Make Something

A small reminder to myself.

Blog Changes

For those using a reader, you may not notice unless you go pop over to my homepage, but I've updated my blog header. Time for a change. :)

A Crafty Weekend

I made some time to do something creative yesterday. :) A little dress for a new clay doll coming up...

Little twill tape tags. The embroidered ones are inspired by Emma Lamb's cute tags.

New clay dolls in the works:

And a little pipe cleaner craft with the kiddoes:

This 'n That

I am so looking forward to getting crafty again. This summer has been very busy with visiting family, camping and lots of other outdoor excursions, that there hasn't been much time for crafting lately.

Our boat has a new home for a week or two as our summer dock space was needed for the in-water boat show. So we are enjoying our new surroundings for a bit. New scenery, new neighbours, etc. It's great that we can pick up and move our house whenever we like! :)

Photo above is of banana cupcakes with strawberry cream icing we made for visitors this week.

Camping

These are just a few pics from a camping trip we took last month in our Boler trailer on Lake Erie. We haven't gotten it out yet this month, so I'm dreaming while looking at these photos. :) As you can see by the photo of the kids below, it was incredibly hot. Here they are rolling a marble back and forth while they wait to go to the beach. The sand banks at this campground on Lake Erie are amazing! Difficult to get to the beach, but the trek back up was truly exhausting.

That's our beach set-up with the colourful canopy in the shot below.
Great sunsets too.

Favourite Free-Style Embroidery Links

Today I'd like to share some of my favourite free-style embroidery links with you. Lots to inspire with these ladies as well! Please let me know if you have any favourites to pass on. (My favourite crochet links can be found here.)

House Wren Studio (Charlotte Lyons)

Inspire Co. (Amy)

{My Minutia} (Teresa McFayden)

Pam Garrison

Rebecca Sower

Spirit Cloth (Jude Hill)

Favourite Crochet Links

I've been wanting to share some of my favourite links with you and today it will be on crochet. So many inspiring ideas and projects to find in these! If you know of anymore good ones, please pass them on in the comments.

About Mo and Me
Attic 24

By Elizabeth Cat Dottie Angel Emma Lamb

Min Inspiration
Resurrection Fern

Sarah London
The Royal Sisters

iCrochet

This is a new one, found via Sarah London; anyone can upload a photo and link to their crochet project here.

and Flickr of course!

Thrifting Finds Today

Did a little thrifting with my Mom today. Here are a couple of things I found. A book for a certain someone named... yep... you guessed it, "Heidi!" Also I found a linen type of table cloth, pictured below.