Confetti

Several things to blog about today!  Which is nice, because I love lists!

A. Tattoos!
     I got a new tattoo!  A little 8-bit heart with my baby's initials.  It's super cute. GG got a tattoo, too!  It's a little heart on her ring finger.  I don't have a picture, though. :(
Here's mine...





And this means, that we are finally, genuinely, tattooed sisters! 

B. Crazy busy-ness
     So... we've been busy. Obviously. Our sister got married.  Then my brother-in-law got married.  Both were lovely! And, fortunately for this blog, I did some craftiness for the weddings!  I made my baby a little cashmere blend shrug to go with her weddings outfit. I bought the pattern on Etsy from Holland Designs.
Here she is in it, with all of Callie's nieces and nephews...

I also got a chance to make a Princess Leia outfit for a friend of mine. I can't believe how well it turned out! (I didn't make the belt!)

Credit where it's due... The pattern and instructions for the Leia outfit that I followed. It was a great pattern!

C. Olympics
     It's only day two of Olympics watching, and I'm getting restless.  I need something to do with my hands! X is feeling the same thing, only he's building Legos and doing a project involving flags and medal counting.
 I might make a sweater like the one I made for M for the weddings; the pattern is so great- it has instructions for scaling all the way to adult sizes.  I've also got a hat that I'm knitting for M out of the leftovers from that shrug. It would be awesome to get it done before winter!

D. Yarn Bombing
     One last thing. Our library was yarn bombed.  It was awesome. I helped tie a little!
The yarn bombing outside of the Yarn Mart is fun, too, but those pics are on my phone.  Of course!

E. Links!
     I've added a few links to places we love.  Geeky Sweetheart and Little Things Studio.  Love them both! 


And now, I feel caught up!  I'll let you know how my Olympics craftiness works out!

Hollah hollah! Genevieve's Esty shop is now up and running! Finally, right? It only took forever. Check it out: GenevieveSuzanne. Its pretty sweet. Like candy.

Here are a few of the featured items...WARNING they are super cute and you might want one.

Special thank you to my talented sister Desiree who did a fabulous job re-designing our blog. (That sweet lil tattoo in the banner may or may not belong to her arm. It may. Isn't it pretty?)

I love change :D

Thats why we will be fantastic partners in crafting, because I love change and she hates it. We balance each other. I am super excited about what is to come on our blog and in our new etsy shops! Opening day will be sometime around the beginning of February. I'm also excited about my soon-to-be tattoo. Send me ideas! :D

GG (Genevieve)

I Don't Like Change

So... we were trying to make some business cards and also setting up our shops, and came to the sad realization that our blog URL was just too long.  And, OMG, trying to change the title was just horrible.
Here's what we tried:
fivesisters
thesistersfive
artsyfartsysisters
craftysisters
craftingsisters
thecraftsysisters
devotedsisters
cincosisters
etc...

And we finally landed on... Tattooed Sisters. 

Before you ask- No, Gena does not have a tattoo.  But she says, "I'll have one by May!"
So I'm letting the title stand.  Mostly because I don't want to change it again.

This means, our few and dear readers, that you need to change your reader settings, your bookmarks, or whatever it is that you need to change.  Thanks for bearing with us! We love you!!

And (drumroll please) we're going to open our shops within the next TWO WEEKS! We are excited.

SOPA links

I don't like to get political.  But today I am!  I want to speak out against censorship.

Today, websites are protesting SOPA, the bill that threatens freedom of information on the internet. One of it's affects- this blog.  Sites like this, with links, ideas, inspiration and content not 100% generated by the owner are in danger.  A site like this could get me sued. This includes sites like Google, Facebook, PayPal, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Craigslist,  etc...  Not to mention our beloved Pinterest! There is no way that the government and corporations are going to be sensible about things, they've already shown that they won't be. (see video)

I'm not blacking out, because I just don't have the audience for it, but, as usual, I'll leave you with some links...

A great info-graphic that helps explain the dangers of SOPA 
SOPAblackout.org - GREAT video, please watch
Congress's willful tech and social ignorance 



p.s.- this is posted by Desiree, I don't know how GG feels! Sorry, GG!

Hey-o!  I'm the other sister of the devoted-sister duo :D   Finally, after just a few years, I'm managing to add something to the blog.  These are some of the things I have been working on, and hopefully there will be more :)  Sooooooo.....enjoy.

Love these little flowers! They are so vintage-y, if thats a word.  If not, it is now. 

Just a few random pieces put together.  The lil skull is so cute! It's saying "arrrrrrgh.  I'm awesome."

Mmm...turquoise seed beeds....

Whats great about these is they will go with so many different ensembles.

For some reason I always sing "Just around the river bend..." whenever I wear this. 

One of my mother's pearls plus a silver charm makes up one of my favorite necklaces.

Primary colors. Love it. 

Simple.