October is National Craft-Making Month!

It's been a busy, painful week...

Day 10

The kids had the day off from school, so we went to visit my mom at the ceramic painting place. She had Day of the Dead skull plates for them to paint. I did the easiest painting on a tray ever, which was a marble paint. To do marble painting, you spread some shaving cream on aluminum foil, drop your paint on it, artistically, of course, then run the end of a paintbrush through the paint, horizontally and vertically, and then turn the whole thing over top of the tray. Lift off the foil and wait a few minutes, then rinse off the shaving cream and let dry. It's going to take me at least three times longer to conventionally paint the back. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures.

While my kids finished their painting, I loom-knitted 50 rows on a headband.



Day 11

I got the news that F was REALLY short on face coverings, so making more became a priority. I got a a bunch of sets of insides cut, as well as a lot of strips for earloops.




Day 12

I attended my usual Wednesday stitch-in and got quite a bit done on my 2019 Mystery SaL.



After the stitch-in, I cut a whackload of outsides for face coverings.



Day 13

Day 13 started out with getting my COVID-19 Bivalent vaccine booster AND my flu vaccine. Afterward, I did my monthly Costco run, and somehow, managed to stress my knee significantly. OW. Once I had lunch and got settled with a cold pack for my knee, I threaded my lot of cut out earloop strips through beads. (Looking at them today, I realise that some of them are too short, and will have to be redone, ooops.)



Day 14

I spent Day 14 in a dozy haze (pretty typical for me post-COVID vaccine, but at least I didn't have a fever this time!), and in a lot of knee pain (I'm on crutch again) so I didn't craft anything, because it would have come out wrong!

I finally finished the Mystery Stitchalong!

Here's the days leading up to the end...

Nov 18-20


Nov 25


Nov 28


Dec 01


Dec 02 FINISHED!



Of course, it still needs to be washed and pressed and mounted and framed, but hooray, the stitching is done! The metallic around the wands is a little hard to see in the photos, but it looks nice in person.

And a blast from the past... My Kids and I did ceramic painting back in early October, but I never posted the fired and glazed versions, so here they are!

The kids'...


Mine...