custom stamp

I carved this custom stamp today:

It kind of reminds me of Paula Small's haircut in the Psycho Delicate episode of Home Movies. I think the crooked mouth definitely helps!

It was so nice out today. I almost felt bad telling my mom that it was in the upper 60's when she is on the east coast and about to deal with a good old Nor'Easter! 

Here's a bear

Nala Photography logo

I just wanted to quickly share a logo I did a few weeks ago for Alana of Nashville based Nala Photography.

I really loved Alana's idea for a hot air balloon and it was fun to draw a bunch of them. I'm not sure if I ever had before! 

Visit the Nala Photography site and see some of Alana's gorgeous photos!

Doily #2

I started another doily last week. My mom kept mentioning that I should try out pattern with pineapples..so I did! The pattern I'm using is called Peacocks and Pineapples and according to the pattern it's supposed to be 31 inches in diameter. We'll see! Somebody (me) might not be so great about checking gauge!

I've got about 12 or 13 rounds done and so far it's going pretty smoothly. I'm having grand illusions of making giant ones as rugs with some bulky yarn, but we'll see! I'm really liking the thread I'm using right now though. It's Baroque Crochet Cotton by DMC, if anyone is curious.

Wish me luck, guys! 

Macarons!

I love when my friend Morgan comes over. So much. We always end up doing a project and it's almost always something that I've never made before. We had been chatting a bunch about wanting to try making french macarons, so we did! Today!

And man, that is one fickle cookie! I'm just going to pretend that they all turned out perfectly and look just as good as the ones below came out. You can pretend that too, and we will all be happy!

We made two flavors - strawberry and maple. The strawberry ones came out not so hot, but still tasty. The maple ones came out half great and half kinda not so great. We topped some with chopped pecans and some with just a tiny bit of maple pepper and filled them with a simple vanilla buttercream. 

The good news (besides them being delicious!) is that we aren't feeling too discouraged and want to keep trying and making them better! We both have waaaay too many flavor combinations we want to try to stop now!

OK, well, I'm going to go slip into a sugar coma until Adam comes home.

Doily

Hi blog!

I made my first actual doily! And by actual I mean made with crochet thread and a tiny size 5 crochet hook.  I can't wait to try out some bigger, more complicated patterns. This one was pretty quick and I'm very pleased with how it came out.

My new plan is to have doilies everywhere! Adam and I's place doesn't look enough like old ladies live here.