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Homeless Crafts

Please help me reduce my stash and give these little handmade goodies a home. They will go to the first person who comments that they'd love to have it, and there is no charge for them. I will accept (but do not expect) donations to help with shipping.

Update: Judy snapped these up super quick (thanks Judy!).  Don’t fret if you thought you might like a set, there are bound to be more!

This weekend’s sewing yielded three sets of coasters (tutorial up at StashBustin’ ).  Two of them are spoken for, but the orange/green/pink ones could use a new home.  Any takers?

In case you haven’t figured it out by now D is something of a goof-ball.  When he opened a new jar of peanut butter this morning and discovered ‘eyes’ staring back at him it was only natural that he give it a mouth.

The bane of my existence ... I swear I dreamt about this last night.

Before you get too excited over my ‘tiling talents’ you should know that these are pre-laid on mesh in a roughly 12x12 square.  Evidently those squares aren’t very square as the issues I’m having are all with proper spacing.

The little plant Greenie sent me perked up nicely overnight.  It’s even thinking about blooming.

Another sewn item in dire need of a home.  The colors aren’t very true (damn kitchen fluorescents) it’s an ecru background with coral-red and pale green dragonflies / trim, and a coral/red/pink lining.  Speak up and its yours!

Update:  It has reach its new home with the fabulous Pea!

Mackie came to work with me today because the vet recommends keeping an eye on them after they’ve been sedated.  She has shiny teeth, clean ears, short nails and a pair of hips that are in very good shape.  The doc said there is some build up on one but not enough to call it arthritis.  He does, however, suspect a knee problem.  When he manipulated it he found that it moves distally, which it shouldn’t.  He likened it to a football injury caused by planting, twisting and pushing off all in one motion.  Of course, when D showed up and she did the ‘I’m so happy I could just die’ dance the doc reconsidered.  She shouldn’t have been able to cavort so ably with that type of injury, so for now we are to just watch her.  It’s mostly good news for our ‘mostly good dog’* and given the way things have been going lately, I’ll take it.

*phrase stolen shamelessly from Dan at Chucklehut, whose ‘mostly good dog’ Cosmo, led me to find his blog while researching doggie joint problems. Its hard to believe that I’ve ‘known’ Dan for three years now!

Due to some scheduling problems, we didn’t get as much done on the bathroom as we had hoped.  By ‘scheduling problems’ I mean that we didn’t want to seal the floor and curb, and tile the floor prior to my plumber step-brother’s repair of the piping.  The house is plumbed with polybutylene piping, a material that has been balled up in lawsuits for years because of its tendency to leak at the fittings.  I’ve had several leaks in the house but they were all associated with the copper leaders at the valves and not the poly-pipe.  I repaired them to the best of my ability with a compression fitting that clearly stated on the package ‘not for in-wall use’, and they’ve held – some for nearly ten years.  Still, with poly’s reputation, and the dire warning on the fittings I’d rather a pro make it as right as possible (without re-plumbing the whole house) while we have the wall open.

D finished the knee wall, I hung the wall insulation, we installed wallboard where we could and then I set about constructing the curb.  After some discussion the decided on method was to lay two courses of bricks, and then stucco over them.  It took me far longer than it probably should have but we were both pleased with the outcome.  This took us to Saturday afternoon and a natural stopping point to wait for the plumbing to be done.  Certainly there were things we could do; finish the ceiling drywall, remove the toilet, install drywall on the back of the knee wall, remove the wallpaper and prep for the future paint job, etc.  But we were both easily swayed by the lure of other activities and called it quits until ‘J the plumber’ can get by.

D parked himself at the computer and I sat down at the sewing machine.  I was a ‘makin’ fool’ this weekend, completing three journals, two ‘cover-ups’, a tote, and a ‘roll’...most of which I can’t show you yet as they are all ‘promises kept’ (albeit slow promises) and are jetting their way to their new homes as I type.  There is however a straggler, a journal that didn’t make the cut, and that I can share.

It is the latest item that ‘needs a home’ so if it ‘blows your skirt up’ speak up.  It is navy and cream cotton with just a touch of red, and covers a lined journal (readily available from Barnes & Noble).  This one is a considerable improvement over the first round of journals and in my opinion more successful.  Like the little smocks these are a satisfying and quick project, not to mention a great way to consume the stash.  So help me out will ya?  Give this poor little guy a home.  Update:  Donna kindly gave it a home ... thanks Donna.

Update:  Rox, with a little arm twisting, did finally speak up and asked for this little bag.

I carved out a little time this weekend to work on a bag that Rox challenged me to while I was mid-mom-move.  This little wrist bag was the bane of my existence for several hours - a side effect of me working without a pattern.  It should have been a fairly simple feat, but my brain must have been vacationing somewhere because I made many simple mistakes that resulted in picked stitches and cut seams.  There are some parts of it I like - the shape and the tucks on the bottom, and some that I don’t - the way the top gaps when it is closed.  It is a good start for what Rox had in mind but not, I think, quite right.  So I am dubbing this the first item for the soon to be ‘free for all’ section of this blog, but giving Rox first dibs since she issued the challenge to begin with.  But, if she passes and you like it, speak up, its yours!

Some info on the bag.  It is 100% cotton with medium weight interfacing, the body is about 12” wide by 7 ½ tall.