Bumble Bee Shrine

This is one of two projects that I've had on the go this past week. It's a wee shrine to Bumble Bee's and the colour yellow. While I do love beeswax, and I appreciate the importance of bees, I have to admit that I don't have a deep rooted fascination with them... I'm sort of scared to death when one comes anywhere near me. I also don't really care for the colour yellow. Hmmm... truth be told I'm not exactly sure what brought on the sudden desire to make a 'Bee themed' anything :)

And still more inchies!

I actually have a number of things on the go at the moment but they are all in awkward stages of creation and not very pretty just yet so I'm afraid you're stuck looking at more inchies today :)



Inches are proving to be a welcome distraction between waiting for paint to dry on one project while glue sets on another. They are also a really great way to experiment and try new techniques. After oogling the lovely waxed ATC's by AlwaysInspired I decided to try my hand at waxing some inchies. Here are some of my favourites of the bunch.

More inchies!

Oookay... I'm still making inchies :) Here are some shabby chic fabric ones I've been working on.



I basically took a length of pink scrap fabric, sewed some bits of other pink and white fabric and ribbons to it, experimented with different stitches on my sewing machine and then chopped the whole thing into 1" squares and added glitter, buttons and other wee things.

I don't often manage to make things that are sweet and homey but I do love these little bits. They are kind of what I'm like if you dig deep down inside :)

On the witchy front I've been spending the new year cleaning and clearing my home, making the way clear for good things to come.

Inchies!

What exactly is an inchie? It's a one inch square little work of art!

Although I'd never made them before inchies are something I've wanted to try for a while. What better way than to get the creativity started than by signing up for an 'inchies' swap on craftster.

I spent the other day cutting out hundreds of 1" squares and jumped right in.



While you can buy a 1" square punch, I found that cutting the wee squares by hand was a really nice process. I love things that I can focus on and not really think much about... for me it's sort of like meditation. The problem now is that I have 100's of squares waiting for me to embellish :)

Working in such a tiny space is challenging. I may try to do some decorating and doodling and chop a page into squares after the fact to see what the results are.

Let the making begin! 2010 edition.

It's 4 days into 2010 and I've been hard at work making stuff. I've started to crochet a throw (which I kinda wish I hadn't made so large) that I've made some nice progress on and I'm itching to try my hand at some inchies.

I've also managed to finish up something that has been waiting for ages to be completed. I promised a Crone doll to a fellow witchy gal quite a while back and I've finally gotten around to getting her gussied up. She's a Hoodoo Crone Doll and measures about 8.5" tall





A close up of her goodies. Mojo bags with a tooth and shell, a black heart, a bottle of magic, a bone and other bits of goodness :)

How much actually got done?

Last year I made a list of 50 things I wanted to do/make through 2009. Let's see how I did...

3. Luchador Series DONE!
4. Fairy Godmother Book DONE!
5. Clock DONE!
6. Knit something for D DONE!
8. Knit a sweater DONE!
9. Finish Quilt DONE
11. 'Gypsy' Quilt Block for charity DONE!
12. Finish Shrunken Heads DONE!
16. Create a coven of witches DONE!
22. Finish the black shrine on the go DONE!
23. Create a large shrine for the house DONE!
29. Make D's Halloween costume DONE
35. Photo's for hallway DONE!
36. Finish painting walls/ceiling that are sitting half done DONE!
37. Create an experiment with colour DONE!
40. Make Fruitcake for x-mas DONE! (sort of)
42. Make something teeny weeny DONE!
46. Crochet something other than a grannie square DONE!

18 things done from the list. Not too bad considering that we unexpectedly moved 150 miles this year. Besides there were loads of other things not on the list that were also done.
Some things that will remain on this years list...

Paint portrait of hubby's grannie
Portrait of Blackadder
Do something with the zillion glass xmas balls that are in my stash
Create a "Sin Eater"
Knit a Dr. Who scarf
Try to cook something new once a week
Create a giant collage of D's drawings and school work
Make t's for Paul
Tree Man Box
Make a family cookbook
Fondue!

Some new goals...

Bust my craft stash!
Host fab dinner party
Redo our bedroom
Space up D's room
Craft up the kitchen
Finish 'houses'
'Wine' Shrine
'Hoodoo' Witch
Deck of Cards
Greeting Card Set
Fairy Godmother Book
More jewellry!
More paper crafts!

Ideally I'd like to have something, something I'm chuffed with, to show for each week.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

I have a personal Christmas tradition. Every year the Mr goes to bed and I spend a couple of hours alone watching White Christmas. Bing always gets me in the mood for Christmas and dreaming of fat white snowflakes. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen that movie the scene with the general at the end... "we'll follow the old man..." always gets me. Who am I kidding? I love the whole thing :)

This year, I was just getting ready to pop in the old flick when I heard a noise in the other room. I went to investigate and what did I see? Santa! Quick as can be he snarfed down the homemade goodies that the big D had left for him. I couldn't believe my eyes! I must have looked rather gobsmacked because he took one look at my face and laughed a very quiet HO! HO! HO! In no time at all he had the presents in place and the stockings stuffed. He even gave me a wink and a bit of a cheeky smile before he flew back up the chimney.

I don't know how he does it but I know that Santa is real and I will always be a believer :)

Merry Christmas and Yuletide Blessings to you all!