¡Quickie CraftCrap!

G'Ma sent a craft care package and she has a hot spot down south that clearances out these puffy stickers used for scrapbooking... I don't scrapbook anymore but I got plenty of other ideas... (;

¡Craft Porn!

The skeleton material was $0.75/yard @ Wally World. Its only leg bones but perfecto for my newest Project challenge: LEGGINGS!!!

The exquisite beads are for a gift project for my favorite small human: Grandma!

StickerRobot presents: Bob MuthaFuckin Ross!

They say this bad lil bish of a sticker is coming soon so stay tuned to the folks at stickerrobot.com The spot where u can design and order high quality stickers and buy dope ass sticker packs from some equally über badass creative types. <3

Timeline Treasures: Embroidery 101

When I'm hiding from the terrorist squad known as my kids in the bathroom, I try to maximize this peaceful potty session with a quick look at my Facebook Timeline to see what sort of ratchetness is taking place. Today's little gem comes from the Etsy page and it's a great homage to a craft skill I hold dear to my heart as well.

Embroidery is one of mi favoritos of crafting and this piece embodies all the fun stitches needed in a stitchers back pocket. A great reminder of how simple and awesome a project can be with just a lil bit of crafty ingenuity.

Here's a link to Etsy's How To on embroidery basics as well: http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/how-tuesday-back-to-school-embroidery/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Internal&utm_campaign=Editorial

Enjoi You Crafty Foos!

¡Glue Gun Glory!

I zazzed up my glue gun today. I'm not going to recommend doing this to your own glue gun as it could be a fire hazard (a risk I was willing to take in the name of cuteness). I don't need no one suing my ass.

Enjoi The Weekend CraftHeads!

¡Hot Glue Galore!

Another night of speed crafting is under the belt. A few breaks for Baby Joons to hit up the titty tap and a couple cartoon changes for Mijo were my only real interruptions while I got crazy with the glue gun. Not wanting to get too deep into a specific project, I decided to hit up some pieces that need a bit of TLC. Quick and rewarding, I added some zazz to my stepdaughter's room and my fabulous graying hair (Ugh!).

Birthday Presents On A Budget: The Family Pollock Masterpiece

My BD's bday just passed and I thought I'd share this easy gift-giving idea that can include all family/crew members. A low-key fan of fine art, the BD appreciates a good piece of creativity and who better than Los Cinco Babies to be the authors of something so lovely as a huge canvas of our best work.

Now trying to plan what exactly was going to be painted was a lil bit harder than difficult when you have 4 different kids with 4 different ideas. Using my genius mom ingenuity, I convinced them of the debauchery that could come of freestyle hand print painting. Frightfully rad, these humanoids agreed on said idea and so began the paint flinging.

From the littlest Mija to the oldest Mijo, all 5 babies had the time of their lives making this canvas awesome for their Poppa's Bornday. Even I got in on the fun. Rave reviews for this project were abound after it was all said and done. Our canvas incidentally gave a nod to the uber-dope Jackson Pollock, which allowed me to interject some art history knowledge on the niños. None of them gave a damn cause the feel of squishy paint in their hands was way cooler than listening to some crazy mom-lady. Can't really argue with them on that one either.

We started this project weeks before and hid it in plain sight because it was fun for the kids to watch their dad pass right by it and never see it. The night of its unveiling, the kids replaced a familiar piece of art with the masterpiece we created, bringing an already delighted daddy to full tilt mode stoked. The BD loved the family collabo and even gave me an extra butt squeeze for being spectacular. <3*sigh*<3

A few bottles of paint, a canvas and a shitload of love & good vibes: All for about Free99... My favorite price!

¡Craft Porn! - Walmart Edition

As Seen On Etsy!

My parents have a new obsession and its collecting small ass $$$ succulents from all over the world and wouldn't you know it, a week after learning about their new passion, Etsy posts this image on their Facebook of someone's (I forgot who) great creation. 

Sick right?

Time to get your wino on and create a dope living habitat for some equally banging plants.

Incapsulating The Moment For The Future: Memory Jars

I'm pretty sure I've said it before on this blog thing but I'll gladly say it again: I'm a very lucky lady. I have a beautiful family that shows love in some of the most creative of ways. This pic above is a technique Mijo likes to use called "Ripping up my garden." Everyday, throughout his daily attack agenda, he brings me in bouquets of sticks, leaves, ripped up bunches of grass, flowers, weeds and sometimes a rock or two. Each gift is given with the cutest of faces and the biggest of natural, genuine love from my baby.(OooOoooOOOooo, I'm getting all teary!) I can't bear to just throw these natural gifts back in the yard to decompose, but there surely is not a scrapbook existing that could hold the mass amount of flora I receive. 

The solution was a Schmucker's jar I had in my cabinet of containers. With the lid to match, I've been able to store all of Mijo's findings and enjoy looking at them as well. My thoughts, were to at some point make a potpourri out of it, but as of right now when I open the cap to add more, the jar has its own perfume going on... *cough* *cough*

Projects like these help me preserve these precious innocent times for when I'm an old Viagra hustling cat lady. 

Meow!

Going Down To Crafty Town!

Fact: I love living in Cali. 

We got all kinds of cool places to visit throughout the state that makes you say, "I love this place!" Plain and simple. (Women, Weed & Weather? Thats how the song goes right?) We BBQ on Christmas. Wear sandals and shorts all year. I believe we even started that god-awful guilty pleasure of wearing Uggs with mini jean skirts and just about anything else. This state is fuckin great! Being that I am centrally located in this golden  place, I am able to experience the awesomeness mi tierra has to offer within hours if not minutes, tops. I recently made the 3 hour tour to SF for a quick jaunt in their magical streets to see what was crackin and boy did I come back high on inspiration.

First up were these bad ass lil keychains outta Chintatown, made of colorful threads and the most detailed of felt pieces; these bushes immediately had me feeling like a second rate crafter. I mean this stuff was legit!

The selection of monitos was vast. From Harry Potter to Hello Kitty, these keychains could probably make anyone smile no matter what the steez. I couldn't have had enough time to gawk at these cute lil things so I made a mental note to Google such projects. TO DO!

Next: DOPE AS F*$#! CLUTCHES!

I had to hold the damn phone when I started walking past this store front. Killer swag was going down in these window displays for the low low price of $14.95 and most of these clutches could be concocted at my craft table. Too much to take in such a small amount of time, I had to flick the scene.  Take a gander at these hot pieces: 

If your even reading this blog and have an inkling of crafting blood in you, these flicks got a lil something tingling in ya. NO DOUBT! Makes me glad that my collection of random purses remains in my crafty lair. MUHAHAHAHAHA.

 To cap off this adventure, mi esposo gifted me this super beautiful scarf I found in the depths of some really weird C-Town discount store. It was a 5 dolla-make-u-holla kinda deal too, so it made me love it that much more. Perhaps its a knockoff design of someone expensive-like, but the colors melted my soul and I had to have it. The photo doesn't show the shimmer, but the color scheme is so off the charts that I think any outfit will pop with this. Who cares if this shit is knockoff anyways right? Isn't that chick Bethanny Frankel making that the new thing to do? Rich people buying knockoffs...? So confusing!

My trip did drop me off on Haight for a wee bit but that parking situation is too much to handle! I grabbed some pizza and Ben &Jerry's and gave that spot the deuces! I had enough inspiration from the streets of Chinatown to call this trip a success. SUCCESS!

NOW, MUST CRAFT!

¡Look @ Me! ¡Look @ Me! ¡Look What I Can Do!

Two works in progress. Both dedications to my babies: Joon Cat & Golden Bear!

¡Craft Porn!