Oh Dolly

Behold. My first embroidered portrait:


In case you can't tell (from the quite dark photo), it is the one and only Dolly Parton.

A friend, Z requested an embroidered bag for her birthday (which was in March!!), so as I was SO late I decided to capture her favourite diva in stitches.

Started with sewing a simple drawstring bag...


Decided on a portrait to copy


Traced the portrait with a pencil


Went over the pencil with a thin sharpie felt pen. Put the pen drawing inside the bag so I could trace it with disappearing fabric pen


And started stitching that pretty face


What do you think? Did I capture her likeness?


Here is is all finished and ready to be wrapped.


Further Dolly enjoyment below...

Procrastinatey Friday

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Extreme sticky note experiment from Eepybird - who are more famous for their diet-coke/mentos videos.

**Watch out for the celebrity cameo from an ex-Roswell cast member!!!** I think its him, anyway.

Happy Friday people. I have been crafting and hopefully will have something to show you next week. Eek!

Err cute!!

Remember when you had ONE favourite colour and you wanted everything in that colour, and that colour only?

The photographer JeongMee is responsible for the "Think pink and blue," which took her daughter as inspiration. Like her, JeongMee discovered and photographed children who refuse to buy clothes and objects that are not their favorite color.

Would it be weird if an adult had a room like that? What?

More here.

Gasp!

Love this T-Shirt from TypeTees.


Makes a nice balance to this popular poster...

From Keep Calm Gallery.

Hair of the Dog

Ever been a bit jealous of your canine-friends big fluffy coat? Wish you had one? Can't say I have but these people have found a way!


Behold some portraits of people wearing clothes knitted from the hair of their dogs...


Much better than wearing your deceased pet's skin as a fur coat, but still, mildly weird.


No dogs were harmed in the making of these clothes. All you do is collect the hair after you brush them, carefully pack it up and send it away to be spun into wool.

Want to try it yourself? There is even a book dedicated to the subject.


See more at If Its Hip, Its Here.

Would you knit that?

Check out this funny blog Why Would You Knit That?

Really... why WOULD you?

Is your beer too cold?

I actually laughed out loud when I saw these cute beer jerseys.

So manly. I love them!


Via Craft Magazine.

Knit your own, pattern here. Big round of applause to Melissa Martensen.

Forever Strong...

... I actually couldn't leave without showing you this. Only probably interesting to Ex-pat Kiwi's but..... HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THIS??!!



Life is a contact sport HAHAHAHA.

They even do the haka...

What Sort of Yarn Are You?

I am Acrylic!!

Acrylic:
All about the crazy colours and patterns, the pop culture, the cheap and mindless. Still, there are some acrylics of quality out there, so don't despair.

Um... thanks? I think I would rather be neon cashmere (not one of the answers) but I'll take it.

To find out what kind you are go here.

Over heard in NY

Classic real quotes over heard around my lovely city...

Over Heard in New York

I have heard similar things whilst transiting around so can vouch for their authenticity.

Food Art

Although not my usual taste (or lack of), I found these trivets really funny when I found them on JosephJoseph.com.





Available here if you feel so inclined.

More celeb-twins, of the non-related kind.

Example 4: America Ferrara (Ugly Betty)


And Jordan Sparks (American Idol)


Example 5: Helen Hunt (heaps of things)


And Lee Lee Sobieski (Never Been Kissed)


And the following are a tiny bit of a stretch but other people out in the interwebs seem to agree so...

Example 6: Tom Brady (American Football player)


And Matt Damon (Bourne Identity)


Example 7: Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox (Transformers)


Example 8: Will Ferrell (Blades of Glory) and Chad Smith (RHCPs)


Example 9: Kermit and Pharell Williams

Burns because its true

For more office humour check the cartoons on Business Guys on Business Trips here.

Ha.

Click to enlarge and read.