Alison's Baby Shower and Diaper Cake

Myself, my mother in law, and a few other friends put together this fun baby shower for my sister in law and beloved friend Alison.

This is the diaper cake Aubree and I made for her.

And the mini version since we had some more stuff and didn't want to add more to the one above. This one felt like a little bouquet which made me happy.

 Steph made all of the paper pinwheels.

Pretty food table:

I made those quiches! (I'm not the world's best cook/baker.) If nothing else, they were pretty.

The activity at the shower was making onesies for the soon-to-be baby girl. Here's what I constructed.

Doo be doo be doo bah

Per his request, I made my son's Perry the Platypus costume for Halloween. I couldn't have bought one if I wanted to, even online they were sparse and hideous. I'm all about sewing Halloween costumes, when hot glue guns, velcro, and unfinished edges are perfectly acceptable.

The head piece was made by using a baseball cap as a base, with foam used to shape the rest of the head and the beak. I could only find a black fedora, but, amazingly I bleached it and it turned out the perfect brown.

Quilted Platypus tail:

Birthday Cake

It is so much fun to brave the marshmallow fondant once a year and create Frankie's cake. To be fair, Frankie helped with this a lot, too.

Summer Slacker

Like the title implies, Summer and all it's excursions have been rough on my creative goals. That, and work has been crazy busy. Plus my little family is hoping for a new addition through adoption. It has been really time consuming getting everything ready. See our adoption blog here, it was a creative work in and of itself.

But here's a few things, and I should be getting back into the swing of things now.

This is a rendering of a house that I designed, basically from the ground up. The floor plan and everything else was from scratch. I think it turned out beautifully, too bad their subdivision doesn't think it fits in and probably won't let them build it this way.

In the photography realm, here's a few that I like. Frankie going for a swim on a fishing excursion:

And my nephew, I took a few family pictures for his family, but this was my favorite.

I scrapbooked! My son is now 3 months old in his baby book instead of a week old.

I finalized a sketch for another illustration for Nick's game. This is the space pirate Big Mama Mehah. I was giggling to myself as I did this sketch.

Spring Berry Wreath

Not too bad for $8 worth of berry bushes from the dollar store, wire, and cardboard. I've been wanting one of these forever but they are usually quite expensive.

Floral and duct tape

My sister in law helps with the local Republican Party, so she asked me to make this red, white, and blue arrangement for the podium at a breakfast they were having. I made it at my Mom's house. Thus my Mom's kitchen.

The flowers and supplies for the arrangement pretty much cost exactly what they paid me, so I kept a few flowers for myself as my payment. (I waited a few days to take these pictures, the flowers are kind of dying and had been munched on by my cat a bit.)

Lastly, in the name of exhibiting all things that I create: at my nephews' birthday party, we made duct tape bags. I started making one that was a bit more girly, then I finished it at home. It was strangely fun and soothing making this thing.