sewing, painting, creating, making

one of the best parts of not having a job is having plenty of time to make stuff. i love making stuff. my head is always swirling with ideas of stuff i want to make. here are pictures of some stuff i made, which were taken with my iphone, which practically makes the stuff look 100% stupider than they are in real life. but remember, i don't have a job. so i can't buy a fancy schmancy camera. c'est la vie.

family portrait pillow i made for my mom of our family circa 1991.

owl pillows, which my sister kim designed.

i needed a new doormat and i needed it to be cheap. so here done, a $4 mat from home depot with a stencil and spray paint.

slippers. this one was a learning experience. i may have started crying at one point. but look, they have a soft lining inside... a skill i never knew i had it in me. when i finished, i was so excited to try them on and they didn't even fit.

happy halloween banner made out of newsprint and spiderweb paper. i usually like to finish my projects in one day so this one felt like it took forever. it's a deceptively intense project.

this one took 2 seconds. spray painted pumpkins and gourds.

fabric flower bib necklace.

oh. horrible picture of a felt christmas tree. it really is cute though. i made a bunch of these and they will be a garland over my fireplace in december. believe it or not, there are more projects but i just haven't taken pictures of it all. so yeah, instead of the paper jack o' lanterns and q-tip skeletons of my past, this is what i'm making these days.