{ACK! THis was suppposed to have posted while I was away at C.U…. I opened up Live Writer this morning and there it was still in my drafts. Ooops! Anyway.. I am back from CU but am sick as a dog. I spent 4 hours at instacare on Monday night because I had a 101.7 fever that would not drop and could not stop coughing. Well, my fever has dropped to about 100, waffling back and forth between 99.5 and…
Busy in the studio on the computer still… I’ve been LOVING playing with digital images and and creating fun little doo-dahs. I’m in charge of the Charm Swap at Creative University and have been having so much fun with my charms. I can’t show you my charms just yet but I wanted to share with you the image I am using on one of them (the Victorian Vintage Charm Swap)… This image is MUCH bigger than what the charm image…
Hello! This morning I had an email from a friend asking me if I had seen a particular template she had been looking for “a slipcovered brownie mix” or something like that… I did a little searching and found nothing but I remembered that some mixes we bought from Lehi Roller Mills last year had “slipcovers” on them. So this morning I set out to create my own template. This is a simple tutorial. I shot from the hip and…
I had a jewelry making class at my home on Friday night. We had 3 girls get sick, but the 6 who made it and, aside from some wire gone wild, had a BLAST! We did crocheted necklaces and laughed into the wee hours of the night. Here are the girls and their necklaces. Everyone did long necklaces this time. Totally fun! (There are only 5 who finished because Sierra’s wire was literally hopelessly tangled and she has to start…
Hey friends! Back with the promised shabby chic feather birdie tutorial just for you! I hope you all had a marvelous Thanksgiving and are recovering from the crazy Black Friday sales! Brent and I skipped them this year and slept in in our nice cozy bed. 🙂 When I made the Christmas tree for my studio I wanted something fluffy and white for it to fill in some gaps and thought feather birdies would be perfect but I wasn’t able…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! We got our first real teeny bit of sticking snow this past weekend and while parts of Utah more north than us got hit hard last night we got only maybe 3”more… YAY! I guess it is FINALLY time to put away the flip flops and capris and pull out the warm fuzzy slippers and polar bear jammies. I am SO excited for Christmas this year. I have no clue…
So I have been working on a little project and needed a base for it. When Stacey was here we wandered the aisles of WalMart one afternoon and found some fabulous deals on fall clearance items. In fact, the store workers were marking them down as we were approaching the aisles. AWESOME! I found a couple of these fabulous (yet ugly in their current state) urn/vases filled with scraggly sad looking fall foliage. I picked this one up for $5.00. …
Hey friends! Sorry I haven’t been around much this week… I didn’t get more owls sewn or even clean my studio up because I worked a couple extra days this week and have been learning the ins and outs of the Ustream broadcasting process. I also went to the dr again for my knee pain and had a lovely “little” cortisone shot in my knee. Let me just tell you… that was a whole new adventure in pain. LOL! It…
I just wanted to clarify… I know that I said they were completely handstitched but they are MOSTLY handstitched.. lol! The pumpkins are sewn by machine to make the round and all the details are added in by hand stitching (instead of gluing). I will show you how it’s done when I do the UStream video next week. The “pattern” for this came from Fiskars online. My Ustream channel will be located here: The Inky Smiles Craft Lounge I…
Hi Friends! It’s been a busy few/several weeks here at the Inky Smiles house. We’ve been CANNING (tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers). ‘Nuff Said. LOL! However, I did find some time to spend in my studio and play around with some crafty things. My friend, Jeanne, had a birthday last week and I had this little gem ready and waiting to be sent to her for the longest time. I cut out butterflies from misc papers from my stash and placed them…