Prompt: ToysRUs (July) Team: Cabin Finger Painters Project Name: Affirmation bases/cards Project Link: N/A Brief Description: I made these multicolored bases for abandoned affirmations. About half of them are finished and ready to go; the other half I’ll fill out when I need them. Project Photo(s):
Prompt: Zap 1 Team: Cabin Finger Painters Project Name: Flow postalettes Project Link: N/A Brief Description: I cut and folded these postalettes from a Flow paper book, ready to be used for happy mail. Project Photo(s):
Brief Description: These lil guys can definitely be found in nature. Spiders also tend to be a recurring fixture in (real and halloween-gimmick) HAUNTED HOUSEs.
Prompt: RadioShack (July) Team: Cabin Finger Painters Project Name: Swap resend bookmark Project Link: N/A Brief Description: When the bookmark I sent @Bunny1kenobi (posted last season) didn’t show up, I made this one as a replacement. For the purposes of this prompt, I’m assuming B1k does at least some of her reading in the house . Project Photo(s):
Prompt: July - Sports Authority
Team: Stargazers
Project Name: Very fresh bass dinner
Project Link: -
Brief Description: This was dinner tonight - rice, steamed asparagus, and bass filets in garlic brown butter sauce, bass caught by family yesterday. I don’t like sports per se, but fishing is a family sport, I suppose. Plus these are very natual materials! And delicious.
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Prompt: Blockbuster, Haunted House Team: Cabin Stargazers Project Name: Susuwatari Project Link: Brief Description: These are Totoro no susuwatari, cousins of but slightly different from Spirited Away no susuwatari. Project Photo(s):
They are soot sprites from the movie My Neighbor Totoro. In the movie, they appear in the house that has been vacant for a while, so it seems quite likely that they would be found in a haunted house!
Oh my goodness so many amazing googly eye pictures already! I have been swamped with an enormous organizational project (I have spent over 65 hours working on it in the last week) that I hope to be able to share soon and then get into camp life!
Prompt: Pets . com (I made this for our foster kittens) Team: Cabin Stargazers Project Name: dangling cat toy Project Link: N/A Brief Description: My kids convinced me that we should foster kittens this summer, so we’ve had 2 or 3 kittens at our house for the last month. While they enjoy playing with cardboard boxes and ping pong balls, we needed a more dedicated cat toy to occupy them when they have excess energy. I screwed an eye Hook on the end of a dowel, and made the dangling toy out of a scrap of fleece. There’s a jingle bell seen inside. The kittens enjoy it, and it’s safe for them to play with. Project Photo(s):
Prompt: Yahoo groups (I made this with my dad and my kids, a group of people) Team: Cabin Stargazers Project Name: Jill the Scarecrow Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: When I was a kid, my family read all of the Oz books by L Frank Baum. We decided to make Jack Pumpkin Head for Halloween one year. We put it in the front yard. Naturally his pumpkin head got smashed, so the more permanent Jill was made to replace him. Over the last few decades my Dad has put a new quote on Jill every week, and she has become a neighborhood favorite. Unfortunately, time is not kind to Scarecrows, and despite regular refreshing, Jill had completely fallen apart. So this year, for my dad’s birthday, my kids and I went to his house and made a new Jill. The clothes are all things my kids outgrew. She is stuffed with a pillow. I finally got smart and attached the hair to the hat instead of the head. I sewed two clips on to her dress, so my dad doesn’t have to fuss with pins to attach the quotes. My kids helped stuff her and make the hair, my dad painted the face, and I figured out the logistics, made the head, and assembled everything. My dad is happy, and Jill lives once more. Project Photo(s):
Prompt: July - Blockbuster
Team: Stargazers
Project Name: Small zippered pouch
Project Link: -
Brief Description: I had the sewing machine out and some bigger scraps from a current project, so a quick zippered pouch was born! Of really nice nice linen fabric that I typically wouldn’t use for a random pouch. The outer is blue and silver.
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Prompt: July Battle - nature
Team: Stargazers
Project Name: Linen tunic shirt
Project Link: Sleeveless linen tunic shirt
Brief Description: The shirts I’ve made recently have been jersey, but this 100% linen might push me back to all natural fabrics. So lux.
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