Tattoo Round Two

More West Virginia Tattoos for a friend. This time it had to incorporate trout fishing. I learned two things from this exercise:
1. Drawing fish and/or fishermen is incredibly hard. Big fail on that, but any good tattoo artist would redraw. It's the design I do. Aint no artist.
2. I am tired of the blue and green color pencils

This one isn't for the fish tattoo, it's for my sister. This is my memory of a special camping spot at Otter Creek:


And these are the fishy tattoos:

Great Things are Coming

Why is crafting feeling like a chore lately? Oh yeah, because I have several more rooms worth of curtain sewing to do, uuuuuugg.
I got that chop saw for christmas! Yahoooooo, so tons of crafts are brewing, but lately I've needed my Sundays for sleeping.
I'm in the middle of a birdy craft, but it's under construction.
The big news is the box of glass tile that I liberated from the dumpster at work. 20 or so square feet of this stuff!




I'd like to make some necklaces out of the super beautiful tiles but my soldering iron experiments this morning were a big fail :( I got to figure out how to either
drill a hole into glass or how to adhere metal onto glass.

I am going to tile behind my lovely Klimt painting in the living room with the 2x's and 4x's. I laid it out on the floor today just to work out the details:









So, I can not wait to lay this pattern permanently. Tune in soon (hopefully).

Shower Curtain Curtains

I apologize for being so long in between entries, the holidays and all. . .

I saw these 100% cotton shower curtains at WalMart. That got me thinking. . . they're cotton, they're cute, they're presewn, they come with hooks. . . what's stopping them from being living room curtains? With just a few alterations, NOTHING is stopping them. And they are so much cheaper than buying regular curtains.



I have two large living room windows- 60" wide by 48" high. One shower curtain covers one window. 60" is the max width that you could use shower curtains for, however, they work great for long windows.

Step 1:
Fold curtains in half and cut down the long length of the cloth


Step 2:
Measure your length and cut- my windows were 48" so I cut at 51". That left me with a lot of seam allowance.



Step 3:
Press your seams. Fold over and press, fold over a 2nd time and press. That's the great thing about converting these curtains because you only have 2 sides to press and sew.


Step 4:
Sew


Step 4: Finished!


Just look at those cute hooks- and they come with the curtain! So easy: