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Why are titles so hard to come up with sometimes?

So I'm really (maybe overly) excited about this pouch I made on Friday. I had an idea and I just tried it out and it came out better than I expected. Is that not totally exciting when that happens?!



 (How perfect is it that that was the only button I had!)

This one was just kind of a test. I made a couple more today that have much nicer looking lining and cotton yarn. I can't wait to take some pics of those!

Yay!

Our save the dates came today! I get really excited/impatient about deliveries and kept peeking out the window on our door every time I heard a truck. (Which, by the way, when you live next door to a busy restaurant, is A LOT.) Oddly enough, the blue color that I was making such a fuss over before came out great and they gold color ended up a little strange but still looks a-ok!


I spent most of the evening working on envelopes, cutting the save the dates down to the right size and punching the corners. Also carving some stamps and working on an illustration. I haven't spent that much time hunched over the table in my craft room in a while. It felt great and also reminded me that I need a new, comfortable chair in there sooner than I thought. Also my thumb hurts from punching the stupid corners.



So excited! Just need a few more addresses and then we can send them out!

Stop it, rain!

Last week Adam mentioned that there only six months left until the wedding. Six months has never sounded like such a short amount of time before. We ordered our save the date cards on Sunday even though we had been meaning to order them since I got back in September. I drove myself crazy with the colors of a print preview not matching up to what I have in real life. Then Adam reminded me (about 100 times) that they are just the save the dates and we can worry about that for the actual invitations.

 I don't want to share the design yet but here are the patterns I used on it!
 

I cannot wait to get them and then start stuffing some envelopes! 

Candy! Candy!

My friends Matt & Matt had a super fun Halloween party this year. I wanted to make some spooky snacks for it and asked my pals Morgan (maker of beautiful yarns) and Casie (maker of super cute dolls) if they wanted to make some with me. We decided on making peanut butter cups and lollipops.

 Both were easier than I would have thought, but it really, really helped that Morgan had made them before. If for no other reason than there were terms that neither Casie or I knew. We ran out of chocolate before we ran out of filling so I topped the rest with marshmallows and stuck them under the broiler in the toaster oven for a little bit. The lollipops were totally lopsided and funny looking but we just figured that hey..it's Halloween and they look creepy!

All in all it was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again soon. We were all even dreaming of having our own adorable candy/ gelato shop. What an adorable dream!

I got the needle craft crazies.

Just kidding. I don't even know what that means!

First off, thank you so much to everyone who commented on my last post. It really helped me feel better about where I want to take my work. I'm feeling renewed and really excited about some new projects.

Ok, but needle crafts. I have been doing a lot lately. I recently finished two commissioned embroideries that are super cute, started many paper on paper embroideries and have been crocheting a bunch. Last week I started plugging away on these:

They are so much fun! I just need to find my thimble because pushing a needle though layers of paper is getting a little rough on my fingers.

Yesterday I did some crocheting. I found this post on Bella Dia about crocheting covers for glass jars and I decided to try it. I had an old glass that I was using to hold stuff in my craft room. It had a chip in it so it's days as a drinking glass were over.

It was a really easy, fun project and a great way to add some extra color. I want to crochet some more covers for jars to use as vases because that is something Adam and I lack at our house.

So yeah, I'm feeling good!

Fessin' up.

I've been struggling with what I want to do and what I feel like I should be doing for way too long now. It's become a very overwhelming problem in most aspects of my life but I'll spare you all the other details.

Truth is, I think up a lot of projects that will more than likely never see the light of day because I can't help but feel like ultimately I'm the only one who wants them so why wast my time making them. For example, some of them are related to video games which just adds to the struggle. With my little animals I have a better idea of who my audience is. When it comes to some of the game related stuff I want to make, I'm not sure. Within the craft community it seems like unless it's 8-bit and made of perler beads people aren't going to care. Why that matters to me so much, I don't know. Especially because that's not the kind of stuff I have any interest in making. (I'll save my giant bucket of perler beads for something else, thank you.)

I think that is where part of the problem comes in. I think that I should be making stuff I know I can sell. My brain can't seem to handle the thought of making something that isn't custom and selling it for more than $20. I've just started working on some small paper embroideries and am already second guessing whether or not to put them in my shop. If for no other reason then they are different and I'm not sure if anyone would want them.

I've been way too unhappy in my work for a while now and just trying to ignore it. It's nice and it's easy to be comfortable but not when it's making you unhappy. I feel like it's been pretty evident via my shop and flickr if nothing else. Not much work has been happening. But let me tell you what, I have really mastered the art of thinking about maybe possibly sometime starting something great that I really want to make. I'm sooooo good at that.

Dance Party Envy.

My pal, Zachary, mentioned to me today that he missed the dance parties we used to have when we were in college. Our friend DeAnne used to have the best parties in her little studio apartment. It was always good drinks, good snacks, good music and of course great company.

I have had some different music videos on my mind lately because the parties/crowds in them look like so much fun. Granted, it's something was produced to look that way, but whatever, you guys! Fun is fun!

This crowd watching Kid Sis... I want to be in it!


This one is totally cheesy but I'd down for this dance party.


Annd the dancing in this one just cracks me up!


I think I need a dance party! Soon! Maybe a Halloween one?