Category: Art

  • Personalized Portraits

    Personalized Portraits

    Since we didn’t have a whole lot of money for gifts this year I decided to make some that were more personal. My sister had asked me to make her a cross stitch portrait but since that takes months without a baby around I figured I would make her a different, less time-consuming version instead.…

  • Holiday Card 2013

    Holiday Card 2013

    I’ve been making my own Christmas cards for over 6 years now. At first, I made each one by hand, but as the list of recipients expanded, I began to make just one, scan it, and print it. It’s still a fair amount of work, but it’s much easier on my poor hands and takes…

  • Cross Stitch Portraits

    Cross Stitch Portraits

    Everyone needs a little family portrait to hang up around the house, whether it’s a painting, photograph, or in this case, in cross stitch. I made a portrait of my husband, myself, and our cats awhile ago, but since we’re expecting a new addition I thought it could use a little modification.

  • Nursery Artwork Tour

    Being the artsy people that we are, we wanted to make most of the artwork we planned to hang up in the baby’s room. I may have overpurchased on frames making that a pretty big undertaking, so some artwork was made by us and other pieces were printed for free online. One one wall, I…

  • Ahoy, Bathroom Artwork

    I hung up this picture frame months ago when I redid the downstairs bathroom. It stayed empty the entire time, constantly reminding me every time I used the bathroom that I needed to really get on putting something in there. Since I have a lot more free time now, I finally did.   It’s just…

  • New Art for the Walls!

    Our house is in desperate need of some artwork on the walls. We’re slowly trying to remedy that, but it’s been a pretty long process. I finally convinced my husband to make his version of our house portrait a few weeks ago. This is what he came up with: It shows the “Up” ness of…

  • Squatch-Work

    Squatch-Work

    I have a confession to make. I might be a little obsessed with sasquatches right now. Not because I believe they exist or hope to encounter one while I’m hiking through the woods. It’s much simpler than that. I cannot get enough of Finding Bigfoot. It is cryptozooloigical reality TV at its best (You might say…