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.

Weekend to myself

So the boyfriend is away for the weekend which means lots of movies and crafting for me when I'm not at work. Unfortunately he has the camera or else I would post a photo of the progress of the embroidered portrait of my grandpa but it will have to wait til monday I suppose. I have soo much to do this weekend with a few big days coming up, our 4 year anniversary and his birthday. Hopefully new pictures up soon and finished crafts I can cross off my ever growing list. :]

Heres a photo we took the other day at the most fabulous cupcakery in Santa Barbara. Delicious!

"The Doctors"

So yesterday me and a girlfriend went to a taping of the show "The Doctors." We had a pretty good time and walked away with some pretty cool stuff. My favourite is a new bra and custom fitting from intimacy and a new bissel vacuum, which is my first vacuum ever :] now i can be a cute little housewife. .source.

it has been too long....

Wow way too much going on and havent been on in so long. Ive been working hard on immortalizing my grandpa in thread but I choose time consuming stitches, its gonna look amazing when its finished but it might take 30 years haha. It raining here and im excited to wear my rain boots tomorrow. And to keep up on this blog. :]

So in memoriam of my Papa who passed peacefully but suddenly this last friday I am going to embroider a portrait of his army photo. Im really excited to start working on this and throw it up on the wall. Wish me luck!

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.

New to blogging!

Well I am new to this whole blogging thing and I am totally excited. Hopefully this will not only inspire me but help me to keep track of the ever growing number of crafts I have and hopefully finish them instead of ignoring them.
what i am working on now: I have a set of canvases for my little sister I am finishing, they are painted with lace and i am embroidering girly things on top. The one right now is a set of necklaces, i got the pattern from urbanthreads.com. Hopefully i will finish that this weekend since the boyfriend is out of town and im all on my lonesome. After that I have one more canvas to complete for her, with an embroidered chandelier. I have finished two out of the four and need to get photos taken and uploaded.