Flower Headbands

My girlfriends and I got together and made some very cute, trendy flower clips! We did some for our daughters, but the fabric ones are going to look hot in our hair too! I LOVE these organza and tulle ones that you burn the edges of! I admit, I am a little compulsive and get a LOT carried away. I made one to go with every color outfit I could think of. Apparently we don't wear a lot of orange or yellow around here. My husband asked me what I was planning on doing with them all....um wearing them!

Faux-canvas Temples
Sorry for those of you who look at my family blog too, (you get to see it twice) but here is my latest project. I took some great shots of the Temple, messed around with them in Photoshop to make it look "vintage" and mounted them. They look really great on an easel! I have the Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Salt Lake and Logan. I did one craft fair, and hope to do another one soon. If you want to check out some photos and prices, I made a simple blog to show a sample of each. It is canvastemples.blogspot.com and my e-mail for these is canvastemple@gmail.com They make awesome wedding and Christmas gifts (especially with a personalized title)!

CLOCKS
So I had some old clocks lying around, and I had a great idea one day to re-do them with some scrapbook paper. I'm not sure if it was a great idea, they could be a little cheesy, BUT at least they are different and I like a change. (and free)

This one is in our bathroom.

Lucy has been wanting one for her room, and the budget doesn't allow for a new, cute clock right now, so I found this old one in the basement. Apparently at one time our kitchen was done in "fruit" theme (niiiice).

So I took it apart, painted the frame white and found some paper and flowers that match her room.

Glued it all together, put it back together 5 times, and this is the final result. I think it's pretty cute. She loves it anyway!!!!

Airplane decor
We picked these airplane prints up at the HAFB museum LAST summer! They have been sitting on the floor in the boys bedroom because I had no idea what to do with them. 4 frames this size would be too much money, and my husbands idea was great...but I wasn't going to wait around for him to do a project, he's too busy!

So this is what I came up with. I got a tip from an overly friendly lady at a craft store one day that canvases were cheap at Big Lots. I can never find anything there, but I gave it a shot. Sure enough they were a great price! (only if you're not looking for high quality though)

Anyway, easy and painless, I painted them brown first, then mod-podged them on to the canvas.

Hung them up in a sqaure and they look great on the blue and brown walls! My next project is this same idea with the canvas and the mod-podge, but with the IF temple.

I FINALLY learned how to make a blanket like this!

You know, the ones with the perfect corners and a 2 inch border around the whole thing. Well, our local fabric store had an example hanging on the wall and some instructions (thank you Ben Franklin). I could not wait to try it. I fell in LOVE with this fabric and made it for my daughter Lucy (who does not need any more blankets)! Anyway, when I needed a little help I just googled self binding blanket and so many tutorials popped up! I'm so excited, I wish someone else would have a baby so I can make you a blanket!

I'm lovin' these beaded watches!!!
I kind of made this one! I picked out the watch face, and the color palette. Then I was handed the beads and all the hardware. I did put them on and created my own design though :)

HEADBAND
...but I can't take all the credit. My friend Kelly made one and I thought it was so super cute, I had to copy her!!!! Just remember, imitation is the highest form of flattery!!! ;)

I just used some scraps I had laying around. I made one for me and a matching one for my daughter...

EASY project!
I've been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to "craft" anything. I was craving it the other day so I just did something really SiMpLe to ease my way back into it...

I just added a little of this...

To this...

with these...

and some of this...

voila...

fridge magnets that are actually cute!

Tag Blankets
I'm so excited to finally show these!! One of my friends made me one when I had Owen. I loved it so much, I had to make one and add my own twist.
I made them like a rag quilt with a solid brown on the back. The different fabrics will provide different textures for baby to feel, and the ribbons are of course, for the "tag" effect.

The "boy" one I made for my sister.

The "girl" one for one of my husbands friends baby.

I decided last minute to make them more personal with a monogram letter of their first name. I've never done this before...it was interesting. I need my mom's nice machine that does the blanket stitch around the applique.
I love how they turned out and their babies will be thanking me when they are sucking away in about 4 or 5 months!!!

My little princess wanted a cape too. At least I made it purple right?!
When she put it on she asked me if it reached her feet or not!!!! She must have been around during the incident...

Okay, let's don't focus our attention on the 5 year old picture of me, this is about the ROCKING CHAIR I'm sitting on!!


BEFORE:
In it's glory days, not so beautiful forest green and light oak......

(sorry, this is the best shot of the chair I have)

AFTER:
We thought we'd update a little and make it match the living room decor, since there's no room for it in the baby's room.
This was my first time reupholstering anything. It was fun...

...and so much cuter!

There was enough fabric left over to make a coordinating pillow for the couch (also something that needs to be majorly updated, pillows).

Minor meltdown...

Yes, we had an intense moment here. But don't worry, it's been resolved after a few adjustments!! I got Ethan all excited about this cape I was going to make him. He is REALLY into superhero's right now.

