Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Great American Lager

If the crafting gods are crazy, then the crafters must certainly be even crazier! After nearly getting my mother-in-law's car stuck in the muck to go snag this gift from the crafting gods, I continued on my way to take my son to meet a few toddler friends at a children's museum on the "East Side." He fell asleep on the way, so I pulled into a thrift store parking lot to let him finish napping and to try to catch a few winks myself. I can only imagine what it must have looked like to anyone who may have peeked in our window: An empty, torn-up package of Budweiser (24 cans!), mother asleep in the driver's seat; baby passed out in the back; a tiny slug crawling across the passenger side floor (a stowaway from the soggy beer box).

Fortunately no cops were on duty in the church parking lot, so I was not accused of drinking and driving, littering (the cans having been tossed out the window, of course), endangering the life of a child, etc.

It took me a few weeks, but I finally got around to completing the special-request Budweiser journal! It's nothing fancy, but then again, neither is Budweiser. I used the stab-bound method of binding the journal, with a rustic-looking piece of twine, and recycled paper.









The special request was part of an Etsy order I received for this Mountain Fresh Rainier Journal, which really is pretty fancy. I love doing custom orders, especially when it sends me on a scavenger hunt to find just the right piece of trash to turn into a unique treasure!

XO
LP

Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Crafting Gods Must Be Crazy

A few weeks ago Lynn received a custom order for a Budweiser beer journal. She didn't have any Bud trash to turn treasure, so she did a little dumpster diving at her favorite dive bars and still came up empty handed. She even sent out an email to her crafting cohorts to keep our eyes peeled for recycled Budweiser boxes. Then last week she was looking out her front window and noticed an empty box of Budweiser right outside her front yard... fallen right out of the sky. And while the whole area was muddy and wet from Seattle April showers, the box remained clean and intact. This definitely proves that the crafting gods MUST be crazy.



Stay tuned to see the finished product. Or visit The Hair of the Dog to see similar Pick Yer Poison journals.

GGM - April 8th


before: t-shirt



after: t-shirt turned chic scarf (in less than 15 minutes)

It was a full house at GGM last night with Kristin, Jean, Lynn and myself all in the crafting quarters. Lynn finished up another beer apron, Jean taught us how to make super chic scarves out of old t-shirts (see photos above), Kristin supervised and kept Noah happy (see photo below) and I continued to work on my Emotions books for Angus and practiced making purses with zippers.