Other designing projects

The moooooose is adorning our tall hallway wall. Designed by moi, he arrived today in the mail.

Also, my laundry room is not so boring anymore.



Chloe was curious what I had been doing sitting on the dryer.


I had fun making these wall decals and am pretty sure there will be more to come.

What I did on Sunday

Inspired by this find on the world wide web, I got in gear this morning to create an interesting accent wall for our living room/ We got up and went to Lowe's were we had a very easy time picking our wall color for the accent wall and after, we went to Michel's for thumbtacks and string.

I like to paint walls. It is very soothing and even better whilst listening to a harry Potter book on CD. After the paint dried I started to create a tree with the thumbtacks and the string. My thumb and index finger are red and almost swollen now, but the end result is quite cool, if I can say so myself : ). In addition I tacked birds that I had sewn a while back to the branches. Now the question is, will the cats leave thumbtacks and strings alone? or will we come home one day to a mess of string and birds? Who cares???!!! For now it's just fun and we are very much enjoying the new look!

More Winter sewing

Ella and I both debated over each coat and jacket pattern that I own. There are a lot of pros and cons to each one but we finally decided on Toni by Farbenmix ( I almost want to say:" What else?" but I swear I have patterns by Ottobre planed out as well for the future). The outer fabric is waterproof. It is the Taslan fabric Farbenmix sold a while back. I wish I had a gazillion yards of that stuff. I lined the jacket with a layer of cotton batting and this very soft, fuzzy fleece. She is going to be warm for sure and I still get to knit her lots of hats! Yay me ; )
The silver piping is reflective and so is the star on the back. Important features when the rest is so dark. We want her to be seen.

Toni is available here