Saturday Selections! 10/24/2009

So to break things up a little bit, ever Saturday I'm going to post 4 to 6 pieces from different people that relate to the season, closest holiday, or just something random I happen to think about. :)

Being that it's fall and coming up on Halloween, I decided that this week's theme is pumpkins! Whether they are orange or yellow, big or small, carved or plain, they add the perfect touch to your home and yard in these crisp cold days before winter. Here are some of my favorite pumpkins on Etsy. I hope you like them too! :)

** Okay...so I was trying to make this into a cute little html table that looked vaguely like a Treasury, and I failed miserably. So before next week I will do some research as to how exactly I'm supposed to do that here. Until then enjoy the list of my favorite pumpkin pieces on Etsy! :) **

Fall Harvest Pumpkin - Classy Wool Felt Pin, Brooch, or Hair Clip by pammydawn

Knitted Pumpkins Centerpiece by KangarooKnits

Dollhouse Miniature Autumn Cake by fairchildart

Pumpkin No. 2 / clay figurine by ColdPorcelainDesigns

Satsuma Felt Food Sculpture by britishcreamtea

Autumn Pumpkin Felt Pincushion with Three Decorative Fall Pins by Me!

Have a happy Saturday everyone!

Later! :)

Perfect Day for Pictures

I got a lot of pics taken today. Some of my pieces still had there "I'll just take a quick pic so I can post this" pics. So I retook a whole bunch. This one was the biggest change (in my mind anyway).

Before


After



Oh and I also finally posted the casino dice pincushion.

Casino Dice Felt Pincushion with 3 Clay Poker Chip Pins

I think tonight I'll work on the Hufflepuff ornament some more. I haven't been doing a lot of sewing cause this cold is making me fuzzy, but I'm actually feeling slightly better this evening, so maybe it's starting to subside. Anyway, if I do some more on the ornament tonight, I'll post pics before I go to bed.

Later! :)

So now that I have a moment to breathe...

Let me catch up on everything I've been doing. Friday I finished the beehive.



Well it's not "finished" finished, I still need to do the door and the pins, but the main part is done. It was actually pretty easy to put together!

Let see what else? Oh, I finished sewing non slip pads on the bottoms of all my half finished pieces. And I finished sewing my pie! You can see a finished pic of it in my last post. Oh also in my last post is pic of a completed Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon I made Friday night. That brings us to Saturday.

Saturday I went to my mom's to do a mock up of the craft fair which is SATURDAY AAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!....... Okay...I'm better now. :) If you need more info on the craft show, here's a link to my original post about it:

Craft Show Post

We're going to have a 10' x 10' tent, which turns out to be much more room then I thought. We set up the tables in my mom's basement, since it was like 100% humidity outside that day! (Oh, and I'll just add that my brother's trashed the basement the day before, so it doesn't normally look like this!) The first pics here are the tables set up assuming we are the only ones going. We being Amber (The Wandering Knitter), her sister Heather (Gilliantwo), and me.



The second table is also going to have two "T" shaped holders for scarves to hang from. The next set of pics is assuming my sister Amanda's sister-in-law Melissa is coming with her jewelry.



In this set up the first table would only have one "T" scarf holder. I'll take some pics at the craft show next weekend to show everyone. It should look really nice.

After we finished that, I did a couple more lollipop ghosts. Then I started a couple small pincushions, cause I needed to work on something simple.



One is the moon and the other is the sun, and they are about half the size of my other pincushions. I'm going to embroider them and probably make one pin each for them. Then I ran to Michael's to get a couple things I'd run out of. And when I got back we went home.

When we got home, I worked on scupley. I finished the birds for the pie, the ribbons for the ribbon, a second try at gumdrops (fail), and 1 of the poker chip pins for the dice.



I did the blue one Saturday night, and the other two I did Sunday. It was my first attempt at cane work. And considering I'd never done it before (and I don't own a very sharp sculpey knife) they came out pretty good! I'm just glad the die was red, so I didn't have to try it with red clay! I also made some fall pins for the pumpkin (see below).

Speaking of Sunday, since it was actually sunny out, I got some pretty good pics of the pie and the ribbon, then I posted them. I also did the other two poker pins. I was gonna do more sculpey, but I ran out of steam. So instead we had dinner put the kids to bed and watched a movie while I sewed.

I finished the pumpkin and as soon as I am done here, I'm posting it. Here's a pre-posted pic:


It came out really cute! :) Now I just need to do some better pics tomorrow. Along with gathering everything up from my mom's so I don't have stuff for the craft show in 40 locations.

Okay, time to post the pumpkin. I'd post the dice too, but I'm going to embroider Atlantic City on the 2 side. Alright, back to work!

Later!

I am trying to update...honest I am.

So my youngest son Jake has horrible diaper rash, that I got medication from the doctor for yesterday. Today he won't let me put him down, cause he's not feeling well. So I got not one thing done today. Luckily I did get something done yesterday.

I started on a pumpkin. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it a plain pumpkin or a jack-o-lanturn. We'll see how it looks when it's done.

I am now going to see if I can get some better pics of my pincushions now that Pat is home and can take the very clingy baby off my leg! :)

Later!