain from jewelry, and a bit of metallic thread...BOOM.



Now for a little bit of sass.  Some leftover tulle, ribbon, and steampunk-ish lock decorations and I have a clever way to hide my digital watch.  It's all about appearances and I would feel naked without my watch so, concessions had to be made.



Speaking of black tulle, I probably shouldn't be proud that I just happened to have 10 yards just sitting in my house for a rainy day.  Today is that day!!  I needed a little bustle for my tussle, and with a little help from the folks on tumblr I slapped some tulle, ribbon, and fabric together over the weekend.


No pictures of this one but my shoes, let me tell you about my amazing shoes.  There is a thing called rub 'n buff which is a wax based product and they sell it in a bunch of metallic colors, perfect for steam punk. I used antic gold rub 'n buff on an old pair of black flats and then sewed a couple of dangling keys onto the back of the heels, perfection.  Add on a test tube garter (test tubes hot glued to a thin black belt and some navy ribbon) and I was set to go!

Luckily I got to the wedding site a day early so I could do last minute costuming for a couple of my friends... 3 emergency mini hats, 2 necklaces, and a set of earrings later we were all ready for the wedding!

Avengers Assembled

Hey All,
I've finally finished the afghan of a lifetime!  My Avengers Afghan is based on the post-it note patterns, which were just dying to be a crochet patterns.  I had to improv a couple of the character squares (Hey Coulson!) and all of the logos but I'm happy with how they turned out.  I used all Caron one pound yarns, alternating single crochet, double crochet, and a spike stitch for the borders.

Halloween Pies!

My favorite time of year is Halloween, when else can you go to parties in your favorite homemade costumes?!  Also being a "crafter" means that you're always on call for other people's Halloween costumes, which is extra fun and challenging.  We'll you can rest assured that costumes did in fact happen but so did jack o'lantern pumpkin pie!  The secret is to bake a basic pumpkin for a little over half the time and then adding on the pie crust face.  Just make sure that the pumpkin pie has solidified enough so that the face doesn't sink into the pumpkin and it will turn out just fine.

Scrap Quilting

Calling it a "scrap quilt" might be a little misleading because after my first hand dyed quilt, I had enough fabric left over to make 4 more queen+ quilts.  This quilt pattern is another one out of my imagination.  It was inspired by a layout on my digital scrapbook website and progressed from there. Being a night owl, I don't think I ever worked on this before 10pm, which means there were a number of long nights but now its finished!  I'll post again with a close up on the quilting, which transformed this quilt from good to freaking fantastic.

Birch Tree Wall Art

So this is one that I ended up buying on etsy because WOW it is beautiful and I just don't have the equipment to vinyl cut a 12 ft birch tree art project.  And I quickly discovered all of my friends aka drafted assistants are afraid of heights, so guess who was the one to climb to the top step of the 10ft ladder? This Girl! Don't try that at home kids!

Before:


After:


But it was a lot of fun putting up all of the individual leaves and the big tree trunks!
 

Paper Roses

I'm still not 100% sure why I NEEDED to make a bouquet of paper roses, but no regrets here!  I followed these instructions, and sacrificed some discarded/weeded library books for the cause.  The ruler is for scale because they ended up to be a crazy huge bunch in comparison to their thin wire stems. For a couple of them I put fake pearls in the center of the rose to add a little something special.