Chronicle Books

Another must-see of mine was to visit on zee Honeymoon was Chronicle Books; they publish all of my favorite crafty books. I love Chronicle Books for the types of books they publish, not only the crafty ones. They carry authors with like-minded quirkiness as myself. I picked up these while there: Softies, My Quotable Kid, Listography, and Bear in Underwear for the lil one. She loves that book! The illustrations are adorable and it is such a funny book. A bear in tightie whities = genius! I recommend My Quotable Kid to any parents out there. My child says the most random things so I like to jot them down in the My Quotable Kid journal, as well as on Twitter so I can share her craziness with everybody. Feel free to follow me here.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Belated Baby with Bow & Arrow and Wings Day! I signed up to bring the cupcakes for my daughter's class party for Valentine's Day. I had so much fun making them for the Halloween party, I figured why not? I've been bad and haven't been posting as often as I should. But these were the cupcakes I made for her Halloween Party. My daughter loves Candy Corn, so they were quite perfect and easy to make too.

We had a cupcake making party at the bestie's. She's more than awesome at specialty cakes so I knew she'd have everything necessary to make awesome cupcakes. That and its always a good excuse so we can get together. Her sis, who is a teacher, came by to make cupcakes for her class too. There were cupcakes everywhere :)

For the Valentine's cupcakes I didn't do anything fancy per se for the actual cakes but I dressed up the presentation a bit. My family and I recently watched The Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'Hoole via Netflix (we are avid promoters of Netflix; if you don't have Netflix you are missing out!) Whilst watching the Tyto Owls I fell in love with their cute heart shaped faces and decided to use them as the inspiration for my daughter's valentines for her classmates. I'm big on themes so I made coordinating cupcake wrappers and cupcake toppers as well. I may post printables in the near future, or sooner if there is a demand for them :P

It's only been 8 months...

I'm only almost a year late on posting this but whatevs. For our honeymoon back in June the hubby and I went to San Fran. There were a couple stops on our agenda that we wanted to visit. One of mine was the Britex fabric store. Being a fan of both sewing and Project Runway I became educated on wonderful places like Britex. Four wonderful floors of fabrics and notions. I was particularly smitten by their collection of Liberty fabrics. The 3rd floor was particularly my fave since it consisted all of notions; trimmings, buttons, and anything else fun.I ended up walking away with some lovely oilcloth and ribbon trims.

freshlyblended Ornament Swap

I'm happy to say that this year I will be participating in freshlyblended's 5th Annual Ornament Swap! Swapping with others is a great way to meet like-minded crafter's and not to mention receive awesome little treats in the mail ;) This is my first ornament swap so I'm excited to join in on the fun. I hope my swappers like their ornaments!

Halloween Costumes 2010

I am so, so happy with how well my costume making went this Halloween. As mentioned in my previous posts, it was my first full on garment so I was worried whether or not I could pull it off. While it wouldn't be able to be sold in stores anytime soon, due to some of my crazy stitching, I am so proud of how my daughter's Pink Cheetah outfit turned out. It was wearable and functional. And it held up for both her preschool party and Halloween night. No wardrobe malfunctions here!

My husband has a tendency to do low commitment Halloween costumes. Meaning he doesn't like anything too overly complicated. The more he gets to wear normal clothes the better. So we came up with the idea for him to be Wolf Man. We both agreed that a typical plastic wolf mask would be lame (and not good for the kiddies.) So we were quite happy when we came across the werewolf hood in Simplicity pattern#: 2513. It was my first time working with fur and yes it does get everywhere! But it was pretty easy to sew. Luckily we were only doing the hood and not the full on pattern including the chest plate. I am quite proud of it.

As for myself, well I had to take a backseat to a homemade costume since I was focusing more on them. But I got the Sherlock Holmes idea from the Simplicity 2513 pattern. I already had a tweed capelette, a fancy hat, and oxford shoes. All I had to do was pickup a smoking pipe and magnifying glass and I was all set ;)