I get my thrills thrifting #6: Goodwill Tshirt Hunting

Day 246 Well I didn't really find them at Goodwill but it just sounded right in the title.  These will all be going into my new Artfire Store  they are mostly 18" pillows, I am thinking the Twilight one might be a 16" or 14".  If you are interested in any of these let me know!

Archetype Tattoo and a Dragon Tattoo

Jacob and 1971 Led Zeppelin World Tour

  

Korn and Rockband Skulls

Twilight, 'dominant and Thundercats

Aprons, cross stitch plates and fabric collages coming up on the horizon!
What will you create today?

Mad Scientist Monday #15; Yippee Kay yay its 2012

Day 232  I decided to add in movie villains to the mad scientists to my Monday posts just to make them more interesting and because they go together like olives on pizza. MMMM olives.

Hans Gruber from the original was one of my favorites, its the voice I think.  And lets get honest here I still like to watch Bruce in action, more especially now sans hair.  I haven't seen the most recent flick of the Die Hard series but I might see the next one considering they might add another Gruber into the mix.  Alan Rickman has that hilarious knack for blending bad guy with humor and well who doesn't think Severus is the best part of Harry Potter?

Since the Die Hards were originally a Christmas day gag thing (can't remember if the other movies are too and I haven't seen 4.0) but I thought I would show you what we made this Christmas.

G2 came up with these adorable stockings to stuff cat toys into for our precious feline spoiled rotten adorable angels.  She crafted each one to catch the color and personality of each cat.  She really worked hard on these.  Its nice to see her picking up more on that Mad Scientist spirit.  This one is for Toph AKA Pigweed because well she eats everything in the food bowls and looks slightly stoned pretty much all the time, go figure we need intervention for a cat on the nip.

This one was for our older black cat Sokka who is looking slightly bewildered at the presence of our newest kitten invader.

This is for our newest kitten Fred.  Big ole bug eyes in a little face.  She did a really good job on these all on her own.  

I found this Transformers Tshirt at the thrift store and since G2's list included  'something to do with Bumblebee and Optimus Prime' well there ya go.

G2 asked for me to make her a fleece blanket for Christmas and she wanted to help.  I ordered these Hello Kitty fleeces and that is what we did Christmas day.

I think this was the funniest Christmas gift.  My hub and I  found this uniform shirt from the Milwaukee Public Museum and knowing that G1's favorite movies include the 2 Night at the Museum and one of her favorite sketches from the 2nd movie is the 'Brundon' one I knew I just had to put that on the other side.

I hand embroidered 'Brundon' in gold floss.  Its "Buh-rundon" lol lol lol

This one comes with a story.  ET is one of my oldest's scary things.  Always has been.  When we saw this original 80s sheet at the thrift store we knew we had to make something from it for her as a gag gift.  I mean look at that full of angsty face, we parents gotta do something to combat that and put a giggle in our day right?!  Well she loves it, still won't see the movie, touch an action figure or go to the ride at Universal studios but this scarf can handle.  The other side is a minky scrap I had in my scrap box so its super soft when combined with the soft cotton character sheet.  

These I didn't even have to sew.  I have been getting rid of my old jewelry bits and  bobs and found I had some extra chains, extra empty lockets (from my own teenage angsty years) and my husband and I found these cool old keys while out thrifting.  Both girls were very happy and have been wearing them.

This old tea set was from the girls' Grandmother from when she was a little girl.  My husband cut the legs down on a  round side table we had in the house so it is the right height for American Girls dolls or stuffed animals to sit at.  Then I made a tablecloth and some napkins for G2 to have her holiday tea party with her dolls.

Here is the oldest's skeleton key and locket.  I put it on a long chain and I think it looks really cool.

Its so funny my girls' different personalities.  The youngest  is more about sentimentality and the oldest loves a good gag, then they switch places for a moment just to keep up parents on their toes.  We had a great Christmas and we stayed way, way, way under budget.  Sure it took a lot of time and planning but it was time together making memories and those are things you can't put a price on.

What will you create today/

Sunday Best #3: Clean up Christmas, its time for the New Year!

Day 231   Its clean up time, the bi-annual purging of stuff, throwing out or recycling what doesn't work and trying new things.

Pillows going into the new store today.  I am loving that Navy one, its a cross stitch reverse appliqued on recycled fabric.

My mom had given me these Singer sewing machine feet and attachments and they just came out of their vinegar bath to clean off all the rust.  They look just spanking new don't they?  Have not had the time to identify what some of them do so if you have any ideas let me know.  I know there are a couple of hemmers and a ruffler in there and only one of them actually has a ID number on them so I am assuming they are parts that go to a bigger attachment.

