Kept us really warm while trying to induce labor through sledding
Ingrid's Projects
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Recent projects
Recently Liesl and I have been making "ugly dolls". She has been the chief designer telling me what she wants them to look like and I do all the rest. She does love to supervise. We even made a "bear ugly doll" for Grady and helped a little with Gavin's "mickey themed" ugly doll. I have been doing a lot of other sewing projects too lately. Finally starting and completing a quilt for the couch that we call our cray quilt because of the weight on it. It isn't very large but it has a canabalized doubled up quilt inside that we didn't like. I stole the rest of the stuffing from the remainder of the quilt for other projects. Liesl and I also made some pillow cases for her new bedroom with princess patterns on them that she picked out and a bed skirt that I refinished with princesses after tearing the ugly skirt material off the bottom. Also planning on buying fabric for curtains in the baby's room but have not found the right fabric just yet.
Liesl and Jeanie's rooms have been both painted and redecorated. Liesl has princesses and fairies everywhere. I was planning on painting thistles as a chair rail in Jeanie's room when I get a chance. Currently it is pink. I can get the rest in whenever I have some free time.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Studio is looking more and more hospitable
I cant wait. Jim brought 2 wonderful dressers into our house from his parents which I am going to try and refinish for various purposes in the house. Currently they are storing Liesl and my craft supplies..... some of them. I couldnt possibly fit everything in 2 dressers! What were you thinking. One of those dressers is going to be put into Liesl's room. I am aspiring to paint her room like Pixie Hollow from Tinker Bell and the dresser too. Some of the drawers have fallen apart and I am toying with the idea of making the top 2 drawers into shelves.
I found a few blogs out there that have great outdoor crafting and activities with kids. really fresh sites and I am really excited to visit them. I am hoping to make a fairie garden for Liesl this spring in our garden. I found this wonderfully simple but gorgeous 3D star to hang for the holidays and I am hoping to make a fleet of them for our house.
I have also been working on felt story boards for Liesl. She now has a Farm board with farm animals and zoo animals and I am working on a princess storyboard for her currently. She now has one at both Oma's houses and at Home. She loves to play with them as she potty trains :)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Getting the Studio in order
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Not feeling this one as much
I think I am "fighting" with this painting a little more than the last one. I was thinking of washing off the water last night. Just putting it under the faucet and letting it wash off. I don't know about this weight of paper though. It is a heavier weight and is stranger for me to work with and is sucking in the paint faster and deeper and it is hard for me to tell what it is going to look like and making me second guess myself. I guess that is what is frustrating. Maybe once I get a little depth into the background I will feel a little better about it. Last night when I was doing some detail work on the shore and in the water with watercolor pencils Jim had Liesl in his lap sleeping in the family room. He said " how come it sounds like you are coloring?". I said. "because I am". It was kinda funny. I don't think he knew I did some detail with watercolor pencils sometimes. Here is the painting I am working on currently. I almost didn't want to post a picture because it is at a point I am frustrated with. But here it is.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Started a few more paintings
Altogether, I have 5 paintings started and at different stages and probably 4 or 5 more paintings that are in the final stages of completion. Which is a very good thing because the watercolor takes a long time to dry and you cant always work on it until completely dry depending on the effect.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Prints?
Crimson Atelier