Camera Strap Cover

Since even before I got my slr camera, I've been drooling over all the camera strap covers I've seen on Etsy. A couple days ago I told my mom about all the cute covers there were. Her response was, "I bet those are super easy to sew." At that point I figured it would be worthless to keep wishing for one and that I should just make my own. And that's what I did yesterday afternoon. The first one a made turned out too small for my camera's strap, but it fit almost perfectly on the strap of my mom's point-and-shoot. Then I made a second one...but I forgot to sew on the pocket before I sewed the two pieces together...so the pocket looked kind of out of place. So I went back to the fabric scraps and pulled out some cute retro-flower patterned fabric and made another strap. Lo and behold, it turned out perfectly!

Since I still haven't given all you lovely followers a tutorial, I was thinking I'd do one for these camera strap covers and, for those of you who have smaller cameras without neck straps, a cute carrying case. What do you think? (You'd probably get the strap cover tutorial first though, since I haven't decided on the best way to make a case yet. ;)

For Lack of a Better Title...

Sorry for the scattered posts! Actually I have a lot planned and I'm working on getting the posts together...but I need to get the projects moving before I can post about them. I'm really excited about each and every one of them! What is that supposed to mean? I'm working on some of my non-jewelry projects! :D Soon you'll know for a fact that I do other crafts. So...this post is likely to just ramble on as I don't have any projects to post about....don't say I didn't warn you.

The other day I jumped into a teach-yourself-to-draw "textbook". If you know me, then you also know that I am  almost a complete failure when it comes to drawing. Sure, I can do some flat things with no dimension, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about lovely sketches that you can tell what it is of and be in awe at how real it looks. That is where I go all wrong. I decided that I am going to work through this drawing book in attempt to improve my drawing skills. And you, my dear readers, will get some glimpses of my progress...if there is any progress that it. ;-)

Aside from that I'm working on three main projects. I'm not going to tell you what they are though, only what craft they are. The first is crocheted. It will be my biggest crochet project to date. The second and third are both sewn. One is smaller and one is bigger. And I think that's all I'm going to tell you.  I'd love to see your guesses in the comment box! :)

To conclude this post I have a picture (one of many ;-) I took earlier this week after the snow storm we got. I loved how the sunlight was catching the icicles and just had to capture it.