Sunday, April 15, 2012

Look, I actually made something!

It’s been quite the pathetic past couple of weeks—no finished projects. Thanks to craziness at my day job and illness I haven’t had near the amount of crafty time as I usually have and I’m about to chop what free time I have even more starting in May, when I start taking classes for a certificate program. Thankfully it’s only a 7-month program, so I’ll be finished just in time for Thanksgiving and life can return to normal. So I’ll be attempting to make the next couple of weeks of freedom super productive before I get on studying lockdown.

I did manage to finish a small embroidery for our embroidery wall. Have I mentioned it before? I’m going to embroider small tidbits from our adventures and hang them on the wall of our stairwell. Some tidbits you want to remember, but it doesn’t necessarily make sense to print out a photo of them to hang on the wall. For some reason I think stitching an embroidery of it makes it less weird and more homey than a bunch of small photos of strange/funny things.

First up we have a tuk-tuk (pronounced “took took”), which Nick and I encountered on our honeymoon in Guatemala.

Tuk-Tuk Embroidery

To get into the closest town, Panajachel, we hopped into the back of a pickup truck, but to get home from Panajachel, we flagged down a tuk-tuk (the pickups aren’t as prevalent in the afternoon/evening as they are in the morning). The tuk-tuks have a small motor, two wheels in the back and one in the front, and are steered by a handle bar (this is the funniest part to me). The drivers zip around the mountainside roads like crazy and I remember one night ride back to the house when I was convinced that we were going to careen off the side of the mountain (there are rarely guardrails). While we preferred the bed of the pickup trucks, tuk-tuks left us with fond memories of visiting the neighboring towns.

I’m waiting to hang up the embroideries until I have a few of them finished and can better arrange them. The next item for the embroidery wall is a funny road sign that we encountered during our Great Western Adventure. It involves a bunch of French knots, so it may be a while until I check back in regarding the embroidery wall!

8 comments:

  1. How sweet! I love making things that remind you of fond memories. Did you sketch it yourself?

    I love the look of embroidery work hanging on a wall. I still haven't attempted to do embroidery yet. But i finally bought some floss so I should be on my way to start soon...ish.

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    1. Thanks! I wanted to trace the design from one of our pictures, but none of them had the tuk-tuk at the right angle. And since I draw like a kindergartner, I found a pic online instead and traced it.

      Good luck on your embroidery! It's intimidating at first, but once you get started you'll love it!

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  2. This is so cool! And it's such a neat idea to commemorate your adventures with a hand-stitched piece! Hurray!

    Good luck with your certificate program! Hope you're able to have some fun before that starts!

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    1. Thanks, Ginger! I was able to finish up one skirt and I'm almost finished another. I'll post them soon!

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  3. That is so cute! And what a wonderful idea, You'll have to share some pictures of your wall.

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    1. Thanks, Becky! I definitely will share pictures once I have a few of them up.

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  4. I love it! Your embroidery wall idea is wonderful. I may have to do something similar myself! :) I encountered tuk-tuks in China. It is certainly an adventure to ride in one of them.

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    1. HA tuk-tuks are definitely an adventure. You should start an embroidery wall! I would love to see the pics.

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