Sunday, February 17, 2013

Recent Projects

New Spur Straps!!!
Plus my new belt buckle, and a gratuitous photo of a calf :) I drew up the design up during Bible Study one night,(see the next photo) and then D. did a little finessing, and made these up! I just love them! I went riding in them today (and walking around chasing cows/calves, hence the manure I didn't get cleaned off before I started my photo shoot...) Everyone asked how they were working....well, my spurs didn't fall off, and they didn't cut into my ankle either! So I'd say they were a success!

 My friend's daughter reaching for her daddy's hand at the playground...isn't it adorable?!?!?!
 In other news...I don't actually use my dishwasher to wash dishes, but rather as a super-deluxe drying rack. Well, it was getting a little cruddy, so I figured I'd run it to clean the inside up....wellllllllllll I ended up with a rather large puddle and the bottom full of water. My landlord said he'd order a new one, and come shop vac up the mess, but he forgot to clean out the dishwasher and my apartment was starting to smell musty....so I spent a buck on tubing and emptied it myself. I filled 2-3/4 of these 2-gallon buckets....I really didn't think there was that much water in there!
 And my current project: (a partial mock-up anyway...)

I'm designing my own purse, since I couldn't find one I liked! This is the start of the first redesign,  so we will see how it goes!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Cool Rug

So, I'm totally in love with this rug from "Good Luck Charlie"....



It's basically a crazy quilt on the floor. From watching them walk on it, it does look like it has a backing....if you look closely at the photos, it looks like the back is stitched to the front with some crazy embroidery....I definitely want to try making this soon....