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Capri Pants from Jeans

When I sew, I hear voices in my head.

There are two of them. One is super strict – “Slow down and cut carefully.” “Make all the markings, even those little weird triangle ones that you don’t know what they are for.” “Pin Everything.” “Press all the seams before sewing”.

Towels sewn in an envelope style cover give new life to old outdoor cushions

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The other is super lazy. “Go faster, I’m hungry.” “Who needs to iron, it’s going to get wrinkled anyway.” “Top-stitching takes too long and who is going to notice it anyway.”

I often let the lazy voice win. And way too often, I end up frustrated with a wonky fitted garment or something that took a long time but ends up looking homemade.

July 16, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room In the Sewing Room

Crabby T-Shirt

Mr. SuzerSpace used to travel a lot for business, and he was super great about scouring the hotel and airport gift shops for all manner of things to bring home for me.

I have an amazing collection of snowglobes, T-shirts, and even a flying cow.

But one of my very favorite items is this little wind-up crab.

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With that great smile and those googly eyes, he is a super happy fellow, and when wound up he crab-walks (naturally) across any smooth surface, raising his arms and eyeballs as he goes. He has occupied a spot of importance on the windowsill in the kitchen for years.

I decided after all these years he needed to be the star of a T-shirt. I’ve used the same method here as I did for my Halloween Batty T-Shirt – a freezer paper stencil.

July 9, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room Using my Silhouette Cameo

Paper Firework Decoration

The entire month of July is a holiday at SuzerSpace.

We call it SuzerFest. Not so coincidentally, my birthday falls in the middle of the month 🙂 .

To get things off with a bang (see what I did there?) I thought I’d dress up the front door with some paper fireworks.

These are easy, and even kid friendly.

All you need is colored paper, toilet paper tubes, scissors and glue. I also used a little string and some ribbon finish it all off.

July 2, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room To Celebrate

Currently: June 2018

Just like May, June has sped right by here at SuzerSpace.

It’s become really hot, really fast, but that is how the summer rolls in Kansas City. At least we get fire flies (my very favorite bug if you are keeping score at home) and hummingbirds to keep us entertained.

To beat the heat, we generally respond by getting up earlier and then hiding in the afternoons. I whine about the heat all the time, even though the only time I’m really exposed to it is walking across the parking lot at work in the evenings.

The heat also means we don’t really start too many too many new projects, but that’s OK – I don’t mind coasting through the summer.

June 25, 2018 by suzer Now

Christmas Sweater Letters Garland

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This is the sixth of a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month so that when December rolls around, I won’t be surprised to discover I’ve done nothing about my wish to have a fully paper crafted Christmas Tree.

I have some very nice neighbors who live behind us, and the way our yards and fences are, we can kind of see into each other’s houses, but we aren’t full on exposed. Sometimes when I’m in the back part of the kitchen where I craft, I can see them in their living room, and they are usually doing something very normal, like watching TV or fetching something from the kitchen or letting their dog out.

Digital Gingerbread Holiday Garland closeup

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I wonder if they ever look across the way and see me scrunched over my craft desk (it faces the windows) sticking red letters on green paper and threading them with red and white twine, right there in the middle of June. I’m not sure that “crafting a series of paper Christmas ornaments” crosses their mind.

But sure enough, that was what I was doing. Because I decided that June’s Christmas Ornament project was going to be letters that looked like Christmas Sweaters strung into a garland.

June 18, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room To Celebrate Using a Computer or iPad Using my Silhouette Cameo

Capri Pants from Jeans

Crabby T-Shirt

Paper Firework Decoration

Currently: June 2018

Christmas Sweater Letters Garland

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