Adventures of Rob and CRAFTY Suzy

As seen in some of my previous posts, I like to do crafts. I like trying new things and it seems crafts is the most fun way of trying new things because you make something!

Recently I learned that I love to embroider. While I'm still learning and wobbly at my stitching, I just love using my drawings for embroidering. It just fits so well together! I haven't felt this great about my drawings in such a long time. I've been posting my stitching on Flickr and even joined an embroidering group and the response I've been getting has been amazing! I'm so touched by all the comments and favorites I've been getting.

I'm going to try and make more posts about my crafts. While it may not be an adventure me and Rob share together, it certainly is an adventure for me and I'm quite excited about my crafting lately.

Anyways! Here's my tea towel that I worked on for the past week. I wanted this to be something that's all my art work since the last tea towel I did was from the Sublime Stitching Kit. I'm quite proud how it all turned out: ) Enjoy!



Here's close up shots.

IF: Save

This week's topic is Save.
I drew a piggy bank eating my purse.


Since we are saving for a house I feel that anything we do or buy is going to suck all the money we are for saving. I like get all crazy stressed going, "Nooooooo we MUST saaaaave!" and I'm making myself miserable because I want to go out and have fun, but the money must not be spent! And that's why Rob takes care of the money, so I don't become a obsessive hoarding troll.

My moneys....my precious moneys.


*rob also made a post today (yay!!!) so, don't forget to scroll down and check out our trip to the zoo and actually see moving footage of me!

Getting some fresh air

Well spring has just about sprung - so me and Suzy ventured out of our apartment in borderline warm weather to the Bronx Zoo! We were pretty fortunate because my coworker Giuli has a premium membership, so she let us borrow her card which took care of everything except food. Only tricky part was getting in pretending that Suzy was Giuli which was supposedly not be an issue since they "never check ID." But apparently the high inquisitors were manning the gates that day and Suzy handled it like a pro - certainly a future in the CIA for her if the illustration thing doesn't work out.

Once we got in we saw that not all the exhibits were open or the animals weren't too interested in moving around due to the season but we did see most of the nocturnal creature exhibits and some other really cool stuff such as:


the butterfly exhibit


this bird from the awesome bird hall


or these birds from the outdoor seabird area

Hooray Spring!