In desperate need of some inspiration!! (Updates on projects in the works!)

Wow..... where has April gone?!  It's coming to an end and I haven't written a single post :(

I'm sad to say I don't even really have a complete post to show you right now either, so I thought I would just update on a couple of projects that are in the works, or soon to be in the works.

I've been quite busy this past while with work, and I have recently been trying to workout more than my usual amount of working out.  I have started running a few times a week which has been fun.... but all of this hasn't left me much time for creating!

This blog post is going to serve as a little inspiration for both myself (and hopefully for you as well!).  It's amazing that as invested in this hobby as I am, and how much I think about crafting, that there are times when I run into an inspirational dead end.

I'm going to assume that this happens to everyone.

Here we go....
Reminding myself of some projects that I want to try/finish will hopefully help the creative juices start flowing again!

Over at Leave it to the Imagination, Artsy Ally has a variety of different mixed media creations using melted crayon! SO COOL!  I have seen a few versions of this on Pinterest.  I really like the underwater one that she has done.  I have even bought crayons to do this, but it has yet to be started!  Gotta get going on that one :)

This picture I found on Pinterest, from  katiebrownblog.com

In the sewing department...... I have two things that I have started and have yet to finish.  Actually, when I think about it, the dress that I'm making is part of the reason for the dead end I am at.  I had spent so much time on this dress, and I need to alter it now because it's a little too puffy looking.  It is so frustrating, the thought of ripping out seams that I have spent so much time on, that I have shied away from touching it.  Gotta get over that!  (Yes.... it's ANOTHER lace dress, but unlike my first lace dress it is much more form fitting, and it's made out of an old curtain!)

This first picture is the inspiration.  I'm not sure where this picture is from.  Google?

This is the picture of my dress in progress.  I know..... no where near the above picture.  Now you might understand the dead end I have come to.

And this is the pattern that this dress is loosely based on.  I chose a shape that was similar, and only used the lining pattern pieces for the bodice.  When I say loosely..... I mean it.  I used parts of the pattern, but I winged it so much, that you could use any basic dress pattern.

I also revamped an old sweatshirt with some buttons!

Here it is before:

And here it is after:

(please excuse the pyjamas!  It was 2 am.  I was in the crafting zone.)

I had to shrink the sleeves, rip/cut out the front pocket and make some button holes.  I nipped and tucked as I went along.

I also need to DESPERATELY finish the rag quilt that I started over a year ago!  This rag quilt was the start of my sewing endeavours.  It's not that I am not capable, or excited to finish it.... it's just that so many other projects and ideas have come in the way since then!

A lady in a sewing store I was at mentioned that she had a rule, that on Friday's she couldn't start any new projects.  She had to choose an unfinished project to work on.   Maybe I should adopt this "finish up Friday" rule.  I might get something done!

Here is a project that I have bought the material for (dark stretch denim)... and I have the pattern, but I haven't started yet.  Shorts!  I better get on this, or it's going to fall before I get started!

Okay... so there it is!  A blog post that slightly dragged on.... but nevertheless has started getting me inspired to finish old things and start new things!

Keep the inspiration coming!

~Becca