A card full if win!

Hello!  So while working today, I made a new card.  This card was full of win!  Yay!  I was going to take a better picture with my real camera but I forgot and now the card is off in the mail.  So this is the only picture i have from my Iphone.

I went grocery shopping after work so I didn't do any crafts.  Maybe tomorrow.  For now, A glass of wine and maybe some more stalking of my favorite blogs.

I know blog, I forgot about you!

Its been a crazy month.  My boyfriend's family comes into town every year for a whole month.  Basically in that month, I wake up, go to work, get ready, go to dinner at gparent's, come home, go to bed...rinse and repeat. I don't have very time to do things like crafting or doing anything by myself.  It is really to nice see them but I like my free time alone.

So they left this morning and tonight has been my first craft night to work on projects.  Let me tell you, it was full of fail.  I tried to make a Thank you card for like an hour (I'm a bit of a perfectionist) and I ended up scrapping the whole thing and throwing everything away!  I have Stampin Up! stuff but I don't have the paper, coordinating ribbon and ink etc, so I can't make cards that look super professional and matchy matchy like some people can.  So basically, I really REALLY have to plan out my card.  Try to match the ribbon I have to ink that I have to paper I have and then plan out a card. So I had like 4 fail attempts to make card.  I finally had something that I like and of course I end up smudging everything and I ran out of paper I was using so I couldn't redo it.  Ugh, So frustrating!  Needless to say, I still need to make a Thank You card.

I did however finished two more pages of my nephew's scrapbook so that's good! only like a bazillion pages to go. haha.

I'll post some pictures of the stuff I did do during the past month tomorrow.... hopefully!

New Current project

Hello all,

I hope your weekend was great.  Mine was pretty uneventful, we had free HBO/cinemax preview so Travis and I watched a bunch of movies.  I also went shopping and picked up some supplies.  I hit up hobby lobby (which is usually dangerous for me) and bought a glue gun+glue sticks, baby stuff backgrounds for the scrapbook, some stickers for the scrapbook, paint for hoop frames, and some totes to embroider.  I decided to embroider a tote for Travis's mom with sexy librarians.  Travis's mom is a head honcho librarian in Salt Lake City so I thought it would be cute.

So far, all I've done is ironed on the pattern and started embroidering one book.  I did say I wanted to track my progress so here are the so pics of the patterned ironed on.

Sexy Librarians eh? I thought so too.  I can't wait to get started.  I'm not sure yet how I want to handle it but we'll see how it goes. That is all, I just wanted to update a little bit on what I'm working on. I've also done a few more pages in the scrapbook but I think it's gonna be a long work in progress.

Happy Crafting!

I'm addicted to...

Buying new patterns!  yikes, I just spent another $20 at Sublime Stitching buying new patterns.  In my defense, I don't have hot sexy pinups yet!  I'm so excited about new purchase!

Pretty hot eh?  Oh yeah, I'm gonna be the proud owner pretty soon.  I also bought Mitch O'Connell paterns...

Plus Under the Sea and forest friends.  I shall use them I swear!  Who wants a sexy pin-up for their next birthday or christmas?  I know I do..

Hello hello

Since I haven't worked on anything crafty today, I thought I'd post some older projects I've finished and talk about them.

This is something I worked on around Christmas time (obviously).  It was one of the first patterns and embroidery projects I worked with.  If you noticed, its limited to backstitch and french knots cause thats all I knew!   I still love the reindeer and how they came out!  So cute and cuddly.  The pattern is from Sublime Stitching and it's not in any books, you just have to buy it.

This is a project I started after I finished my Christmas themed dish towels.  This is actually a huge flour sack towel, and when I bought it, I didn't know it would cover a small table!  Again, this is mostly done in backstitch and french knots.  Its not over the top and I wasn't as confident with my skills.  All I do know, it sure looks tasty! 

