A Sassy Conspiracy

5×7″ scratchboard of a red fox. I was worried it’d look like an arctic fox without the colour, but definitely not poofy enough I would have liked to work on the paws more, but this was part of a Christmas challenge i gave myself: stash-only supplies and an upper limit of one evening crafting time [...]

I’ve wanted to try doing a typography type poster for ages, and after i got sad puppy eyes from the boy because his other valentine lacked in ~ahem~ sentiment, i made this second valentine. Turns out typography layouts are hard and take way longer than you’d expect. I’m pretty happy with the results though!

i <3 your brains, baby. This is my first attempt at papercutting, and it was way more fun than i expected. next time, better paper and blades though!

This week I learned that dear boy has wire-wrapping skills – who knew? :) I was volunteered to make charms for a fundraiser at his work, so after agonizing over bead choices for a couple of hours, he and i spent the evening working on these together, and ended up with 132 little heart charms. [...]

Mixed media tag with a little ATC-sized painting of Elliot in acrylics, for mom. :)

I mentioned previously that i had some unique pasties to share but, tragically, they’ve disappeared. This is the only existing photo of them, from their inaugural burn. Dear boy designed these after we all told him it couldn’t be done (you’d think I’d learn eventually, lol).  The pasties are sequined and lined with leather (to [...]

I’ve gotten pretty terrible about the whole consistent posting thing. its not that I’m not doing anything (though i have been experiencing some pretty severe craft burnout), rather its usually some excuse i make to myself about getting better pictures first… and then never doing it. case in point – the Overtones show back in [...]