Comic Con

Honestly, I go to Comic Con largely because Shane goes. Sydney and I just sort of tag along and usually do our own thing most of the time. However, this year I have spent more time looking around the floor and found so much great inspiration.

We love filling Sydney's room with original artwork or at least prints of fun pieces to inspire her imagination. We met Travis Hanson Saturday and he drew each of us our own sketches: Shane received a robot, I received a girl reading under a tree, and Sydney asked for a comic book with a girl in it. Then we also purchased a print for in her room.

Here are some other prints I liked.

Seaside Village by Dan Thompson

Braid Hair by Vera Brosgol

Check Point by Mike Lee

I really like the composition and color in this one.


These next two are both from artist Chris Appelhans.

Boston Common

Dance Bot

And these two are from Kazu Kibuishi.

Good Life Scene

Charnon House

Sort of a wide variety but I guess I like variety. They do all seem to be whimsical to some decree, maybe that is what draws me to them. I do feel inspired and ready to get home and start creating.

Catching up....again

Has it really been over three weeks since I posted? Wow. Well we have been busy with family summer fun and a little family stress. For the most part we are recovering and trying to get back in the swing of life. During my lapse, my little girl turned THREE! I am not sure how that happened but low and behold here we are. As I mentioned before we celebrated with a red birthday bash in San Diego.

She was all too pleased to wake up to a red carpet to walk down, a table full of red treats, and a stack of red gifts. I hope the rest of the summer is a little less eventful but a quick glance at the calendar reminds me of a different plan. Hopefully, the rest will be the family fun type craze. I am looking forward to more trips to San Diego (here we come Comic Con), more trips to the zoo, lunches with Shane at Dreamworks, and hopefully time for sewing and crafts.

Birthday gifts for Sydney

Our little girl turns 3 in a few days. This coming weekend we will be celebrating her birthday on the 4th of July so it will be a red birthday. I made her a reversible headband from this tutorial for her to wear. I didn't have any good fusible batting so I skipped it. The headband still works great it just doesn't photograph as well. I also made her a little scarf to add to the dress up box. After making some for her friends she kept asking for one so I whipped one up on Saturday. I guess that counts as a pretty productive crafting day in this house.

French Night

We are on a little tighter budget these days but I still want to do fun things for the family and spend quality time with Shane. It is not that I mind crocheting or reading in the other room while he is on the computer but sometimes doing something together is refreshing. So we had a French night last Wednesday. I cooked my first attempt at a French meal (a French Stew) and after putting Syd to bed we watched the French film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. The film was really interesting although not my favorite. It does make me want to read the book, so I think a trip to the library is coming soon. I have three more already brewing in my mind so I think we will have more in the future. I am also thinking that a little decorating will add to the atmosphere of the night.

Thanks to a dear friend who gave me this idea for a theme night.

Sisters

Sydney has friends who are sisters with birthdays a couple days apart. I made them these matching pink scarfs. I know it is way too hot here for them now but I figured they could use them for dress up too. I used this Caron yarn and the basket stitch I am addicted too.

Brown and Sage

Here's another baby blanket to be gifted. Once again I used Red Yarn Soft yarn. I am a huge fan of green and brown so of course I am happy with the result. Now to decide which color combination to do next. Any suggestions?

Barbados

We are back from our vacation. It was so wonderful and even better than I thought it would be. We relaxed a lot but between us we scuba dived, water skied, went tubing, swam with giant sea turtles, and took a tour of the island. Plus the place we stayed was beautiful. Thanks Mom and Dad and once again Happy Anniversary.

On another note, I had a great (and long) conversation with Jamie last night and now I am inspired and excited to get back to sewing and being creative. Stay tuned.