finished!

Finally I took pictures of all the crafts I have finished in the month without internet. We have been decorating and unpacking like mad and it's starting to feel like home. I have so many ideas, mostly from pinterest, for our apartment and can't wait to start on new things.


The day of the dead canvas I posted a while back when it was incomplete and is finally done and ready for its home on our wall.


My scrapbook pillow is coming along. I still have the task of doing the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace which are gonna be hard with the small details, and a few other pieces on there but its coming along nicely.

I finally finished my recipe box. I have had it a while but stayed unfinished wood but I painted it and decoupaged relevant photos on it for my new kitchen.

And last but not least is the rug I crocheted! I had a bunch of old sheets that my last roommates left that I moved with us to protect furniture and then thought of this to repurpose them. It was a super easy project just time consuming and hurts your hand after a while. I used 2 twin size sheets and got a rug maybe 2 feet around, its home is in the kitchen so my feet are comfy when I do the dishes :]

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.

skull canvases

Here are a few of the canvases I did for my mom for her birthday(yes we are a skull loving family). This first is actually made of gum wrappers, when i was a little kid we used to peel the silver from the white backing and then stick it down, well this is exactly what i did here. The next is a dia de los muertos skull that i did with paint pens and then embroidered the roses onto the canvas. Didnt quite turn out how i would have liked it but oh well.

and finally these skulls were beaded using seed beads, i wanna say they were size 11 but i dont remember. This was a test of patience to say the least.