I'm dreaming of a dust*y Christmas...

For those of you who don't know me, I have a gi-normous love of everything Alice in Wonderland. It's so weird and creepy and delightful all at the same time, how could you NOT love it?! Anywhoo, that's what brings me to this blog edition. I know this isn't a crafty entry this time around, but i just had to share this new and old find of mine!

So...years ago when I was still living in Savannah I came across a website of furniture that made my heart ache it was so beautiful. I immediately wanted to live in a house completely furnished with only furniture from here, but after realizing I don't have the money to pay for ONE piece (from $1,600-$6,000 each), let alone an entire house full, my dream was never realized :(  sad face...

Now, to 2 days ago...for some reason I was thinking (again) about my favorite little book and that furniture popped in my head, so I decided to look it up and see if they had any new, super cool pieces now, but alas, I could not think of the name of the company to save my life! So, on to Google to search for Alice in Wonderland furniture and to my great surprise ( :D <-- happy face) there's not only my old company I love so much, but a NEW company doing even CRAZIER, ALICE-IER things with furniture! Oh bliss...!

I know by this time you wanna see some of this stuff, so here we go!

15 minute earrings

I have a tendency to not purchase things that I can make. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean I will EVER make it, but if I have the ability, I can't buy it, which brings me to this little tutorial blog! I have so many fabrics that I have collected over the years from people cleaning out their stashes to the remnants section of Hobby Lobby, so I love to find projects that use these smaller amounts that I have laying around, and this one certainly uses a small amount. I've tried my hand at jewelry making in the past...earrings and necklaces mostly, but I have never been very good with jump rings and spending hours putting links together, so this project is totally right for me.

This dainty little pair of floral print earrings were my first attempt. I made them in the 15 minutes I waited for pizza to be ready! Of course now I'm hooked and I just wanna sit around all day today and make pair after pair. Only problem I can find is I may not have enough different fabrics that have small enough prints to fit on the button...guess some will be solids.

I'm baaaack...

So, I guess you figured out what I'm NOT good at, and that is obviously, writing in a blog. I gots the procrastination fever and didn't work on projects for a while, but I've got a couple at least that I'm ready to show. PLUS, there are SO MANY tutorials I've been seeing online with Christmas coming up that I am gettin' wicked excited about trying out. Here's the first...

I found this tutorial for cute little flower rings from V and Co. and decided that since I have tons of fabric scrappies all over my 'art room' I'd try it out! Although I didn't have any rings to attach them to, I made it work with a bit o' fabric and a pin.

My little scrappy roses were made with 1"x9" pieces of fabric because i found a 9" piece of scrap and didn't worry with it not being the 'correct' length. I think I wrapped them quite a bit tighter than V, but with them being my first attempt, I was trying to hard to just get them together I think. I also left the extra bits on the end and made them into 'leaves' for the edges. Every time I looked at the tutorial I wanted her make leaves, but sadly the pictures never changed, HA!