Day 6 (OADCC)

A short and sweet project today. Remember the A wall that I am making? Well I bought a large wooden letter A at a garage sale so I wanted to paint it, I did a base coat of white and then little vines and flowers over it. I am not thrilled with it at the moment, but it looks better than the plain wood A that has been hanging up there for a few months now.

Day 5 (OADCC)

Today I decided to make myself a little travel bag for my undies, I always end up carrying them in a plastic bag and have been meaning to make one of these for quite sometime.

The lettering took forever because it was done the hard way (free machining) and not with one of those fancy embroidery cards (I have a suitable machine but do not have the letter card to put in it!)
In the end the hardest part was the cord, I decided to be clever and do french seams which totally ruined the pull through on the cord tie. I need to sleep on it.

Day 4 (OADCC)

Today's challenge, Bunting! I am hosting a mini Blue baby shower for my friend - she doesn't know about it, unless she reads this blog in which case now she does (Surprise!).
I am trying to save the more time intensive projects (like this one) for my Days off work. I managed to do this whole thing today, including going to the fabric store and battling the labor day sales event and registers that weren't working. I must have spent 2 hrs there and they were not fun! Unfortunately I still ended up working on it this evening because of the length of time I spent in the store.

Left side of the bunting. I made a pink set for the same friend when her daughter turned 1 and she loved it, I am sure she will be very pleased with a blue set. Once again I am very pleased with my work today, this would normally have taken me forever to do - because of the dreaded procrastination!

Day 3 (OADCC)

Day 3. After I got home from work I fell asleep on the couch while watching the baseball, oops. So we had take out for dinner and I made this little squiggle heart (5" sq). I actually had the idea to do this over a year ago when I made my big red stripey linen quilt of the same fabric. It has been sitting in my to do piles for a long time. I thought this was a good opportunity to do it. I now would just like to mount it (mat it for you Americans ) and frame it in a little square frame. This is for our bedroom, but maybe I could make some others for my shop, what do you think? Just the one picture, the in action ones I took came out a little blurry.

Day 2 (OADCC)

Day 2, I need to go to bed 10 mins ago because I have to be at work by 5am, yuck. I will post this really quickly and then I am off.

You should never try to take pictures at 10 pm, the light quality isn't very good.

I recently bought some lovely hard back notebooks with the express purpose of recovering them, for creative people (like my Mum) to carry around in their handbags. You can see the after and before above and below.

The back must have a little something.

And the inside cover is pretty too.

I actually have a lot more to say on this, like how hard it is to do corners and how frustrating this was, because I started by using the wrong glue. But I will settle for being pretty happy and quoting my Art teacher - "A person who never made a mistake never made anything!"
And I think it turned out pretty well in the end .

Ok Nighty Night!

others Up for the challenge.

Day 1 (OADCC)

After deciding to do this craft challenge and getting a good response I looked at my work schedule in horror last week as I saw that Day 1 was going to be a pretty hectic work day. As I was working hard all day and then had to buy groceries and make dinner, I decided I better do something quite small and achievable for my first day. I know, (I thought) a small little fabric brooch!

How about a lovely little purple flower.

Little! LITTLE, little (I said). Well I made a fairly large purple flower brooch.

Detail of the clown size flower brooch!

Despite its size I am quite pleased with the fruits of my labor on day 1 of my One A Day Craft Challenge. To see other participants check out who else is Up for the challenge! at the end of my first post.

If you want to join in at any time let me know and I will add you to my list.

One A Day Craft Challenge

Hello Everyone! I cordially invite you to join me in my One A Day Craft Challenge for the month of September.

Here is how it goes...
Create 1 item per day in September. These items can then go into your Etsy Shop, Craft fairs, used for Christmas prezzies or just for your personal enjoyment. This means at the end of September you should have 30 separate handcrafted items. They can be as small as you like or as ambitious as you please...... just make sure that you can do it in a day!
Post pictures! At the end of the day post pictures of your handcrafted items.

This is my personal challenge but I invite you all to join me and keep me to my word. If you are interested in doing this with me please let me know and I will add a link to your blog at the bottom of this post. Feel free to use my image (above) on your blog if you like!

Up for the Challenge

juanitatortilla
sara at soap rehab
TiLT
topknots
Julie of Musings of a Northern Girl
Anjeanette of Roots and Wings Co

Juliann of The Sick Chick

Jen D of The Silver Lining