I Made An Apron

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 1:37 pm on Tuesday, January 5, 2010

joy lanzendorfer apron

Look at the awesome apron I made. It is fancy. Don’t you wish you had such a fancy apron?

I Made Some Throw Pillows

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 7:59 am on Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Look! I turned this pillow:

joy lanzendorfer pillows

Into these:

joy lanzendorfer pillows

joy lanzendorfer pillows

Yay!

Decorating DIY

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 9:11 am on Thursday, March 6, 2008

Since I bought a dishwasher this month (!), I ran out of re-modeling money–and what money I have left must be spent on plants for my garden–so I resorted to making the things that will decorate my house.

For example, I made another pillow. This time, it’s a tube pillow for my office chair. I didn’t really know how to make a tube pillow, so I kind of winged it, but it seems to have worked out:

The fabric is from some upholstery samples I have had lying around for awhile. (My chair is missing one of its buttons because it is a thrift store find and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it.)

I also made a clock for my living room. Well, Kyle helped a little. We drilled a hole in a plastic plate from Target and put the clock mechanism through it.

I am especially pleased with this one because I hated all the clocks I saw in the store. There are some ugly clocks out there, people.

Look I Made A Pillow

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 8:28 am on Thursday, February 28, 2008

The other night, I dug into my stash of fabric samples and made my first thing with it–a pillow. Since I was too lazy to get my sewing machine out, I sewed it all by hand. I am pleased with the results. I had never made a pillow before.

Unfortunately, I don’t get much light in my house in the morning, so this is the best photo I could get of the pillow. I am too lazy to mess with lamps. Someone buy me a camera light!

Low Expectations Have A Good Side

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 1:07 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Since I have no expectations for myself as a jewelry designer, I am absolutely thrilled when I sell something off my Etsy store. There’s nothing like getting money for something you would do anyway.

Something I haven’t sold yet:

necklace

Quartz Pendulum Necklace

More Jewelry On Etsy

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 1:15 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I am updating my Etsy shop again. For the next few days I’ll be adding jewelry and photographs on there. Keep checking back if you’re interested.

Indian Star Earrings

I Have An Etsy Shop

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 1:03 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

I thought I would try selling a little bit of my jewelry and other craft/art projects, so I opened an Etsy account. So far I’ve put up two necklaces and a pair of earrings. Here’s the earrings, to give you an idea:

Don’t they look like something Carmen Miranda would have worn? You can check out my Etsy store here.

Making Things

Filed under: Personal, Writing and Publishing, Food and Drink, I Made This — joy at 9:32 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2007

Because I can:

    Enough short stories to fill a collection
    A sundress
    New placemats
    Weird paintings with talking animals
    A mushroom quiche
    Fingerless gloves
    A collage or shadow box
    A silver wire necklace
    Sausage and pepper pizza
    A hat
    Lists, lists, lists
    A novel.

“Resting”

Filed under: I Made This — joy at 8:10 am on Friday, April 13, 2007

I overworked earlier this week, so I had to force myself to stop and rest so my hands don’t get like this.

So I made a necklace:

Re-Doing the Bodice

Filed under: Writing and Publishing, I Made This — joy at 9:51 am on Thursday, March 8, 2007

Last night, I had to re-do the bodice of a dress I’m sewing three times before it looked right. It was annoying and frustrating, but in the end, satisfying. I was glad I took the trouble to make the dress hang well on my body.

This morning, I tried to remind myself about that while working on a particularly difficult section of my novel. I’m just re-doing the bodice until it fits with the rest of dress.

This takes a considerable amount of faith. You have to see past the momentary irritation and despair and believe that it will all come together in the end. But even more, you have to believe that the finished dress will look good enough to make all the trouble it took to sew it worthwhile.

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