New Toy!

My friends, I bought a serger. It is amazing. I've already made my daughter two dresses and a skirt. Pillow covers for her bed, and this...

before... heavy, dark, filthy...


after... light, airy, pretty...


ugh. bad pictures. I'm also not done tacking up the new ones. However, if you could compare the light in my back room with the new curtains up, you would be amazed.

And, thanks to the serger, my seams are lovely and neat!

Ahhh!

So Excited!... Update

These cross stitch patterns from welittlestitches have been all over the geek blogs lately. I just ordered the patterns for Shaun of the Dead and Firefly. I am so stinkin' excited!

I think I'd like to get all of them and make them and hang them in our bathroom. I think they're adorable.

Update: I've already gotten my patterns! Making my Hobby Lobby list now!

Purple Pixie

Right after I posted last time, I tried to take pictures. And then we all had a melt-down. M freaked out, X stretched out one of her hats, I found some knitting that X had accidentally taken off the needle.

This is the best I got...





The purple pixie hat!

Craftsy

I have been super, super craftsy lately! For Christmas, RJ got me a giftcard to the Container Store. (which he bought shortly before quiting his job there! Yay!) I bought craft organizing stuff, which has probably spurred my crafting streak.

Here's a list of what I've been working on...

- Two crochet hats for Mara. Super cute. One lavender pixie hat, one white pixie hat with cherries.
- One knit (in the round! First time I've used DPNs!) baby hat.
- A purple crochet hat for me!
- A felted knit, with crochet innards, organizer for all my knitting needles and crochet hooks. They are currently residing in a box, and everytime I need one, I've got to dump them all out and sort for the one I want. I'm not done with this one.
- Fixing two antique marble-top tables. Not so craftsy, but still. They both needed to be cleaned and have bits glued back together.
- A doily made out of rainbow thread. I wanted to do something more intricate. I have no idea what I'll do with it.
- A pinewood derby car! The cub scouts usually provide a saw for the dads to cut out the car, but they didn't this year. So I spent an hour or two this morning with my Dremel, carving out the car shape. It turned out pretty well!

Pics to come soon, but I wanted to get my list out there and start blogging on this blog again!

p.s.- I joined Ravelry. Anyone else on it?

Testing

Take Two

I decided to try again. Mostly because I decided to make two.

Here is my weird front door. Faux door on the left, real door on the right. Both painted a lovely shade of puke taupe. (I want to paint them orange, but RJ is vetoing that choice right now. )


A close up. I got a new garland of glittered leaves, and mixed those in with the plain ones. I threw out the styrofoam berry things.