Naptime, Love by the Atlantic and Birdies

Today's leftover photo's from the 365 project. I'm sleepy today and my couch looked really nice and cozy...so for the first photo, I decided to try and capture the desire I have to crawl into it and get all comfy. :) The second photo is my attempt to show how cold it is outside and how much I want to stay inside. Third photo is a painting I did called "Love by the Atlantic". It's Marco (my husband) and I on Tybee island, falling in love by the Atlantic ocean. ^_^ The last photos are some little glass, birdie candle holders I have. I just love the colors of them and have sortof used those colors in my entire home. Today's theme: warm and cozy. :)

Sugar, Bling and Kisses

Hi. Here are today's leftover pictures from my 365 project. The first picture is cotton candy sugar I saw sitting at my mom and dad's house. They bought a cotton candy machine to use with their 3 granddaughters (my nieces) and I thought these little separate containers of sugar made a colorful photo opportunity. :) The other photos are little glimpses of my bedroom and dresser. The photo strip on the last picture is me and my adorable husband during the week of our honeymoon. ^_^ Fun, girly stuff. Bye!

Costa Rica and Russian nesting dolls

Here are today's leftover pictures from the shots I took for my 365 project. The first two pics are of an ox cart from Costa Rica. My husband is from Costa Rica so we have a few things like this around the house. One of the things Costa Rica is known for are the bright and colorful ox carts and ox cart wheels. The last two pics are of my Russian nesting dolls. They are not from Russia...hehe. They are actually from Claire's accessory store. I just thought they were cute. :) And again if you'd like to see my 365 project just go here:

http://365project.org/mypalsara/365

Blessings! <3

Hearts, hearts, hearts!

So for today's leftover pictures, I discovered a new photography trick that I wanted to try. I've turned the "confusion circles" (the circles of unfocused light in the distance of a photograph) into heart shapes. :D So fun! I love hearts. None of the pictures are edited (except the last one, I added a filter) the effect is done only with my camera and a piece of paper-stock over the lens. I hope you like them!

Photography love

So, I used to take a lot of pictures and for some reason I kind of stopped. On January 1st, I came across the "365 Project" and decided to do it. Take one picture everyday and upload it to the website. I think it's already improved my photography skills and I just love looking at the creativity of others! And I'm remembering my love for photography. :)

The reason for this entry is to share all the pics that I took and didn't upload. Since it's only one pic a day, I have a lot of others that didn't make it. But I like them and think they should be shared. I hope you enjoy. <3



































Also, if you wanna check out my "365 Project" you can go here:
http://365project.org/mypalsara/365

Fabric Food!

Hello! Remember the pattern I wanted to try last week? Well I got it! And completed my niece, Abbie's birthday gift. I like the way everything turned out. I did a different fabric for the shopping bag other than just solid green felt. I was more fond of this fabric I already had that says "green" and "love" all over it. And it's just perfect for a sweet, two year old girl.


Here are some pictures of the beginning of my progress. My plan was to take pictures of all of the food items as sort of a before, during and after idea. But I got so into the project that I forgot to pick my camera up after the eggs and squash. But I'll share those with you. :)

Eggs, right after cutting them out.

Egg in process of being sewn on my trusty OLD Singer sewing machine.



Egg getting stuffed after turning it right side out.




Finished eggs! Aren't they cute? The Simplicity pattern makes a half dozen.




Ok, so I just decided that I don't want to put up a pic of the squash in progress, because I only took one picture of it. So instead, I'll just show you some pics of everything finished! That's more fun to look at anyway.

Veggies: squash, eggplant, tomato and carrot. The pattern also has a pumpkin, but I decided not to do it. There were already a lot of orange things. Yep, that's my logic.

Fruits: banana, apple, orange, strawberries and orange slice. The strawberries are probably my favorite. I contemplated keeping one and only giving Abbie two. But that wouldn't be right. She's a baby and I can make more if I want. So she gets all three.




See how cute they are? :) My fingers were super sore after all the hand sewing I did on this project. I usually don't hand sew at all. But I'm happy with the way it all turned out, so it was worth it.




All of the food together.






So there you have it. Completed in less than a week. Now go out and buy the Simplicity pattern 2445 and make a bag-full of fruits, veggies and eggs. Oh...that pattern also comes with a cake and cupcake pattern. I'll save that one for later. Maybe for another niece. :)

Fabric Flowers

I've just recently learned how to make these fabric flowers. They are pretty easy! The ones here are some pins, and hair clips I made for a friend's wedding. They were fun! :)



Then I watched a tutorial online of how to make flower bib necklaces and came up with this:


I really like it! It's so bright and fun. And just in case you want to make your own, here are the tutorials I used. :)
For the fabric flowers (also called handkerchief roses) go here:

http://www.eco-proper.com/2010/06/handkerchief-roses.html

You don't have to use handkerchiefs, I just cut squares of pretty fabrics for mine. Except for the white flower. That was a handkerchief.

For the flower bib necklace, I couldn't find the same tutorial I used. It was about 10 minutes long on youtube. But if you go to youtube.com and type in "flower bib necklace" there are some others you can look at. I'm sure they will teach you the same methods. :)

Also I'm excited about making Christmas gifts for this year. I started buying stuff in August, so hopefully I won't wait til the last minute this year. I've been looking at adorable felt play food online lately and I really want to make some for my youngest niece, Abbie. Here is a pattern I want to use from Simplicity. It's so cute.
Ok...well that's all for now. Bye!