Teapot for Silhouette

Hey! This week in the Silhouette Online Store, watch for my 3D teapot design. I am including some pictures and instructions on how to assemble it in this post.

1. Cut out all pieces.


2. Fold along perforations. (but i don't fold the ones along the top of the teapot until for ease of assembly.)


3. Use tabs along the length of the teapot body to glue it into a hexagon shape.


This is what it looks like after you glued all the sides together.


4. Use the tiny tabs along the bottom of the teapot to glue the panels together, so that it tapers in.


This is what it looks like when you glue all the bottom panels together.


5. Take the hexagon shape and fold all the tabs, and glue them. Then take the piece and set it in the bottom of the teapot.



6. Fold perforations along the top of the teapot.


7. Use tabs to glue top panels together.


8. Take the little circle and stick it thru the slit on the top of the lid.


9. Turn lid over. Fold and glue the little tabs down to keep the handle in place.


10. Last step! Glue the little tabs on the side of the lid to adjacent panels.

Safari Mobile

I try not to shamelessly self promote my etsy shop on my blog too often here on my blog, but today I had to make an exception because I just love my new product so much! I had a customer email me about a custom order for a safari themed mobile. I started playing with the idea and am pleasantly surprised with how it turned out!

Branding

Every year in the spring JB and I head up to Southern Utah to brand the calves on the family farm. Basically, this is how it goes down: I play with my camera for a couple of hours and pretend to be a real photographer, and JB and the guys do the dirty work.

Baby Shower Quilt

I realize that I said I was going to blog about the second half of the baby shower I threw. And then suddenly a month passed!

Anyway, I am way excited to share this with you. Sometimes I really hate baby shower games and activities. Sometimes they are fine. But I wanted to come up with something unique and cool and memorable for Juli's shower.

I have seen at some showers where they have a bunch of quilt squares and fabric markers, and they have everyone write a message to the mother-to-be, and they make it into a quilt. I decided to take that idea to the next level and make a fun, graphic quilt. I have been seeing these fun freezer paper stencil tutorials all over the web and they inspired me! I cut a bunch of 8" white cotton quilt squares, had little pieces of freezer paper available, and fabric spray paint.


Then, as part of the shower, I had each guest sketch up little design on the freezer paper, cut it out, and iron it onto the quilt square. Then, I used fabric spray paint to set the image. The great thing about this is anyone can do it. If some of the guests weren't feeling particularly artistic, hey! Do a polka dot pattern! Anyone can cut circles out of paper, and it looks great!


Here is the finish product:




I love that Juli has this cute keepsake from her shower that everyone got to contribute to.

One tip: I had the spray paint on the back porch and I told guests they could spray theirs if they wanted to, but if not I could do it later. But if I ever did this again, I would just do them all myself at a later time. I felt kind of bad that some of the guests left the shower with blue and or black fingers from the spray paint. Plus, one of the paints clogged half way thru and it was too crazy to try and unclog it in the middle of the shower.

Me Gusta.

New from CB2:
The most rad beach cruiser ever.

At Christmas we helped JB's dad pick out an electra beach cruiser for JB's mom. Since then I have kinda wanted one.

But now that I see these I am in love! (in my mind right now I am imagining JB's retort: "You just want it because it looks cool." Me: "What's wrong with that?")

Maybe if I start riding my cheapie bike more I can justify getting one of these...

Train Shower part 1

I threw a baby shower for my good friend last weekend. I went with a train theme for the invites and decor.






For one activities at the shower, we assembled safe birthing kits for women in Haiti. I was so excited about this activity! As we were there celebrating Juli, and showering her with gifts, it was cool to recognize that not all pregnant women aren't quite as blessed. One in 10,000 women in Haiti have access to a doctor. One in 8 children in Haiti die before the age of ten. So, an organization called Konbit Sante is collecting these disposable safe birthing kits in an effort to provide more sanitary births for them.

Later this week I will blog about the second activity of the shower!

Up!

I know I have mentioned how much I love the movie "Up." I ran across this photo on Say Yes to Hoboken today. How awesome is this?! Apparently the National Geographic Channel used 300 weather balloons to make this real house float.

Now I want to see them re-enact my other favorite animated movie, and send a rocket into space and shrink the moon!