This onesie was a custom order made for my friend, The Twizz. She has a friend who is expecting a baby very soon. He also happens to be a preacher. Awesome idea. This was really fun to make. I tried a new technique that I'm really happy with; it combines silk screening and hand painting. I like this combo because I get the smoothness and eveness of silk screening as well as the control that comes from painting by hand.
I have another image of this that my computer refuses to upload right now, but I'll try again later because the other image is a little less camera-flash-intense.
Here are four examples of my fall line, which is available at Fresh Baked Goods in Kensington Market (Toronto). Each piece is unique: the fabric leaves that I've appliqued on each shirt are different, as are the buttons.
These short sleeved shirts come in two great fall colours--chocolate brown and deep raspberry. They look great with a scarf or chunky neclace and sit quite nicely under a cardigan or blazer. Come check them (and my other summer sale items) out!
I used a combination of silk screening and embroidery for these t-shirts that I made as retirement gifts for my past camp directors, Topaz and Zoic. The phrase I used on the shirts is one that I used in a video that was made of staff and alumni finishing off the sentence, " Because of camp..."
Topaz and Zoic have been a huge factor in my life and in making me the person that I am today. The amazing thing about them is that even though I no longer work with them, they continue to inspire me all the time. I wish them all the best in the next phase of their lives!
One of my dear camp friends had a baby at the end of August. I started this little quilt for her baby while she was still pregnant and managed to finish it 3 weeks after the baby was born. Not too bad, for me!
I've never made a quilt before, so this was a pretty big undertaking. I used a pattern from the book, Doodle Stitching. I think the hardest part was figuring out where to stop my little hand embroidered details; I could have kept stitching birds and lines and dots and hearts until the whole thing was covered. It was a really fun project and makes me even more excited to keep working on my camp quilt!
While on mini-vacation this past June, my sweet guy purchased a stamp set for me that I fell head over heels for in a little shop in Montreal. The set has a number of birds laced with some appropriate plants/leaves/shrubbery. Last month I put the stamps to good use by making this set of gift tags.
I recently inherited a large, old margarine container of good quality card from my mom. These little business card-sized pieces of card were pre-cut and just waiting to be used. I love when my mom decides to give me margarine containers full of amazing treasures from her craft room. Anyway, I simply stamped these cards and then carefully coloured them in using pencil crayons. The effect isn'y very good in this photo, but they turned out to be really sweet and I've already used a number of them. They're so great to have on hand!
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Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
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The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
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