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!

Recent work!

Yay, I've done some things that haven't totally disappointed me! I got really fed up with crafts for a minute because seriously, I could NOT seem to get anything right. I unraveled probably 5 scarves. Yeah. It was AWESOME. So I figured I'd put my lightbox to work some more (I fucking LOVE that thing). So I google-imaged around, found a few things I really liked, put them together, & voila! This awesome traditional style tattoo flash towel was born. It's a really nice sized towel, if I do say so myself. And I do.

Here's a close up...I am sooo pleased with how it turned out!




Ok. Next up we got the kitchenware patterns that everyone seems to be so fond of lately!
Bitchin' Kitchen indeed!


These were so much fun to do, for reals. I was so so SO happy with how they both turned out! I took my time with each of them, really practicing small perfect little stitches. And ya know what? I think I may be done with Sublime Stitching, at least for the time being. I've found so much stuff online! Even Will has said, more or less, that he feels I'm being more creative. And I really have felt more creative!

Oh but I'm not done...I stitched up a little bookmark. Nothing fancy, very simple & to the point..


Modelled by the lovely Disinformation book "You are being lied to."



Seriously, I cannot stand it when I'm trying to enjoy my book & some dumb fuck comes over to me with a zillion questions.."what are you reading?" "is it good?" "what's it about?" "is that the author that wrote book that one time that was really good?" "have you read the secret yet?"
OH MY GOD SHUT UP!

I hate that! Haha

So I thought fuck off is a pretty good bookmark so you don't have to say anything at all. I plan on doing another one along the same lines but with less curse words.

So all these, the towels & the bookmark were added to my etsy shop! And I'm not gonna lie. I think they're all badass. So I hope someone else thinks so too. Enough to purchase them. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Well, guess I'm going to go back to crafting! I'm working on a couple of scarves (keeping my fingers crossed!) & about to start working on a onesie!