recent shoes.

When I made this blog, I spent days trying to think of a name.

A perfect pair fits well.  Because, obviously the husband and I are a perfect pair.  But another reason was because I wanted to focus more on the crafty things I love so much, and one thing I've done a bit of lately is custom shoes (which I think is excellent.)  So, a perfect pair.  And, my more recent shoes:

These were for my cousin, who wanted a couple of album covers of her favorite band.  To paint shoes I mix acrylic craft paint with a fabric paint medium.  They should hold up pretty well, but I still don't wear my painted shoes when it's rainy or snowing.  (They are really cool.)

These were for another cousin.  She wanted custom wedding shoes.  I should have taken a picture before I sent them to her, but eventually they looked like the bottom picture.

These were the first shoes I decorated without paint.  I sewed the lace on, and glued the ribbon.

The last pair I did was for my youngest sister.  I realized that it was super rude of me to not have made her any yet, so they were her Christmas gift.  These were really easy, I just tea stained the shoes, and replaced the laces with lace.

Oh.  I did do custom soles and they gave me a bit of trouble.  I am not sure I'd do them again.

So yes.  That is my talent of making custom shoes. 

There will probably be more.

an empty wall

 When we moved into our apartment 6 months ago, I was so excited about its glorious high ceilings.  When we finally got settled in, it was time to decorate - Halloween, Christmas, etc.

However, once Christmas came down, we realized how empty this wall is.  We have some little decorations we could have used, but nothing on a large enough scale to fill the wall to the extent I wanted, and nothing that would really go well.

So I settled on a project, waited for Joann coupons to come in the mail (since it was kind of a pricey project), and got to work!

The photos make it look like the canvases didn't help much with the empty space issue, but in real life I promise they look amazing and they fill the space perfectly.

See?  Don't they look amazing up close?

I so love how they turned out, and how they break up the space of the boring white wall.

thanks to our broken camera...

I was planning on writing way more in this blog than I did in my last.  And I have had things to post.
We got cute family pictures taken.
I have made a lot of art/crafty things I'd like to put up here.
Et cetera.

Sadly, all the things I want to put on this here blog involve pictures.
And our camera is very dead.

So hopefully soon.

take two.

I used to have a blog.  It was anonymous and cute and I liked it.  But it wasn't everything I wanted it to be.

So now I have this blog.  We will see how it goes.