kitchen rug

www.etsy.com/listing/92203872/shag-bluegreen-kitchen-rug

Hey all from my home town in Iowa! I have been working diligently on a custom order rug while on the car ride down and while we all sat around as a family and talked. Here is the finished product!

lists, who doesn't love them!

Ever have one of those days where you just can't remember anything? I did today, all though I'm not quite sure it's different any other day ;) I was just laying in bed trying to coax myself to sleep, but instead of sleeping I was thinking about all of the things I wanted to try to craft. (this happens frequently) I have the best ideas while I'm drifting off.

The problem rests in that when I wake up in the morning or even the next day I can't fathom what I had thought up to make! That's why I'm going to start a list of all the things I want to make as I think them up, and just continually add to it. Here it goes..

1. Make a pillow out of the weave pattern on the back of the shag rug
2. Make a t-shirt collage scarf. (words/pics?)
3. Make a wickedly cool t-shirt skirt that would make my best friend jealous!
4. Make t-shirt curtains, or a ruffled t-shirt shower curtain

If you hadn't noticed I'm kinda on a t-shirt kick! Now to find them at a cheep price! I've been putting out the word to people at work seeing if they have any old shirts they wanted to trow away. Slowly they have been trickling in. (I work with the best people in the world!) I also put the word out to my momma, who I get to travel back home to see this weekend with my older sister and potentially my younger sister as well! Clear hwy 35, the sisters are goin on a road trip to the home front!

It's getting late, so I better hit the sheets hopefully dreaming of the scads of t-shirts I'm going to find at the thrift stores tomorrow! Wish me luck! -meg

t-shirt scarf example found at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/10/t-shirt_memory_scarf.html

t.f. pillow girl version

Today I'm running late for work! ahhhh! But that didn't stop me from trying to get the girl version of the tooth fairy pillow completed! Its not quite there (still have to stuff) and I"m hoping to add a really cute bow and maybe a little hair to this girl. But alas that will have to wait till later this evening! Hope you all have a great day!

rag rug turned pet bed

 

I'm definitely not done yet, but I wanted to post a picture of what I'm currently working on. It's supposed to be a rag rug but I want to curl up the edges and make it into a pet bed with a cushion insert (not made yet)

Shag rug 2.0

http://www.etsy.com/shop/meggiebabe

This is my second attempt at making the shag tshirt rug. Second, and much much better attempt! This time around when I was cutting the holes in the base of the rug I measured them out, instead of making holes where I thought it looked right. This gave the rug a more uniform look and decreased my over all time making the rug, even though it added a little more time to the start up portion!

Also to make the shag part a little more secure I made my cut out holes a scant 1/4 inch. It definitely made a huge difference. I hope the person who bought this from my etsy store enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it! Tutorial below!

http://ragsbysockmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/10/t-shirt-shag-rug-tutorial.html

Business Cards

Here is what I'm thinking I want my business cards to look like. I sent the picture off to my sister first thing this morning, and she suggested I change "productions" to something else because productions is associated mainly with movies or assembly line comings and goings.

While I had thought of that myself, I couldn't figure out how to change the name within the etsy community, and I wanted everything to match up on the website and business cards. After the phone call, I got down to the nitty gritty with etsy and found out how to change the name.  My store is now called Hill Top Creations -crafting made fun.  (I feel as though it should have always been this name!) Out with the old, in with the new!

I did try to use fabric on my business cards, but I liked it better with just my handwriting, and drawing of the hill top house. Making them by hand will be nice since it's more personal and, I can make them as I need them. A few here, a few there. What do you guys think? Should I have any more information on the card? Design it differently? Thank you once again for the imput!
 -meggie

work in progress

So even though my blog is a craft a day for a year, i didn't complete my project today. I got up early (5:30am) to start early, before work but I did not get it done. I think this project I will save to do when I have spare time (lunch breaks, bus rides, etc) So I can always be productive and fill my time.

I'm posting pictures of the process because a friend asked if I could show her how to make a Celtic looking pillow.

Oh, and while I was speaking with my Mother last night, she suggested that I make some business cards. Probably so that she could hand them out to people back in my home town. So I'm really excited to make that my project tomorrow. Business cards made with fun scrap fabric notions! (it kind of reminds me of making ATC's. :)
 -meggie