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

Bookplates

1. I was enjoying my morning of not subbing and looking through my Blogs that I love to read. Just Something I Made by Cathe Holden is one of my favorites! She always has tons of free PDF graphic files of cute things. This morning was no different.

She had found an old German Reader and scanned in some of the artwork. She came up with cute vintage animal bookplates. I am currently putting a birthday package together for an avid reader and thought this would be perfect to add to it.

I have so many crafting supplies that I didn't have to buy a thing.

Supplies needed to make it look like mine:

full sheet of sticky label

glassine bag

brown and white twine

I just printed out her PDF file onto a full size sheet of sticker paper, then cut out all the book plates. She even has a cute wrapper that you can put around your finished product and a sticker to seal the deal. Since I printed the entire sheet on sticker paper I just peeled off the wrapper and stuck it to a blank piece of paper and then cut it out and wrapped it around all the labels.

I had recently bought two different sized of glassine bags to put my Etsy shop happies in. These labels fit perfectly in the bag. I folded the flap down and used one of her stickers that she included to seal it up. Of course I had to add some twine to pull it all together.

I hope you have someone you can make these for or just for yourself. Thanks Cathe for the great bookplates!!!

Vintage Veggie Bags

One of the blogs that I read everyday is Cathe at Just Something I Made. She is a talented graphic designer and always has free designs on her blog. She is fond of everything vintage. She found some great vegetable graphics that she has graciously put on her blog for all of us to download. She has some great ideas on what you can do with them too!



I tried one of her ideas yesterday. I downloaded one of her tomato graphics and uploaded to my Adobe Pagemaker, I added some text and then printed on a brown paper lunch sack ( do this at your own risk!! haha) I had a few paper jams but nothing the printer couldn't handle!

My parents who live in New Hampshire have a garden that is over flowing with veggies right now. So I made them some sacks to put their extras in that they can give to friends and neighbors!

Thanks Cathe for the great idea!

Crafty Boo Frame

I thought I would share this easy Halloween Decoration that I made this weekend. You could do this for any holiday just changing out the paper and the words.

Supplies you will need.

*Frame ( I got mine for $2.00 at Goodwill)

*Chip board letters. I used Making Memories shimmer jigsaw letters in black lower case. I got them at Michael's. This week in the paper they had a 50% off coupon. That would make them $4.00 for a set of 46 letters

*scrapbook paper. I got mine in the clearance section at Michael's. The black background paper was .20 and the orange was .05

Steps.

Take out the glass and backing of the frame.

Cut background paper out the size of glass.

Cut out orange or coordinating paper to fit behind the circles of the letter b and the o's.

Glue the paper to the backs of the letters.

Put the paper in the frame then put the glass behind that and then the back of your frame in.

I then put my letters in the front of the frame. (The glass is behind the paper to give it a flat surface.) You do NOT see the glass.

Your frame is now done.

This would be cute at Thanksgiving with the words Thanks, or Christmas with Ho Ho Ho.

I have seen this done with several picture frames with a separate letter in each frame. I don't have a very big table so I just put all the letters in one frame. If you do this please let me know I would love to link to you.

New in the shop

(From top to bottom, Left to Right

Apple pear, Amy butler temple garden,

Heather Bailey Sway in Peach, Michael Miller dandy Damask in Chocolate Brown)


$ 7.50
I have wanted to make these cute zipper pouches for awhile and finally sat down during this long Labor Day Weekend and Labored!! I made a few of these for my Etsy shop and thought I would share them with you first. If you would like to order one I will send it to you with FREE shipping. Cause I am nice like that and I wanted to do something nice for my fellow bloggers. I am putting them in the shop sometime this week so if you want one just email me with the one you would like and I will get it in the mail to you. I will send you a Paypal invoice if that works for you.

These zipper pouches are lined with coordinating fabric and they also have a thick interfacing between the layers. They are approx. 5.5" by 5.5"

Ideas for these pouches

* put a gift card in them and give to your favorite teacher, friend, or relative

* Put your Ipod and earbuds in it to keep it safe from the rest of the things in your purse

* Put your spare change in it

* Put your makeup in it

* Give it your your daughter to keep personal things in it in their backpack

Crafty Picture Frame

This is a quick and easy craft that you or your children might like to do.

