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Christmas is coming!

A friend asked me to make an art tote for her niece for Christmas. I found an awesome tutorial on From An Igloo (lots of great tutorials there).

It holds 12 crayons (24 if tight), markers or 24 pencil crayons (with 2 in each slot, they won't slide out at all). There's also a spot to put a ruler and to carry a colouring book or sketch pad.

I just put a variety of colouring utensils in to display all the options. Isn't it adorable, and so convenient! Do you have a little artist in your life? I'd be happy to do a few more of these, they were fun and such a great idea!









*need to press this one more time before mailing it.. I was just eager to get pictures.

Been a little busy

The last few weeks have been fairly hectic around here... hosting 2 birthday parties, out of town company, prepping for baby to come and just being hot and uncomfortable, didn't lead to much blogging. I do have some major catch up to do though.. and hopefully, I can get a little break here and there to do so.

We finally, 7 days late, welcomed little Julia to our family on July 11th. She is so much like her big sister... Paisley is just completely smitten with her, and is the biggest helper and friend to her. They're so cute together:



I haven't taken too many pictures yet, but will get on that right away ;).

Once I get Julia on a somewhat decent routine, we should be able to get things running again.

Still waiting

Still waiting for this baby to arrive, we're 4 days late at this point.

It has freed up time to do a few projects I've been wanting to do, but putting off... just simple ones.

Last night I did letters for the girls' bedroom doors:



I still want to put another layer of seal on them before hanging them. Paisley picked both papers from a selection I pulled out for her.

This was a simple project, as I got the letters on clearance at Michael's, traced them on the paper, cut them out, and then modge podged them to the letters. Took all of 5-10 minutes, and each matches the decor of their rooms, sorta.

I also got t-shirts made for the girls last night. Wasn't sure what I wanted to do on them yet... something matchy, but wasn't sure. But since the Calgary Stampede started today, decided to go with a country theme. I decided to stencil them with fabric paint and freezer paper cut on my Cricut. Turned out cute:








While I had the Cricut out, I did up a shirt for my friend's baby boy:





Also whipped up this new style of hat, which I'll be listing soon, for her new baby:



All in an evening's work. Felt rather productive last night.

This morning I started on inventory, and found a plethora of products that are complete and not listed yet. I've been fighting with my photo applications, and having difficulty getting things uploaded the last couple weeks.. but hopefully I can get most listed soon. I just have to do it in a really round about slow way... so it takes much more time to complete. You don't want to even know how long photos for this post took. There's a reason they're unedited.

Custom order

Here is a custom order I just finished up. It's a set of baby shower invitations. Mom and dad to be are big Calgary Stampeders fans, so the person throwing the shower requested something Stamps themed. I came up with a couple different samples, but this was the favourite:







If I had known the birthdate of the baby (still on it's way, but will be here before the shower), I would have put that on the back, for more of a keepsake, but instead used the shower date.

I think they're super cute!!

Custom invitations are some of my favourite orders to work on.

I'm with the band!

On June 3rd, we attended the CD release party of my brother's band called The Burn Ins. It was a great show, and we all had lots of fun.

The littlest Schroeder wouldn't be able to fit any of the band t-shirts (YET! They are having one made for her), so I made her a shirt before we left for the show. It was cute and simple:

The front:




The back:


I just cut some freezer paper on my cricut to make a stencil, ironed it on, and then used fabric paint to paint it.

She had a BLAST that night. You've never seen a little girl dance so much. Looking through the photos from that night you see a big variety of dance moves, but here's a few of my favorite shots of her dancing to the band:







She got the whole band to sign her t-shirt as well:


If you are interested in hearing some music from the band (seeing videos as well), check out the band's facebook page. From there you can link to their youtube stream and hear some of their new cd (which is awesome by the way). Their official website is still under construction.