Last week on Instagram {3.28-4.4}

I've decided to this little weekly instagram post to Wednesdays.  So don't go looking for it on Fridays anymore, k?

1.  A pixel family for a friend that recently moved very far away.  I hope that she gets it soon.

2. A vintage wheelchair.  My uncle is in the hospital.  Yes, it's serious.  No, I don't really want to talk about it.

3.  The chicken in the hospital room playing on my mom's ipad.  I don't have one so when she gets it it keeps her busy for a bit.  They ponytail is new and it makes me really happy to fix her hair for her. I've never really been doting on children, but this is something I always wanted to do with my daughter.  There is something special about it.

4.  How to blog post about stitching on paper and boxes and whatever else that you can think of that isn't fabric.  

5.  My mom's medicine.  Easter is coming.

6 & 7. Hoop-La!  I finally got one.  It's great.   

8.  Randolph Street Fair.  This is what I picked up.  Read about it in this post.  The place is outstanding, suffice to say.

9. Something I was working on.  Stitched on paper.

10.  Baby foods!  It's that time again.

11. It's a grim cat.

12. My to-do list.  The most important thing is the last thing.  Buy beer.

13. I made Violet this blanket when my orginal one failed.  Well it didn't fail.  I just didn't like it and i didn't want to do it anymore.  BUT she still needed a blanket.  She's starting to use it more now.  I love these colors, some is made from vintage yarn.

14. #stitchaday #astitchaday  March.

15, 16 & 20.  A little owl my mom requested.  She's teeny.  3.5 by 3.5.

17. She got some cowboy boots. OMGCUTE

18. #TBT  My second afghan.  And the beginning of my chevron problem. February 2013.

19.  I screwed up the paper project from #9.  How NOT to stitch on paper, here. 

Happy Wed-nes-day!

This week on Instagram {3.14-3.24}

Good Friday, friends!

I'm combining the last two weeks because I didn't post as much as I usually do.

My phone (Sony Xperia) stopped working.  And I mean it completely bricked it self.  It took a few days to get a new one.  Then 4 days later, it bricked it self again.  I'm now on my third in 9 days.

Awesome.

Anyway.

Instagram, yay!

1. My biy is crawling.  It's an awkward jerky random crawling.  But it's also effective.

2. Baby's first mythos.  I love Greek mythology and Neil Gaiman.  Both of my kids are named after personifications and characters in Gaiman's The Sandman.  Violet Moirae (fate) and Westin Oneiros (dreams).  As it is Greek, there are beautiful explanations.  Google it.  :)  

3 and 4.  My dream catcher I won on a giveaway.  It beautiful!  It's by BettyB.  Like her page.  It's totally worth it to see what she makes. 

5.  New business cards with a preview of the new wordpress site.  This is my incentive to get the site going.  We're maybe 50% done now.  My husband is a software engineer.  I get domain names for my birthdays.

6.I bought a uke.  I hate learning to strum.

7.  Instamatic.  I need to take some photos and count and catalog all my old cameras.  So many are just so well made and good looking.

8. Sugar n Cream.  I love this color so much.  For an ex goth I really love these springy colors.  No shame!  I forget what I bought this for, but at the time I needed it.  :)

9.Size 6 toddler bowling shoes.  We took the kid bowling for the first time.  She's a smash and grab kinda chick, so she loved the concept.  My husband and I met through mutual friends at a bowling ally in 2002.  So, this was a bit of a special outing for us.   He's still a much better bowler than me.  Jerk.

10.  This afghan was started in September for a baby that was born 4 weeks ago.  :/  I'm not usually so behind.  I also like bright socks.

11.  A local theater plays free movies Sunday morning.  I took Vi to see how long she would last in a theater.  Longer than me.  This movie sucks.  But it was really fun watching her reaction to a theater.  She asked me for popcorn.  I have no idea how she knew. 

12.  Middle of the night exhausted selfie.  I still need a profile pic to put on everything that's recognizable.  As my "brand".  

13.  My boy is sweet and cute.  :)

14. My best friend most of my life moved to Italy in January.  I'm sending her a little care package.   This one is a little different from the other's I've made and I like this line up a bit better. It's tiny tho.  If her husband wasn't so tall it would fit in a 3" hoop.

15.  An antique wheelchair.  We were congregating in the hospital waiting test results.  They were not good.  I take photos when I'm upset.  And I have a thing for old medical equipment.

