Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Backpacks and Messenger Bags

Look at these awesome backpacks and messenger bags!

 

 

They were made by the very talented Norma Agron (aka: norma_iris), using my Spoonflower fabric found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/1276241

Check out her Etsy shop for more amazing bags! https://www.etsy.com/shop/normasbagboutique

Holi 2014: Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork, Utah

Today we went to the Festival of Colors! It was our 4th time going, and I finally captured the shot I've been wanting to get since 2009.

The timing was perfect!

We drove up about 5 minutes before the 11am "throwing of the colors", paid to park in the lot across the street (totally worth it), and my husband and I ran to the grass in front of the temple while my sisters watched our 4 kiddos.

Set up the tripod, set up the camera, took a few test shots, and the countdown began! I felt like a paparazzo while I took picture after picture. After, I played back the pics I'd taken and was absolutely giddy!

A huge thank you to my awesome husband and wonderful family. :)

Here's the pic in black and white and color:

Fun, huh?!

10 minutes later, we packed everything away, got our kiddos, and the whole group of us went onto the grounds of the Lotus Krishna temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.

We bought our colors, played, and had a fun time participating in the 12:00pm "throwing of the colors". (Don't worry, the babies were covered up during the actual throwing. The rest of us wore sunglasses and bandanas around our mouths and noses)

A couple of my husband's co-workers were in town from India, and we had a great time with them!
Here's the before and after pic of our group:

Aren't my son's "after" faces hilarious?! They enjoyed the festival, except when they got chalk thrown into their eyes. Poor kiddos. Next year maybe we'll just have them go under the pavilion for the actual throwing of the colors!

Me, my husband, and our sweet tiny girl after the color throwing:

A fun, fun day!

And yes, that baby sling has come in very handy. :)

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Pillow

Isn't this pillow awesome?!

It was made by Elizabeth Joshi (aka: libby1) using my fabric from Spoonflower, found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2479785

So awesome! Thanks for the pic, Elizabeth!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Pencil Pouch

My customers are so creative!

Michelle-Nicholle made this pencil pouch using my fabric from Spoonflower: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/1276249

 

 Thanks for the pictures Michelle-Nicholle (aka: mdrahmin). LOVE it!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Bedding Set

Don't you just LOVE this bedding set?!

It was made using my "Minecraft Inspired Pixels - Green" design found here at Spoonflower: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2477105.

Thank you to Haidee Corps (aka: haidest) for sending me this pic. You, your Mom, and Mitchell are very talented!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Body Pillow

I think this is the coolest body pillow ever!!!

It was made by Karen Williamson's mother for her son's Minecraft room. She used my Spoonflower fabric design found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2479856

Love it!

Thanks for the pic Karen!

Vote in the Spoonflower Fabric of the Week Contest! Chinese Paper Cutting

This week's contest is Chinese Paper Cutting! Color palette: red and white.

My design is based off of my "Hope" design with cherry blossoms, but with a frame of blossoms surrounding a delicate butterfly.

I'd love your vote!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Minecraft Christmas Stocking

Thanks so much to Lisa George (aka: the_black_scottie) for sending this pic.
It's a stocking she made using my "Minecraft Collage 3" Squares", found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2479785

It looks so awesome! I love how she embroidered Cameron's name on the stocking.
Thanks Lisa!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Yellow Brick Road Picture Backgrounds

Thank you to Andy Ritz (aka: crackerboy) for sending me these pics! 
I LOVE how he used my wrapping paper design as the background for his amazing Wizard of Oz collages.
Design found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/1248012

Thanks again Andy! I love your creativity!

Minecraft Pillowcases!

For Christmas I made pillowcases for my children and nephews. I used one of my very favorite fabrics that I designed and had printed through Spoonflower...Minecraft!

I did a simple monogram with swatch fabric with the first letter of each of their names. The kiddos loved their pillowcases and have been using them ever since. :)

My Spoonflower shop:

Spoonflower Wrapping Paper

My wrapping paper arrived today. It's beautiful, except for the large bend in the middle. :(

Spoonflower has always been great to work with in the past. So I'm contacting them for a resolution!

Edited to add: Less than an hour later and I've already heard back from them! They're shipping out a rush order to replace the wrapping paper. Love working with Spoonflower!

Spoonflower - Creations Made from my Designs! - Picture Frame

Thanks so much to Kama Nathan (aka: kama) for sending this pic.
It's a picture frame made using my "Minecraft Collage 3" Squares", found here: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2479785

 LOVE this idea!

Spoonflower "Film Noir" Contest

Today's special: film noir!

When I think of film noir, I see images of shadowy figures peeking between the slats of window blinds. Oh the suspense! The mystery! What will happen next?!

Click here to vote on your favorite designs at Spoonflower!

