A Pirate Map

This is gift #3 but I've made so many more than that, to practice and refine and rejects I can't bear to give out.

Here's the original: Kai's Map

And at last night's birthday party, I added a dry erase marker so he can draw his own directions to pirate treasure. He drew a house for the sharks and Wolverine.




Wolverine

Better Merit Badges

My nieces' butt. I visited for Christmas and the 4 year old made me look at her butt as often as possible. This is what I wrote to someone about the visit:

 I have never seen so much naked butt in my entire life! Never! (the niece) changing clothes, coming out of the potty, getting in and out of the bath, 'don't look Aunt Beth (moves closer to me), ok you can look but don't look at my pee pee (full frontal) don't look at my pee pee again (squats and spreads the cheeks)...'. It was many times a day so I'd play the 'Don't see Chloe's pee pee today' game and would lose every day.

A Team, Doctor Who, Hiking, Mixed Tape, Dead Parrot, YOU MOVED THE GRAVES BUT YOU DIDN"T MOVE THE BODIES!




Pleiades, Big Trouble in Little China, Moon, Macgyver, My Superawesome Telescope

Yub Nub!

It was Liam's 2nd birthday. I crocheted from a pattern I came across on Craftster: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=130572.0



I made him bigger and gave him a baby.






I didn't have a gift bag and didn't want to dig in the closet for wrapping paper and I had this bag all ready to go, tissue paper and everything....

I was Robbed! Well...

Not really no I don't think so. I did a photoshop contest in 2008 called 'One Letter Off' and this was my submission (of many):

 

 

How much work do you think I did on this one? Less than 5 minutes probably. I didn't make the top 40 submissions. But then today on the Daily Show we got the mandatory explanation for Jon Stewart's absence. div>

 

 

No I don't honestly think a writer found my shop and used it 5 years later but I do think we thought of the same joke that actually made it on air!!!!

Merit Badges I Should Have Earned

Walking Dead
Bumble Bee (that chased me and my roommate)
Star Trek
Headcrusher (Kids in the Hall)
Beaker!





Period!
The Dread Pirate Roberts
YOU MOVED THE GRAVES BUT YOU DIDN"T MOVE THE BODIES!!!
Thong Undies
X Files
Young Riders
Red Stapler





Nelson
Boobies
Mythbusters 
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Mix Tape
Wonder Woman
Macgyver
Death Star






The Shire
A Team
Dead Parrot
Mola Ram
Stargate
Ghostbusters 
Goonies
Cthulu

Neverending Story Baby Art Quilt

I started this while family was visiting because I needed a project to focus on that would keep me occupied in between activities. There were a lot.



It's all acrylic and then sewn. I actually painted too many squares and the whole thing would have been much larger so some didn't make the cut. If there's another baby it might get the sequel.






I have no idea how many times I watched the movie, paused, drew or painted or took notes. All the way through close to 10. On without sound maybe another 10.






When I sketched out the old couple I remember that the little old man got all the way up the cliff and was facing his wife lecturing the entire time.







This gave me nightmares as a kid.






This one was larger but had to be trimmed to fit with the rest of the quilt.







I loved working on Falkor though it took a long time to get right. After he was dry I added Angelina Fiber and free motion quilted it to his back.






An angled view of the quilting.






I tried to match up with the rocky cliff in the sewing.






I don't sew over the whole thing but instead pick out a few parts that need the texture.













The back is a few different colors wetted and then sprayed and salted. It has a nice effect on the paint.

Evil

This was one of the felt baby name books I made as a Christmas gift for a niece. She finally made it here and I can release the picture into the wild.