Monthly Archives: August 2011

Typography

I love fonts. Actually, typography in general. I have not one, but TWO giant letter L’s in the apartment. And I think I have about a million different fonts on my computer. Whenever I’m creating something, I scroll through all of them before I decide on the “perfect” choice. The pictures above are a couple of ideas [...]

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Tie Onesies

I told you guys my apartment is dark!! Even with Photoshop brightening, this is the best I could do. Anyway, these are some onesies I made for my friend. Well, they’re actually for her brother and sister-in-law who are having a baby. Obviously. I found a tutorial online and was basically looking for a baby [...]

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Kitty Quilt - Take 1

As promised, here are pictures of the “test quilt” I made for the kitty suitcase bed. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cute and I’m very proud of myself for making a little quilted pillow. It’s just not what I was going for. I tried to make gradient color, but the patterns were a little too [...]

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Fabric Flower Rosettes

I don’t know why these struck such a chord with me when I first saw them, but when I stumbled upon a tutorial (there are actually MANY tutorials), I realized that I wanted them really, really badly. I love flowers, so that may be it. But there’s something about these fabric ones. I just like [...]

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Surprise Party Invites

I LOVE helping people plan parties. No matter what duties I’m assigned. Well, I hope no one would ask me to provide home-cooked meals as I’m not a big cook. It would end up in tears for all parties involved. But I digress. I love parties, blah, blah, blah. So imagine my excitement when some friends of [...]

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Quilting

Ok. I’ve apparently moved on to my next obsession - quilting. It started when I did I test run for the kitty bed pillow a couple of weeks ago. It turned out “eh.” (I’ll post pix, I swear). It’s just very standard “quilty” with no pizzazz. I already bought the new material and now just [...]

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Ted Bed

First off, I completely apologize to my five (probably more like two) readers. I’ve got a lot of finished projects, but pictures are the problem. If it just weren’t so ding dang dark in our apartment! But I promise I will get on the ball. Now…back to the project at hand. I GOT AN ADORABLE [...]

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