Image shown is my entry. :)

 

Spoonflower Top 100 Hot Sellers Fabrics

Thank you to everyone who helped our fabric designs make it to the top! We have *three* designs in the top 100 today at Spoonflower: minecraft creeper pixels - green, minecraft fabric collage, and creeper face fabric.

Click Here to purchase your favorite fabrics: JoyfulRose@Spoonflower

FINISHED! Minecraft Halloween Costumes

Here are the kiddos, all decked out and ready to go Trick-Or-Treating!

They were so thrilled with their costumes. The fabric I designed matched the purchased heads really well, and I'm happy to have comfortable costumes they can wear again and again; my kiddos love playing dress-up!

Minecraft Halloween Costumes

Trying on their Minecraft Halloween costumes. 
I made the fabric at Spoonflower, had it printed, cut out and sewed the patterns today, and bought the heads through jinx at Amazon! Pretty happy with how they're turning out and the kids are ecstatic!
 

Spoonflower Fabric Top 100 Hot Sellers List!

Today one of my fabrics made the Spoonflower Top 100 Hot Sellers List! I'm so excited. It's my Yellow Brick Road design (one of my personal favorites).

Their website says, "Hot Sellers is comprised of Marketplace purchases. These are designs that are flying off our printers as you view them! It's a great way to see what Marketplace shoppers are purchasing."

A screenshot:

In other news, if you haven't yet had a chance, please take a minute to vote for my Minecraft Creeper Costume in the 1-yard contest. Voting ends tomorrow. Thanks so much!

Click here to vote on your favorite costume fabrics (picture shown is my entry!)

Halloween Costume Fabric Contest on Spoonflower!

We've entered another fabric contest and would love your vote!

Click here to vote on your favorite costume fabrics (picture shown is my entry!)

This contest is to design a costume pattern that fits on 1 yard of fabric. My boys are obsessed with the game "Minecraft" and begged to be "Minecraft Steve" and a "Creeper" for Halloween. The cardboard heads are easy enough, but I haven't been able to find actual pixel fabric anywhere. Hooray for being able to design my own fabric!

I measured my boys and decided to make jumpsuits for each of them. Then I designed the fabric to match their respective characters. And since their little sister loves to be like them, I thought she'd enjoy a complete Creeper costume of her own. I love how it turned out! I squeezed every last bit of design I could onto a yard of Spoonflower's new Performance Knit fabric and I can't wait to get it and sew it up.

The above picture is the fabric/pattern design for her. It includes a: green pixel creeper jumpsuit front, back, neck binding, and sleeves, creeper mask/hat, black pixel shoe covers, TNT trick-or-treat bag with a black pixel strap, sew-in labels, instructions and a picture diagram (to show how to sew it all together), and a little creeper plushie with his own mini TNT trick-or-treat bag!!!

The following picture (not in the contest) is for my son's Halloween costumes. It includes the front of the jumpsuits, neck binding, and sleeve fronts for "Minecraft Steve" and a green "Creeper", brown pixel toolbelt for Steve, black pixel shoe covers for both costumes, sew-in labels, and mini plushies of "Minecraft Steve", a "Creeper", pickaxe, and TNT. All of those fit on a yard of the knit fabric as well. For the jumpsuit backs I plan to use a solid-colored knit.

I've ordered my fabrics and am trying to wait patiently till they arrive. :) I'll post pics and a photo tutorial as soon as they come!

Note: my fabric designs are not official Minecraft fabrics. I am not affiliated with Minecraft or Mojang. I just made a few designs for my kiddos for fun. :) If you'd like to know more about Minecraft, here's the link to their site: https://minecraft.net/

Minecraft Inspired Collage/Ready-Made Quilt Fabric

I'm having such a fun time designing these 8-bit pixel fabrics! Tonight I finished up a cut-and-sew (aka "cheater") quilt, with input from my local Minecraft experts (my boys). I think it will make for an awesome Christmas present!

Clik here for to my Spoonflower shop :) 

Note: my fabric designs are not official Minecraft fabrics. I am not affiliated with Minecraft or Mojang. I just made a few designs for our family fun. :) If you'd like to know more about Minecraft, here's the link to their site: https://minecraft.net/

And We're Back!

What we've been up to since my last post:

 - September: pregnant with our 4th child (yay!); quite sick with all-day "morning" sickness (boo)

 - December: finally feeling better. Christmas vacation with the whole family to California!

 - Jan-May: preparing for our baby's birth

 - Springtime: enjoying our new baby; last days of school

 - Summertime: vacation to Maine! And a ton of work (and fun) singing with my sisters, creating music videos, and getting our singing group "GaleSong" going again.

Check out our pics and happenings here: 

http://galesong.blogspot.com/