More baby goodies...

For more baby shower fun things, I wanted to make twin-themed onesies. Thanks to pinterest, I found a link to making iron-on stencils out of freezer paper for painting onto t-shirts and whatnot. Super easy, totally my kind of thing! I also found a different site recommending use of acrylic paint to do so (rather than fabric paint). I already had acrylic paint - perfect! Away I went! (That is once I was able to find some of the paper.)

It was late by the time I was able to work on the onesies, and tedious to cut out the stencil, so I only got a few done.  

Here they are!

I am thrilled with how they turned out! I can see many applications for this.

If I am a little more patient in the future they'll be even better.

This is what they look like once the paper is ironed on (plastic side down), and the paint applied. I stuck cardboard behind the area of fabric I was painting so no paint bled through to the back.  From there you just peel all the paper off once the paint is dry. Voila! 

Owl hats

My sister is expecting twins in the near future, and I think owl hats are really cute. So...why not make them owl hats!


They were pretty fun, I'd never made animal-themed hats before. I found a picture of one I liked and modelled mine after it.

So Lora, if you see this, these are indeed part of your gift this weekend. :)

Photo Projects...

So I've been working on hanging pictures lately. 

And working on it...

Working on it....

Finally, we got to hang some! We haven't gotten far, visually, but we feel like we've made progress. 

This is it so far.  (We had to work around the thermostat). We have more than this many frames again to go, so really we are not quite half way done.

And we hung our first canvas print! I recruited my dad to help me attach it to the frame. And he's the one with the staple gun. He helps a ton with my projects. I'm very grateful.

Here's what we ended up with. We took the photo at the Oregon coast. 

I think it looks great. It's definitely not perfect, but it turned out well.

All is Swell

Things are going great as far as my plants are concerned. :)

As of today this is what my Plumie and Orchid look like...

(sorry the photos are cruddy)

Six and a half leaves, and counting. And all five blossoms open. Yippee!

My latest project has been photos.

I like the idea of a wall-photo-collage, so I am rounding up pictures of from our various trips, hoarding frames to use, and working on the tedious task of 

selecting, organizing, editing, arranging, etc. 

I thought it would be pretty simple - yeah right. It seems like I've been working on it for a month. I just got to a point where I can actually print the photos. Trying to learn Photoshop at the same time made it a little more challenging.

Once I get this done, I can move on to all the other projects I have stacked up. 

I'd better get busy.

Better and Better

Things are getting better and better with my plants! I couldn't be happier with them.
Progress had seemed somewhat stagnant with my plumeria, though I was very happy with my two leaves. Yesterday I noticed it was putting up a couple new tiny leaves! Yay! So glad it is making progress. :) 

This one is the bigger of the two.

Also, my orchid that is flowering right now (aka Mystery), just opened its second bud the other day.

I hope I can keep being successful at this plant-growing stuff, I'm loving it. :)

It's open!!

My mystery orchid opened today! It's so pretty. 

Last night... Starting to open!

 Once I got home from work today it looks like this! Almost completely open. 

I'm really glad it has some color on it.

Orchid update...

My orchids keep on keepin' on. The one without roots, I think has given up the ghost so to speak. So I am now down to two.

The mystery orchid is doing great. And I am still anxious to see it pop.

The other one has been a bit suicidal. It's gotten top-heavy and keeps falling over unprovoked. This morning it took a tumble and amputated its own leaf. 

At least it was a clean break. It was the biggest leaf too. Bummer. I'd been planning on repotting it, so finally today I did it. It now has a bigger, more stable container. No more falling over.