New projects ...New ideas...Baby Boy's Bedding in mind

I love designing the nursery bedding line for my kids shop.recently ,I figured,that almost all of my items are geared towards girls (I wonder why :D ) ,so I decided to give something great for the little boys too!
Here is a sneak peek to my new design
I call it "Rocking Boat "
The inspiration for the design  came to me by a total coincidence -my 2.5 year old princess,Sheluv was playing a tune on her IPad ,I asked her what is it the song that she's listening to and she'd show me this totally adorable animated kid's song that was so amazing I immediately started to work on the "inspired by" collection
Each square is hand screen printed then after appliqued ,free hand machine embroidered ,hand stitched and hand drawn
This is the first square I made (I added some additional details later on,but you can see the overall idea :)

Second square for the set

Third square for the Set

Now these squares will soon become a set of 6 crib bumper pads ,so to complete the set I needed 3 more creative artworks and I couldn't find anything better then the idea of dyeing some blank white cotton squares with the wonderful Shibory technique  

I couldn't be more happy with the results

 Preparation 

Line drying after dye bath

RESULTS 

How cool is the totally nautical vibe these have ,ha :)

and they work perfectly with my quilted squares

ALL material beside the dye powder were upcycled fabric scraps from men's button down shirts and vintage linens

To make my life MUCH more easier,I used Silhouette cutter to cut my own designs out of fabric and XYRON Creatopia Machine with fabric adhesive cartridge to securely glue my cut appliques prior stitching  

Hope you like it :)

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5 Month Belly Cast of my first Pregnancy with Sierra

After 4 years in which my belly cast was just laying around collecting dust,I finally got inspired to decorate it...
Since beforehand we already made it into a night lamp for Sierra, all I really needed is my Silhouette cutter to make my vision into a reality ...
I decided to go for a "BRIDE" theme and started dressing up the cast with a dream wedding corset

• I started with designing a lace vest in Photoshop which was later cut with the help of my Silhouette cutter
• Afterwards paper flowers were cut and assembled (Roses,Hydrengia ,Peony and some swirls)
• To give my cast a more "modest" look,I wrapped the bust area with white tulle and glued the flowers on the cleavage. I also added the vest on
• In order to emphasize the fact that this is a pregnancy belly cast,I added a vinyl fetus and covered it with some additional tulle (baby should be protected in all times :)
• Under-bust was decorated with satin ribbon and vintage brooch

I may add some more decorations on,but meanwhile,I'm pretty happy with the outcome !

Can't wait to cast my current and HUGE 7 month pregnancy belly :)

Hope that this time around,my new belly cast won't wait that long to be decorated...though,I can't promise anything -the muse is coming when it's coming ...

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