Seagull with Landing Gear ATC

Yay! Now that AlwaysInspired has received this ATC, I can post it! She said she liked birds with tennis shoes, so I had to oblige :) This ATC is titled "Proper Landing Gear."

I had to find the shoes from a magazine first (these feet are Selma Blair's). It's much easier to draw a bird that goes with the shoes rather than try to find shoes that are perfect for the bird. I've tried that before and it's maddening... you can search through each page of ten magazines and find several pairs that would have been just right, if they weren't standing in the opposite direction you need! Anyways, happy Wednesday, everyone!

Cats having fun! ATC's! YAY!

Hey! Looks like a cat supply catalog gets delivered to my new place addressed to "current resident." I saw it in the mailbox and said, hey that's me! So it looks like I get to play around clipping out cats for my papercrafting. Hooray for unexpected supplies. It's funny because about half of all the "cat models" in the catalogs look ticked off. These cats are having a PARTY!

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was feeling superhorrid all afternoon and evening and didn't leave the couch. Well, I feel a bit better today, so I hope you enjoy my silly cat ATCs.

Time Capsule from the early 1990's

When we moved, I unearthed a box of old stuff from my childhood that I haven't looked at in years. There were a lot of old drawings and books I made from when I was ages 5 to 8. I had a good laugh at some of the crazy things I drew as a little kid, so I thought I'd share some OLD art today.

This is a set of drawings from a book I made about jelly beans. Jumping beans, beans stuck to the ceiling, beans on someone's feet (with one saying, "Oh, girls!" for some reason)

Here we have a squirrel complete with bushy tail, bucked teeth and what appears to be an acorn in its paw.

A set of random drawings. The first one looks like a turtle with a yellow umbrella, then an angry bunny or something, an oval making a stupid face, then I'm guessing a picture of my childhood budgie.

Aaaaaaand in case you needed a reminder, there were no dinosaurs in 1993.

Haha, I hope you enjoyed these! I love looking at little kid's drawings, so if you have any that you did as a kid, or your kids did, please oh please do a post like this. Comment and leave a link to it, because I'd love to see some hilarious/adorable kid art!

Watercolor Budgie

Just a little watercolored budgerigar today. I made another ATC for AlwaysInspired today that I'm excited about, but I'm not going to post until she gets it :) Happy Saturday! I think I'm off to make myself a sandwich....

Squeak ATC

I made this last night for the craftster ongoing ATC swap! Isn't he cute? It's a long eared jerboa. Watercolored him, cut him out, then pasted him onto scrapbooking paper.

Have a great night!

Displeased Jellyfish Fatbook Page

It's soooo nice to be settled in with access to all my supplies.... It's going to take a while to remember exactly where everything goes, though. Anyways, I was able to make a fatbook page today!

Embroidery in progress.... I love free-hand embroidering jellies and octopi. The lines are just easy. Everything is backstitch; I really kinda want to learn some more advanced stitches.

Jellyfish is displeased with the situation.

7 things! I'm tagged!

Well, I don't post much about myself here on this blog. Mostly just craft stuff, but Alexz tagged me to post 7 things about me, and then tag 7 other bloggers! I'll play along, so you can get to know me a little bit :) If you haven't already gone to check out Alexz's blog, DO IT and do it now! Not only is her style totally unique and delightfully spooky, she is a truly wonderful person.

On to the 7 random things:

1. My ethnic background is half Filipino, and half English/German. I'm often mistaken for Indian, Mexican, Hawaiian, Native American, etc. depending on my level of skin darkness at that time. The most common one is Mexican. My husband told me he almost started speaking to me in Spanish when he approached me for the first time, and he wouldn't have been the first person to do so. When that happens (which is often) I smile and say "Sorry, I don't understand. I'm American..."

2. When I was 17 I entered a Miss America local pageant as a joke and won it. I was about to leave the state for college in Hawaii, but won $7,000 in scholarships and prizes and was contractually obligated to stay in my hometown for another year to prepare for and compete for Miss Washington title. If I hadn't won my local and moved away, I never would have met my husband.

3. I like to make stupid faces and stupid noises and do stupid little dances. I prefer to be silly! I think it helps me to be a happier person.

4. My husband and I met at the end of April, got engaged at the end of May, and got married in the middle of August of the same year. We were planning a December wedding, but found that planning a wedding was a drag. One day we said "SCREW IT! Let's get married next week!" and did in my parent's garden. A lot of relatives thought I was had to be pregnant, but I wasn't! Just in love! We've been together for 4 years now and it gets better every day!

5. My dream job is to be Princess Jasmine in the Disneyland live production of Aladdin. I've always looooved the performing arts as well as regular old arty art. Do you ever watch Glee? Yeah, I was in Show Choir and it was amazing.

6. I was raised by two outstanding wonderful parents and I respect them more and more every day. They taught me how to live, how a marriage is supposed to be and how to be a decent human being! If you think I'm cool, you should meet my mom & dad!

