Merry Christmas

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

Giveaway!

Hi Everyone- hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.  What could be better than a giveway this time of year?  Head over to Ashley's blog Everyday A & M for a chance to win a large and small notepad and a keychain all from my J Design shop.

Go quick....it ends Monday, December 18!!

Pretty Ornaments

The girls have been  making these pretty glitter ornaments.  They are so easy to make that my 8 year old whipped some up last night all by herself.

My daughter Becca found the directions on Pinterest.  We are all slightly addicted to Pinterest.  I have tagged a ton of things but haven't made alot. 

If you want to make these all you need is floor wax, like Pledge liquid or Future found in the cleaning section at Walmart etc.  Fine glitter.  We used some we found at Walmart.  Martha Stewart also makes very pretty glitter. 

Pour the liquid wax into the ornament and swish it all around making sure to coat the entire inside of ornament.  Then pour out extra.  Now pour in the fine glitter and swish it around so that the ornament is covered completely on the inside. Pour the extra out and you can use it for your next ornament.  That's it! Easy Peasy!

Cyber Monday

Hi Everyone,

There are just a few more hours left for Cyber Monday.  If you would like to take advantage of 10% off in my Etsy store head on over!

Use coupon code cybermon10 when you check out!!

Here are some examples of things you can put on a notepad. 

Quote pillows

I just recently figured out how to print onto fabric.  My mind is working overtime thinking of all the things I can do with that.  I made a few pillows with a quote from a song that I like.  I will do a tutorial later on how to print onto fabric later in the week.

Are you ready for some Football?

It was a great football weekend at our house.  The Carl Junction HS won their football game and  Alabama and Auburn both won.  Since our house is divided equally between Alabama and Auburn it is always good when everyone is a winner.  While everyone was cheering for their teams I was in the sewing room making these cute pillows.  I haven't put them in my Etsy shop yet so if you want one just send me an email jwilsonsix@gmail.com

 Back of Alabama pillow

back of Auburn pillow

Blessed

I have been blessed to have such a wonderful family.  I am able to work at the kids schools as a Substitute Teacher, attend all the sports activities that having four children entails, attempt to keep caught up on the laundry and have fun making new things for J Designs.

I spent today working on a friends layette.  She dropped off some cute baby sleep sacks and fabric and asked me to make a few things. I added the Onesie to the Etsy shop.

Flower pins and and Hair clips

I love these flower pins that Emily with Jones Design Company made. Her blog is fantastic and she has so many tutorials!

I made these at Christmas time for little gifts to send to family in New Hampshire.  I started with just making them pins but later decided I would add a hair clip to the back as well.  This way they could be used both ways.  I  first made them using red, black and brown fabric but this summer wanted to make them a little brighter.  I  added hot pink, yellow, orange, blue and green to the mix. 

Making Bracelets

I know its been a super long time since I have blogged but here's hoping I can get back to posting on some regular basis.

We just got back from a great trip to New Hampshire and Vermont.  Thanks to my Mom for getting all of us started on making leather bead wrap bracelets.

We used this tutorial and kind of made our own adjustments as we went along.

Supplies needed

leather cord- we used black and  brown 1mm

beads- any size that a needle can pass through

needle

beading string- we started with white and as we made more we switched to black

clip board

button for closure