Oh, What A Busy Month…

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February has really kicked my butt! I have done nothing but work and sleep since my last post… Well, that’s not 100% true, I did get to leave the house TWO times. I’ll talk about that later.

Since I still have three more weeks of non stop work, and every minute seems to count, I decided I’m just going to show some of the photos I’ve been taking.

As you can tell, I’m still LOVING Instagram!

I also noticed I never showed my username in the last post, so if you would like to follow me and see what I’m doing everyday, my username is jesseesuem.

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Adventures in Casting: Making Molds

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Here’s a sneak peek at whats going on behind the scenes.

I’m making molds! I haven’t worked with silicone in almost 2.5 years. I was kinda worried I’d forgotten all the tricks and secrets to perfect molds… but no, It was as if no time passed. I’m excited!!

Oh, and as you can see from the photos above, I FINALLY found the awesome app that is Instagram. How did I not notice all the photos everyone was taking? and then posting? I guess I’ve been in my own little world these past few months… maybe even years… Anyway, It’s making me love taking photos again. I’m taking pictures of everything. CT even loves photos taken of her now!

Do you use Instagram? What’s your username? I’d love to see what everyone else takes photos of.

 

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House Tour: The Front Door

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Ah, the front door, the beginning of your house, sorta. We don’t actually use the front door much. We prefer to use the back door, where the cars are kept.

Anyway, currently this is one of my favorite spots of our house. We’ve only lived here for little over a year, so I may change my mind soon. But for now this spot makes me the happiest.

I’m not much on white walls, or off white contract color walls, and we are surrounded by them now (were thinking light grey, everywhere). To break up the white until we had time to paint everything, I decided to paint our front door a dark plum. I still think it was one of the best things we’ve done to the house so far. I smile every time i look at it.

oh and that chair, is our best thrift story ever…

I don’t believe it is a real Eames lounger, but it looks very close to one. It’s super soft and comfy, so I really don’t care. We found it at a thrift store about 8 years ago. It was just sitting there for $200, which at the time was just a little too much for a used chair. We were about to walk away from it when over the speaker we hear “half off all furniture”. Apparently $100 wasn’t too much for an old chair, so we swooped it up and somehow got it home.

It’s been dragged all over Maryland with us, sometimes it fits the appartments we were in, sometimes it was just too big. I think it’s finally found a perfect home in our library. oh and CT LOVES it! as you can tell, it’s basically her chair now.

 

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Behind the Scenes: Plus Sign Pillow

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I know I said I wouldn’t be showing much sewing projects for a few weeks, but I just couldn’t help myself with this one.

Before I started CT’s plus quilt, I wanted to test out the process of sewing so many plus signs! I didn’t want to go too crazy, size wise, so I started with a 20″x20″ floor pillow. I wanted it to be a little off center and, well, wonky. I like things a little off.

It’s completely pieced together and even all ironed flat! However, sadly, it also has to be pinned on the inspiration board until I have free time to work on it.

It seems the creative juices start flowing, or gushing in my case, the most when I have no time to actually make anything! Is this just me? Does this happen to any of you? If so, do you ever get around to the new ideas?

I’ve also had this compulsion to learn 3D rendering so I could get some ideas printed up. I’ve dabbled in it a bit here and there and watched way too many tutorials on youtube. Of course it all comes to me this week, when I have prior commitments.

I did find a few free minutes Saturday morning to fiddle with things, it was the most productive minutes I’ve had in weeks!

I finished up THREE new jewelry designs, so far. I ordered prototypes, and hope to have an all new jewelry line ready to go by spring. I’m am beyond excited about this. New necklaces,  new rings, new earrings, and even some bracelets!!!All my very own designs!!

I can’t wait to start showing the progress of this last minute venture.

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New Quilting Coordinates Set

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Today I updated a few new designs in my Spoonflower Shop.

Well, some are new, some are older designs updated in a better buying format.

Now you can buy FOUR fat quarters of FOUR different designs on ONE YARD! its like instant matching fabric for quilts or other sewing projects!

While I was putting together those little sets, I also came up with a new matching polka dot pattern…

It’s available in the above Blue, Girl and Black and White.

If anyone goes ad buys some of these designs, I’d love to see photos of the finished projects!

I’m Keeping Myself Busy…

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I woke up this past Sunday morning with the plan to spend an entire week working on “me projects”. aka: sewing or crafting projects that only benefit me and no one else but ME.

I wanted to work on a zig zag quilt that I’ve been dreaming about for weeks. I wanted to play with some clay and maybe make some tree’s. I wanted to make a skirt. A huge list when you also factor in that CT’s second set of molar’s are coming in and she’s in her clingy stage. I’d be lucky to finish one project.


By Monday I finished cutting out and sewing the blocks of the zig zag quilt, and sketching how to put it together. I’m good at laying out patterns, but I’m not that great at putting it in piles and remembering how it all goes together. I need a visual aid.

I also like working with squares way more than triangles. So I was super excited when I found this great tutorial on Pinterest… “How To Make a Zig Zag Quilt (without piecing triangles)“. It makes a decent sized quilt. It took up all the free floor space in my bedroom to lay this thing out.

I was beyond excited to start piecing this thing together, it was going to be awesome when it was done! My very own chevron quilt!!!!

Well… Tuesday rolls around and I get this awesome email about a huge opportunity for Art School Dropout. Great News… I just had to put all my “me projects” away for awhile. 2 months to be exact.

So I piled up all the squares of the zig zag quilt and put them in baggies and pinned them to my inspiration board. I’m hoping it’ll inspire me to finish them when I’m done actually working.

Wednesday and Thursday were crazy with spreadsheets, supply shopping, researching and trying to find some family to watch CT every so often (so I could work while my husband was at work).

I’m about to spend the next 3 to 4 weeks casting and assembling loads of pieces. I decided that today (Friday) I would sew a little bit more before I didn’t have actual time to do so.

What came out of the sewing was a few more pouches for the site. They may be the last ones for a few months, unless I find time here and there.

I also apologize for the fact that I probably won’t have too many tutorials or DIY-Book-A-Holic posts until I’m finished this massive order. But I will post progress shots here and there, you all can finally see what goes on behind the scenes in my “casting dungeon”. HA!

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