My husband and I, and our cat live in a small one bedroom apartment. When I was working full time at the bakery I didn't spend much time at home so I never noticed all the things I would change. Like for insistence we have a bath, I love baths but when a short person like myself can't fit in the tub its pretty useless. If there was a shower stall then the bathroom would seem a lot bigger and would make more sense. Also there was no framing or baseboards in the whole apartment that's like having a picture on your wall without a frame. We promptly put those in and I'm hoping to get some crown moulding one day. Then the kitchen (if you can call it a kitchen) is so small and it doesn't make any sense at all. When we moved in it had dark wood cabinets which might sounds nice but they weren't stained (in the proper sense). The first thing I did was paint them with a cream oil paint that way the room looks bigger and the wood is sealed. There is so much I want to do and now that I'm home I will have a chance to do them all. Though I don't think my landlady will want me to take the tub out so I will hold myself back from doing that one.
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October 28, 2011
October 19, 2011
Stampin Tags
In my last post I was saying how the silkscreening tags weren't working. I thought I would go in a different direction by making stamps. On one of my favourite blogs Tiny Happy she Stamped Linen which looks beautiful. Heres a link to the stamp carving tutorial.
I think it worked ok but I think the font might be a little to big and the black seems a little extreme I might give it a try again with brown or dark grey ink.
October 13, 2011
Baking Sock Monkey
I have been baking for a couple of years now and I just gave it up to sew full time. It lasted four days before they phoned me to come back in :( Though I wasn't asked to come back full time it kinda messed up me trying to set up my new future. I have one more day and they then have to give me a couple of days notice before they call me in. They did ask me to make a sock monkey for the seasonal display though and I am almost done but I will give you a sneak preview.
This week all I accomplished was two sock monkeys plus a new pattern for the baking sock monkey and I have been trying to silk screen tags for my products. My sister in-law has a Yudo and we tried to burn the image into the screen but it wasn't taking so when I'm not baking I will try to figure it out.
