Yarn & Kool Aid...

Moose & I had no plans yesterday, so we decided to try hand dying yarn with kool aid. It was so fun & so easy! (and messy!) We bought some 100% wool yarn (paton's wool, and stitch nation's "full o' sheep") and every kool aid flavor the grocery store had- actually we went to 2 grocery stores because the first one didn't have any flavors that weren't pink or purple.

I started, but Moose took over so this one became his skein...


...I wanted to see how it would come out striping it one way or the other:


This was AFTER washing our hands:

(Moose didn't actually handle the yarn, just the brush, so his aren't so bad)

here's Moose's skein, fresh out of the microwave:

Here's the striped one I worked on:

and this one I striped in the other direction:

All of our yarn drying:

The finished product!

We found these instructions on knitty.com, they even had a color chart...too bad we couldn't find half the colors they showed. I will be on a kool aid search from now til Christmas- undyed yarn is on my Christmas list!

another finished pattern soon to be listed...

my son picked out the buttons himself & asked me to make him a sweater to go with them...

Another Knitting Pattern listed on Etsy & Ravelry

I just listed the pattern for this sweater & hat set on Etsy (fashiondeeva.etsy.com) & Ravelry (ravelry links are on the blog's sidebar):



and these slippers were added a little while back:

I'm currently working on a ruffle sleeved shrug to go with my baby's Easter dress, so that will be listed soon too!

My first knitting pattern up for sale!

My very first knitting pattern is up for sale! I designed this for my new baby (who will be here soon!) it's available in my etsy shop- fashiondeeva.etsy.com as well as on ravelry.com- just search garter ridge baby shrug.

oh, and i'm integrating all my blogs now, this isn't just scrapping anymore...just whatever i'm working on. here's baby girl's wardrobe that i made/designed...some of the sweater patterns i found online, but the dresses are my designs...

the sweater is an adaptation of Lucia Tedesco's baby girl sweater (can be found on ravelry) and i made the hat to match. I'll be listing the pattern for the booties soon.

this is a simplified version of the "boheme" sweater found on ravelry. i didn't do the lace pattern, and i added a garter stitch button band to keep it from curling.

this sweater is from knittingonthenet.com and the legwarmers are from ravelry.

how 'bout a word art?

Just finished this page, and I liked the word art I came up with, so I thought I'd share it:


Credits:
Miss Mint- peppermint creative- stars (recolored), corrugated cardboard
Claudi Designs- papers
Helena Montero Designs- frames (recolored)

Here's a low res preview of the word art-

and you can download it here: http://www.4shared.com/file/130073802/d99f0da/mybuddy.html

I'm scrapping again! and a freebie!!!

I just finished 2 pages for the oscraps designer spotlight challenge, and I liked them so much I made templates to share!

papers from Danielle Young's "First Down" kit-

this is what the templates look like:

here's the link: http://www.4shared.com/file/129470830/18ac6a80/Fashiondeevatemplates.html

Christmas Cards for a good cause!

My church, and my son's playgroup are raising funds, as well as toys & non-perishable food items, for City Team Ministries. My favorite radio station- Classic Rock 102.9 WMGK also raises money for City Team throughout the holidays. Since money is tight in our house this year, I've decided to use my talents to try to raise a little more money than we would be able to donate otherwise. I've designed these 4 quick page Christmas cards, in order to donate the profits to City Team. (after paypal & etsy fees)

The cards can be purchased at my etsy shop here

You can learn more about City Team Ministries here

For those that are not my regular readers & don't do digital scrapbooking: THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL PAPER CARDS, THEY ARE DIGITAL FILES (.png). You drop in your photo in a program like photoshop, or photoshop elements & print it out. I just want to be sure no one orders these & expects cards to come in the mail. :) There will be an email sent with a link & a password to download the files. Please do not order these if you do not have some type of digital scrapbooking software. It's been my experience that programs like Microsoft photo editor cannot read large 300 dpi files.

Not a digi-scrapper? or don't need a Christmas Card? If you would like to make a donation to City Team Ministries, there is a link at the bottom of their homepage to make a secure online donation.