Wreaths Aplenty

Happy Monday,

It is a beautiful one too. The sun is shining super bright,and it is going to be in the 60's. Had a great weekend, got tons of rest, and I am ready for my week. I hope you all had a great weekend too.

I had a bunch of wreath bases around the house, and I decided to use them. Two are for our house, and one is for a present. I love how they turned out, and they were super easy.

                 This is a present for my aunt. I love it. Just used yarn, Christmas decoration, and bottle caps.

                   I love the colors in this one.

                       this is my favorite, hanging in my kitchen. I am redoing the kitchen. The colors are going to be orange, gray, and light blue. Love it.

                                This is one of the walls in our living room.

This one is two things of yarn wrapped around the wreath, and then I put it around a silver charger. It is hanging in our living room. I got the ideas for the wreaths here.http://shakentogether.blogspot.com/2011/05/fin-de-friday-upcycling-free-to-fab-4.html

I would never have thought to use my bottle caps for this. I love it.

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Have a great weekend!
Shelly

Another Baby Girl Present

Happy Wednesday,

My day is going well indeed. Tonight my little girl has her first award ceremony for Cubbies. She finished her book, and she is so excited. I can't wait to see her cross the stage.

Last night I had a baby shower to attend for a new baby girl that should be making her appearance any day. I made her a cute little outfit. It was not a difficult piece to make, but sewing machine decided to make it so. What should have been an hour project ended up taking about four. The machine kept jamming, coming un threaded, and not wanting to draw up the bobbin. I was not happy with it. Oh well, it worked out and the project got done. Here is the final result.

   I made a cute sundress with this beautiful material I picked up at the Cotton Thimble.

 I cut a onesie in half, and made the bottom portion a diaper cover. I just sewed some material with elastic to the top.

                       I made the top part a sweater by cutting the front apart and adding ruffles to each side.

                                    I then added three ruffles to the backside.

I am sorry my pictures are lame. Hopefully someday I will get better at that. Thank you for taking a peek. Hope you have a great day.

A Couple of Baby Gifts

Happy Friday to you All,
I am so glad it is. Two of my friends have recently had babies. One a girl and one a boy. I am doing really well with keeping to my commitment this year of only giving presents that are handmade. They turned out so cute. I have two more presents to make this weekend. One for a girl and one for a boy. I will be showing those here next week.

                             The flower on the onesie I cut out with my Silhouette SD, and ironed it on.

 I got the pattern for these baby slippers here. http://cathiefilian.blogspot.com/2011/03/stitch-this-baby-booties.html

 I made the tutu by just cutting piece of elastic and tying on the pieces of tulle. So easy, so cute.

 I made these slippers from the same tutorial, and used my Silhouette SD for the Robot. Best Christmas present ever. I made a rattle as well out of two kids socks, stuffing, and a cat toy.

                                    Embellished him with some puffy paint. He is so cute.

Well thank you for reading today. Hope you enjoyed my baby presents. I hope the babies like them too.

God Bless,
Shelly

Paper Ring Wreath and Sugar Scrub

Happy Hump Day. I love the middle of the week. The beginning of the week is behind us, and the end is in sight. I usually am more motivated for whatever reason on these days. It is really cold here right now, so I am glad that I can be inside where it is nice and warm. I love looking out at the cold, beautiful snow.
Anyway, I have another project to share with you today. I started making this wreath before Christmas. It was going to be a Christmas present for my mother-in-law, however, it is very time comsuming so it became a birthday present to her.

I saw this idea on Whipperberry for their 12 days of Christmas event, and knew I had to make one. Here is the tutorial on it http://www.whipperberry.com/2010/12/12-days-of-christmasday-one-event.html. I absolutely love how it turned out. I want to make one for me, but that will be some time because it took a lot of time.
I also made her some lavender sugar scrub. I used the recipe from Homemade Mamas. The link is here http://www.homemademamas.net/2011/01/pomegranate-sugar-scrub_06.html. It smells so good.

 I used a canning jar, modge podged some tissue paper to the sides, spray painted the lid, and put some scrapbook paper on the lid. I then wrapped a piece of ribbon around the middle and made a white felt rossette for the center. Love how it turned out. My mother-in-law really seemed to like it as well.

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Have a great day.
Shelly

Bakugan Birthday Gifts

Happy Tuesday. I get to relax from my busy weekend. Kind of silly to think that taking care or my twin, potty training niece and nephew as relaxing from the weekend. We had a busy one. Friday, I went to a card making party. Saturday, I finished birthday presents. Sunday, we had the birthday party and a Super Bowl Party. I live in Wisconsin so yeah Packers. Yesterday, I had a friend stop over and we went to supper at another friends house. Good but exhausting weekend.
My nephew, Simon, turned six last week. His parents had his birthday on Super Bowl Sunday. He is into lots of typical little boy things. He loves Bakugan. I have made a pledge to give handmade presents for everything this year. I have a lot of little boys in my life, so I am a bit nervous about this. So far, I am off to a good start.