I got all finished sewing, and was so excited to show him. So I tied it around his neck and...low and behold, he started crying! Spoiled? well maybe just a little ;)

Through the tears, I finally got it out of him: apparently it was not long enough!!! I had made it to his waist, and thought it was just perfect! Batman's cape is to his ankles though, hmmm. I didn't want to start all over so I just sewed another piece the same size and attached velcro to both ends and now then convinced my superhero that he has two capes now: a short one and a long one!
He was down with that, and now we have a happy (still a little spoiled) kid who wears his cape (long version) almost everyday! I even let him wear it to the mall one day :)

For when he loses that next tooth...

Ethan has a second loose tooth! We used a very sophisticated Zip-lock baggie to put the tooth in and under his pillow last time. I thought I'd class it up a little and sew this pouch so he can have a designated spot for his tooth and money from the tooth fairy!
It was way easy. I used fabric scraps I already had (recognize it from the wipes?) and just put in ribbon as a drawstring to close it up tight. I really didn't know what a tooth looked like, so don't laugh, I just guessed! :)

BOW HOLDER
Alright, I'll admit the fabric is ADORABLE, but a little too busy for this project! Something I didn't realize until I was all done.

It's just a canvas, covered with fabric and batting, with some ribbons hotglued on and fastened down with some brads.

Greg commented today that he couldn't see any of the bows on it...camouflaged perhaps? Next time we'll go with a solid background, or smaller pattern.

I really do LOVE having the clips all organized though, and it was a fun project!

The good, the BAD and the UGLY

I saw these rings on another girls blog and thought, oh what a great way to use up some old fabric scraps! Plus, how fun for little Owen to hold onto and suck on. Should be a breeze....
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Let me just tell you, this was the WORST project ever!
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The cutting and the sewing were easy. Then came the stuffing....next to impossible, and I consider myself somewhat patient. THEN just try, just TRY to stuff one end into the other and sew it up!!! I was so MAD and frustrated. I think she used a machine, but mine were too stuffed, so I had to resort to hand sewing...not something I claim to be good at! I even had my dear husband hand stitching with me to try and ease the tension (he showed me up by the way, surprisingly good at hand sewing :) )

You want to know what I ended up doing at 12:45 at night (after fighting with these little rings for 2 hours)?! I used a HOT GLUE GUN! They look awful, absolutely horrid, but they're DONE.

To top it off, Owen can barely hold onto them and he really has no desire to suck on them.
I guess not all ideas are great.

I've never been so excited to change a diaper!!!

Seriously, I couldn't wait until Owen crapped so I could change him in public with my cute new wipe case and diaper carrier!!

You've probably all seen these, I have to admit the first time I heard of this I thought it was a little strange, they are wipes you know. But when I got to pick out my own fabric and customize it for my little tyke and green purse, I had fun!!

This is so simple. The wipes need no sewing at all. You just cut out fabric, hot glue it over some batting and cover with a cute decorative rope or ribbon. Then you can decorate the top however you want-ribbon, bows, flowers, buttons etc.

The diaper case is EASY sewing. I have the coordinating stripe fabric on the inside of this, so I decided to put it on the back of the wipe case as well. You can add a little ribbon or bow on this too. There's velcro on the top flap. The only thing I would do different next time is use a little heavier fabric. This seems to get all bent up in my purse. Not that it really matters...they're diapers!

I wish you all could have seen my husbands face when I told him what my friends and I were getting together to make! Priceless. But even he admits now that they are very cute. Well, maybe he didn't use the word cute...

Hooter Hider

I can't take all the credit for this one, we did it as an enrichment sewing class. But I did all the hard labor (okay, it was really easy) and I'm proud of it. My hooters stay very hidden when I nurse now!

Just so everyone knows, this is an open, public blog, so YOU ARE ALL WELCOME to visit! Don't be afraid to leave comments even if I don't know you. I love making new blogger buddies. :)

I CAN'T STOP!!

I think I'm a little addicted to making hairbows for my little girl! I don't even fix her hair that often, but I just can't stop! One of my friends showed me some fun ways to tie, and now I'm having fun putting different colors and patterns together. I seriously had to put away the ribbons and glue the other night at 1:00 in the morning so that I would be forced to stop! Now I need to make a bow holder...next project!

Getting a little organized...and hungry

For an enrichment activity we covered tin boxes to put cards in. I didn't have one, but really wanted to go to craft night, so I took my old recipe box to cover! I just used stuff I already had from my scrapbook supplies, some mod-podge and ribbons I had.

I even covered up the old dividers with all coordinating papers.
The hard part came later when I actually had to go through old recipes and rewrite some and throw some away. I can't believe the difference it made. I am LOVING my newly organized recipe box! Maybe I'll even cook more now :)
I still need to print off my labels for each "category" of food and then probably mod-podge the whole divider. I just ran out of printer ink!