A couple of weeks ago I was wandering around Big Lots while waiting for Brent to meet me at the ortho dr for a knee check up and saw this FABULOUS beaded and satin fabric frame that just needed to come home with me. {Seriously, it JUMPED into my card} So $5 and some tax later I was rolling all sorts of ideas around in my head for it. I wanted some cute letters cut out to spell “Fall” but…
For about a month now I have been keeping a little creative secret. I’ve been bursting at the seams to share. So now that Tresa Black has announced it on the official student website I can share my little joyful news! I am going to be a teacher for one of the mega classes at Creative University in February! This is my second year (first as a teacher) and there are going to be nearly 60 attendees this year! I…
Hey friends! I did not forget.. .lol! And my phone alarm kept screamin at me all day and all night. We got home after 10 pm last night from work and clothes shopping for my man. He was in “desperate” need of new work clothes. I’ve been working on training him in the fine art of clothes shopping and buying clothes more than once per year, but… we must have gotten sidetracked somewhere, lol! Anyway.. we enjoyed a delightful dinner…
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…
This week I’ve been having some fun shopping for fabric and drawing up patterns for some ideas for future projects. I have all these ideas rolling around in my head and I’m trying to stay off the computer and actually DO some crafting 🙂 It’s fall and I am so ready for the colors and textures and crisp cool air of fall, but it’s been in the 90’s this week. Yes, I know we live in a desert, but it’s…
So I’ve had this hankering for the past several weeks to SEW something.. something other than paper…. Poor Bernie (my Bernina Activa 240) has been staring at me from where she’s been sitting on the floor in my studio and I swear if she had puppy eyes, she’d have been using them… LOL! ANyway.. yesterday I was perusing the internet and came across a fun little project on the Fiskars website. Oooh La La! I found me a project.. and…
I just woke up from a Sunday afternoon nap and remembered I needed to post about the Where In The World photo guessing contest and a blog candy winner… Here’s the photo again: There were several guesses and you are all right.. it was taken in Yellowstone National Park and that is the Firehole River. This photo is looking back towards the Upper Geyser Basin (which is where you would find the Old Faithful area). If you turn to the…
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…
We’ve hit MONSOON season here in Utah. The weatherman has said we’d have “monsoonal moisture” the last couple of days and today… well, yesterday we had gale force winds and a doozy of a rainstorm and this afternoon we’ve had even more incredible gale force winds and one heck of a hail and rainstorm. This wasn’t just a downpour… it was an angry rain… it came down and pelted the flowers and plants in my garden and caused a great…