Wanna Make Wednesday

Well I have a few things on my plate to make at the moment. Mostly birthday gifts and a few WIPs.
A list of things I want to make after all those are done wouldn't hurt though =P

There are a few things I want to make some special people as big Thank Yous for all they do for me!
First is for my Mom, I already have the yarn. Now I just have to wait to get paid next week to buy this pattern.



from Lucy Ravenscar

I want to make these fishing lures for Jeremy. I am thinking all Pabst caps or maybe some Sam Adams ones (those are his two favorite beers).



made by Alexus1325

I saw this pattern and thought it was so funny! I'm not going to make it for my Dad because A. What would he do with it? and B. The dog would probably eat it but...its still cute!



from SkyMagenta

I don't have kids but holy crap as soon as I do, I am making one of these!!



from InnerHooker

OMG and as soon as Jessie has a kid, I'm making it this Racoon Hat!!



also from InnerHooker

I might have to learn to knit just so I could make myself this spider hat!! It's shown on a kid but it says it's all sizes!



from TotToppers

These crochet gourds are freaking adorable!!



from Eternal Sunshine

I LOVE this!! I'm very sad it's sold though =(



from Arte Sanity

That's all for this week!

New Car!!

This post has nothing to do with crafts, it just has to do with the most amazing day of my life.
Sunday was book club, as is the first Sunday of every month. Nothing unusual about that.
I got to Liz's about 12:30 and Shannon was already there. Katie was making a guest appearance (she moved to Rochester so is no longer able to make it to book club) and Kristin had to work so she wouldn't be there til about 2:30. Jess went camping with her boyfriend and some other friends up in Lake George. I thought it was just going to be another regular book club...little did I know!
Mrs. Hoens (Liz's mom) had made us a TON of food. Which wasn't totally weird because she loves any reason to have a party and since book club happened to fall on Labor Day, she went all out! Burgers, dogs, potato salad as far as the eye could see, cookies, drinks, etc. Normally we just have breakfast food and mimosas that we all supply ourselves.
We were all hanging out chatting away like we normally do about nothing in particular, just catching up.
I didn't notice Liz got up but then I heard her by the front door say "OMG come look, my neighbor got a new puppy!" I of course jumped up from the table and ran to the door! I love puppies!!
As soon as I got to the door I was completely confused. The first person I saw was my friend Bryan who I haven't seen in almost a month. Then I saw Jeremy and my mother and my sister and Bryan's girlfriend Taylor. I just stood staring at them completely confused.
Someone said "so there's not a puppy..." and I asked what the hell they were all doing there. That's when my mom said that Jeremy worked with my Dad and got me a car!!!!!!
I was pretty much shell shocked and just stood in the Hoens' front yard staring at this car that was allegedly mine. Eventually I said I didn't understand what was going on. Jeremy explained that he wanted to get me a car, he called my Dad who helped him find it. Jeremy asked that instead of anyone getting my presents for my birthday, they just give him the money to go toward the car.
I honestly do not have the right words to explain the emotions that were running through me. I did start balling my eyes out and just stuffed myself in Jeremy's arms and didn't want to let go. Eventually he told me I should go thank everyone else so I gave everyone hugs and cried all over them. Apparently this has been in the works since August and the plan was to give me the car at a party Shannon is hosting at her house on the 25th. Since my car totally crapped out a few weeks ago the plan was moved up!
To stand there and look at all these people who care about me and love me so much to do this for me was so overwhelming. I couldn't stop crying, it still really hasn't sunk in that I have a car. And a really nice car!! It's a 2003 Toyota Carolla and it has an automatic starter!!!
Everyone hung out for a while at Liz's and ate all this food that Mrs. Hoens had made. That night Kristin and I went to see Stone Temple Pilots at PNC Bank Arts Center and on the drive there I called my Dad to thank him (he works 3rd shift so he doesn't get up til 4:30) and I started crying all over again.
The concert was freaking amazing!! I love Scott Weiland, he's so skinny and lanky and wiggles all over the stage. They sounded really great and Kristin and I had really awesome seats!! They played every song I wanted them to and my favorite was one of the encores "Dead & Bloated". They were such an awesome band too, the bass player took someones camera out of the audience and took a picture of them, I thought that was freaking awesome! They threw out tons of guitar pics and drum heads and even shook a whole bunch of people's hands in the crowd. I love to see a band who appreciates their fans!!
On the drive home I kept thinking about all these people in my life who care about me and helped get me this car. So I cried almost the whole way home. Alot of stuff has been stressing me out lately and everything has been working out so well I literally have nothing to stress over anymore. It's an amazing feeling and it's all thanks to all the amazing people in my life.
I have no idea how I could ever repay or thank Jeremy enough for all that he does for me but I plan on spending the rest of my life trying to!!
Whew I'm getting all weepy again!

Shirts!

