Baby burp cloths!

I'm not getting creative here, just staying consistent, which is all I can manage to do these days :)
My friend Piya is expecting and her baby shower is in Feb. I also found this cute onesie that seems "so her". And by her, I mean like Piya.

Card making in Whistler

I could bring limited supplies in my carry-on to Whistler, but enough to pull it off!
Made more birthday cards and some baby shower cards (it's baby season among my friends!) while overlooking the mountains. Glorious.

Birthday cards using the rounded corners

I finally got back into crafting after the holidays...gotta get stocked up for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, and thank you's.

The longest part is designing the card, even though it is heavily inspired by examples found on Pinterest. I like to make several of the same one so I remember the order in which to glue tape very thing on!

Next time ill make a card that fills up the entire space with these little shapes. Justin says it looks like the Microsoft logo :/

Embossed monogrammed notecards

Here are some gifts- can you guess their names?
I had the best day making these in Mammoth Mountain, in our hotel room (!) while Justin snowboarded. I broke for lunch and took the gondola up the mountain to meet Justin for some chili in a bread bowl. Grabbed some hot chocolate and wrote Christmas cards while watching Shawshank Redemption on TV.

All this while enjoying a view of the snow covered trees and mountains outside my window :) That's my idea of fun. I know. It's weird.

Christmas gifts

As Justin calls our kitchen table "Santa's Sweatshop"...

Here are a few things I'm working on (wipes sweat from brow)

Birthday Bonanza

Here are a variety of birthday cards I made tonight while Justin played Call of Duty. Some I'm more proud of than others. The balloon one is for my 3 yr old niece Olivia. Justin suggested I use string for the balloons instead of pen :)

Oh and the last one is for my friend Sarah from community group whose baby short is this weekend.

Quilted wristlet!

This wristlet is for Kathy, Justin's best girl friend, whose birthday is this week. I figure she can pull this owl pattern off. I quilted it just like I did for the potholders, except this time I criss-crossed over the diagonal lines to make little diamonds. I used felt, but batting would have made it pucker more. Next time. The most time was spent on figuring out how to cover up the zig zag stitches on the wristlet string attached to the keychain.

It looked pretty ugly bc I reinforced it so much, so I had to sew a little strip and wrap it around the stitches, but hen came across the same problem, how do I avoid having raw edges on the outside of the wristlet?

Since I'm new at this, I had to play around with it, but I ended up taking a small stop, folding it in half, unfolding it, then folding in the edges towards the center on both sides. Then right sides together, I sewed these together and flipped the loop inside out so that the stitches are on the inside. Then I slipped this loop over the gross zig zags. And...I'm done! Sent to Austin!