April Day 14: More Rabbit Boys

Today I sewed up 2 rabbit boy bodies. One of the argyle ones is a birthday present for my niece. She came up to me at Lacy's baby shower and said, "I know I may be a little old for stuffed animals but those sock bunnies are really cool. If you were going to get me a birthday present could it be one of those?" I still need to get some white socks to make the arms though and some polyfil to stuff them. I made a third body with separate arms and legs as well. This one is kind of an experiment because I accidentally bought regular socks instead of knee socks so the legs will be sewn on.

April Day 13: Tootsie Pop

Put together a scrapbook page from the supplies I organized a few nights ago.

April Day 12

This is another attempt at a digital scrapbook page. Some people really pile on the embellishments on these but I don't feel comfortable doing that. I am more of a "less is more" designer.

April Day 11:Paper and ideas

OK so I have a couple of things going on today.

First I worked on finding and coordinating some scrapbook papers for last years Halloween photos. A couple of weeks ago I scored 2 awesome autumn/Halloween 180 count paper stacks at Joann's Fabrics (compliments of my hubby) so I figure I need to put them to use. Picking out the paper is half the battle when it comes to scrapbooking.

The Samsonite case

Second is a project I am thinking about doing. I saw this great photo on Pinterest where someone had taken a vintage suitcase and turned it into a craft organizer. It just so happens I have two great suitcases in the basement just sitting there looking lonely, waiting to be put to good use. One is an aqua blue with white trim and the other is a brown leather Samsonite which is huge. I was thinking of converting one to what would be my portable craft organizer. Of course that means I need a reason to go and craft somewhere else but that can wait. I'm not sure where to start with this really.

Source: decorate.tipjunkie.com via April on Pinterest

April Day 10: Monsters...Cute ones

I keep seeing examples of adorable little doodled monsters or monster rubber stamps and have been wanting to doodle and color some myself. They are nothing fancy and there is no right or wrong to them. Charlie said the blue one was his favorite but then said he liked the orange one. I can't decide myself but I am pretty pleased with how my first attempt came out. I might cut them out and put them in my Smash journal or maybe use them in my scrapbooking.

Lacy Day 10: Baby Photos

So, I promise not to turn this challenge into a baby photo bomb, but I broke out the Nikon D5000, an incredible piece of equipment that I am barely qualified to wield, and used manual settings to take this picture of the new arrival.  I want to get a good one with his eyes open, but it's hard to find time to grab the camera when he's calm and not needing me to do something for him.

April Day 9: practice

I got caught up watching Season 2 of the Walking Dead and forgot to do my post last night. I didn't take a picture, because honestly it wasn't really much to look at, but I promise I practiced at my crochet today. Nothing fancy just trying to learn the rhythm of it.