krifty krafty
Although there is a large majority of the time that I go through life completely brain-dead, every once in awhile I do get a little crafty. My latest creative outlet has been designing blogs. I like doing this because you get immediate results and it’s usually not very messy. It’s so fun taking the ideas for beautiful web pages out of my head and turning them into something people can actually use. Very satisfying.
Before I learned how to design blogs (and I use the term “learned” very loosely here, since I know how to do about five things in html and the rest I make my husband help me with) I used my creative juices to paint. I haven’t made anything in a while, but I used to keep myself busy making custom name and letter prints. On the left is a 5″x7″ painted canvas with a wooden letter glued on top. My girls each have one of these with the first letter of their name hanging on their bedroom door. I love making these for gifts, and I even had a few people pay me to create something unique for their child. Here are a couple of the canvases I was paid to paint:
And here’s another of my favorites (sparkly!) that I made for my friend’s baby shower: 
It’s just so fulfilling to me to start with a blank white canvas and fill it with something that the recipient would find special and meaningful. I like that something I created will be hanging on someone’s wall, that they’ll look at it and love it every day. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Makes me all fuzzy, too. Thank you one hundred million percent!
Comment by Heather — July 21, 2006 @ July 21, 2006 at 8:53 pm
You’ve got talent, that’s for sure. All those sites look GREAT! I like mine the best, of course.
Comment by abc momma — July 21, 2006 @ July 21, 2006 at 9:18 pm
You wanna finish designing my website?
Comment by April — July 21, 2006 @ July 21, 2006 at 11:42 pm
OMG these are beautiful. Should’ve known with all the drawing u did in Cucina2 LOL. You sly secret artist!
You should SO do this more.
Comment by Jenn — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 5:42 am
Those are really great. You’ve got talent, for sure!
Comment by Morning Glory — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 6:22 am
I checked out all the website designs, and they’re fantastic! You really have something good going there.
Comment by Caryn — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 6:50 am
Sorry April, I only know how to design Blogsome blogs. If you want to move over here, we’d be glad to have you though!
Comment by momonawire — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 7:32 am
You are so talented. Just beautiful!!
Comment by Queen Beth — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 8:01 am
Those are beautiful, I found you through daring young mom, I think. I would love to try and make something like that for my 2 kiddos or maybe I should just pay you to do it for me LOL! I’ll be poppinng back by again, love your style
Comment by Christina — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 10:26 am
You are the best. Hopefully, I’ll be displaying your talent soon…
Comment by Kathryn, DYM — July 22, 2006 @ July 22, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Love the design you did for Heather!! Sweet digs!
Comment by JD — July 23, 2006 @ July 23, 2006 at 9:37 pm
ahhhh, the sweet bliss of “kreativity”…I just love it and you definitely got the talent for it!
Comment by tam — July 23, 2006 @ July 23, 2006 at 11:02 pm
In which country do you live?
Comment by mozilla fire fox — March 20, 2008 @ March 20, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I agree with you
Comment by hoodia gordoni — March 23, 2008 @ March 23, 2008 at 7:05 am