Surprise visit from my sis-in-law, birthday project, works-in-progress… no wonder I missed posting on Monday! Well, not totally. I did post my mugshot on Instagram. But here’s an “outtake”.

Here I have a mug of Café Maté from our favorite tea shop … a delicious alternative to coffee, lovely with milk. Almost enough to wake me up from the Daylight Savings stupor. What it as bad for everyone else? Awful.

Speaking of TeaLula, we did the Harlem Shake! Crazy tea shop friends.

So, what’s been churning in the craft room these days?

Here’s the finished nursery art project for my niece. I went with a monkey theme after the burp cloths I made for her, and she just loves her monkey “binky”. My daughter made the quilled bananas, and I found the little bugs on sale at Michael’s. I added some bling (what girl doesn’t like bling?) and buttons to add some interest. Want a closer look? I posted a picture at the Facebook page.

For my brother’s birthday, I finally figured out what to do with my vintage Chicago Bulls championship t-shirts. I was going to cut them up and turn them into a t-shirt quilt (a small one). But, I just couldn’t cut them up when I learned one of them was actually worth something. So, the next best thing – Frames!

Remember to measure the area that you want to show. There are 13″x13″ T-shirt frames that are more or less shadowbox frames. For larger designs, just pick up a larger frame. I picked up 11″x14″ frames for the caricature prints. I suppose I could’ve bought larger boxes, but I think they turned out just fine with border-to-border print.

Lastly, I started messing around with some fabric in my stash… ah, the beginnings of a lap quilt. So good to get back to sewing. Maybe this will be a CuddLeS for Claudia offering. 🙂

Until next Monday… can’t wait to see what the prompt is on Friday from “Year in Life of an Art Journal”.