Arrgh Maties!

The pirate (room) adventures continue. We've been doing bits and pieces for months (well we've also been doing nothing to the room for stretches too!) and are pretty close to calling it 'done' - then again when is anything every really "done" in a house? Here is some photographic proof that we have indeed (sorta) finished a pirate room!

We started with a wave pattern - darker 'water' below and 'sky' above then added an island and pirates...


The island wraps around the corner wall a bit...


Here's the back wall...


A wooden piratey name thing I made...


...and the 'phew! I finally finished it' addition ...the closet curtains. We took off the doors when we first made what was my office into the nursery. I was able to match fabric to the wall colors fairly well so now the water/sky design follows through the room.


I still need to do something to fix up the dresser because when it was a changing table, the changing pad scratched the heck out of the top. I also need to do something about the window curtain. I made what is supposed to be a big sail/mast as a curtain but I have to add a way to 'open' it in the daytime (right now it just gets flipped over the rod to let in what sun there is in February! I'll update when there's new news!

(Foam) Heart Attack!

Trying to channel my inner Martha Stewart, I whipped up a batch of cupcake batter. OK OK, it was a boxed mix (Martha FAIL!) BUT I made the butter cream frosting from scratch (Martha WIN!) My first round was an attempt at heart shaped mini-cupcakes. I put little wedges of tin foil in the side of each to make a heart-ish shape. Well Martha FAIL! on that because I filled the cups too high and they baked up over the edges and most of them looked round. I ditched that idea and baked a 'normal' pan of 24 mini-cupcakes and ended up back in the WIN! column. Then somehow the idea of heart picks came to me. So I grabbed Jake's tub of foam hearts and a box of toothpicks and peeled and stuck (and peeled and stuck and....). That was clever of me so I took it up a notch and printed some little sayings in a cute font and cut them out. I used the 'frame' hearts with a large solid heart as the backing and liked that result too. So I'm going to give myself an A-...Jake played with the 'bad' first non-heart-shaped batch (a pirate ship full of cupcakes? ARGH!) and I frosted and stuck another 24 minis and even pulled off a few regular sized cupcakes with the remaining batter. Homemade frosting and heart thingies make up for the Betty Crocker made cake AND they were at least a pretty Valentines-y cherry chip!

Booty Call!

Since all my blog posts at www.feltsilly.blogspot.com seem to start with some sort of acknowledgment of my, um, lack of consistency in posting, I'll skip that part here and just post.

Recently I treated myself to my first pair of nice dress boots. All my pals seem to have a pair so I decided I had to too. And 'treat' probably implies they were expensive but I got them for like 60% off the list price. So now as a new boot owner, I took notice of a cute idea from a craft blog for boot insert thingies - do they have an actual name? Ever willing to just forge ahead not sure what I'm doing with a craft or sewing project, I did. I got a cute flannel fabric remnant and winged it with that and supplies I have around the house. It took several tweaks on the first to get it right but that made the second one go lickety split. Now I have happy boots and another notch on my sewing belt!



Sad boots :-(



Happy boots! :-)



Jake calls them 'candy'.