new embroidered canvases.

For my little sisters birthday, she's 14, I started making a set of canvases to go in her newly painted purple/lavender room. I painted the canvases and used a lace detail to add some extra character. I then embroidered the things she had picked out. I like the way they turned out and still have one more to make, I need to find a pattern that we like.
The picture doesn't show it but there are some seed beads sewn into one of the black lines, and a chain stitch was also used on one of the upper silver strands.
My favourite, I used the satin thread too which really makes it pop when you see it in person.

why do I love thee?

For some reason, and for a while now, I have been absolutely in love with Chanel. I went to their website, for the first time, and found they make a variety of 'sport items' and i feel in love. I would kill to have the bicycle oh and the rod and reel, but they are soooo expensive! $17,000 for a bike, when you can buy a car for that price, I couldnt believe it but they are still pretty gorgeous.

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mmmm Chai tea cupcakes!

So last night was my boyfriends birthday celebration, so I surprised him by making cupcakes, chai tea cupcakes to be exact. They turned out so perfect and I garnished them with buttercream frosting and sprinkled some cinnamon, I wanted to stencil words with the cinnamon but couldnt for the life of me find my stencils, oh well. I need to practice my frosting skills but I was very impressed with the way they turned out, especially using a new recipe.

So much to share!

So I had a fabulous weekend, finished a few different crafts for my anniversary (4 years ahh!). Now I can solely focus on my embroidery of my grandpa and then my day of the dead canvas that I feel I have been working on forever cause I always get sidetracked with another project. So Sunday we went to the Santa Barbara zoo, and whale watching too. No whales but saw some dolphins and sea lions and had an amazinggg day. I also got my new vacuum in the mail and I dont even think you could comprehend how excited I was, I'm gonna be a vacuuming fiend.

The embroidery of my grandpa, its coming along slowly cause im doing some really detailed stitches. (sorry I can't figure out how to flip the picture :[ )My gift from my boyfriend, theyre folded dollars made in to hearts.His girft from me, it's an inside joke but basically when we first met I wrote that and tacked it to my wall, for this I copied the original paper that is no longer up and embroidered it.

And finally my day of the dead canvas that i'm also working on. Cant wait for it to be done.