Busy, busy, busy

Ok, so here's the result from the black and turquoise picture from my last post. I look intense in this picture, but I'm really happy with how it came out. It's so comfortable!

The success of this dress will have to make up for the fact that my vest (below) did not actually sell. The buyer has not responded to my invoices. Too bad, but not much I can do. Sometimes things come up I'm sure, it's just frustrating not knowing what happened. Well, time to relist it. I'm in a showcase on Thursday, and one on Saturday I think, so I'm trying to get lots of stuff in the shop.
I'm thoroughly enjoying being away from school and being creative. It's awesome. I'm trying not to even think about school, and even if I have anxiety next week, I know I can get through 7 more weeks of school~then summer, then I think substitute teaching next year. I haven't decided yet, but I'm beginning to feel burnout, and I would like more time to work at home. I'm so blessed that I'm married (FINALLY!!!!) and I actually have more options than I've had for the last 13 years. It would definitely be financially a stretch, but subbing pays well, and I could probably make almost as much as I do now, if I worked alot.
Also, here are some more altered dominoes~ I love these!

Off to create some more:)

Monday...

{SOLD} Well, I got one of the purses from the last post done this weekend:

I really like how it turned out, especially the detail on the front. I just love all of these asian fabrics, and how they look together. I want to piece all of these together someday, and make a patchwork bag. here's the detail on the front of the messenger bag:














On a different note, I bought some neat supplies with some of my tax return, and I'm contemplating what to do with them. There seems to be a 'circle' theme lately...

I also bought a new camera, and it's more complicated than I'm used to. I hope I can begin to take decent pic's with it soon.

Renovations

Wow, I have been so tired this week. Re-doing Sasha's room (lime green with hot pink splatters), bought her a new bed, had to put it together, not to mention grades were due this week. There's only 1000 kids! Anyway, the house, as always, is still in progress. I got a good shot of the distressed maple floors we installed last summer, -don't get me started on that one, and managed to rearrange my studio area (corner) to my liking. My husband is really good at making a place where there never was one, and I'm really good at space conservation, so it works.

























The leopard chair on the left was my first foray into reupholstery a couple of years ago, and the zebra chair on the right was way more complicated, and I'm not sure why I always pick animal prints when I redo furniture?
Did a nice trade today with Jenn from StilettoHeights on etsy today, so I have to say goodbye to my beloved Asian purse design:( Oh well, she said she needed a change from her Prada, so apparently I am in fine company! What a compliment:)

Home Sweet Home

I've had this idea for awhile to use my beloved fabric to create a beeswax collage. I had this picture in my mind of these little houses, and I've been dying to use my teeny tiny buttons, so when I saw the challenge for Inspire Me Thursday was "Home", I got down to work, and it was alot of fun. I've had the little lingerie clothesline fabric for awhile, and haven't thought of anything to do with it, so it was one of those perfect, everything-falls-into-place moments. I think I'll do a series of these with different types of architectural shapes. And, maybe I'll bust out my REALLY eensie-weensie buttons that are so adorable!!!