It has come to my attention that May is Creative Beginnings month. Now this can have several different meanings to everyone but I thought I would take a moment and lay out an idea where this can pertain to everyone here.

Being artists and artisans, we all create works of art everyday. Let's band together and for the month of May try a little something special... For those of us with children, let your child choose something that they can do and then help them work on the project. When these projects are finished, I will have a place where we can post pictures of the projects and pictures of them working on it and the fun they are having...

If you don't have children, that's okay too because guess what you can do? Try a new project. It doesn't have to be big and expensive but just something new. Who knows maybe this will get all the creative juices flowing and you may find a new love... (Yeah, if you look at my shop I think you can tell I like to try new things...) Just remember this is for fun and it doesn't matter if the projects are perfect or come out just right.... As long as everyone has fun, that's what it is all about.

If you are interested in becoming a part of this, you can get a hold of me on plurk, artfire or just leave a comment here. Depends on where y'all know me from since I'm all over...

Well, I actually got things in order and believe it or not I actually got stuff done... I made a nice sized pillow out of that fabric that I blogged about before. Now this pillow is larger than the one I had made before out of Brocade. The Brocade one was 11X11 inches and this new one I made is 17X17 inches, so a bit bigger. I personally think it look amazing but then again I'm biased... Here's a picture of how it turned out...


The fabric is amazing, I love the richness in the colors. plus, I'm partial to anything that has that flair to it.

I also found some fabric that I had bought a while back and made a smaller pillow out of it just to test out the fabric. It worked beautifully. I can now make tons of stuff with this pattern because I bought all they had... Here is what I made


It is not perfect but I cranked it out in like 20 minutes. At least I know that it is thick enough for pillows and now I can take custom orders....

I have so many other fabrics to make stuff with, I think I'm going to be sewing for a while now, especially if I keep finding more to buy...

You can buy the first pillow in my shop or here: