First Entry!

Craft blog and...go!

I've been throwing the idea of starting a craft blog for the last couple of months. I want to be able to post not only things I have completed, but ideas I'm working on and inspiration. So far the extent of my crafting has been decorating my second bedroom with random cute accessories, but soon it will be a haven of creativity! With yesterday's addition of an official Work Table (thank you Ikea Vika Artur being 50%) I have no more excuses to work on the kitchen table and slowly meander over to the TV, or start playing Animal Crossing (shaking fist at Tom Nook). Maybe it is best that Tommy doesn't get that game...I don't think I could resist the urge to send him empty cans I fish out of the river or that crappy office chair I dug out of the recycling bin.

On a craft related note, I have (almost) finished my first needle felting project - a rose corsage. I bought all the supplies about a week ago and I love it! Who knew that taking some random wool and poking it with a barbed needle could turn into such art!



Also, please note I say almost completed here because I want it to eventually be a pin, so I need to go out to JoAnn's soon and buy a little clip to felt onto the back. Right now it just kind of sits on my desk and reminds me of all the possibilities...

I think my next project is going to involve both wet (washing machine) felting and needle felting. I want to knit a set of coasters, felt them, and then needle felt something onto them. Getting back into wet felting is really making me wish I had a washing machine in my apartment after all...though the old one in Magnolia was really a piece of crap. I predict myself in a month's time going to get a roll of quarters just to felt next door. The alternative is using my parent's condo in Ballard which, really, wouldn't be bad either. It will be interesting to needle felt something freehand, though, as sadly the rose corsage was made by felting inside of an easy-to-use mold. Edward and Murphy still like it though...

OK one last thing (I was going to leave you with that artful picture of Edward and Murphy on my wine-rack-turned-yarn-holder, BUT I forgot to rave about how my new potential favorite book was couriered to me today at the office THREE DAYS EARLY (thank you Amazon!). Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts is just waiting for me to sign off and sit down at the above-referenced Official Work Desk and thumb through it with a cup of tea and my dog. And...GO!