Fred was discovered  'helping' while we were taking down and putting away Christmas decorations.  Although eating the Christmas decorations and spitting them out is not really helping the clean up process. 

So make a clean sweep, pull up your boot straps, find your artistic mojo and prepare to hit the mute button, its gonna be a year of art, success, hope, the US getting back on its economic feet and political shenanigans.  What will you create today?

Sunday Best #2: Blankets, Pillows and Clothing Samples OH MY!

Day 227 If you have been to the Momtastic's Fantastic Emporium store lately you will see we are working hard to add items to the store daily...this week we will be adding Tshirt pillows, clothing and costume samples, blankets and linens.

What will you create today?

NOW I'm bragging about how much is getting done around here...

Day 167  Yep the Sewing UFO pile is dwindling down to nothing leaving so much time in my brain for actual creativity without all the things 'left undone' hanging onto my soul.  Now the kids start back to their activities this week so I am determined to keep up the daily art as well as the all important family time!   I am putting some really cool plans into motion for sewing classes and goals for the future of who I want to be when I finally grow up!   Here are some pillows I wrapped up this week...

2 hand embroidered snake ladies

FYI this design idea is from a book of mythical creatures and I hand sketched my own larger version to create this embroidery

the backs of the snake lady pillows (scrapbusting!)

Fish cut out from an old pillow ready to be recycled and appliqued onto new striped fabric..perfect for the beach room!

A painting on a shirt my mom had done ages ago (remember the 80s when painted clothes were cool?) turned this into a pillow.....

A shirt from one of our all time favorite shows turned into a pillow...even the girls love watching this show now, cracks me up they get geek humor

Well thats it for the sharing today, got a lot of clothing redos to show off tomorrow.....what are you gonna create today?

Sewing in the home of the dumbest cat in the world

Day 156

It has been a rough week--a friend of our family passed on from this world suddenly. The juxtaposition of tragedy and love has been a mental balancing act leaving me exhausted and wrung out. While I have been trying to give my love and be supportive I want to just cocoon in my house and create things as my therapy but it is not to be until tonight after the memorial service. Here is what I did get done though:

An 'I heart New York' pillow for G2 from a thrifted shirt.

I got the free flow stitching done on our Sun Rising from the Rubble projects.

Darker bedroom curtains for my daytime sleeping hours from a poly satiny vintage fabric.

I ate my artichokes and then bought more for this weekend! I am in dire need of more garlic ;) there is never such a thing as too much fresh garlic

and the dumbest cat in the world watched the frogs, fell asleep, fell off, got back up and watched them again...seriously this cat is so lacking mental power she not only failed the 'put a blanket over her head' test in which she just sat there for nearly an hour trying to figure out why the world went dark but when we (gently) pushed her over sideways under the blanket she laid there imitating road kill SIGH

Hug your loved ones today! What will you create?

Spring Springing~Cleaning the Lair~ and KISS

Day 150

When I get to the 200th post I will be doing a big giveaway....

......see Spring is starting to sprong, trees are budding and blooming around here but unfortunately for me the Cedar and Juniper are also so I have not been able to get outside much for fear of sneezing my head off...when the allergies get to 11 on a scale of 10 that means not even allergy meds can touch it ACHOO...

....can't wait to see what the ponds will look like this Summer...the vegetation is just starting to recover...

....so because my allergies are driving me insane and I know that my schedule is about to get crazy again once Spring Break is over for the kids I decided to clean the house top to bottom....the Creative Lair was this weekend's undertaking and man did I purge and clean WOOHOO! So TADAAA a room I can actually show in pictures...

...that is our Frogitat off in the distance there, those little guys make the loudest noises mostly when I am on the phone lol...

I love the way the light filters through the curtain

Gonna add a couple more lines of twine to my wall so I can weed some of this stuff out...but I love my wall of inspiration

AND I got a KISS pillow done for my little musician's room from a Tshirt she found a thrifting

yes she does know who KISS is --I consider it important that she not call herself a musician unless she knows music from all genres and decades lol....part of her homeschooling "I'm gonna rock n roll all night and party every day" oh yea!

OK gotta get back to work stuff has been piling up while I got used to my new job and now that I have a perfectly wonderful clean space I am very excited.....

.....hope to have some shots later of our Rising from the Rubble collaborative project but I had to finish the lair first...priorities...

.....what will you create today?