One of my June goals was to participate in 30 Days of Creativity for the second year in a row. Here’s my report for Week 2! (And here’s Week 1.)
June 7 – I sewed the fabric I’d prepped the day before and created two new throw pillows for our couch. (Well, two new covers anyway.) This was such an easy project that it’s embarrassing to admit that I’d been sitting on the fabric (which I bought specifically for this) for more than a year. From start to finish it took about 45 minutes to make two pillow covers.
June 8 – One of Emma’s three main teachers at daycare had back surgery on Wednesday and will be out for a couple months. I made her a card to thank her for everything! She was great and it’s a bummer that she doesn’t get to finish out the year with Emma and her classmates…but hopefully she’ll be back and feeling better in the fall. In August Emma will move from Room 1 (babies) to Room 2 (young toddlers), which is right next door, so I’m sure we’ll still see Ms. Joy.
June 9 – A little more work on Emma’s Christmas stocking.
June 10 – I saw a necklace at Target a while ago made of embroidery floss and metal rings. It occurred to me that it’d be very easy to make something similar so I bought the materials a while ago…and of course they’ve been sitting with the rest of my craft stuff for months. I finally dug the bag out on Monday evening and made this necklace. It didn’t turn out quite like I’d envisioned — tying the knots took up more of the length than I’d anticipated, so the necklace ended up shorter than I’d wanted. But overall it’s not too bad and I had fun doing it.
June 11 – Yep, more cross stitch!
June 12 – This was my low point of creativity this week since all I did was hem some work pants. Necessary, arguably crafty, but not very creative. Also? My blind hem stitch and I do not get along very well. I had to rip it out twice before finally being somewhat successful on the third go-round. And it still turned out wonky enough on one leg that I may rip it out again and just sew the hem by hand.
June 13 – I designed a simple card in Illustrator and imported it into my Silhouette software. One reason I bought the Silhouette instead of a Cricut is that I wanted the ability to make my own designs! Importing them into the software is a little kludgy, but as long as the design is simple it’s not too much of a hassle. The card turned out really cool so I’ll post a photo of the finished product once the recipient has received it!
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