Mom's Senior Pictures Recreated

This was a gift for my mom for Christmas a few years ago. My mom's senior pictures are in the middle and I recreated them with my older sister and myself. I know these aren't actually made by hand, I just wanted to share them.

Guitar Rack

My design, Rory's construction. Simple, but effective. He stained a 1x4 board and

secured it to the wall. We then spaced screws apart, holding the guitars up as a

reference. Then, we wrapped the screws in a stretchy gauze type fabric until all parts of the screw were squishy. So much floor space now! 

Family in Tie Dye

My wonderdful family in their tie dye from me. :)

~I love you all, thank you for sending me your pictures!~

Wide Noodles and Sour Cream

Today I successfully made my moms homemade wide noodles and sour cream recipe. I've grown up eating this stuff and I cherish it during holiday feasts. This year, however, I just simply did not get enough, so I had to make it myself, for the first time, by myself. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, it was actually quite simple. You just...

Mix the ingredients

Roll out the dough and cut it up

Boil the noodles



Heat up the sauce

Combine the noodles and the sauce

Enjoy with ham. :)

Clay Figures

Ashleybugcraftsandphotos.webs.com and I were making clay figures for terrariums on New Years Eve. My bear turned out well... see for yourself. It's really not as easy as it looks! Clay is kinda tricky to work with. I hope with practice I will get better.

Tie Dye

This has been an ongoing project for a while now...

I've been reminiscing about those childhood days of camping at thousand trails and doing tie dye. Great times.

I had a good time tie dyeing. I love how it's not perfect, it can't be! It's fun to try new things, new techniques to see what you can create. I kept a journal of different designs I was doing and how they turned out, so when I was looking for inspiration I could just look thru my book. I had an awesome setup in my bathroom using a dog crate to dye the shirts and let them rest. I used the table that goes inside the crate to transport my shirts around on to keep everything neat and tidy. You can always find things around your house to use!

Here are some of the shirts I have done recently. I wish I could post them all but there are so many!

(PS<The underwear was a Christmas gift to my dad, I did a bunch of them for him, socks too. ;)

Raku

I won a relay for life raffle at work a few years back and Ashleybugcraftsandphotos.webs.com and I got to try some Raku. The instructors house was way back in the woods and had all this crazy art everywhere. They built the house themselves and it was full of cute and interesting little quirks. They had already premade some vases and plates and various things ready for us to glaze and fire. He asked for a volunteer putting things into and getting things out of the kiln, and of course I was eager to get my hands in there! It was blazing hot and a little intimidating but I had so much fun and would absolutely LOVE to do it again!