Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
(No spottings of the Princes that day, but we did walk down to see the school they went to as kids)
I love to travel and have been lucky enough to have visited a lot of amazing places. Every Wednesday I’m planning on featuring one picture of the places I’ve been.
Another reason (other than school) that I haven’t posted much lately is because I have been working on this:
It has taken FOREVER, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. I used a pattern from Honeybear Lane. Of course until after I got it that I realized that it had 50 steps. But since I paid for it already I forged ahead. My cousin just had a baby boy, so this is for Baby Brody. I’ll be honest, the only reason it got done today is because I want to give it to my cousin tomorrow when the family gets together for Easter. I need to do laundry, clean my apartment and study for my Estates & Trusts finals. It is my no mean perfect, but I figure the baby won’t care.
I only used four fabrics for the puffs instead of the eight she recommends. I also doubled the batting so the border would be even puffier. The binding didn’t go so well so I had to improvise a bit, but it works.
I love the lion fabric! And the blue looks awesome next to it. The yellow (it has little bees on it), polka dot, and green fabrics are cotton. The one with animals is a flannel and the green backing is flannel as well. The binding is a blue cotton as well.
I’m a glutton for punishment, so I’m making another one for the Boy’s cousin who also just had a baby boy. I’m hoping the second one goes faster than the first. Its not a hard pattern, just time consuming. I have a friend who is having a baby girl soon, so maybe if I get good at it, she’ll get one too.
Arc du Triomphe, Paris, France
I love to travel and have been lucky enough to have visited a lot of amazing places. Every Wednesday I’m planning on featuring one picture of the places I’ve been.
The Boy and I were at Target after St. Patrick’s Day, so of course we were perusing the clearance. The Boy loves St. Patty’s Day and I love projects, so when I saw how cheap their holiday bowls and cups were, I couldn’t help myself.
I use E6000 to glue the cup in between the big and little bowls. It’s plenty big for lots of chips and then the dip can go in the top. I love that the cup matches the bowls so well.
Simple, cheap and practical. My kind of project. It takes up a bit of cabinet space, but that’s okay. And since the Boy likes being Irish so much that we can use it all year round.
It has been far too long since I have last posted and I want to thank everyone who’s still here. Law school is way super lame and I have been crazy busy with end of the year/end of it all forever stuff. Some of it has been fun, but most of it has been work and it has all left me super tired. Since I didn’t think you really wanted to know about my latest creation, which was a 15 page memo to a fictitious client about the pros and cons of a couple of financing proposals, I finally photographed some random stuff that I thought you might be interested in.
This first one is something I did right after I got back from England and was still super homesick for my second home. It was funny how I was homesick while I was there but equally as homesick when I got home. I wanted a place to keep some mementos and I was going though a Mod Podge phase. I started out with a cigar box. Honestly, I can’t remember where it came from but I think my dad somehow came home with a bunch one day or something. No one in our family smokes cigars but I do come from a long line of dumpster divers, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Basically all I did was cut blue, red and silver pictures out of magazines and went to town. To get the top just right, I printed the outline of the British flag (found it on Google by searching for coloring pages). Then I cut the pieces out, kind of like a puzzle, and Mod Podged the right color clippings to each of the red and blue parts then Mod Podged the whole thing together onto the lid that I had done in all silver. Doing the top one color made it so I didn’t have to get everything lined up perfectly. I made a journal using the same technique, but I think it is in a box somewhere at the moment, still waiting for its turn to be used.
The body of the box is red because that is probably what I had the most of. The inside of the lid is foil because it is not all that easy finding pictures that have big chunks of silver.
It holds birthday cards, Underground tickets and other trinkets from my year abroad. They’re pretty happy in their pretty little home. Here’s one more close up of the top.
Palacio Real de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
(I loved this light pole in the middle of the courtyard)
I love to travel and have been lucky enough to have visited a lot of amazing places. Every Wednesday I’m planning on featuring one picture of the places I’ve been.
