dd_addiena

Signed up for a painting class and we had to do 2 projects.  One was a flower and one was a landscape.  Here are mine:

Started painting my master bathroom and Laundry Room!  I absolutely love the new color so far.  I am going to get a lighter color for the ceiling in the bathroom and 2 walls + ceiling in the Laundry Room.  The bathroom walls are all painted now though.  Here are before and after pictures.

BEFORE:


AFTER:

Here's the newest section of the quilt.  It is the top right corner.

Kept working on the quilt, finished the trouble area i got stuck on as well as another small section and now have one whole side done including the center row.

I realized yesterday I was stuck on the quilt project because I was trying to finish the most difficult area first and getting overwhelmed by the complexities of the squares.  So, I moved on to a different area and completed a whole 12"x18" section in just a few hours.  Here's a picture.

Here's a picture of the blanket I crocheted for my newest nephew, Koen.

Acrylic hummingbird painting done for my mom's birthday.

Acrylic painting done for my sister-in-laws birthday.


Her scarfs I have made her:

Finish a 5x6 square section (15x18in) of the quilt top.  the section is the lower left corner.




Here is a Dragon Tapestry my mom helped me make:

Seems like I have been working on projects continuously here.  I have started working on a ~3x4 ft quilt to try out the watercolor quilting technique.  Here is the design I came up with:



I got some gorgeous fabrics and I am really excited about how it is going to turn out.

I just hope my excitement sticks with this project.  So far I have 10 squares done (the black dots mark the corner of each 3 in square).

I am finally getting around to posting the rest of my Christmas present projects.  I was waiting until after the holidays to post, to make sure everyone got their presents first, but I kinda overshot that by a long while.


Here is the third greeting card painting I did for my dad:




Here is the purse I crocheted for one sister-in-law:
 

The purse is made with sensations pacaboo yarn (alpaca and bamboo) and was felted after crocheting.


Here is the scarf I crocheted for a friend out of bamboo yarn that was a joy to work with:



Of course, I also crocheted and cross-stitched a pillow for my mom, and painted some forget-me-nots for her and made 2 scarves for my sister-in-laws, but I forgot to take pictures of them.  I will have to ask them for pictures sometime for my collection.

These are the fronts of the cards I painted for my dad's Christmas present.


WinterLookingUp



AutumnLookingUp


Well...there are more, but live journal isn't letting me post any more images for some reason, so I will post them later.

I have been fairly artistic lately, however as most of my newest creations are christmas presents, I will have to wait to post them on the off chance that someone looks.  However, I did paint a pretty cool picture of a butterfly, so here it is:

I am so excited that I didn't kill the amaryllis this year.  Even more exciting is that it had 5 blooms on it, very pretty!  The color was called Apple Blossom.

Here's the picture:

Here's her graduation picture:

Here's pictures of the pumpkins we carved!

My pumpkin:





Our pumpkins:

I was addressing an envelope earlier when it dawned on me that I get a serious mood boost just from writing my new address and NOT having to put an apartment number after the street address.  I realized that every time I write it out instead of just sticking on an address label I become thankful and happy that I own my wonderful house.

It is great to be able to have a separate room for our computers AND a guest bedroom.  I love that I no longer have to wait my turn for the bathroom (only reason I insisted on having 2 bathrooms minimum when we looked for houses).  And most of all I love having enough space for all my things so my house doesn't look nearly as cluttered as our condo did.


Also, today was a day for learning and starting new things.  I learned how to do tunisian crochet and did about 8 rows on that project, then started another project in regular crochet, and then bought steel hooks and crochet thread to try making a doily and made the center of that.

Now all I need is a day for finishing projects!