Curtains in my Kitchen!

My sister moved a few weeks ago. I mentioned this in my last post. When she moved, she and her husband ditched a ton of their stuff. Which means, I got a lot of their stuff.

One of the "stuff" I got was the curtains that were in their living room. They just happened to go perfectly in my kitchen.

This is the before shot:

This is what they looked like before I hemmed them. Yeah, way too long:

And the completely finished after:

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Sunshine Paisley Embriodery Pattern

Oooohhhh dear. Pinterest has done me in again. I kept seeing all these beautiful embroidery stitches and projects. Which means, of course, I have been embroidering a lot lately.

I had so much fun trying new stitches. My favorite site is this one, which has the best directions and such beautiful work and I used a bunch of stitches I learned there on my paisley.

I'm very proud to share my very first embroidery pattern. I have a thing for paisley. My sister doesn't get it. I think I may be talking her around with my unrelenting love, but she always compares them to a certain male reproductive cell. If she hadn't just deserted me and moved to St. Louis, she would punch me in the arm for telling you that. I'm sure the comparison has already occurred to you. If it hasn't, my apologies for putting it into your brain. Hopefully my pattern is so awesome that you will now forget about it.

I made five different squares and my recent activities (here and here) may give you a clue as to what I did with them. But, that's coming a different day.

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iPod and Phone Skins--Blemish Free and So Pretty!

When I got my new phone a few months back, I was sort of disappointed in the color options.

I think it came in blue and red, except I could only get blue. That's not exactly the most exciting thing for someone as "high-brow artist" as I am (that's sarcasm right there--if they had a hot pink option, we wouldn't be having this conversation).

So, I got obsessed with making a skin for it. You can find several places online that make custom skins for electronic devices. I had quite the ordeal finding a place that carried the shape of my Gravity Smart. I'm not a picky phone person, so I didn't know my phone is sort of obscure. Or at least, I'm guessing it is, based on the fact that no one bothered offering skins for it.

Anyway, I found a place, and then decided to go for making a skin for my iPod Touch too.

Skins are basically huge stickers that you can peel off eventually. Basically, you use their software to design them (I uploaded some of my digital scrapbook papers for mine) and they print a big sticker for you and you stick it on your phone. It's all the fun of bumper stickers, but without devaluing a car.

I actually haven't put the front on my phone yet, because I keep thinking I'm going to put on a nice clear screen cover, and then put the skin over that, since it just goes around the screen. Hasn't happened yet.

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