DIY Foxes on Your Dress.

On my usual round through the internet and blogosphere, I stumbled upon this tutorial.  They embroidered little foxes all over this plain dress. This is ADORABLE.

How charming is this?  I'll take 6 please. - {frolic!}

This was a collaboration between {frolic!} and a couple other wonderful and creative people.  I love the idea of taking a basic knit dress and adding these cute teensy faces.

Images from {frolic!} blog.

Thank you {frolic!} for inspiring a little morning creativity with my coffee.

Hair Love.

So I've grown my hair out now for about 2 years, and in that time have really loved styling it in crazy long and complicated braids.

This is not me.  Yes I have done this. And no, it didn't look this good.   -From Hair Romance

Naturally, now I'm ready to chop it all off.  Afraid that I wouldn't have as much fun with it, I've been reluctantly putting this off for months.  Fortunately, I stumbled upon this blog and another and they have given me the push that I need to make the decision.

Medium length hair inspiration. - From Hair Romance

Hair Romance is the cutest hair blog I've laid my eyes on.  Ever.

The other awe inspiring hair/beauty blog that is adorable is The Small Things Blog.

She always has super cute hair, and I can't stand it.  (Meaning I love it.) - From the Small Things Blog

Chopping it all off on Thursday. Well, cutting it nicely and lovingly to a manageable medium length.

Thanks beautiful haired ladies.

Come On Bring It 2013.

First - Hope your holidays were wonderful and wishing you a happy happy new year!


Second, I am feeling the push to start this year off right!  And well, first things first - I am getting back to doing what I love so much.  That would be creating handmade goods and getting my life on track!

So in the spirit of starting 2013 off, I'm am going to make something every week.  The first year of my blog I did this and I feel like if I don't really push myself in that direction, it won't ever happen.  So here it goes!

Wish me luck!




(Words of encouragement always welcome.)

Family Christmas Picture!  - Thanks to Sarah Jane Barry for this!

Uninspired.

Recently I've felt very uninspired.  Or maybe too inspired?  It seems that I have a plethora of ideas at all times and am having a hard time getting them out.....

With fall here, and the cold weather looming waiting to rush in, it seems now is a perfect time to get the ball rolling.

I am going to spend the day sketching and getting as many ideas as I can out on to some paper, but in the mean time, I'll show you a little project I did for my brother for the big three-oh.

Birthday in a Box, Remake.

Since I couldn't be with him in person, I sent him a celebration in a box with some of our favorite movies from our childhood.  I figure since he is getting SO old, I'd better give him some of our childhood to keep him young.  

In all seriousness though, he is the best brother in the world, and I don't think I would be half the person I am today without him.  How'd he turn out so good?  Ask my parents I guess, he is a truly wonderful person and friend.  Happy happy birthday Tommy!  Cheers!

Inside/Outside.

I've been sitting in my backyard with a lovely breeze flowing through the trees and on my face.  Addie is biting and rolling around back here with me, the birds are chirping, and I've realized how nice it is to have a little piece of the outside to call your own.  Especially for those of us who live in a city, we definitely know how important it is to be out with grass & trees & a little bit of wild life.

All this being said, I thought I would post about the brunch Alex & I threw for the mothers in our life a couple of weeks ago.  We had a brief day where both of our moms, and a grandmother, were all in town - and grabbed the opportunity to bring everyone together.

It is always fun to bring the people you love together & bring a little of the inside, outside.

Wine Bottles & Sprouts.

I just finished putting in our little garden fence this afternoon & although I can't take credit for the idea, I love it.

Completed Garden Fence.

The rest of the wood was just rummaged up from our backyard....for some reason there is a plethora of wood laying around.  Lucky for us, our garden fence cost $0.  It probably took me about 4 hours to get all of the labels off of the bottles so I suppose I paid for the fence in time, but I rather like the result.

Cork Veggie Markers.

I also have a bunch of corks laying around from the bottles, and I stuck them into a skewer and wrote on them to mark which veggie is which.  Also cost $0.  I win!   

Hooray for veggie gardens & wine.  

(Don't worry Mom, we didn't drink all this wine-  I took them all from the restaurant, I swear.)

Orvillecopter.

So this really has nothing to do with crafts, making anything, inspiring & is basically irrelevant in every way possible.  BUT it's too weird & hilarious not to note.


This is the headline that peaked my interest;
"Orvillecopter takes flight: Cat run over by car gets extra life...as a remote-controlled helicopter"
(There is a couple videos attached to this article that should definitely get a looksy.)

Nope, this is not an Onion article, this is real life.


An artist in Amsterdam, by the name of Bart Jansen, made his cat who was suddenly hit by a car, into a helicopter.  At first I was appalled & weirded out, but then I thought it was actually pretty funny in a morbid, kind-of-awful way.  


I then heard an interview with him, and he certainly sounds like a nutty artist, but he finds it very silly too, so I guess that's a good thing...?  I don't know but it definitely is a conversation piece.

Remodelista.

Also, I just stumbled upon this blog, and oh boy.... it's goooood.

Remodelista -  You can thank me for this when two hours of your life are gone, and you yank out your door feeling a little-too-ambitious for a DIY remodeling moment.

And I suppose I should wish you good luck with that......

Terrible.

I've been a terrible blogger (once again) & here comes the goods.  Well, here comes....something?  Yeah.

Here's what I've been up to;

*Alex & I planted a veggie garden - & we have baby sprouts!

*Trips to parent's houses, and had parents visit us.

*Went to Florida with my family - & better yet, went to Harry Potter world again!

*Worked lots.

*Hiked to the Eternal Flame.

*Biked around Buffalo.

*Learned to fishtail braid (I'm super pumped about this)!

*Read all of the Hunger Games books - & loved them.

*Saw manatees, dolphins, & turtles in the wild.

*Got a new computer!

*Made a scrap yellow leather bag.

*Threw a Mother's Day Brunch for my Momma, & some other lovely Mommas in my life.

*And last but not least - enjoyed this beautiful early spring weather!

I promise, there will be pictures soon!

(Don't tell anyone, but I actually missed blogging a bit.....)

Happenings, As Of Late.

I've been a terrible blogger recently.  This two job thing is surprisingly taking up a lot of my time, who would've thought?  Well, anyway, just because I suck at posting things on here, doesn't mean I haven't been busy making/doing things!  So here is what I have done recently.

Kitty Cabin!  

Somehow my fat little Brucey bear squeezed his big body in there.  Those kitties of mine love it.  I made it out of cardboard & hot glue, then painted it & covered it with fabric.  Voila.

Leather Tray Holder.

In the sixties everyone used these and I needed one.  I used some strips of left over leather and an old metal ring & sewed it up!  It makes my tray obsession a little more manageable & displays them in our kitchen.  Kills two birds with one stone.  Woo.

Bird Baby Mobile,

I made this for a good friend's baby.  Her theme for her nursery was woodland creatures & I thought it would suit it perfectly.  I hope so, and I hope that the baby loves it.

My Little Tough Ladybird.

I didn't make this, but oh man.  Isn't she the saddest little tough girl?  This is how I spend majority of my days off...