birdies!

adorable birdie bunting up in my shop now!

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You know, this summer seems to have breezed by in a haze of laziness on my part. I haven't update my Etsy shop since July and I haven't embarked on any big projects as of late. I went on vacation and came back refreshed, but came back to heat that I just found so awful I have done nothing but watch television and play video games. (And read! But that's a given)

I finally made it around to a Totally Tim Studio Day at Scrapbook 911. Studio Day is when you work on whatever you'd like and there's demos and whatnot of Tim Holtz products. It was a good time and I did get a project done!

Although, now that I think about it, it was more a 7 Gypsies inspired project...oh well!

I put together this box from over at One Lucky Day mostly because I wanted to see if I could measure and cut, then build, a box from scratch. I'm not the best with measurements and straight lines as it is, but found this to be a breeze to put together. It was a bit on the time consuming side, but very satisfying once the box started coming together.

In progress:


Best part: now that I know I can build a box from scratch, I know I can build them in different sizes to suit my needs.

Box without it's roof: It's lined with some paper I picked up at 911 (which I now can't remember what it's called) and to that I just edged it out with some distressed ink. The doilies I sprayed with Adirondack Colorwash Spray. ( I love that stuff) The rest is just millinery flowers and bird, a branch from a nearby bush, and some Prima fabric leaves.



All carefully glued together to become this:


No clue where I'll hang it, but I do love it. It further shows my love (okay, obsession) with bird houses and little mini-buntings!

Country Living!

A few months ago I had this bunting up in my Etsy shop. It was one of the first I'd ever made and I figured I'd throw it out there to see what happened.

Well, something BIG happened. I got an email from a woman who does photo styling for Country Living magazine. She wanted to purchase that bunting and one more like it, if I had it, to use in a 4th of July shoot that she had coming up. We emailed back and forth, buntings were purchased and shipped overnight to New York City...and then I just put it in the back of my mind. I didn't want to tell everyone and not have my bunting be in the magazine.

So I waited. And waited. And finally the July issue came and flipping through it, I was trying to not get excited about it. I was near the back and I didn't have my hopes up. Flip the page and gasp! There was my bunting!



I still need to get a frame for the page. And that's the only shot of the bunting, but I'm damned excited and proud.

And to think, I haven't made a bunting since. Nor have I blogged or updated my shop or the shop Facebook page...I've been in a slight creative slump but it's coming back to me!

(p.s. look for a give-away to celebrate my birthday soon!)