Crafty Blog

The great Ms. Erica Sage, http://craftyblossom.blogspot.com/, has inspired me to do some crafty blogging. Check out her blog...it's pretty awesome :).

Marcus is out skiing his heart out today (maybe I'll have some pictures of his sore butt later) and I am enjoy another day of sewing in my jammies...I'll have to get some work done soon, but right now I'm crafting-up the house! This morning I got a wild hair up my booty and decided to make my own switch plate covers...cool covers are expensive to buy and I bought some in Oregon recently that are kind of a pain to use with a dimmer switch. I think they turned out nicely...and I took the opportunity to practice a few techniques on my own before trying to sell these on etsy.

The project that started this crafty binge of mine was the tree skirt. This is our first year getting a tree and decorating for Christmas in the new house (last year was too crazy) and I'm super excited about it. We don't have a tree skirt, so I decided to make one from the table cloth fabric we used at the rehearsal dinner. While it turned out okay, I learned my lesson about "winging it" and free handing a pattern...it turnout out more of an oval than a circle. Now, I could claim coolness and that I intended to be trendy with my oval tree skirt, but you already know that I'm not that cool. It was a mistake, but it will do until I learn to slow down and have some patience!

fancy little stitch around the edges...
We'll see what else I get myself in to...after the work is done, of course!