A few projects that are long since completed

Two sets of baby bedding. They're really cute. It's hard to see exactly how cute from the pics, but rest assured it's the cutest bedding you've ever seen. Mamas did a good job picking out fabric.

A lamp I made. Actually two of them. Our music room has absolutely no ceiling lighting. I didn't want a floor lamp, because in the past the children have ruined them. I didn't want a table lamp, because we don't have a table in there. I really wanted something on the mantle, but didn't think a conventional lamp with shade would look right. So I invented this lamp.
I borrowed a jig saw from a friend who has every tool imaginable. I cut two circles out of MDF, one slightly larger than the other. Hollowed out the bigger one, and drilled hole for lamp cord. Glue big and little circles together. Paint. Screw in super excellent socket I got at a specialty lighting store (Home Depot apparently has ALMOST everything.) Attach the cord kit to the socket. Twist in lightbulb. Add candle hurricane from Michael's. Viola. It did cost about $40/lamp. So I didn't save any money, darn-it. But I did get exactly what I wanted. I still have to tape the cord to the fireplace, so it's not tackily floating around. The lamp on the right has tissue paper on the glass. The bulb was a little bright, right at eye level. I realized why all lamps have shades. But I love the look of exposed light bulb when it's not on. I ended up taking the tissue paper off, but maybe will put it back on if I have guests over in the evening.

I made a quilt for a wedding present. Didn't take a picture. The whole quilt was grey and white stripes with mustard binding and a big mustard house on it and embroidery of our kids artwork. There was a big rose, a sun, and cute family of apples. I think they liked it. I should've taken a picture. The bed below was the closest thing I could find so you can visualize it. But my stripes were much bolder. I think they were 4 inches each.

Cool headboard for that bed, eh?

I made the girls Valentine's dresses that are, what I consider, masterpieces.

Pettislip for Maggie's

My first foray into embroidery on clothes. I love how it turned out.

The great thing about Lucy's outfit is that I COMPLETELY designed it myself. I started with the pattern for Maggie's dress actually. So a lot of pattern making went on here.

The red corduroy was leftover from a Christmas table runner I made. So I consider it 'free'. It is essentially a tiered bubble skirt. The linen of the shirt and Maggie's dress was $1/yard at Walmart. As was the fabric for the pettislip.

The shirt was inspired by a Vogue pattern I have for an adult suit jacket. The neck is wide and low and the lapels are actually two separate pieces, the little one under the big one. The 3 pieces that make up the front of the shirt flare out at the bottom, feminine. And the sleeves have an open flutter at the elbow. Lots of buttons. I wish I had a better camera. You'd be so impressed with the awesomeness of the shirt. Elastic in the back, and slightly longer in the back

$10 and many, many, many hours of labor. By the way, we're trying to rock Lucy's self cut bangs.

Easter dresses. Also designed by me, to be fast and easy, and to only use the 1.25 yards I got as a 75% off remnant.

Can you see how beautiful the embroidery of the fabric is? $15 these two dresses.

We've been doing a lot of traveling and hosting the last few months, and I'm jonesin' to get my creative back on. It's been many weeks since I created anything but a 10 minutes clean room.