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SmrtArt

Seamstress of all kinds. Needle craft and paintbrushes expert! You wanna wear it. I can prolly make it just right for you! DISCLAIMER!

There is artistic nudity on this page, please be aware and do not visit if you are under 18!

09/05/2025

It’s that time of year again!

If you’re looking for a full costume make or just need some accessories, I got you covered!

My range is wide and I can make costumes as detailed as your giant furry mascot or as simple as a piano tie! 👔

🐩Don’t forget your pets too!

💌Message me for quotes and to set up work.
🪡Custom costumes can take up to 4 weeks to make so hit me up sooner rather than later.

Halloween is only 8 weeks away! 😱😭😱
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08/20/2025

So excited to work on this project.
This client sent a HUGE bag of clothing to have 6 bears made for the deceased’s relatives.
First order of biz, pull it all out, fold nicely and organize into styles.
Pants, dress shirts, jackets, long sleeves, tshirt, and misc.
To my luck there were exactly 6 dress shirts, and 7 dress pants, with one pair being a lovely textured brown.
I’ve decided to be a little creative with this set and make them all look like they’re wearing said dress shirts and pants, using the brown for the heads and bottom of feet.
I’ll have to get a little creative with the stitching and design, but I’m always up for a challenge. Now to decide if I’ll keep the waist bands and cuffs attached too. So many options. 🤪😅
There were 5 shirts with a company logo on them and one had a name but I don’t have enough back story if this was relevant for the gentleman or if it would be too much.
I do not converse with the direct client with these projects as I have a lovely client that works for hospice care that brings these to me to work on. I love our agreement, it works so well for both of us.
Now to get to all the technical parts and start seam ripping and cutting and sewing!
Check in over the next week for updates and final products!

08/15/2025

Creativity and inspiration may seem far fetched and at a distance some summers.
But creativity expresses itself in a home made raspberry birthday cake.
Creativity expresses itself in the memory bears you figure how to make with sheer fabric or embroider a beloved recipe on its bum.
Creativity expresses itself when you finally get your house put back together after 1.5 years of remodeling a bedroom.
Inspiration sprouts when you figure a new quicker way of updating old negatives to have original color and look new again.
Inspiration thrives when you nail down a new method of working in said remodel bedroom.
Creativity blooms when your hair turns out perfectly for once in the humidity.
Inspiration explodes when you see Native purple shells hand embroidered on a gorgeous ceremony dress! 💜💜💜
Inspiration flows when the kids enjoy learning on vacation, a full moon is captured almost perfectly and the kiddos actually want to create too in their free time! 😍🥹😍
Creativity and inspiration work together when you can capture nature like a painting in real life, books become the walls and a simple bow makes old boots last much longer.

Enjoy the small things.
You’ll be less angry.
I promise.
not how someone classifies it.

06/06/2025

Last month I was hired to make the first mascot costume for my daughter’s school.
This was by far one of the most physically labor intensive jobs I’ve had in quite a while. while learning that my muscle mass has decreased dramatically as I’m entering menopause and recovering from a major knee injury 🤪
But hey, I can’t complain because at the reveal to the students on Friday, they absolutely fell in love with Mr Whitti-skers and had a gazillion questions for me on how I made it. I simply said “with love, resolve and dedication for it to be the cutest dude ever!”

Know anyone else looking for a mascot or furry costume? Send them my way!
👗👗✂️✂️✂️

05/27/2025

Some sneak peeks of the current client project. Getting final details done this week for Friday reveal! Woohooo!

05/13/2025

New project in the works, and I looked at the calendar last night and realized I’ve only got 16 more days to finish it! 🫠😅🤗

05/13/2025

Another lovely memory pillow shirt made and ready to send back to the daughter.
Pillow shirts have a super quick turn around and can be made from any kind of shirt.
Client choice on keeping collars or hoods attached. I use the sleeve as a closing point for the neck hole so it has a clean cohesive look.
Message me today for your very own memory pillows!

04/28/2025

These three turned out sooo cute!!!
I was given five items to make three bears. Planning this wasn’t too hard, I knew I wanted to use the coat for the ears and feet and decided to use it for the center face panel too. And the material was just too perfect as bear fur! Determining that the yellow shirt went well with each of the other three was also a great match. So making them the under sides of the arms and legs worked perfect.

04/27/2025

Christmas 2023 I got myself a treat, a cross stitch book called and I was ecstatic when I got it. Because there was literally not a single design in the entire book that I thought I wouldn’t do. So that January 2024 I started. With a cute little piece called “welcome home” with its sweet ghost owner and puppy welcoming me into their home!
Over the past year and some, I’ve worked on these 9 designs. One will be a gift, 3 I’ll match up together to hang as a triptych in my home, near my own front door, and one will join the many skeleton couples my husband and I have collected for each other over 21 years of being together. I’m currently working on my 10th design from the book and I’m bummed I’ve had to set it down for over a week now. Busy paid work comes first. 😅
My aunt taught me to cross stitch when I was only 10yo, and it’s been a pretty regular stitch in my life over the last 34 years. I enjoy the simplicity and its varying degrees of complexity. The math of it isn’t hard, but mistakes can cost you. It’s not forgiving with free form design, but its rigidness provides a certain freedom of thought.
I’ve created my own complex cross stitch designs from photographs and drawings I’ve done. They were not quick projects. Some of these from the book are fairly speedy, but that grave yard willow trees, took me nearly 3mo to complete. It has 8 different greens. That explains that. 🤪
But truly, cross stitch provides me an outlet for creativity without over thinking it. A place to move my hands but let my mind wander.
I’m wondering if I’ll finish the rest of the designs in the next year and some. 🧐

04/26/2025

Sometimes my creations creep me out.

04/23/2025

This week’s client project is taking off three inches on a beaded dress and re-hemming it. Adding hooks to hold the skirt up in the back for dancing, and repairing beads on one breast cup that have gone completely missing.
This is the fun challenging work I like to do. But it’s not easy, and it’s not cheap.
Re-hemming a beaded dress requires meticulous focus and knowledge of how to remove the beads without damaging the fragile fabric, repairing what gets lost and then performing the seamless looking hem to match around the existing un-changed hem.
The bra cup beading needs to match what already exists and look like it was part of the original make.
Last night was the hem removal and bead removal so I can hem it tonight, and that work alone took me 6 hours.
Just a reminder that sewing work is NOT cheap and easy work. This dress was originally hand beaded to begin with. There is no machine that does this work. People are doing it.
When you buy your clothes for cheap, know that there is a person doing it, not some AI machine. And most of them are not receiving a living wage to do it.

03/04/2025

Four bears, a bucket full of shirt scraps and some good tunes tonight will get me through.
Sometimes I worry about all the fabric scraps I’ve just thrown away over the years.
How many bears could I have stuffed with them?
When did our culture turn away from teaching our children and grands that “everything”could NOT be replaced?
Throw away culture has pushed us to the brink. Fast fashion and capitalism has brought us to the very edge of destruction with the speed and force of a Japanese bullet train. It will only take a gust of wind to push us past the threshold of what our earth can tolerate and we have to create the wind breaker NOW!
How are you looking at your own waste? How are you holding yourself and corporations accountable?
You have to choose. And you have to act upon it.
Sitting around whining will change nothing except the respect your children have for you when they have nothing.

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