Is it a pig?!

I gave rubber stamp carving another try and I'm a lot more pleased this time! It still isn't perfect but way better than last time. Oh the possibilities! I do see another addiction coming. I'm not sure what this little guy up there is supposed to be. I was thinking "Pig!" but C. insisted that it's a dog. Other opinions?

Nobody told me!

For some reason I thought carving stamps would be easy. Well, it's not! Or at least not for me. I was so exited to try it and now I'm a little disappointed. Oh well, I need some more practice I guess! Does anyboy know a site with some helpful tips? Like for example how to do a perfect circle?

Keeping it short!*

Sewing hearts until you run out of cedar wood chips...Waiting impatiently for the mailman so you can continue stuffing hearts, while you know exactly that you should be doing something else anyway!

* "God Jul" fits so much better onto these hearts like for example "Fröhliche Weihnachten"!

Roar!

This is actually my second try on completing a pillow case for a friend's son. I was almost finished with the first, when I suddenly didn't like it anymore.
What I really did like though is the fabric combination of my last bag and while sewing it I suddenly knew that I wanted to use the same for the pillow case.

I finally got to make a freezer paper stencil. I wanted to try that for ages. I've seen those on various blogs months ago and ordered some Freezer Paper right away (in Germany you can order it here. It's quite expensive, but I think it will last a long time. If you do have other sources or if there is actually something similar available in stores around here please share!).

I wanted to add a dinosaur, so I googled for a silhouette, printed it out and (using my window as a light box) traced it onto the freezer paper. I then followed the tutorial of angry chicken.
It's really fairly simple and the hardest part for me was to let the fabric paint dry.
Now I don't think you can see it too well in the picture, but the outlines of the dinosaur came out very clear and exact. So yay for freezer paper stencils!

edited to add:
Now it's all ready to go. See the little tag up there?

I made it using my new rubber stamp from Sweet Papery! I first saw them here on creative little daisy's blog (she always makes great discoveries!). Now go, get some for yourself... they make great gifts, too!

First Apron!

This is the first apron I made and it's also the first time I tried to stamp on fabric. It worked really nicly so there are more experiments with that to come.
This apron was a gift for the sister of my friend. My mom (who is modeling it by the way) really liked it, so I'm going to make a similar one for her soon.

Yesterday and the day before I made three granny bags and I really would love to show them here now as well, but unfortunately my boyfriend took the camera while visiting his family. Maybe tomorrow...