Do you have an instagarm?  follow for follow?  ;)

{instagram giveaway} MadebyBettieB Dreamcatcher.

I never win anything.  I'm making* cranes to try to put some positive luck out there.

*  hahah I haven't made one in a week.  Sigh.

I made 10 in one day and reposted this

A few days later I was notified that I had won!

"Betty" is extremely friendly and creative person.  The whole experience was a pleasant one from start to finish.

I'm still in shock, especially when I received this beautiful dream catcher with a phrase from T.S. Eliot.

"Anxiety the handmaiden of creativity", that I picked it out.  :)

The stitching is beautiful.  The colors are gorgeous.  I honestly couldn't have been more happy with it or impressed.

YOUGUYS!

Lookit.

 Support my new favorite artist at facebook or instagram.  

My week on Instagram {3.8 - 3.14}

Another week has gone by already.  The days are so long, but the weeks are so short.  The kids get older everyday.  The weather....the weather doesn't change much.

http://instagram.com/daisiesforviolet

1. Jeff and I went to an art show of bootleg t-shirts.  I write a little about it here.  There were t-shirts covering the walls of The Yetee.  They operate out of a building in our downtown.  It's a very interesting building and they open up to art shows every once in a while.  We also see all our artsy friends there.

2.  I'm convinced that when I make a bunch of cranes I have good luck.  I was able to knock out 7 that day.  They still take me forever.

3 & 15.  I went to Ulta to get a haircut and picked up some nail polish too.  I wore black nail polish from 13 to 27.  Honestly, like every single day.  Then it popular and as a true goth kid, I dropped it.   I began experimenting with different colors, even got a couple manicures.  But it didn't stick.  It's too much maintenance now.  Vi likes me to paint her nails so we both did the pink.  I have filters on each photo so you can't see the true color.  I really love this pink.

4.  The chick that cuts my hair is awesome with it.  The first cut last year we did from waist to shoulders then a couple weeks later we took it up to a true pixie.  I can't see myself any other was now.

5.  I love quilts with a modern geometric feel to them.  But I can't quilt so I've been working out making a "quilt" afghan.  It's at the bottom of my To Do but Its one of the things I really want to play with.

6. My mom keeps finding these with these pretty badly done off centered needlework butterflies and bees in them.   Best hoops ever though.

7. I have a shelf above my desk with just stuff on it.  I'm a fan of stuff, but I hate clutter so it's really a delicate balance. Skeleton nutcracker from Halloween 2011.  2011 was a big year for us.  A Bell & Howell camera.  Stylistically, it's one of my favorites.  A giant palmistry hand.  An anatomical skeleton book page, "Find Something Beautiful" is really just a reminder to be positive in my attitude.  My first "paper quilt", and a few cranes.

8. I'm still working on getting all the DMC colors.  I don't wrap them as soon as I get them by any means.  I love the look of loose floss so I just kind of stall.  No one really needs 50 reds.  I just WANT them all.  Pokemon style.

9. Teensy stitches.  These are for earrings.  I have them in the tiny button but I have to put backs on them.  They were for a show, but that show go canceled so they are mine now  :)

10.  Experimenting with the video function.

12. I honestly feel like I'm stealing with I take more than two these.  They were for boxes for that show.  So now they will just sit on my desk until the next show.  :)

13. We made banana bread.  As she is stirring she sings, "Maaaakin' maaaakin' i's maaaakin'.  Momma! Wook!"  It's the best.  And nearly erases how stressful it is for me to let her experiment and not worry about a mess or imperfect banana bread.

14. Maker problems : Nails to long to make anything.  Cut them.  Nails too short to make anything.  It's true.  The tips of my fingers get all sensitive with my nails are long.

15. The top of the box for my Package Pal.  I love how this turned out.  I'd don't normally aim for "pretty".

My week on Instagram {2.29 - 3.7}

Two posts in one day!  OMG.  Fast or feast my friends.

If you feel so inclined you can follow me here. http://instagram.com/daisiesforviolet

(Starting at the bottom this time because I realized this made more sense)

1. My kid is freaking cute.  She is just starting to keep glasses on and smile for the camera.

2.  I got these shoes for her at Buy Buy Baby  I wish they came in my size.  She loved the "dots" and she can take them on and off herself.

