It's a girl!

My cousin found out today that she's having a baby girl! Now I have to get the dust off of my sewing machine because I have some serious baby-gift-making to do! So stick with me and I swear that I'll post some things, for real this time!

Mallory ♥

Birthday Goodies!

My birthday was on Sunday and I got some sewing goodies from the ladies I work with!

Here's the whole lot:

Everything laid out:
The three different fabrics (we have an inside frog joke):

My cousin is having a baby early next year and she finds out the sex at the end of the month, I'm so excited to make some baby gifts out of these froggy prints!


Mallory ♥

Tumblr has taken over my life!

My crafting time has been drastically cut because of the hours and hours I sit glued to my computer blogging on Tumblr. I'm trying to cut down on that so I can get back into the crafting groove. I swear I haven't forgotten about you!

Mal ♥

Harry Potter Crafting!

So, it's that time again...Harry Potter time! If I haven't mentioned this before I'm a huge HP nerd. I'm totally addicted to all things Potter. So I decided that I needed to make a shirt to wear when I go see the movie this week.

Just a warning: this post is very picture chunky! Enjoy!

The stencil I started with: (I'm totally proud of the lightening bolt, I free-handed it!)

The stencil cut out:

On the shirt after I applied the paint:

After taking the stencil off, before removing the bridged pieces:
All finished:
Me, wearing it to show placement of the words:
All finished!! HP here I come!

I was planning on using a navy blue shirt but the JerZee brand shirts I buy never fit the same way. So I used a Hanes undershirt with grey fabric paint that I mixed. I wanted it to be simple and to the point. If you aren't a HP fan or you don't know what a horcrux is (shame on you! Go out and buy the books right now!) check out the Wiki page here.

If you're interested in learning how to stencil check out these awesome online tutorials:

Stencilry
Stencil Punks

A little about Hey, Mallory!

So I figure that I should tell you all a little about me and the future of this blog, so here it goes...

If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm Mallory. I'm totally on a craft kick now, so most of these posts will be about things that I've made, want to make, or wish someone would make for me =]. I'm currently into knitting, stenciling t-shirts, mod podging, and sewing (I just got a new sewing machine for christmas!) I have lots of ideas in my head, if only I could get off the computer long enough to put my ideas to use! Please, continue to bear with me and I swear I'll have some projects posted soon!