demetri martin

Jon and I got tickets for us to see Demetri Martin a few weeks ago at Meadowbrook Music Festival. We braved the outdoor concert just after a severe thunderstorm covered our county. Luckily, the tornadoes stayed away from us!

I had never seen or heard of Demetri Martin before the show, so I went into the show completely blind. He was hilarious...not an obnoxious stand-up with an overly loud voice or stupid jokes about hitting on women or going to sporting events...just a down to earth guy with a quick wit and dry sense of humor.

One of my favorite one-liners from the show:

A secret admirer is just a stalker with cute stationery.

We have been remembering the funny jokes from his stand-up routine and repeating them to each other and laughing over and over since the show.

You can check out some of his you tube videos here...the Comedy Central show in four pieces is worth a watch too if you're interested.

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japanese weekend

Jon and I were reminiscing about Japan last weekend, so we had a little theme day date.

First Jon whipped up some eel and cucumber rolls and tamago nigiri. He's getting much better at his inside out rolls and he equates this to perfecting his sushi mat saran wrapping skills. And the tamago is getting much neater too thanks to the tamago pan he bought in Japan. Sushi is a lot harder to make than it looks!

After lunch we headed to Novi, the Japanese mecca of Michigan, and checked out the bookstore/tea bar/DVD/souvenir store, Mirai, and the grocery store, One World Market.

I scored at the bookstore finding a craft book and an interesting craft/lifestyle magazine with great pictured directions. The US equivalent is probably something like Better Homes and Gardens or Real Simple. The magazine has gardening tips, clothes sewing projects, exercises, face washing/makeup application tips, and some interesting craft projects. I was a big fan of the price. It's 500 yen in Japan and only $7 at the store, so not a big mark-up at all. The photos aren't as inspiring as normal craft books, but the 4-6 pages of directions per project make the book worth the price.

bags made out of thrifted mens dress shirts

button artwork...I want to try a portrait like this one

this quilt is too cute. Not sure my first applique project should be from a book in Japanese, though!

squishy slippers made from rope covered in a thrifted towel. Jon wants me to make a pair for him for some indoor summer slippers around the house.

all of the project directions in this book are photographed and layed out like this. Great for a non-japanese reader.

vintage stove embroidery

I'm not sure what exactly drew me to this pattern I found on Vintage Transfer Finds. Perhaps it was our vintage hunting cabin excursion earlier this summer.

I used a borrowed lightbox to trace the pattern onto my fabric and got stitching away. It took me quite a while to finish all those darn little X's...I am not a cross-stitcher, obviously!

So, I framed the finished embroidery in a little frame from IKEA. Not sure where it's going to end up in our house, but at least the project is finished, right?

beauty handbag

Here's my first project from one of my newer craft books, Bend the Rules Sewing. This bag didn't turn out quite as well as I hoped it would. I used some really cheap fabric that was a thick screen printed canvas type material. Turns out it was way too thick for this project and was not ironable, so my handles are all wonky and the bag was too thick around the pleats to top stitch. To top it off I sewed the pocket inside upside down. Ugh!

To say I was a bit disappointed with the results is an understatement! I really wanted this project to turn out well because I love the fabric combo I picked out.

Next time I might try making the bag scaled down in a smaller size and with a thinner material for the main part of the bag to avoid the thick seems. I really like the overall design and versatility of this bag.

stitchettes

I finally bit the bullet and bought the four seasons of the wee wonderfuls stitchettes.

My big fall and winter plan is to stitch up the 16 designs and make them into a patchwork quilt like this one with all of my fabric scraps and japanese fabric finds.

I love veggies

It’s been a crazy few weeks around our house. The big catalog deadline came and went at work and I made it through with most of my sanity left in tact. Thank goodness! To counteract all the stress at work I found myself relaxing by stitching anything and everything I can get my hands on. I guess you could say that my new obsession of the week is embroidery.

I finally got around to using my tea towel from the Stitch-It kit. I used the I luv veggies patterns from Sublime Stitching to embroider an onion, carrot, and tomato on the towel. We can’t get enough veggies around here so now they’re appearing on our kitchen linens, too.