She's Crafty!

Alright, everyone.....it has come to this. I have delved into the world of crafti-ness. As my sister Mimi would say, I had a "Crafternoon" this week, and there's no turning back. I discovered the wide-world of a website called "Pinterest". Until last week, this was a noun that was on my horizon - I kept hearing the word "Pinterest" from friends and on Facebook but I honestly had no clue what it was. Turns out, it's still very hard to explain but at least I found out what it was and got registered. It's essentially a website where people post pictures and blogs of things they are interested in, and the point is that you can "Pin" these items to your own 'wall'. Hence the word-smash-up: Pinterest. Very witty. Very sharp.

So there are various interests you can choose to follow (crafts, kids items, recipes, fashion, travel) and then you get pictures of what everyone is doing, on your own page. Anywho, I signed up for things like travel, the Home, kids crafts, etc. Hence, my trip out to the craftstores of Dublin in search of googly eyes, a glue gun, felt and colorful pom-poms.

I am now a crafty-stay-at-home-mom. Might as well embrace this thing right? If I'm going to be home full-time with Norah, I better get on this crafty-mom bandwagon and start makin' crap!

First on the list, a sock-puppet. Keep in mind, this was all acquired so that Norah could join in, but make no mistakes, I sat and did this craft while she played her games on the iPad. Ahh, yes, this is bonding time. Maybe she'll be interested in this stuff sooner or later. For now, I shall continue to hot-glue everything I can get my hands on.

 First, cut off the end of my socks with holes in the heels. =)

 Cut out a cardboard oval for the mouth - and matching felt ovals to glue on.

Next, I glued the mouth into the puppet, and then went to town glueing (gluing?) anything and everything else to the sock puppet - eyes, dinosaur 'spikes', and polka dots.

 

When Norah's older she'll probably say "Mahhhmmm, that's a terrible picture of me!". But she gave Mr. Puppet a kiss, so I had to show it.

Next on the docket: Crafty Piece of Art that I will probably be emabarrassed of in two weeks. =)

 First you buy a canvas. (This is about 1 1/2 feet by 2 1/2 feet)

Next you paint it. Hmm, that's not the dark gray I thought I bought, is it??

Nope, didn't get any lighter as I continued to paint. Despite it being called "Gray", it is, in fact, Black. Black, black. So, the next day I had to go back to "Art & Hobby" in order to buy more paint. The intended color of this was a dark gray.

 

This is NOT the finished product, but this gives you a general idea for what it will look like. I put the petals on to see where I want to place the flower center, but I have yet to decide on the final colors for the petals, (and the background is still black). I have since finished painting it gray but now need to re-place the petals, hot-glue each one of them down and then plaster the whole thing with this great stuff called "Decopatch". This is like "Modge Podge" in the States (which I've heard about in lots of craft blogs) or, better known as, Decoupàge. It will look much different. I'm a little disappointed with the petal-colors as there is only one craft store here in Dublin and they do not have the selection of scrapbook paper that you would find in the States. At a store like Michael's, for instance, I could've picked the perfect colors and patterns to compliment eachother but instead, this is what I got. No worries though. It'll turn out. I'll be sure to post a picture of the final product. And this will probably be something to go in Norah's room.