I have been looking around for just the right picnic blanket for a few weeks. And now that summer is just about over, I decided to make my own instead!
A waterproof picnic blanket – and with damask fabric for the top layer. Hmmm. That could be a big mistake.
What do you think (see photos below)? Too busy or too fancy for a picnic?
Maybe not so much, if it is just the two of you + a picnic dinner in your own backyard.
Chicken curry, anyone?
Blanket in progress:
The waterproof bottom layer of the picnic blanket:
Starting to set up for the dinner picnic in the backyard.
Sorry, no chicken curry pics. Big disappointment.
I turned this wedding menu wheel (so cute!) by Rifle Design into a Valentine’s Day card for my husband. A little silly and a lot of fun to make! It is obviously not a masculine-looking card, so I used blue and neutrals to help balance it out a bit. Placed in an envelope made out of red construction paper, sewn around the edges – leaving the top open for a punched hole and red + white baker’s twine.
A few photos from the annual Santa Rosa cat show – can I adopt all of them?
A butterfly exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco:
A trip to San Francisco is not complete without a visit to Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift in Japantown. My big purchase for the day: colored and striped mt masking tape.
Celebratory chocolate coconut shortbread hearts (weird combination?) – I used the ingredients for the chocolate dough from this recipe:
In love with my new, but thrifted, chipped ceramic container:
Handmade valentine (more photos and link in the next post):
We are heading off to the local cat show tomorrow and then eating at this Indian restaurant with friends of ours.
Quite the romantics, aren’t we? *grin*
Have a lovely weekend!
Just kidding.
I made a skirt today from this *very* easy tutorial via Aux petits oiseaux.
It’s floral. It’s red. Hmmm. Just in time for Valentine’s Day.
A little closer.
Photos of all of the “red” items in my crafting nook:
Left to right (clockwise): a mini Lazzaroni amaretti tin, Alexander Girard notecards, a sentimental clown finger puppet (found in SF more than a decade ago), a French Baguette bag with ribbon hanging from this dispenser, today’s handmade skirt, and Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives by Helen O’Neill.
Design your own fabric via Spoonflower! I love this site. I was going to wait until I receive my first order of fabric swatches to write this post, but I am too excited and anxiously awaiting to see the final product. If this really works, I will be so pleased to not have to purchase one more package of inkjet fabric sheets with the peel-off backs. Ugh! Has anybody been successful using them? I would love to hear all about it.
What was suppose to be a tie top tank….turned out to be something a little different. The tie top tank tute is from Belle Epoque and linked from Slateblu. It is an excellent tutorial, but oh goodness – I really messed up on the measurements. The end result was salvageable, though. I instantly thought – a little girl’s summer dress with this little felt flower attached would be very cute:
But no. Not this time, anyway. I turned it into a very functional drawstring bag instead. The shape of the bag is going to be a little funky so maybe I can call this one a tie bag tank? Hee hee….bad joke.
