Trial and Error

I was supposed to posreally t last Monday, but I got really busy suddenly.

With what little time I had, I experimented a little on the stool. I realize now I shouldn't have, but I did. Now I need to take a couple of steps back in order to make it right. But that's okay. Perfection cannot be rushed.

Here's a photo of my four trials...all errors...

The pink was a lot...pinker...than I originally pictured. So I need to get new pink paint. I also wanted to do lace pattern on it, and I still might. I'm on the fence about it. Overall, this did not work out like I had hoped.

That's okay, though. I can sand that off quickly, and repaint it. It's really not a big deal. I mean, Edison had to make like a hundred lightbulb prototypes before finally making one that worked, right? So I have plenty of mistakes left before this is all done!

Princess Step Stool

A few months ago, I acquired this cute little stool/tiny bench. It's been living in my trunk. Every time I turned a corner, I would hear it slide across the back and hit the side. I felt bad. I finally got it out and started making it beautiful.

Here it is, all dusted off:

 Here it is with it's coat of white paint:

Nothing too exciting yet, but the design is in the works. The next color is going to be pastel pink. The sides (the legs) are going to be pastel pink lace. The top is going to have a quote by President Uchtdorf. It'll be the one about how we are all princesses and our once upon a times begin now. (He says it so much better...)

That should be done this weekend. Expect an update with the completed product before Monday!

Utah Lake

If I Woke Up From A Coma...

...I would not believe it was February.

I went on a hike today. Up in the canyon. You know, the place that is usually covered in snow this time of year... It wasn't. In fact, it was warm. REALLY warm.

See?

There was a TON of mud, the kind of mud that steals your shoes. It was really gross. 

My theory, after hiking in this AWESOME weather, is that this summer will suck. It's either going to be crazy warm--like living-on-the-sun warm--or really cold--like typical-february cold. If it snows on the fourth of July, we can totally use aerials to blow up snowmen, anyone on board? 

"Owl Always Love You" Update

I haven't had much time to work on this, yet. Sundance (which was awesome) kind of got in the way.

Anyway, my process has been so far to pick fabric:

The one on the left has larger squares, for larger stitching. The one on the right obviously has tighter stitches. In the end, I picked the one on the left. I liked the color better. The design is also too spread out to fit on the white fabric and inside the small circle anyway.

This is the start of owl. His bum is to the right, and his head will be to the left. He looks like a weird mushroom thing.

"Owl Always Love You"

I feel like I should explain where I've been, but that is way too much to type out. Basically, I've just been living everyday, and sleeping a lot.

I haven't worked on many projects lately, but here's one I'm particularly excited about!

For as long as I can remember, Grandma has loved owls. It's always been her favorite bird...or at least I have thought it has... maybe it hasn't...either way, she always likes when I show her owl things.

A while ago, I went to Color Me Mine with Rich. I made an adorable little owl mug. Less than a week after bringing it home, I left it in the fridge and one of the kids accidentally knocked it out...causing it to break on the kitchen floor. I was pretty disappointed, but it's just a cup. Life goes on. Grandma, however, really liked the cup, so she saved the pieces and meticulously glued it back together:

After it was already glued back together.

She did a really good job if you ask me. You can barely see here that it was glued back together. There are a lot of tiny holes, so it won't ever hold liquid again, but it looks nice still. 

I'm going to end up using it as a nice little pen holder or something. 

Anyway, back to my explanation. 

Grandma loves owls, so much so that she repaired my mug because it was cute. See this shelf? I was going to just stick it on there, but there isn't room. See the wall? See all the eclectic wall decorations? See all of the space on the wall? 

All of these little decorations are things that Grandma loves. (Some of them are hand made, some are gifted. One is even a Christmas card that she framed because the picture was adorable.) I decided that since my mug has no room on the shelf, I would make grandma a little cross stitch owl to hang on the wall right by the sleeping mouse in the black frame.

I picked out an image for an owl. I picked out a tree design to put the owl in. I even picked out a cute little phrase to put around it. I'm going to start it today, and see how quickly I can get it done.

I anticipate it take a while, because I'm making the pattern up out of my own imagination...I don't have a pattern or design chart. But it'll be worth it. I want her to know that "Owl always love [her]".



Sorry this post was so weirdly written and really dull. I'm just very stoked for this project. I'll post an update soon about how it's going. 

Twin Falls ID