This first photo was titled "nana's Loo Roll Lady" and I love the term. They are kind of the ultimate tacky craft. However, some are done lovingly and with some charm.

Labels: crafts, Tacky Craft Tuesday

Labels: crafts, kid art

I always forget how manic May is, with the end of school and all sorts of drama. However, I had a wonderfully quiet night with my stitch friends last week and figured out how to solve the lace addition on the side of the pillow:

I'm fairly proud of the solution, it was repaired by cutting with the pattern of the lace and then sewing the two pieces together with nylon invisible thread (oh, and click on the photo if you want a close up of the repair). I think you would have to look VERY closely to see the repair and it should hold better than the lace! :)

On the home front, I attended two back to back field days and today is Matey Moo's 6th birthday party. For pass out gifts we put together a collection of his favorite songs! (he insisted on the term "collection"! :) )

So, it's off to the bowling alley for the party! I'm hoping to finish up that pillow tomorrow and get caught up on other little projects around the house. I missed the Friday archives, but I'll catch up next week!

I'm hoping life will slow down, but with the last week of school upon us and my work not slowing up, I have a feeling it's not going to! One of my current projects is finding host families for 45 french students that will be in the Lakewood/North Denver area in July, so if you're in that area and are interested...let me know! :)

Labels: family life, lace, sewing

I'm not sure if you have read my post on "tacky or craft" or the follow up here but I thought it was about time to get some feedback on what people thought was tacky. I think the important thing with this is that it's your opinion...there is no wrong or right!

However, you have to admit that when flipping through the magazines of yesteryear, there were some crafts that were downright tacky! Like huge! So, I'm curious to see what everyone can dig up.

Here's my first find out of the November 1971 "Woman's Day" Magazine:


Now, that doesn't LOOK that bad, until you read the description:

24. Lint brushes are handy items to keep in entryway bedroom or car glove compartment. These are nylon net, plastic crochet rings, ribbon and plastic flowers. And you can turn them out by the dozen.

Well, let me tell you there are a bunch of things wrong with that. First, how do they work? I can't even picture it working (is my lint just smaller?). Yikes, they look like something that you would not have any idea what is and thus put in a garage sale. Which leads me to "turn them out by the dozen". So, did anyone get any of these as a gift?

I'm really looking forward to your submissions, so much so that I have created a flickr group and a badge!


Just put it on your blog and link back here. I'll highlight the best ones I see on the flickr group each week!

If you don't agree with someone's "tacky" then post your own! :) After all, someone's trash has always been another one's treasure!

Labels: Blogging, Tacky Craft Tuesday

Then this illustration was to illustrate famine in South Africa at the time. I believe the song "We are the World" was popular at the time and the profits were going to combat famine in Ethiopia, so obviously the subject was fairly common on teenagers minds.

Labels: art, drawing, Friday Archives

OK, so, as mentioned in my last post, I had my Crazy quilting Groups class today and learned how to do these spectacular flowers! There are more to come, but this was the first one...fairly easy and pretty spiffy results, eh? It's done with peyote stitch.
Then, my round robin block finally came home. This was worked on by my crazy quilting group and I must say it took them out of their comfort zone into something wonderful. Didn't it turn out fantastic?
And last, but definitely not least, my mother in law whipped up this cute outfit for Matey Moo's teddy bear:
Doesn't Teddy look Dapper? Well, we're going to be laying flagstone tomorrow, so Happy Mother's Day to all the other Mommy's out there! I guess it's appropriate to be laboring on a day I received because I went through labor! (ha, ha!)

Labels: beading, Crazy quilt, family life, quilting

I had a wonderful class at Crazy quilting today (pictures to come soon) but I had to put this up:


A very sweet flickr fan (who shall remain nameless until he says he likes the picture I did for him) admired my self portrait. If you've never read my blog before you'll know I'm a MAJOR Andy Warhol fan. So, from my scan of a Gerbera Daisy, I made the above pictures. I love it. I wonder if my daughter would love it in her room?

Labels: art, photography, Pop Art

Check this out:
Isn't that completely cool? Done by Jared Brown - these are just fantastic and for sale! You can get to the pieces from his flickr badge on the side of his blog. After perusing his blog, I'm not sure of his motivation, but his art and embroideries are definately interesting, original and fun.

I'm off to try to finish our patio...which means lugging a ton of flagstone and pulling weeds. We started our patio when my darling Matey Moo turned 2 (his 6th birthday is around the corner) and I'm flabbergasted it's not done. But this weekend we're on our way to finishing it....if it kills me...and it might.

Oh, and I still haven't gone to purchase my last bit of lace. I'll update with how I finish that. I promise! :)

Labels: family life, inspiration