Peanut-Butter Jelly Time!

Today I finished the second toy from the Picnic set... peanut-butter & jelly sandwich! mmmm...

 This project conveniently coincided with day 3 of being on a diet, and I ALWAYS crave peanut-butter & jelly sandwiches when I'm dieting. It's carbs, sugar, salt and fat all in one dish. And now I'm hungry. Oh well, distracting myself with more felting!

My goofy husband enjoys my projects

Summertime = Watermelon

In my mind, that first slice of watermelon signals the start of summer. Sure, you can get it other times of the year, but it's not the same.  Slicing into a big crisp watermelon, and then going outside and taking that first bite...THAT is summer. Heat, sweet, vacation, lazy, juicy, delicious, watermelon. 

I haven't made it to a craft store yet to pick up the supplies I need to finish up the Ice-Cream Shoppe set, so I moved on to the Picnic set. I completely forgot to take pictures while I was making it, but here is the finished product. 1 slice of watermelon, that looks good enough to eat!

I'll admit, I cheated a bit and used fabric glue for the seeds instead of stitching them on. And I'll admit, it's because I forgot to add them until after the rest of the watermelon was finished, and it's difficult to stitch things to the outside once it's finished.

And yes, I am a bit of a dork.  Nom, nom, nom....watermelon!

We all scream for ice-cream!

My husband finally arrived (we haven't seen each other in 2 months!) and I was SO excited to see him. I was even more excited that he brought my giant bag of felt.

*Kidding, I was happier to see him...but I won't deny that I squealed in delight when I saw the felt*

Turns out my imagination had trippled the amount of felt I actually have, so I definitely won't be able to finish The List with what I've got. But happily, my husband also brought his wallet, and therefore I can buy more felt! :)

Yesterday, I began work on the vanilla scoop for the Ice-Cream Shoppe set, and also went ahead and made cones.

You know the drill by now...

I love the little sprinkles on the vanilla scoop. I think they turned out very sweet. If you look closely, you can see the multicoloured threads through the white felt. I probably should have used a second piece of white in that area, to make it more opaque, but I didn't think of it at the time, and my daughter loves it regardless.





Originally, I had planned to make 3 different scoops, and then two different kinds of cones, and you could put whatever scoops on whichever cones - mix & match. But I just didn't like the way the cones were turning out, and I didn't like how the scoops sat on top of them. So rather than stressing out about it, I just decided to keep it simple.

In the end, I just sewed plain "cone coloured" felt cones to the bottom of the scoops. I started with the vanilla, and just stitched it to the scoop as is.  But I didn't like the way the "drips" lay against the cone. So with the strawberry scoop, I pulled the drips off the scoop and stitched them directly to the cone, and then stitched the scoop on top of all that. Still didn't love the way it looked. I finally got it right with the chocolate scoop. I pulled the drips off the scoop and stitched the scoop to the cone, and then the drips around the scoop AND the cone. This produced the cleanest lines - not as much bunching. If I were to do it again, I'd do them all that way.

They're a bit small, but they're perfect for little hands. My daughter has been playing non-stop Ice-Cream Shoppe, asking everyone which flavour they want. And that's what makes it all worth it.

I still have to make a cute container for all of the ice cream and popsicles to go into, but I need some additional supplies for that. Almost finished though!