               I bought a plain shirt and set of sweatpants from Walmart, and personalized them.

  I found the picture on-line, and downloaded it into my Silhouette program. I printed and cut it out on heat transfer for dark clothing.This was my first heat transfer project. I know supposed to be easy, but I did not have a good time with it.

  I was always told to mirror your image unto the heat transfer. Well I did not realize that you were not supposed to do that on this heat transfer stuff. I printed everything backward, and had to redo some letters. I only had three sheets of the stuff, so I had to be careful. This is why the letters to not all match, but I like the way it turned out. My nephew loved it.

He also has tons of Bakugans, but no way to carry it. When I saw the carrying case that you could buy, I realized it was just a glorified crafting embroidering floss case.

This is the one that you can buy in the stores.

I thought, I could make something like that. So I bought a case that can carry up to 15 Bakugans, and sewed a case with another heat transferred symbol on it.

 I was pleased with the way it turned out, and Simon was excited for a place to put his toys. I also was happy because I got my sewing machine to work again for this project. It has been sitting idle for over a year because I thought it was broken. Not anymore, yeah.

We went to supper last night at the Hillemeyer's. These are Allie's true friends. She talks about Anna Leigh and Caleb all of the time. Caleb and Allie are only 5 weeks apart so that is fun. Here is a picture of them right before bed.

I have another birthday present to show you tomorrow. I love it, and it took me forever.

Shelly

Unicorn Hair Clip Holder

Happy Thursday! Mine was pretty good. I did not have to watch my niece and nephew today, so I got to go to MOPS. It was the first time I got to go this year. I love being able to get together with other moms, and meeting new people. I am hoping to attend a few more once I start working for my hubby. I then only have a year and a half before I will no longer be a mother of a pre-schooler. That is crazy to me, and sad. We made a rice filled neck warmer. Great timing because it is my husbands aunt's birthday on Sunday. It will be a great present for her.

I told you that I started to use my new Silhoutte SD. I made two things yesterday using it. I am only go to show you one though today because I have some new ideas with the other. My daughter has tons of hair clips, and they have been in a flower container. Recently, during naptime she dumps all of them out on the floor. Had to fix that problem. I decided to make her a hair clip holder. Her room is princess, and we are adding unicorns. I used stuff I had on hand, so it is not my dream project, but it works for now.

                       This is the finished project. I wish I had brighter pink paper for the letters, but oh well.

Supplies needed:
Flower Hanging Plaque (got mine at Walmart a long time ago)
Mod Podge
Scrapbook paper
ribbon
paint and brush
metal ring

Silhouette SD

adhesive of choice

 hot glue

clothes pins

  1. Trace the shape of the flower onto the scrapbook paper,and cut it out. 

 

  2. Paint the edge of the plaque the color of your choice. I used white.

  3. Mod Podge the paper to the plaque.

  4. Take three clothes pins, and hot glue scapbook paper to them.

  5. Hot glue the clothes pins to the board.

6. Wrap the metal ring in ribbon.

7. Attach ring to plaque with ribbon but hot glueing the ribbon to the clothes pin.

8. Glue two other ribbons to the other clothes pins.

9.Cut out letters and unicorn on the Silhouette SD.

10. Adhere them to the plaque and clothes pins.

I do like it, but I just wish I had brighter paper for the letters. I guess I will have to redo that some other time.

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Finger Knitting and a Present for my Friend

Happy Tuesday,

Back to the work week. Well my week isn't bad. Watching the kiddos at least lets me be home so that I can craft. I learned something new today. I have always wanted to know how to knit. My great-grandmother tried teaching me when I was about 8, but it did not happen. I have a very talented woman from my church who has offered, so now I just need to take her up on it. In the meantime, I came across this tutorial on finger knitting http://pretty-ditty.blogspot.com/2008/07/finger-knitting.html. It is geared towards teaching your kids, so perfect. It was so easy, and I made this for my daughters teddy bear.

She loves it, and she even helped pull the yarn over my fingers. I know she will be doing this on her own soon. So much fun.

I also took two of the plain t-shirts from the post yesterday, and remade them into a wonderful present for my friend. Well at least I think it is wonderful.

The pictures are not great, but I made the scarf thing around my neck. It is really cool. I followed this tutorial on Shwin & Shwin http://shwinandshwin.blogspot.com/2010/09/recycled-tee-scarf.html. I absolutely love it, and I think she will too. I am going to make myself one.

I also made her the following. My model is my niece, Leah, and my daughter. However, it fits me too. That is good because my friend has a my size head.

I didn't use a tutorial, but there are gobs of them on the web. I covered a headband with the t-shirt fabric, and then made three rosettes. I used some old buttons, and the top of some antique hat pins that I inherited. I love it, and so did my daughter. I made one for her and I to share. I can't wait for my friend to open it. I am off to a good start to the year for my pledge to make all of my gifts this year. So much fun. Well that is all for today. My aunt is coming over tomorrow to craft, so I will have hopefully something cute to show you.