Painted Onesies

More stuff we made for the baby shower.  Just target onesies painted with fabric paint.  Enjoy!

C's replica of the dad's favorite shirt.

C's signature Armadillo cat.  I'm still trying to convince her this should be a web comic.

My rendition of flowers.

How I draw a camera, apparently.

My version of their cat.

All to important "Dirty Dancing" reference.

Attempted baby pun.  Love bleed a little, typical love.

C's ducky skills.

C's version of their cat.

C's version of the all too important Hankler fish.

Changing pad of awesomeness.

 C and I made this changing pad for our friends impending baby.

We used this youtube tutorial and just changed it a bit: http://youtu.be/_cagZqGQ2-w.

I cut out the pieces and printed the pictures of their cat on the fabric and C sewed the business together.  Teamwork!





All folded up and ready to go.


Close up of the Kitty pocket.  Here's storage for wetnaps or what have you.


She's not surprised.  She always looks like that.

Money Tree!

C and I made a money tree for our friends' wedding.  C folded a bunch of fives into leaves and I wired them to a dowel rod with plastic blooms.  Behold!

As modeled by my chair.

Money tree in it's natural setting.

Close up of the "butterfly."  Please note the bells and dimes, I thought it was funny.

Daisey and Abe.

Close up of the base.  Marbles, chocolate coins, dominoes and quarters.

Beautifully curled leaf.

In full grandeur.

Packaged and ready to go to the wedding.

Close up through the netting.

Apron

Here's an apron C and I made together for a friend's bridal shower.
The silver/grey diamonds are pockets we made from ironing board cover material.  Trimmed with lace an plastic pearl beads.

It was from a vintage style Butterick pattern.  B5435, view C.

Guitar Art

Here's another ancient craft resurrected for the old rehtaeh blog.

My friend, Chris Lockett, makes beautiful music.  For one of his album releases, he requested I decorate this guitar with the song titles from the album.

In this picture, you can see the template he gave me to copy.

 

 In progress shot.  The outline is done in China marker.  The fill is acrylic paint.

Chris has a new album out, which you can purchase here.

And here's a video of Chris playing one of the songs:

Thanks for looking!
:-) Heather

James Bond Purse

Hey!

Here's a bag I made last year for my friend Athena's birthday.  She loves James Bond and Duran Duran, so I made her this "A View to a Kill" bag.  Unfortunately, it's not her favorite Bond film, but I think it's cuteness makes up for that.  It's a vinyl bag with a cotton lining.

Here are the pictures:

Finished bag.

Interesting placement on the spindle hole there.

Back of the purse.

I addes this magnetic snap on the back because I thought it was pretty.  There's no real funtion here.

The handles are retractable.  They're made of metal craft rings wrapped in vinyl and ribbon.

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Side view.

A peek inside.

Ribbons are necessary in all record purses.

This bag differs from my others in that I sandwiched the records between the bag and a clear piece of vinyl instead of drilling holes in the records and securing it with ribbon.

The vinyl here is all wrinkly, I'm hoping it smooths out over time.

Bag with the record sleeves.

As Always,

Heather

More old crafts- the Juno Bag

Hey!

So, here's another craft I made a few years ago: a Juno inspired messenger bag.  I made it for a chick on craftster who was let down in a craft swap.

It's got the school crest from the movie on it in fabric paint.

Here's the stencil I made, I used an old nylon stocking in an embroidery hoop to make it.  I printed off the crest from the interwebs, copied it onto the nylon in marker and then painted the negative spaces with mod podge.  Et viola- home made screen printer.  Then, I just put it on the bag and painted through it.  Placing it on the bag was the scariest part.  I didn't want to mess up the bag I had just sewn together.

The bag itself was this shiny, stretchy, maroon material with a black cotton lining.

She was a college student, so I put in lots of pockets for all her stuffs.

Lots of space for pens and what not:

Also, this extra little pocket on the flap, I made it yellow like the cute little shorts Michael Cera wore in the movie.

I didn't really know about all the stiff interfacing you can get at that time, so it's missing that extra structure a messenger bag really needs.  She seemed to like it anyway.

Thanks for looking!

As Always,
Heather

chandelier makeover

So, a long time ago (a year and a half ago, maybe), I bought a chandelier from a lady via craigslist.  And it looked like this, only with crystals hanging on it:



So, I removed the chain and stripped off the white paint and it looked like this:



Which was pretty, but kind of rusty.  So, I painted it green and it looked like this:



And here's the crystals being cleaned:


And here's the final result:


That's four spools of wire (green, blue and copper) crocheted with about fifty blue beads and over a hundred crystals (clear and pink).

The chain is three different types of chain I put together, alternating the links.  And the cool silver blub is an LED, but sadly far to bright.  I'll be substituting a fan bulb, but still LED so I don't have to worry about all the wires getting hot.

Thanks for looking!
Heather