Craft Blast from the Past II

Why just visit the fringe festival this year when you can have your kids making big dollars busking with this divine Box Horse costume!



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Here comes another one

just like the other one.





I tried another new stitch here, the red around the rocketship but I can't remember the name of it and supreme laziness is preventing me in going downstairs to look it up.

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Fridge Organizers

In an effort to keep clutter off of the surfaces of my home, I made a couple of little things to keep pens and notepaper for grocery lists, etc on the fridge. To the right is a simple clip I glued magnets on and to the left is a box I made for holding pens and yet more notepaper. I made the box from a cereal box (cut the bottom off, cut that in half and inserted one side into the other) and then glued magnets on it and then covered the whole thing in fabric. Magnets make me a bit nervous with a small child around (if eaten by a child they can be fatal) but I used a really strong glue and they are either covered in fabric or out of DS' reach.

Inspired by Not Martha's Fridge Tin Pen Holder.



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Navy Rocketship

One of a couple custom orders I received for this shirt. I tried a new stitch around the rocket, a cross-blanket stitch.





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Craft Blast from the Past

My DH's grandmother gave me a set of craft cards that all sit in a little box. Sort of like recipe cards but each card has a craft project on it rather than a recipe. The set covers pretty much every craft you can imagine and DS really wants me to do a train applique he spied amongst the projects. Some of the projects though were just so outdated or odd that I can't resist sharing.

Tonight's feature vintage craft project: Fantasy Film Flowers. Now I really do not know why Becky didn't wear this headress at her wedding this summer, it is just so beautiful. I do not know what is classiest in this photo.. the carnation flowers, the soft light or the freaky makeup job. Maybe I will go as this photo for Halloween but then again, that might scare my kid.



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Castle Desktop Organizer

I am so making one of these with DS. Via Activity Village



I am busy painting kitchen cupboards, so no crafting for me at the moment.

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Do I dare post?!?!

I'm so ashamed that I basically haven't posted all summer. We are having a major home reno season, first we were outside now inside...so there has been very little time for crafting!

But here are some iron on transfer shirts i did last night. they may not make sense to anyone but the person they are intended for. Making shirts for Brodie and Cooper was Brodie's idea with the scrabble font. When he saw the other shirt. I was really impressed with the quality of the iron on transfer. These were pro grade ones bought from Best Blanks.

Elephant, circa 1976

My MIL gave me this old toy pattern and I immediately recognized it because we had the dog and kangaroo when I was a kid. I made the elephant tonight.





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Pink Inked Bag

I had more of this great fabric left so I made another bag with it.. for sale at Blackbird Pie. I also have some of the same fabric in multicolour but haven't decided what to do with it yet.







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Shop Update

http://www.blackbirdpie.etsy.com







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Rocketship Shirt

My son has rocketship pjs that he loooooves. It's been too hot to wear them so I said I'd make him a rocketship shirt he could wear instead.



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