7. I have ten houseplants and I love most of them. One of them I've been trying to kill for several years, but it's survived so much abuse that it's finally gained my respect and I repotted it this week. My favorite plant is my jade plant and its baby plant.

Well, there you have it! Longest post in history. I don't blame you if you didn't read it all!!! I will tag:
Crafting With My Eyes Closed
Mafiosagrrl,
Walls of Miggy,
Wild in the Streets
Morgan in lalaland
Samster Mommy
Everything Tara

Bam! See you tomorrow! Happy Thursday!

First 2 rinchies!

Here we are, my very first rinchie (round inchie). Had a pretty busy night tonight, and I am t-t-t-tired!

Made another into a birthday card. I need to get a little more creative with these rinchies...so many possibilities. Anyways, I'm going to go relax now. Good night!

First thing since the move! Exhasperated bird

As my sister has taken to saying, HC! (holy crap!) I have been organizing non-stop... and I'm still not done. It was my goal to completely finish unpacking/organizing my craft room tonight, but I'm just completely out of gas and my back kills. I at least have a workspace cleared and access to my paints and pens!

This is precisely how I feel. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled with our new place! Moving is just a huge pain in the figurative nards, know what I mean?

....but it's good to be back to bloggin' :) Happy Tuesday!

Nothin' new, just some owls.

All of my craft room is in shambles over at the new place, nothing is organized, and I still am stuck here at the old place with no supplies. Let me tell you, it can drive a person nuts. But I thought I'd post a collection of owl projects I've done over the past year.

I loves me some owls. I hope you enjoy them too... BTW I'm going nuts with ideas of crafts I want to be doing, but can't. I'm in for an art explosion once the move is over and I have access to all my supplies...

Yes it are my birthday :)

Aghhhh! Moving! No time to craft!!! Sorry to everyone for the lack of updating. I should be getting back to my normal crafting schedule in two weeks or so. Anyhoo, TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! And to celebrate, here's my favorite lolcat. Happy Sunday!

Altoids Tin Love Shrine

We got the keys to our new place today! (Nope, not buying yet!) Tonight will be the last night that my craft room will be in one piece for a couple of weeks, so I just HAD to make something... I was totally digging all the awesome love shrines happening in the craft world this month, I couldn't resist.

I wish I could get a better picture of this sweet birdy pair I watercolored! The colors just are getting washed out... They are really golden with a rich pink on the throats and tails. The branches are from some little plant here in Alabama, I have no idea what it's called. The acorn-looking thingies are seed pods and the little seeds shake out all over the place.

And of course, the "love" is made from wire :) I haven't finished the outside yet, but I'll be sure to share once I do! Happy Tuesday!!!

First Blanket Ever.... Size FAIL

So, the women in my church are making blankets for Project Linus for this year's ongoing service project. A bunch of fabric and yarn was donated to us that needs to be sewn, knitted, and crocheted into blankets. I'm working on crocheting a blanket, but it's taking a long time, so I thought I'd try my hand at sewing.

Now, this is my first blanket ever, so I guess I kind of have an excuse, but.... I didn't even think about seam allowances and the blanket kind of just kept getting smaller. So it only ended up being 32''x26" instead of 39''x32". FAIL. I'm reasoning that it's not a complete loss, because it cooould be used for a newborn baby.

Anyways, I sewed on a little kitty cat to add a personal touch. I'm overall happy with how it looks and how it turned out. If only I had thought ahead and had it turn out bigger, I'd be 100% pleased. Well, at least I learned something. Hopefully, I should be done with my crocheted blanket of the correct size in 3 weeks or so. I want to try to make at least one blanket for every month this year.

Well, we get the keys to our new place tomorrow, so we're going to be starting the moving process. I probably won't be updating as often as usual over the next 2-3 weeks which is a bummer. I'm pretty excited to be able to re-organize my craft stuff into my new craft room, but not too excited for much else moving-related.

Crested and Bespectacled!

It's an ATC! Blargh, I ate all junk food today and am feeling on the verge of a crash, hence the "not-my-best-effort" post.... Good night!

4x4 Spread of Colorful Doodle Inchies

It's inchie madness! I made this spread of inchies last night after playing around with my watercolors. I just can't stop making them the last week or so. I need to find a nice square frame for these.

Here's the left half of the doodles...

...And the right half! The cat and the jellyfish have the best colors, I think.

So, now I guess I can now sort of identify in a tiny way with all those folks who were suffering heavy snowfall in the East! Can you believe that we've got snow here in Southern Alabama?! WTH! It's kind of wet snow, but I'm still surprised. I haven't seen snow in a couple of years... Well, it's supposed to snow all day, so I'm just hoping everyone's safe on the road. Crazy. Oh! and unrelated, we start moving next week! I'll try to keep finding time to craft, but you know how it goes. Happy snowy Friday!