i mean.

i want.

$78, keep calm gallery

today is yucky.

but you are not.



via ffffound

things i want

red, daisyvintage
orange, ebay
yellow, vintageavacado
green, ebay
magenta, ebay

blue, purple and black with multicolor keys, joevintage

wowsers

i hope that one day i can make something so insanely awesome!
i don't even know where it would go, but it's badass!


boutiquenutmegdesigns

purely ornamental

now that my sewing machine is fixed and i am of the quilted persuasion,
i'm a-gawna make me sum-a-deez!

mary made me's flickr

maninthemachine

uh-may-zing string installations by [Hu] Man vs Machine

any way the wind blows

so i took on what seemed to be a simple task, however, massively annoying and time consuming things come in deceivingly small packages.

winding my embroidery floss.

yea.

however, the result is totally worth the cost.

raindrops fallin on my head

via sarah blick's flickr

it's nice to be nice.

i made some new happy go lucky cards today. i would like for you to buy them if they make you happy.

don't forget i do LOTS of custom orders so don't hesitate to ask!

www.jessicaz.etsy.com

oh gawsh

i've been busy. but how wonderful is my dearest most loverly lizzie for awesome-ing this picture.

we are sale.

isn't it/she wonderful!?

Yarneys New York New York

So i went to the Barney's of Yarn - Yarneys!

That's not the name of the store, but it should be!

My mom, my friends andrea, chelsea and I went to purl soho yesterday on sullivan btwn prince and houston and we had a lovely time! we bought yarn and needles and Im going to make lots of nice things with these yarns of mine!

Look at this friggin eye candy!

you can go to purlsoho.com if you don't live in new york and buy all their goodies online! they have lots of exclusives so there are glorious things you can't find elsewhere!


andrea's super adorable blog, little a makes can be found here.
also, chelsea's awesomely wonderful blog, chuckbigtooth can be found here.

bee-knees cards

i made business cards! ok they aren't the most original
things in the world but they make me very happy!



go to jessicaz.etsy.com to get your own! or email me !

quiltmaker quiltmaker make me a quilt

so i bought all the fixins to make this quilt.

It's from Joelle Hoverson's Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts (which is really super duper great, im so glad i bought it cause its filled with amazing ideas and projects).
Purl Patchwork sells an AMAZING bundle (one of the things i bought) that has 52 different fabrics cut into fat 1/8ths for you, specifically sold to make this particular quilt. i've been told the hardest part of this quilt is picking out 52 color appropriate fabrics, so i am v glad this part has been done for me already.

how cool is this!!! (this is the one I bought) anyone that knows me knows my FAVORITE color is rainbow! to me, it is a color, despite all the arguments i've had about it. my closet is rainbow, my everything is rainbow!

we'll see how this one pans out.

It is surprisingly simple once you look at the directions but i've never quilted anything before so this is a big endeavor for me!!! im nervous but i know one day i will just wake up with the confidence to do it, so i'm glad i have everything already so when i want to i can just get moving.

i also bought some other fabrics that winked at me... and then went over to Purl soho (their knitting store just a few doors down) and bought something I've wanted for a while now - the CUTEST book in the friggin world - Vintage Baby Knits by Kristen Rengren.

who gives a shit if i can't make half the stuff in there.

the copy i bought is even signed! yay!

the book is amazing because it has more than 40 contemporary updates of timeless baby patterns that she has collected and adapted over the years. It gives a great deal of insight into the history of knitting and how when TV's started permeating households, knitting patterns became "TV ready" so women could knit and watch television at the same time. It's pretty evident if you look at how much more complicated the patterns are before this particular time.

anyway, i'll take the nerd alert level down to a soft yellow now.

but before i go!!!! look at the fabrics i bought!!!!! woohoo! Rodney the Rooster's big brother, Rooster Jack, is the Vanna White of fabrics. ain't he sexy.

yippee!

tastes like a rainbow

image via draplin

rainbow cake to another degree

srsly.

image via ffffound

and we ate it too...

i made the rainbow cake! and it worked!

i used a yellow cake recipe from the new Tate's Cookies Cookbook and a Martha Stewart vanilla frosting recipe - and they were both great. I added some chocolate chips to the top of the cake and really, it was yummy!

you could easily do this with box cake too, and forget the gel colors, just use regular old food coloring works well.

Just blob the layers on top of eachother. don't mix them around, just blob, and it will settle correctly.

also this would work really cute with different shades of blue or pink, or something like that.

it looked so cool!!!!!

see pics below.





click here for Martha Stewart's Vanilla Frosting Recipe
(the frosting was so delicious and easy, I have no excuse
to ever buy a can of frosting again)
like, seriously.