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.