Today....

My husband & I are celebrating 11 years of friendship, 3 1/2 years of "couple-dom" & 2 years of marriage. I couldn't ask for a better partner in life.

♥
I love you so much, Will!

p.s. I wrote about our 1st anniversary here :)

Hey, remember when this was a craft blog?

I feel like there has been a lack in craft-related posts lately, so I figured I'd go ahead & show some of the stuff I've finished lately!

First up, the apron that I talked about making for my friend, Marlena..I finished it a looooong time ago & she's received it & loves it. Score!

Here's the whole thang
Kind of a shitty picture, but you get the idea! I was really happy with it, even though embroidering those pockets were a BITCH.





Then there is my Colbert cross stitch. I love Stephen Colbert, who doesn't? I had to stitch up one of his infamous intro phrases, the newest one being "Factose Intolerant"

available @ my etsy for $20.00!

Had to go with the red & blue border, of course :)



Then I made the nerdy HTML cross stitch which translates to end patriarchy. I dig it! I'm on this black & white cross stitch kick right now & I love it, especially with the white frame.

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What else, what else....oh! I added a new scarf! I've been in the knitting mood lately, I even have another pretty scarf to add, but I need to take some pics first...here's my Chocolate & Cotton Candy scarf.

available @ my etsy for $23.00!

Snarl for the camera haha! It was actually really cold that day so after Will took my shop picture I had to throw my hoodie on. Can you tell how short I am? I think I look crazy short in this picture, but that's ok, because I am crazy short. And yes, I just keep getting more & more blond. It's practically white!

And the other night I did a quick little embroidery for a shirt that needed a little makeover. I hadn't embroidered in so long! It was really nice, I forgot how much I enjoy it...and now I feel like I have a whole new shirt!
I love embroidering clothes. Now I plan on tackling some of my skirts with more of the anatomical patterns...love em!

So there ya go guys, finally a good hefty craft update. I'm working on my first open-work scarf right now & I'm really pleased with how it's turning out & how easy it is! I also am just about finished with a cross stitch (I think I found my favorite font!) & I already have another one in mind. And now that I finally have some time off, I can work on them rather quickly! Yay!

Grow a Pair cross stitch & mom's towel

So I've finished 2 out of the 4 projects I got going at the moment so I thought it was time to share :)
I'm working on an apron for one of my buddies & it should be finished soon...I'm always excited to do any kind of crafts for my friends! I also have a cross stitch I wanna finish soon-ish. Damn you, crafts! Every time I try to take a break, you always suck me right back in! Anyways, I'm kind of rambling...

Here is the towel I am giving to my mom. She looooves wine. She was so disappointed when I had turned 21 & couldn't have a glass of wine with her, I can't stand the stuff. Worst. Hangovers. EVER. I'd have a beer with her though! Yeah, I'm classy like that. I just drink beer & liquor.




I'm not quite sure if I'm totally pleased with how the wine glass came out..I used satin stitch, stem stitch, & back stitch on it. Maybe too many different stitches? I don't know. It's cool though, my mom will still love me. :D

Now, here's the cross stitch I just did. My husband said this the other day & my first reaction was, "I'm cross stitching that!"
As you can probably tell from this cross stitch, I am not huge fan of whiners, complainers, gutless people, etc. I consider myself a pretty strong person & I am not a fan of the weak. Sooo...I stitched up a "Grow a Pair" cross stitch! I think the growing vines are pretty damn perfect too, although I'm getting kind of bored with using the Subversive Cross Stitch borders. And for those who don't know, it's grow a pair of balls, or ovaries! See! Interchangeable! Haha

available @ my Etsy shop for $15!

Oh, and I hope everyone voted today! I typically don't care too much for politics but this election is extremely important to me, as I'm sure it is to all of you. This was actually the first year I had ever registered to vote & the first year (obviously) that I voted! I hope they don't take this one away from us, if so, my husband & I have talked about moving to Japan! I love it when I hear him speaking Japanese. He's taking a Japanese course right now & he had talked about how he wanted to teach English over there or something to do with journalism since that's his major. His pipe dream though is to write for a video game magazine, which I think would be rad as hell :) We are serious nerds! And really, how cool would it be to live in Japan?!

That's all I got for now, but I'll have some more projects up here soon! Sorry if this post seems a bit rambly...I'm a little loopy from the pain killers I took earlier for the migraine that has decided to stick around for almost a week. Score!