My friend Kristin's sister Erin is the Maid of Honor in a wedding next month. She asked if I would make shirts for the Bachelorette Pary. Of course I said yes when she told me I would be paid!!
They will be going to a Phillies game Sept 18 and everyone going has a shirt, 10 if them, whew! Erin bought all the supplies and had the ideas. She came over one night and we finalized the details so I could get to work. She wanted the fronts of all the shirts to say "Final Swing Before the Ring" with a baseball. She wasn't sure of the font so I suggested a font that looks like the Phillies' logo. She liked this idea so I had to find this font!! Turns out the MLB does not pulish the fonts it's teams use...wack! So I just had to look at their jersey's and wing it! As I was looking around for the font, I realized that whenever possible the Phillies will change an "F" in the beginning of a word to "Ph". I asked Erin if she'd rather the shirts say "Phinal Swing Before the Ring" and she liked that idea too!
On the back of the shirts Erin requested a cursive font with 6 shirts saying "Katherine's Bachlorette Party" and the others said "Bride to Be", "Maid of Honor", Sister of the Bride" and "Future Sister in Law" respectively.
I was excited to make these shirts because I've never done anything in such a large quanity or that I would paid for!
Of course the week after Erin brought this idea to me, we were offered overtime at work. We aren't offered OT very often so when we are, I like to take as much advantage of this as possible! So for a few weeks I was working 12 hours a day (except weekends of course) so I didn't have a lot of time to work on the shirts. I tried to get as much done on the weekends as I could.
I gave Erin 6 of the shirts yesterday and I finished the other 4 last night and they are waiting in my car to be mailed after work today.
I've done other image reproduction things on shirts before but never anything like this. I always just used freezer paper to make stencils but since you can only use freezer paper once, I had to find something better! I used those plastic sheets that you put report pages in during high school LOL
They worked really well, I just cut the stencils out with an exacto knife, used a spray adhesive to stick them onto the shirts and then painted away. I did have to be careful pulling the stencils off so that the plastic didn't tear but it was WAY better than cutting out 20 stencils!!
I had quite a production line going in my apartment with one area for stenciling the backs, one for drying, one for stenciling the fronts, one for touching up the fronts and one for adding on the baseball and the final drying. It looked like a tshirt graveyard in there LOL
Jeremy came over yesterday and as soon as he got to the top of the stairs he said "they look like Phillies shirts". That made me SOO happy because that is exactly what I was going for!
They are going to the game next Saturday and I am hoping that 10 girls in matching shirts get on tv!!
I don't have pictures of all the shirts, just the last 4.









I don't want to see my exacto knife for at least a month after this project!!
Thank you Erin for thinking of me to do this for you and I sure hope everyone loves them!!

Fill in the Blank Friday

I started following another blog that does this cute little Fill in the Blank Friday thing. It kind of reminds me of those Myspace surveys, remember those? Ugh! I probably won't do them all, just the ones I like.
This one is travel themed and traveling i LOVE so here we go...


1. If I didn't have to work anymore I would...stay home and craft my ass off and try my hand at selling some of those crafts. Also, I'd cook and bake alot more.


2. My favorite thing about a vacation is...seeing new places, meeting new people and realizing that there is so much more to this world than I ever remember when wrapped up in my own life at home!


3. When packing for a trip I...take pretty much my entire bathroom minus the toilet, sink and shower. I also make a massive list so I don't forget anything!


4. If I could go on a road trip with anyone (dead OR alive) I would choose...well I've been on two with my BFF Liz and one with Jeremy so another one I would love to go on with my Aunt Stephanie. She lives in Denver (very far from me) and whenever I talk to her, I realize how much we are alike and I feel I have alot I could learn from her. Plus we'd have a freaking blast together!!


5. My top 3 absolute travel essentials are...music, my camera and tissues. I never know when my allergies may attack me and I need to be prepared!! Snot really can ruin a good time!

6. Vacations are...essential to life and I feel sorry for people who don't go on them.


7. On vacation you must always...eat at little ma & pa places, never eat at chain restaurants, buy lots of souveniors and take more pictures than necessary.


Man I'm in need of a Vacay now!!

Wishlist Wednesday

Yesterday I was looking around for fabric for an apron my sister has requested as her Christmas Present. I found so many amazing Halloween fabrics that I wish I could have...although I have no idea what I would do with most of them!

Ooo purple spiderwebs...



Love these eyes!



Creepy crawly spiders!!



Bat Attack!



All kinds of Halloween Goodness!



Spiraly Spiderwebs!



Hearses...need I say more?!



Owls!



Lovely Haunted Mansion!



Spooky Woods!



These can all be found on either Fabric.com or BugFabric.com

Happy September Everybody!!

My Plugs Arrived!!

Yay!!
Yesterday morning on my way out the door to work there was my package with my new earrings that I won in The Dainty Squids Giveaway!!
I tried to get pictures of them but the glare was ridiculous or they were too washed out to see the music notes so this picture is from Ark's Endeavors etsy shop.
The backs are red so it's like I got two for one, woot!!



They are so lovely and I'm so happy with them!!
Thank you Dainty Squid and Ark's Endeavors!!

Domestic Kitties

I found these embroidery patterns at Joanns soooo long ago and I bought them with the idea of making a few of them for Jessie. She loves cute animals and she loves cats even more so...it only made sense! I started these cats freaking months ago, at least over 6 months ago because we were still living together!
She randomly would ask about them and jokingly ask how they're coming along since she could see all the other projects I was starting and finishing.
I'm giving her 3 of them to hang in her kitchen, I finished two of them last night finally!!
The actual cats have been embroidered for a while now, I just really wanted to add borders because they were too plain looking but never got around to it.

Kittie Cooking! I really love the border I did on this one, I just repeated the design of the little flowers on the apron.





Kittie Sweeping! This border I got the idea for from the detail on the broom. This was also the first time I did french knots, they aren't perfect but I like them just the same.




I know the pictures are kind of dark but I took them at 11:00 last night and the flash was washing them out too much. These at least show the true colors but I am going to try and take pictures of my projects during the day from now on, sunlight makes everything look better!
There's one more kittie to finish, he's about 75% done...let's see how long it takes to get him finished =P