june at noon

Well, hi there, friends! I’m back from my month’s break from regular blogging while I participated in the July habit project. I hope I didn’t bore you too much with it; I really enjoyed it myself!

I have a bunch of crafty things to show off, some of them from all the way back in June before our family vacation and some more recent. First, though, I have a lot of photo sorting and post writing to do, so I’m going to ease back in slowly with something simple: some more covered stones.

Our spur-of-the-moment getaway of a week ago took place in a family cottage right on the edge of a lake in Cuba, New York. There were quite a few smooth, round(ish) stones available, and I couldn’t help working up a few pretty covers for them. (I just realized there’s one I didn’t get a photo of before I gave it away. Oops!)

I left the beautified stones behind in the cottage to be found by various family members after we’d left.

It’s really enjoyable to make these completely free-style, just inventing the designs as I go, although it means trial and error (read: ripping and redoing) to get the look I want. That also means they take a little more time to complete, but that’s ok. It was the perfect lakeside project, and a great way to leave behind a little something special for some special people.

I’ll soon be back with more to share, including some commission projects and—gasp!—some Christmas gifts. What have you been making while I was away?