analog girl in a digital world
a blog by selina zawacki
I recently ordered some faux flowers to turn our normally spring/summer felt floral arrangement into a more fall-themed one (I only kept the yellow and pink ones in): I ended up with a good amount of flowers leftover after adding to the arrangment, which I was hoping for because I wanted to also arrangement, some…
Yesterday I challenged myself to create and shoot a faerie costume before sundown. I started at 3pm with a dress I got a few years ago from Michelle, and took the final photos in our courtyard before sundown at 7:30pm. Before this weekend, I hadn’t sewn since February when I altered my wedding dress. This…
Not much to say here except that we had a lot of leftover wax from the wedding favors we made, and candle making turned out to be not overly taxing, so I decided to refill the candle jars I’ve saved over the past year or so. We love burning candles so this really saves a…
These bookends are the first “finished” thing I’ve created with our new Glowforge. I started out with the Harry Potter book nook, but quickly realized that it was going to be a super long-term project, considering how detailed it is and how bad. I was craving an easy, quick project that I could look at…
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole of embroidery yesterday. I’m pretty sure my wedding dress will have embroidered applique flowers on it, and I started wondering whether making the appliques myself would be a better option than purchasing them – buying them online might mean they aren’t quite the right color, and…
A couple of weeks ago, I came across this tweet by Chloe Condon and immediately fell in love with the phrase “Deploys B4 Boyz” written behind her. So of course I had to make a shirt! I had some free time that weekend so I grabbed some fabric I had laying around got to work….