Not Enough Time In The Day

I have so many projects and things that I want to do, but there just isn't enough time in the day. Especially when I am a stay at home mom and just can feel the dirty dishes and dirty laundry piles growing bigger and bigger as I type! Seriously, I hate doing both of those jobs, but they are never ending! Anyways! I did get three dresses for dress a girl around the world sewn up. Here are the finished projects.

I painted some hearts on this one to make it pretty.

This is my favorite pattern! Which just happened to be a sheet that I have used for various other sewing projects.

This is a longer version with a pocket (which I had never done before).

I also had never sewn with elastic and bias fabric. Which took some getting used to,

but I am a pro now! *ya right!* I am thinking of adding a little note to each one saying my name and where I live and some nice words.

All I have to do is send them out.Which is something that I am always such a procrastinator about! Maybe it is because I hate standing in line at the post office with two crazy boys who think it is a jungle gym in there! I also have some presents to send out so maybe I just need to get on that!

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I have been so inspired by the blog CensationalGirl.com that I went out and bought spray paint, primer, and stain to get my paint on! I spray painted a small wine rack yellow that was a previous blah black color. *sorry no pics, I was bad about that*. I bought spray paint primer in white, put that on first and then spray painted with the yellow. It looks so cute! I also was given a kennel by a friend and just wanted to give it another coat of black spray paint to freshen it up. It looks like brand new! All I have to do is put it together.

 I also bought a wood stain in purple (per B's request since that is his favorite color). We have a bench that was sitting in our garage for a year that my husband put together from scratch. It was just bare wood and I wanted to get going on staining it before another year passed. After cleaning out my garage on one of the beautiful days we had this past week, I finally got through the junk surrounding the bench and started the stain. I have one coat on and will put one more on soon. Then top with a clear gloss stain and I am done. But like I mentioned before, there is only so much time in the day!

*sigh* Someday I will get all of the projects I have half started done!

Got any good projects on your end? Let me know how they are going!

THINK SPRING!!

Puppet Master's Humpday Hangover

The puppets are done! I am ready to make some more! They were so easy and so fun to see the boys play with them.

Here are the materials:

• Puppet Template
• Pen/Marker
• Felt or any other sturdy fabric
• Scissors
• Sewing Machine
• Thread that matches the color of your puppet
• Hot glue gun or other type of glue (optional)
• Acrylic Paint and paintbrush(optional)

First I printed out the puppet template, cut it out and traced onto my felt.

I put another piece of felt, the same color as the felt I traced on, for the back of my puppet.

I put pins on the head, arms, and bottom so it stays together while I am cutting.

This is what it looks like after you cut and before you sew. I begin sewing in the bottom left hand corner and sew around the whole puppet towards the head. That way you have one consistent line.

Hello puppet! All it needs is a face!

I made this one into a simple ghost by painting the face on with a small paintbrush.

Here are some of the more advanced ones I did.

For the alien and the lizard, I pre-cut the tongue, antennae, and small circles for the eyes and spots and hot glued them to the top part of the puppet before sewing.

The top ones I made for my boys. I made shirts and hair for them. I made the shirts by tracing the body part of the puppet and free hand drew where the neckline and sleeves would be.

For the hair I traced the head shape from the puppet template and then free hand drew what I wanted the hair to look like.

For everything that is going on the top portion of the puppet, it is a good idea to glue or sew those parts on before you sew the outline of the puppet. That way you do not glue or sew the back and front together!

Beginning of hair.

After hair!

Here are the boys enjoying their look-alike puppets!

I meant to post this yesterday, but got into putting Christmas decorations up and never got back to it. So, I am going to do a Humpday Hangover of things that are keeping my attention right now and that you might enjoy checking out before the week is done!

• I love Adele! Her voice and sound just really makes me relate to what she is singing or just want to get up and dance. Her new album comes out in February. I don't buy many CD's but this one might be an exceptions. Here is a song from her upcoming album 21.

                                   

• I really liked Jessica Seinfeld's first cookbook Deceptively Delicious. She came out with a new one called Double Delicious.

There are way more recipes that still include the same premise of adding veggies to ordinary recipes, yet you wouldn't even know it!

P.S. I like to check out cook books from the library and look thru them before I decide if I would permanently like to add them to my collection.

• If you like zombies, then you will be half excited, half disappointed that the season finale of The Walking Dead will be on AMC this Sunday. Can't wait to see what happens!!!!

I love me some good ol' hairdressing! Check out these photos from jakandjil.com (which is a super cool website on everything fashion with great photography!)

• So Exciting! I got my first ornament in the mail from The Color Challenge Ornament Swap.

 You make three different ornaments only using the colors green, red, and gold. You then get the addresses of those you send your handmade ornaments to from the creator of the event, Louise Gale , and in turn you get three ornaments from other crafters.

This is supposed to hang, but you wouldn't have been able to see the beautiful hand drawn and painted details of the ornament if I took a hanging photo.

I also received this cute drawing of Santa that I am going to frame and put up for Christmas.

Thank you Heather Foust!

P.S. She also has an etsy store!

I do have my ornaments done and they are waiting to be sent out. I would post pictures, but don't want to spoil it for anyone who gets them in the mail! I will link to the flickr page in the future.

I will leave you with a little food for thought for that Humpday Hangover: