Tomato pincushion

I came across a cute tutorial recently on the Martha Stewart crafts site for tomato pincushions. I decided to try it out last night with that cute fat quarter I got yesterday.

It was super easy and came out cute but I think it looks a little more pumpkin than tomato!

Pillow

A peek of a simple pillow made as a gift.

I might have to go get more of the Cloud9 fabric in the middle. It makes me want to be at the beach, combing for shells and sea glass.

I made a quick trip to Joann's today to get a backing fabric for the pillow and found this pretty little fat quarter caught my eye:

It's pretty crappy quality but I'll find some pretty little thing to make with it!

So that's all. It's cloudy and damp and dark here today and any time not spent being productive has been spent trying to fight off the sleepies. 

Bear Waldorf

Are you sick of these bears and my adorable sense of humor yet? I didn't think so!

You know how people often say things are "guilty pleasures"? I'm not quite sure I believe in those. What is even the point of calling something that when you like it? Well guess what, guys. I straight up LOVE Gossip Girl. Love. It.



I've had a Blair Waldorf bear in my head for a long time now. Especially since I found this blog dedicated to her outfits on the show.  Her style just seems so perfect to draw on my little bears. Well, that and she's my super mega favorite character.

Stefano DiBeara

When I was little I often spent half of the summer at a daycare/summer program and half going to my grandmother's house while my mom was at work. Every day that I was there with her we would watch Days of Our Lives. (she would often remind me that all the other soaps were "rubbish" and not to watch them) I loved watching it with her and I still make a point to this day to watch it when I can.

For whatever reason I always kind of liked Stefano DiMera, one of the main bad guys on the show. I think I always loved the crazy evil schemes he would come up and how he just never. seemed. to. die. Pretty entertaining as a kid, and, I have to say, as an adult too.



I'm sure that if my grama were still around today she  would have much rather preferred a drawing of Alice Horton or Bo Brady but it's just not easy to put the word bear in their names!

Beary Potter

Last fall I decided that since the Harry Potter movies were soon coming to an end I wanted to finally read the books. (kind of backwards, I know) I'm about 3/4 of the way through Half Blood Prince right now with a goal to finish it and Deathly Hallows up before I part 2 of the movie comes out in theaters. FYI - I'm a sloooooowwww ass reader.

This evening I have been playing around on a Wacom tablet. I used to use one pretty regularly and was secretly hoping for some kind of "like riding a bike" thing to happen...but not so much. I got a couple of wiggly drawings out of it though. This one I have been thinking about since I started reading the books.

Har har, I'm so funny!

You guys. Why didn't anyone tell me how great these books are?! They feed so perfectly into the part of me that wishes the world was more magical (same reason I love video games) and my imagination. I'm such a late blooming Harry Potter nerd but I think that's totally OK. At least you guys don't have to listen to my recaps that I give Adam after reading. He's a good sport. A real good sport. 

Sloth!

Hi pals! Today my friend Casie came over and we swapped belated birthday gifts. She had mentioned a few times how much she liked the finger puppets I used to make so I thought I would make her one. She is also quite a fan of sloths - so voila!

I think I'm most proud of figuring out how to make the little claws. They're pretty cute!

She really liked it, and I'm so glad! And my gift from her, OH MAN. I love it so much! Casie knows how much I love polar bears. (It's a real super big giant lot) She posted a picture of my gift on her blog last night and before I even saw my name I was realllyyyy hoping it was for me! It's a double sided polar bear pillow. BEST!

I feel like I haven't been doing much handmade stuff lately so it felt good to work on Casie's gift. My brain has mostly been on future projects of my own and something I'm working on with Adam. And of course I've been thinking a lot about our big move back east in August. It's sneaking up on us so fast!