the weekend of unfinished projects

This weekend I didn't have any plans so I decided it was time to finish some projects I have been working on for a while.

Here is the finished scratch pad I made for Gourd from moving boxes. I cut the boxes into strips and glued them together in a circle. Then I covered the bottom with a scrap of fabric so that I can put cat nip on the scratch pad and not get it all over the floor. Gourd seems to like his new toy so far.

My next project was my shark fin. I finally got all the pictures I wanted cut out and ready to glue. Here is it before:

And After: you'll have to come visit to see the pictures closer but I did you a little bit of a pattern to the pictures. The top and bottom corners are sunsets, the first diagonal row are moons, next row down are trees, then paths, when water. Its easier to see when you're here but I love the way it turned out.

My next project was to make my craft room look more like a craft room instead of just somewhere I threw everything I didn't know what to do with. I cut out pictures that I liked from some magazines and made them into stars to hang in the room (below).

Here is the room before I did anything this weekend:

Here is the room now:

These are the stars hanging from the ceiling. I'm really happy with them too.

One side of the room with the flag and cork board.

Other side of the room with two collages

The view when you walking in with two more posters I made.

Here is the close up of one of the posters. It says "Get lost in the beauty of everything you see" with pictures from some national geographic magazines. I love them but don't want to be one of those people that save them all so I'm trying to think of other ways to use them.

Finally here is the sweater the I knitted!! I had to knit each piece separately and make sure they were all the same length and everything.

Then I had to sew them all together at the shoulders first:

AND HERE IT IS!!! (sorry I forgot to turn the picture and I don't know why its so blurry)

Here is the back:

You can see the pattern on in these ones better, the front:

and the back:

I'm actually very happy with how it turned out and can't wait till the weather is actually cold enough that I can wear it!!

Happy Birthday USA!

Happy 4th of July!

I know, a little late. I was changing my toe nail polish and thought I'd take a picture. I painted my toe nails red white and blue with toothpicks. Not too hard, just takes awhile.

For the weekend, Kellen and I and the dogs went back to visit Kellen's parents house and their farm. It was fair week so we got to see the derby on Saturday!

 We had box seats!

 Only a few fires. The poor firemen had to stand in their gear the entire time of each derby, bla. It was hot!

For the first time, they had a lawnmower derby. It started the derby, we missed it, were eating too many pork burgers. Hope everyone had a fun 4th of July!