Ceiling Fan Seed Pods

 

Whoever built my house must have got an amazing deal on ceiling fan light fixtures, because almost every room in my house has one (and we live in the far north, where even in the summer its not really hot). I had seen some beautiful zentangle-doodled ceiling fan blades, and I've been meaning to do something fun with my fan blades for some time now.

Then all of a sudden, the perfect plan. Spoonflower's Wall Decals.

I modified my existing seed pod pattern, since my ceiling fans are white, I didn't want to use cream in my design. And I love it with the new color scheme. More

 

than the original maybe. So I ordered it. And because I'm cheap, I always go for the cheapest shipping option. Which in my experience with Spoonflower, means my order will arrive approximately a month after I order it. So I waited, and wondered how I was going to last a month until I could see this decal on my ceiling fans.

To my complete amazement, my decals showed up the same week I ordered them! They rolled into my office on Friday afternoon (in this gorgeous spoonflower tube), ready for a little Friday evening craft.

The material is amazing, and it always brings me great joy to see my patterns in real life, on real things. An hour or so later, I have cute ceiling fan blades. They bring me much joy, as does the remaining amount of decal I have to make something else beautiful.

 

 

 

 

the makerie goodie bag design

I've spent much of this week bedridden with a flu, so it was easily the highlight of my week to hear from the Makerie that they had choosen my design to be featured on their goodie bag's at the upcoming retreat in April.

You can see their post here.

I am absolutely thrilled! What an exciting start to 2013!

2013

Happy New Year!

I am looking forward to many adventures and I have an ever-growing list of things to do. I still have many things on my 24 list to get done in the first part of the year. I hope its going to be a busy, productive, creative year.

I am trying to run once a week, working towards my goal of 5km in 30 minutes.

Right now I am at 2.52 miles, or about 4km.

I am going to sew a quilt. I have big plans for the ceiling fan in my studio. I need to purge and re-organize my studio in a BIG way. I am going to bake more. I am going to do yoga once a week. I am going to paint just for fun. I am going to use the big calendar above my computer and keep track of stuff.

Its going to be a good year!

spring seedlings

Spring is still a long way off in my corner of the world, but this mini collection of spring seedlings has been in my head for a while.

 

In the forests of Brazil, I spotted this plant. I was in love with the collection of little circles, with the smaller little circles inside, and right away they became seed pods in my mind.

 

 I sketched and resketched my interpretation of these pods.

 



Until they finally became part of this little spring seedlings collection. I dont love the tree, but the rest of them I'm pretty happy with.

 



mistletoe



Today we headed off down the highway, christmas tree hunting. I was a bit hestitant about this. I know when I was really little my dad took us out to get a real tree, but ever since then, they've just magically appeared in my families living room, ready to be decorated.

 

Trucking through the snow, cutting a tree, and forcing it into a vehicle all sounded like a lot more effort than I normally give. But in the end, we succedded. Only a few tears were shed, and only one ornament shattered.

 

And I actually quite like her more than the "perfect" trees. I'm feeling less grinch-like already.

 



Today amidst many other christmasy things, I took a little time to make a little moose couple, under the mistletoe.

 

 

 But I actually think I like him better as a bachelor moose. Something about the lady moose is just a bit off.

 

Now onto christmas parties, and other christmas-y things.  

 

Snippets

 

I'm still here, and still busily creating. I am working on many things, but most aren't ready to be shared yet.

I thought I would share my Christmas cards. They are the same designs I sold last year at the craft fair, and in laziness this year I am using the same cards. I modified them down to a smaller rectangle instead of the larger square.

 

Some of my snowflake designs printed out and ready for wrapping up some gifts:

The snow drift I discovered at my door last weekend when I went to leave the house:

 

And some little quick digi things: 

 

calendar and fat quarter love

 

Seeing all of the gorgeous 2013 Calendars popping up online inspired me to whip one up. Realistically, we're not very good calendar people. We don't keep track of things on the calendar, but its nice to have a quick glance at a calendar now and then. So I'll hang this one up on the fridge. Love it. 

 

 

 

 

Back in October Spoonflower had a sale on fat quarters, I decided to try ordering two designs I had on hand, to see how they came out.

 I dont really love my leaf pattern, but my sister seems to, so I figured I better try it out.

This is one of my favorite patterns, and I am loving having it as a fabric. Smitten.

 

In March I had ordered some in their Heavy Cotton Twill, and I was pretty devastated with the results after I washed it. I rushed one of my fat quarters into the laundry straight away, so I could see the results. Its still drying, but it looks so much better than the heavy cotton twill.