Lovey keyrings to be for sure.
I made these keyrings for Matty’s teacher and aides. A little wuv for Christmas. They do such a fine job of teaching Matty and keeping him safe and sound, I just had to show my appreciation. I baked ‘em cookies too!
materials used:
remnant leather
sueded leather
heavy duty topstitching thread
nickel keyrings
I love paper.
The feel of it.
The look of it.
The versatility.
The selection, my golly, the selection!
So I allow myself any excuse to work with some paper and glue.
I made our Christmas cards this year and I’m pretty darned pleased with how they came out. Mike admired the simplicity and elegance of my designs. Isn’t he the sweetest?
Of course, for as nice as they are, they’ll more than likely be a wee late, ’cause well, there sitting on the desk right now waiting to be stamped and mailed!
materials used:
vellum cardstock
linen cardstock
paper glue
archival ink
stamps
When I was a youngster, every year we broke out the same big ol’ box of Christmas decorations. There were many glass balls, lots of little plastic Santas and snowman and yards of glittery silver garland. (Never tinsel, garland.)
We hardly ever added anything to our holiday stash and anything subtracted was due to breakage.
The other day I was at the Salvation Army browsing and but who should I see laying in the glass case amongst other fine ornaments?
Why, it was Little Drummer Boy and he looked exactly as I remembered him.
We had these very same ornaments growing up, in red and green.
I knew I had to rescue the little guy from the musty stench of the Salvy.
So I paid the 4 bucks for him and took him on home.
He’s here now and just look at his awesome cherub face.
Maybe soon.
I’ve been a real busy bee these last few weeks.
The W-L High School Bazaar went very well.
As much as I like to sell my wares, it’s always a bit weird to let go of one of my favorite bags. Kookey right?
I almost want to tell customers, “Take good care of it okay? Love it like I did!”
But that would be, erm, kinda creepy?
Yeah.
Ahem.
So anyways, I need to update soon and all and I’ve done some recent stuff and all, so I will.
But in the meantime, a bit ago I made one of my cute little letter bag sets for our niece Tai. Remember this?
Here’s the cutey herself, sporting her new wee tote. Awww.
Did you know that a traditional third wedding anniversary gift is leather?
Isn’t that interesting?
I kept thinking of typical male, leather goods.
And I kept coming up with the very boring and somehow, not exactly ideal: belt, gloves, wallet, shoes.
Did I really want to give my lovey a belt for our third? Um, no.
So here is what I did.
I took an (already leather!) journal and made a cover for it.
Handsewn leather baby!
I really enjoyed making it personal, celebrating us.
I made the card too.
Which continued to be surprisingly pleasing.
Who knew that cutting paper and gluing it down would be so fun?
I’m a second-grader all over again!
Ze card:
I made the envelope too.
But you know, how excited is an envelope?
In my case, not very.
Picture it though.
materials used:
leather
heavy duty coated thread
all-purpose craft glue
archival ink stamp pad
alphabet stamps
scrap papers, recycled
gold tag paper
purchased graph journal
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