3.  Vi's mittens.  I finished them (hopefully) late in the season but they should fit her next year too.  I love them.

4.  Stitchaday.  February. Dead issue.

5.  Saturday was my cousin's 13th birthday.

6. It was also my birthday.   My mom, dad, and brother came over with cake.  Violet blew out my candles.  Lil jerk.  :)    I'm 32 now.  I feel 24.  I guess that's where aging stopped for me.  

7. I got this at Target or $8.  The hand was a little bent but it bent right back.  My house was built in 1954 and i try to add thins to it that look like they belong.  1945-1960 is the best era for design anyway.

8. and 12.   A gift.  She's on Instagram so I can't show it till tomorrow.  :)  I fell for these little flowers and blackwork.  It's more traditional than usual and I enjoyed doing it.

9. and 11. Mr. Eric Sholtz Monster and the beginning of Mr. Gutter Punk Monster.  They are for the ArtBar show.

10.  We went to the Land of Nod outlet.  Better than the park, I swear.  I do confess, I wanted this as much as she did.

13. Obligatory cat pic.

14.  I got some Pantone paint colors at Lowes this week.  I want to paint Violet's room finally. I don't want pink, just cause but I also thing I have bee unfair to pink.  I can't decide.

15.  The Pantone Swatches.  There is something so satisfying about seeing this many great colors together.

16. and 17.  My hair is too long.  I'm trying to postpone a cut.  It's not working.

18. My boy is 5 months old and he is belly laughing.  It's the best.

19.  I made this purse.  It says cashe.  I have a blog scheduled about it for next Tuesday.  :)

20.  This morning was.  EPIC.  The whole world is against me.  Bad luck on bad luck.  I'm going to chase of that luck with my Wolves teeth.  Holla.

How was your week?

My Week on Instagram {2.21-2.28}

I haven't been working on projects that I feel warrant a blog post, or not yet at least.  I do post to Instagram quite often.  I've expressed how much I love this app many times.

First of all you can follow me here - http://instagram.com/daisiesforviolet

So, this week on my Instagram,

1. I'm working on a project for a swap at C.R.A.F.T.  My partner's style is completely different than mine.  It's been fun coming up with something make/assemble/send to her.  These are the colors I picked out to use on her project.

2. I picked up a hexagon punch last week just because I felt like I needed one.  There was no explanation, my life was suddenly incomplete until I could find a coupon and get one of these in my possession.  I tend to lean toward bold colors, so I was just trying to get a feel for some neutrals.

3. It's still epic winter time here in Chicago.  I couldn't find a matching set of flops in the house and Violet thought it was hilarious that my shoes didn't match so she went and found her flops that didn't match.  They lasted just long enough to take a pic.  I hope the colors somehow influence the weather....

4. I made her first mitten before it got sub zero the first time.  I love this yarn, it's Caron Super Soft, for small projects like this.

5.  I got this coat at a thrift store for $20.  That's too much for a coat at the thrift store.  BUT this collar is wonderful with my short hair.

6. Violet has SVT.  She has episodes of SVT I should say.  Her heart rate doubles for no discernible reason.  She had her first at nine days old, her second at 21 days.  Her third was last Tuesday night at 28 months old.  We are back on meds, unfortunately, We all thought she had grown out of it.  So we are disappointed but it's not life threatening.  So if she's going to have heart issues, honestly this one the one I would pick.  This picture is her at 2 am checking her heart rate.  She was at about 160, 90 is normal.  The stethoscope is her new favorite thing.

7, 9, and 10.  These are gifts for a friend's daughters.  More on this when I get my friend's gift done.  It's a SURPRISE!

8.  I don't get how this is comfortable.

11.  This is Grim. He's a jerky cat.  The internet loves him.

12.  Selfie.  This is my favorite app ever.  I got a Windows phone the phone before this one and I seriously considered taking it back cause they didn't have it on the market.  But, $35 restocking fee.  It's Vignette. Go get it now.

13.  Another thing that was a total compulsion for about 48 hours.  I actually blogged this one.  FREE PATTERN YAY!

14.  She loves to paint, draw and make things.  I had to go to target a few days ago because she wanted to use tools and I didn't trust her with the real screw driver.

15. This is a wrap I made for a friend of mine.  It's also Caron Simply Soft in a great creamy orange.  But you can't tell cause I used that same app, Vignette.  I love (that app) this wrap.

Wow, this really turns out to be a diary.

What are you making today?