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 :]

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.