Now this, I was extremely proud of when I finished.  This is the first request I've ever done.  My friend Maggie had purchased the Sublime Stitching unicorn pattern just because.  She knew she wanted to have me make something with it and boy did I.  This is a banner sold by sublime stitching.  I used I believe pattern on the sheet.  I bought fabric markers and colored it in.  I think it really really made it pop.  I was most proud of the tail. 

As you can see, I used several different colors in the tail which looks like they flowed into each other.  I thought it was genius! haha.  In this project, I used both backstitch and split stitch through out. I thought it gave it good dimensions. Needless to say, Maggie absolutely loved it!  Yay!

Now this creation is the first gift I made for someone.  I made this for my friend Leighann for her Birthday.  She loves all things spacey and nerdy and I had bought this pattern for same reasons.  This is an apron I had laying around and I thought it would be a perfect piece.  All the patterns are by Sublime Stitching since I can't draw my way out of a paper bag.  In all reality, Sublime Stitching has really awesome patterns that make it fun to embroider!  Theres a patterns for everyone and every occasion so you really can't go wrong.  I used both Space pattern and some from her books.  This was also the first time I've done a pattern on something thats not a variation of white so it was actually pretty hard!  The iron on pattern was hard to see and I had to trace it with a chalk pencil for most of it so I was really proud on how it came out regardless.  I had a few mistakes here and there and as you can see, I freehand the writing which is why its terrrible!  Here are some close up shots...

I really  this little guy!  As you can probably tell, I started with split stitch and then switch to a back stitch.  Yep, I was too lazy to take it out.  Oh well, I'm sure Leighann didn't notice until now that I've said something!

This is a closeup of the pocket.  I didn't plan ahead and didnt realize that I would have to stitch the pocket shut (sorry!!) so i only did a design on the middle pocket.  Since I don't have a sewing machine, I couldn't undo the pocket and embroider it and then stitch it back on.  I was pressed for time as it is.

Well, that is it for now.  I will post some other stuff I've finished later.  I also promise to take pictures of my future stuff with my digital camera and not my iphone. Have a good night everyone!

What chu working on Perla?

Well, the whole point of this blog was to show what I'm currently working on soooo lets get to it!

 So that is my craft table aka my disaster zone.  That's where some of the magic happens... ;)  Notice my GRE book... that my friend, is not crafty fun.  It's not any kind of fun.  I've been putting it off for a while now and I need to do it if I want to start applying to grad schools.  woo hoo... pfffbbbtttt. <---that was suppose to be a raspberry sound... anyways.. back to the crafts!

This is a scrapbook that I'm currently working on.  That beautiful baby is my nephew Anthony.  This book has been a long time coming... sorry Suzy!  I finally, finally, finally started it this week.  So far, only like 5 pages done.  I like scrapbooking but it can be so tedious and frustrating trying to arrange pictures, coming up with new themes and organizing it.  Slapping it together is the easy part... planning the page.. not so much.

 That is the embroidery project I started last week.  Its two angelfishes.  I had this blue bandanna laying around that I wanted to embroider and I got tired of it collecting dust so I decided to finally iron on a pattern. I figured the fishes would do well against this pretty blue!  I also ironed on some jellyfishes on another square.  The pattern is by Sublime Stitching and its located in the craft pad.

 ...and a close up of the fish.  I used 3 strands and simple back stitch so far.  Since the lines are so small, I thought this was best way to go.  I'll probably use a different stitch on the bigger guy.

 That's it for now, I'm gonna go cook up some dinner! :)

New and Improved!

If you had read my blog before, well welcome back! I decided to delete everything I've ever posted and start off with a fresh new blog. No depressing posts, Just happy crafty things! I wanted a place where I can post what I'm working on so I don't have to bug other people with the "lookey what I made!" emails. I've always been a little crafty since I was young and I like to use craft as a medium to stay busy.

My current love is embroidery!! All things embroidery. I also love scrapbooking, card making, stamping, and crocheting. I want to buy a sewing machine so I can make pillows and other things.

I hope you all enjoy it and if you have any requests, questions, or comments.. don't hestitate to ask!