Feeling Plaid

My sister in law is the crafty one.  She always has great project ideas and is a very talented multimedia artist in her own right.  And I try to copy her as much as I can!  She gets a kick out of it and loves to share her projects so we can have craft time together :)  Today was such an occasion!  Our niece is almost eight and absolutely adores horses.  She asked her talented Auntie to paint a horse in her bedroom.  So my intrepid SIL went online to see what she could see for ideas and came across this lovely idea for cardboard horses.  The artist, Ann Wood, made up 100 of these lovelies and named each and every one!  She provides a link to her templates so today we printed off a couple and cut out some cardboard horses.  My SIL has been working on this already and is making 25 horses to race across our nieces bedroom wall!  What a clever thing to do!  So I made this one for the wild man's room:

We originally were going to paint them and then I came up with the idea of covering the horses in fabric - see?  Sometimes I have an original crafty thought!  Anyway, she loved the idea and made one covered in pink flowery fabric with pink and brown legs for our niece.  I wish I had thought to photo it before she left!  Anyway, this is such a clever thing to do and with a little bit of time cutting out the pieces and decorating them you will a wonderful horse-y silhouette to dance across your wall, too!

In other news, I whipped up a beaded and felted purse for a friend who is getting married next month.  It was a quick knit and the first time I've ever used beads!  I think it's lovely and when it's completely dry I intend to do a little accent embroidery around the flap.  I also need to figure out what type of fastener to use.  Here's a peek!

Before felting...

After felting - still a bit wet :)

That's it for now!  Hope you have a marvelous Monday!

XXOO