Hey folks! Not totally dead here and I did not fall off the face of the earth. Been busy canning and had my good friend, Stacey, here visiting for a week. I will try to pop on with some pics of crafty goodness again VERY SOON! Just whittling down some projects and duties that can’t be postponed this time of year at work, too. Inky Smiles and Hugs!Erin
Hello friends! I’ve been absent for a while from the blog. We’ve been crazy busy around here (that seems to be my life, doesn’t it?) again… Last Thursday I did a video at the Inky Smiles Craft Lounge and then it was crazy day after crazy day and I didn’t have a chance to post the pics of the book or anything else crafty fun. Friday I had a bunch of errands to run and ppl to meet and 54…
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…
For all my beautiful and wonderful sisters! Thanks to Beverly for posting this on her FB profile yesterday! Quoting Bev .. “Love this song Shaggy, but where’s my big and beautiful white women represented? LOL!” It’s a catchy and uplifting little tune. I hope you enjoy it! ~Inky Smiles! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mILsx_c-vXw&fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6]
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…