My Weekend

On August 20, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I’m finally home after a long weekend of crafting, travelling and selling.  As I mentioned before, I took part in the annual Women’s Art Festival in Kingston, Ontario.  Sunday was a beautiful day.  It started off sunny with a nice light breeze, but the humidity quickly amped itself up and I was sweating buckets!  I had lots of people stop by to say hello and check out my new wares.  On Friday and Saturday I made a new line of fridge magnets (I’ll tell you more about them later) and I got some positive feedback on those.  Lots of my resin belt buckles found happy new homes and I’m pleased with that.

I spent most of Monday lost.  My doctor relocated her office and it’s not listed at all.  At one point I was on the phone with 411 and unknowingly sitting about 7 steps away from her office.  Thank goodness I started looking for her office with at least an hour to spare.  I found her just time time.  Just in time to sit for another hour in the waiting room.  A little annoying, but such is life at the end of the business day.

I also added to my injuries list while I was away.  I had a 6am fall down the stairs while I was carrying a tub of crafts.  The silver lining is that it woke me up (or shook me up) just in time for my hour long drive to the art festival.  I have a pretty (painful) carpet burn up my forarm and on my left knee.  Even tonight I slipped and fell in my craft room.  If standing on my two feet wasn’t so convinient I would stop it at this point.

Earlier today I got to take a trip to one of my favourite thrift stores in the world.  I bought a cart full of clothing, books, knick knacks and fabric for just over $80.  My grandmother thinks my husband is going to divorce me for bring home so much “junk.”  She’s the one that trained me to thrift store shop – she should know better than to call it junk.  A shameful word indeed.

I’ll spend tonight and tomorrow photographing some of my new vintage finds.  I’ll be adding them to my Etsy throughout the week.  Check back for updates!

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New Belt Buckles

On July 13, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I finally got in some new belt buckle findings the other day.  That can only mean that I have some brand new rockin’ belt buckles.

 

You can check them out at my Etsy or go in person to Made 4 You in Kingston, Ontario.

 

One Night With a Queen

On June 9, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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In the newest issue of Craft there was a short and sweet tutorial for a beautiful yosegire quilt.  I’ve wanted to try quilting for a really long time but I’ve been pretty intimidated by the piecing aspect.  I think this type of quilting is the perfect way to overcome that fear.

Yesterday I hauled my two tubs of scrap fabric into the living room and starting cutting out long strips in all different lengths.  I decided that this would be a fairly light quilt top so I mainly used thrifted bed sheets.

I haven’t decided quite yet if I’ll use old flannelette sheets or actual quilt batting in the middle.  Because I’m not selling this one I could use something that is recycled.

All in all it took me about six hours to cut and sew the to together.  When finished it will fit on a queen sized bed.  Not bad for a first time if I do say so myself.  Here’s a sneak peek.

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Dino Says What?

On June 5, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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While waiting for my new screens to burn I decided to print up some stationary.  During my lino carving workshop on Saturday I made a little dino stamp.  Tonight I carved out a couple hand drawn word bubbles.  Combining the two creates on of the most lethaly cute cards ever.  Now I just have to decide on the text.  I’m thinking these dinos are feeling kittenish.

 

Dino says M-E-O-W!

 

 

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Now For the Boys…

On May 24, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Spacemen and deep sea divers for the boys.  More to come…

 

 

 

 

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Girlie Prints

On May 20, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I’ve ravaged a couple of containers of clothing that I’ve had for a while and turned them into something a little more interesting.

I’m thinking that I will be adding these to my site, but I have to take some time to consider pricing and such.  These may also show up on Etsy.

Here are some of the pieces that I really dig.  Soon I’ll be sharing some of the men’s pieces that I’ve been working on.

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New Things…

On May 15, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I thought it was about time that I played around with journalling again.  I decided not to dive in head first into day planners and such.  Instead I went the blank notebook route.  I bought up a couple packs of 100% recycled paper, some old records and kids books.

The result is some serious cuteness.  Check it out…

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Dollies Galore!

On May 13, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I’ve been doing some softie crafting lately; some good and some bad.  I printed up another yard or so of robots and kokeshi tonight.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the better dolls.  The robot is still a little pointy for my liking, but I’ll see what I can do about that.

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One, Two, Buckle My…Belt

On May 11, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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I found some time today to sand down and then photograph some of the resin belt buckles I’ve been working on.  I thought I would take some time to share my new pieces with the big ol’ world.  If you’d like to check out an album of photos you can click here.

Here’s a few of my favourite samples:

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Print, Print, Print!

On May 9, 2008, in Uncategorized, by mygirlthursday
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Last night I did my prelimiary prints with my new screens.  For the most part things turned out nicely.  I had to do a few touch ups with my handy-dandy nail polish.

I’m intending to use the kokeshi dolls and and the robots to create some super cute stuffies.  We’ll see how that goes.  The smaller graphics are for clothing and journal covers.

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