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When you over buy wool in order to make sure you don’t run out making your American Duchess Cape, it stands to reason that you will use said material to create a Hobbit-y Corset Top with peplum, covered all over in botanically and nature inspired embroidery that will certainly take you forever to actually finish. …
After completing several embroidery courses on Domestika.org, I decided to use some of the stitches learned to design a work of my own. I have loved Tolkien’s world for years and after seeing some amazing interpretations of hobbit holes I decided to attempt one myself. I envisioned a foliage rich, super textured piece, almost completely …
I have joined the cult, the American Duchess Cape cult! Since the first moment of seeing the free American Duchess Cape pattern, I have had a mighty need to make my own. The pattern is still available for free on their website. The problem is that I am not an accomplished seamstress, and this pattern …
Without further ado, I offer up a brief tour of my son’s Quiet Book… of FIERCE MAJESTY! Just a couple of quick notes on putting it all together. I tried to take lessons I had learned from the quiet book I made for my niece and upgrade them here. For instance, I didn’t assume anything …
I have to admit.. these may have been my favorite quiet book pages. These were completely my own idea and design and I absolutely adore how they came out! I got the idea to make it a two page spread, because I knew I couldn’t fit everything into just one. So I made the left …
The Black Lake is a constant presence on the Hogwarts grounds, and becomes crucial to Harry’s completion of the TriWizard Tournament in the fourth book. We find out about several of the inhabitants over the course of the series, including the giant squid, grindylows, and of course, the merpeople. I decided to make a small …
The Quiet Book, of course, needed to have a greenhouse page to show some well deserved botanical love and give a little nod to our beloved head of Hufflepuff House, Professor Sprout, who teaches Herbology. So here we have Neville donning his ear protection in order to transplant the infant mandrakes. I started with a …
My son absolutely loves the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” song, though his hand motions for the entire thing are simply holding his hands above his head and opening and closing them 🙂 So of course I knew he needed to have a spider page, and what luck that there is a magnificent spider in residence on …
As the Twitter user @lindseyromain said… “i’ve never seen the entire internet united by undying love for something like baby yoda before and I refuse to be cynical about it. he is the child we conceived together and the child we deserve.” Well said… well said. I went cuckoo for the porgs in Star Wars: …
When in doubt, you do like Hermione does, and you go to the Library! I’m pretty biased towards libraries, but then I think everyone else should be too. How many times did Hermione save the boys’ posteriors by finding exactly the piece of information they needed in a book? Many, Many times!! That’s how many! …