Lovely Looks

Here are a few GENIUS ideas that I love. Putting these on my list of DIY projects.

                              I've always wanted a tree branch on my wall....isn't this a great idea!!?

          My dream sun room / enclosed porch. I would love to transform our back porch into this retreat!

                                                         This years pumpkin carving inspiration.

 I'm practicing this today. Just drop out the bottom piece as you french braid, and pick a new chunk. So cute!

                                 My husband liked this idea too...oil drip pan magnet board.

 Simple little fort made with PVC pipe, curtains, blankets and pillows. My daughter would love this!

Vintage hanky's sewn on a string. I would love to hang this up somewhere in the house. What a great idea!

whippin' out the prints

The last couple weeks I've been drawing like crazy. Not only for my shop, but I'm also designing a few illustrations for an athletic company called Run Pretty Far (more on that later). As for my prints, I have four new ones! I also have a lot more styles of tee's to offer in my shop. Here's a preview of whats to come. These will be available for purchase in about a week.

New Favorites In: Vintage, Print, and Leather

What I've been doing lately. Well.....

I scored loads of vintage finds last weekend. I'm in "awe" of this vintage leather suitcase with travel stickers

In the print shop. I'm having so much fun sketching up tee shirt designs. I just finished this one today and already printed up a few tee's and added them to the shop.

And as for the leather. I've been making quite a few belts and dog collars for people I know lately. All suporting my dog's surgury fund. Here is a custom "Luna" belt I just finished up. Thanks to my friend Dane for the awesome idea!

hope you like!

One Lane Road

What do you do if you have a new crafting addiction that you can't stop making things with? Well, why not open an Etsy shop with it! Okay, so opening an etsy shop has a little more to it than that...but it seems to be ta fantastic solution to my little addictions. I love to make things, and I'm a stay at home mom who lives out in the boonies. I've gone back and forth with the idea of getting a part time job away from home, but my dream of a making a job out of selling my art, and the importance of staying home with my daughter, and the fact that I live 30 minutes from anywhere, has all lead me here. Now being the proud owner of 3 etsy shops! Yes, I've opened a 3rd shop. It's a screen printing shop with all my original designs. I've fallen hard for this craft of screen printing, and I would love to now share it with the world! A lot of the designs will be similar to ones I've used in my leather shop. I plan on starting out with housewares and home decor items, then soon branching out into tshirts and other apparel. I call this little shop, One Lane Road. I hope to have items up in the shop over the next week. http://www.onelaneroad.etsy.com/
Stay Tuned!
-Becky

What I've been making

I'm all over the place with  ideas. I don't think there's ever enough time and energy to create everything I want to, but I sure do try! Here's a few things I've been making lately:

Screen Printing. I've always wanted to do it, and finally I took the time to learn how. It's not an easy thing to just pick up if you've never screen printed before. This took me a couple weeks of research, along with some trial and error...but at last I did it! I made this chicken print from a sketch I made of my own chickens. I'm so excited about it, I now want to print chickens on everything I own! I'm quickly coming up with another design so this does not happen =). Here's my print on a practice shirt, not perfect...but I love it.

New Leather Purse. I mentioned in another post how I'm getting my leather groove back. Well, it's still there. And this butterfly purse is another beauty I've been working on. I have a feeling I will take me a while to finish, but i wanted to share my progress. This piece is the front and back of the purse. The carving/tooling is not complete, and it's just the raw leather with no stain or pant on it.

Redecorating. We got a new couch last weekend, yahooooo! I'm so stoked about it. I changed the pictures on the wall behind it to coordinate a bit more with the new color scheme (our last couch was bright red!). I had to take a picture because I've been admiring my new set up so much.

That's all today folks!

-Becky

Vintage Inspired - Reclaimed Wood

Check out my newest addition to the vintage shop! Handmade, vintage inspired wall sconces. Reminiscent of old barn wood, farmhouse decor. These are handmade from reclaimed cedar wood. I love the gray-brown color and weathered texture. So far the wall sconces are available in my shop. My husband and I (he's more the power tool guy so he's been helping out) are also in the works of some mason jar candle wall sconces too! And possibly some mason jar/reclaimed wood light fixtures. Lots-o-fun!

Crazy Cat Lady

It all started out with me joining in on arts and crafts time with my 2 year old. We were playing around with some sculpey clay. While she was making her little snowman, I started creating...crazy cat lady. I ended up getting pretty into this project and I finished her up by the next day! I already had everything I needed to make her packed away in my art room, so it worked out great. So here she is! Thought I'd share her with everyone. I'm pretty excited about how she turned out  =).

As for vintage finds these days...check out my vintage shop this week for cool new stuff!  I went to the mother load of all estate sales yesterday and picked up some really, really great things.

Happy Sunday!