I finally jumped into Cross Stitching. This is my first project and I loved it. xD

It's a word and it's a bad word. Fair warning!

( Bad word xstitched! )

Current Location: San Francisco
Current Mood Swing: awake
I love this song! : The Rock // DVD

I got super frustrated with both my knitting and crocheting this weekend so I built and painted stuff instead. And also watched LOTR and Harrison Ford movies, but whatever.

First I repainted a cork board I have had for ages. I painted the edges teal but thought the cork itself was ugly so I stained it with teal, black and dark green paints diluted with water.

Then I built a memory board. I used the back of a kitchen drawer we had sitting in the garage. I then used a staple gun to staple some quilt matting to the board, then the fabric (which you have to make sure is taut. After we dealt with that we had to figure out how to put the ribbon on. Most of my ribbon was too short to do the whole board so I used two different kinds: brown with burgundy polka dots and white with gold fleur de lis on them. It turned out perfect for my 8x10 and 5x7s.

Sorry you have to go to another site to view the pictures. Lj's photo system makes me sad.

I was looking for reccomendations for good starting books or even websites for scrapbooking.

I've got lots of scrapbooking stuff, but I've only played around making a few cards or pictures I've still yet to make my first scrapbook. Well today I went crazy at Michaels buying stickers because I want to make my boyfriend a scrapbook for our one year anniversary.

I've got plenty of ideas and I love crafting but this is a really special project and since I don't know much about techniques for making it look nicer I thought I'd ask those with more scrapbooking experience. Its not for 3 months so I have plenty of time but I want it to look really nice.

Current Mood Swing: thoughtful

I've been trying to do more lately.

( two under the cut )

So does anyone remember picture day, when the teachers would hand you little mini black combs to fix your hair with. Yeah, the ones that are 3 or 4 inches?


I currently have 1000 of them.


What in the world can I do? I cant think of ANYTHING for the life of me.


Edit: my friend worked for one of those companies, Im a hair dresser so he figured I could use them.....yes....1000....ONLY reason why I have them. I swear, it's not because im crazy.

I have been a member for a very long time, lurked for even longer, and posted here only twice before. I have been such a stranger to LJ lately, though, as I mainly just reserve any posts to my tumblr blog, but I thought you might enjoy some of my work anyway.

I have been participating in a personally-challenged "craft month," where I have entreated myself to make a new craft every day (not a difficult task for many of you, I know). I tried this once before, but it was hard to keep up during school because my room is so small. Now I just keep my things strewn about my room and pick up a project when the inspiration strikes me (a very nice, if not impractical, way to live! I will miss it). Anyway, I have been pretty lax about snapping the photographs, but I feel productive about the work I've done. Here's a big post of the wares I've captured so far. If you like what you see, I will remember to post the rest for you great crafters to see once I get the right light to take photographs.

( Button clusters, a felt panda, a vintage-inspired fascinator, and miscellaneous jewelry this way! )

The last day of vacation was both a lazy one and a busy one. I slept in super late, after waking briefly around 9 a.m. and then dozing off again. The sun was shining most of the day and it warmed up nicely in the afternoon. Martin and I completely cleaned out his room in preparation for Anders to start the re-decorating work. I went to the grocery store, did a load of laundry and baked & decorated a cake. Tomorrow is a crazy day: I'm sure work will be frantic and stressful, though I hope it's not too bad. Plus, tomorrow is a big birthday day for someone and we have all of Anders' family coming over for dinner, AND we have to take a car in for windshield replacement in the morning. Eek! Everything at once, isn't that always the way of it? Good thing I have such great memories of my vacation to keep me grounded.


Group shot in Aachen (Clockwise from front: Martin, Becky, Pete, Tim, Nick, Robin, Denise, Kelly, Liz, Anders) (photo: Karin Ek)


Aachen Cathedral (photo: Anders Ek)


LLG 5: Kelly, Denise, Liz, Becky, Robin (photo: Anders Ek)


I could live here! Schaloen Castle (photo: Anders Ek)


The Dreadful Duo: Becky & Liz (photo: Anders Ek)

Tags: holidaze, obiterphotos
Current Mood Swing: accomplished
I love this song! : The Zombies—Time of the Season

I had quite a few leftover scraps of curtain samples I got years ago from a website I cannot remember. Naturally, when I bought my new camera I realized I needed a proper cover for it. I didn't want to buy one for ten or twenty dollars so when I had some time to kill yesterday I decided to make a casing for it. I sewed together some scraps and used some leftover denim for "batting". The sewing isn't fantastic but it looks better in person and it does its job! :)



( Camera Cozy )Thanks for looking!! :)

Current Location: Claremont, CA
Current Mood Swing: okay
I love this song! : Yahoo! Music- Indie

I picked up a load of crochet thread at a yard sale. I am trying to crochet doilies. But all the patterns I have found so far only confuse me. Can any one please suggest a site where I can learn what I need to know in order to do this. I can do basic crochet and am learning more , but it is with yarn. I want to be able to do the doilies as well. Thank you.

Current Location: Monrovia Library
Current Mood Swing: anxious
I love this song! : quite

I finally finished the two color cushion/pillow I was making for my friends' wedding. I worked from 5pm on the 9th until 10am on the 10th. Straight, no sleep. I was mad at the back, every time I measured it against the front I had just one or two rows left...Literally every time. At 9am I bound the rows off and began sewing the two together- 92 sts as the pattern called for was too long, and it was just barely wide enough. I cried while sewing it up and wailed that they wouldn't like it but I had nothing else to give them.


They loved it! Said it matched their furniture perfectly. I was so relieved and ecstatic. Here's the finished product.



Sorry for the size, I haven't figured out how to thumbnail it and linking never seems to work right -_-;

Tags: knitting
Current Location: Home
Current Mood Swing: relieved
I love this song! : A.F.I.