It is a picture frame that you decoupage with scrapbook paper and then add magazine cutouts that represent the picture or the friend you are giving it to.

My daughter Rebecca made this for her friend Maria as one of her Birthday Gifts.

This is what you will need.
Mod Podge, Scrapbook paper, plain frame that is smooth and has at least an inch of wood or plastic edge and magazines.

Cut out cute and fun sayings from the magazines. I cut out the scrapbook paper and glued it to the frame first and let it dry. I then put a coat of mod podge on top of the paper and had Rebecca add the magazine clipart to the frame. We let it dry for just a little bit and then put a coating of Mod Podge on top of the entire frame. Let dry completely, add your photo and give as a gift.

Teacher Gifts

It's that time of year again. The last week of school. I have seen some great ideas on several blogs for gifts for the end of the year. My children brought keychains in a couple of weeks ago for Teacher Appreciation Week and that was our teacher gift.

I wanted to send something in for all the support staff at the school. The Principal, Secretary, Teachers Aid, Para's and Bus Driver. These people often get left out.

Kristi had a great idea that she has done for several years. She buys gumballs and puts them in jars and has her children hand them out to teachers at their school. Go visit her blog and see all her crafty ideas.

I took this idea and changed it a little.

The cast of Characters

*Gumballs from Walmart

* red twine from Etsy

* scissors

* hole punch

* clear bags from Walmart or hobby lobby

* card stock for printing out your tag

* Ribbon from Walmart

I put about one cup of gumballs in each clear bag. If you get the small gumballs at Walmart you can get about 8 bags from one container. I then tied them with wide polka dot ribbon. I tied the tag on with the red and white twine and presto you are done.

The tag reads

Thank you for "chewsing" to work at First Presbyterian!

Abigale had a "ball" this year.

You could change it to: Teach at First Presbyterian

Hayden and Rebecca brought theirs in today and Abigale has one more week of school so hers will brought in later this week.

These end up costing about $1.45 each to make. If you plan ahead you can order the large gumballs from Sams Club. I think they used to carry them in their stores but at ours you have to special order them.

**Do you have any ideas for teacher gifts?****

Easter Craft

I know its still February but thought I would share this super easy craft that you can make for teacher gifts, neighbor gifts or for your own children Supplies you will need:
* Mod Podge- I got mine at Wal-mart
* Metal pails-Target dollar section
* Scrapbook paper- I used Amy Butler paper that I found at Michael's
* scissors, foam paint brush
* Cellophane bags to package your pail- Hobby Lobby has a bunch of sizes



I printed out letters that I typed in the computer. I like using lowercase letters. The "k" pictured below was enlarged to 300 and I used the font arial. I cut it out and used it as a template on the Amy Butler paper.

After you cut out your letter dip your foam brush in the Mod Podge and coat the back of the letter. Then place it on your bucket/pail. It tends to slide around so just kind of get in the place you want and press the air bubbles out. Then coat the whole letter in the Mod Podge. Let it dry and you are done!I filled mine with pink tissue paper and put a small treat in it. Some cute treats that you could fill it with: jelly beans in a bag. The Dollar Tree in my town had small individual bags of Jelly Belly's that would fit great in this pail.

This "K" Pail was mailed out on Wed to one of my favorite bloggers!! I hope she likes it!!

My Aloha Question of the Week is.......

Do you make crafty things for all the holiday's

and give them out to people?

For more Questions check out Island Life.

Happy Birthday Becca!!

I have survived having eight girls spend the night! Rebecca had a great 10th Birthday party!

Remember the fabric I posted about a few days ago?? Well I made each of the girls their own tote bag. Rebecca picked out the fabric and I lined them, added straps and put their initial on the front.

The girls arrived last night and as soon as everyone was here we loaded up and headed to the Mall. We ate dinner at Chick-fil-a and then headed to Claires so Rebecca could get her ears pierced. That is the tradition in our house. When you turn 10 you can get you ears pierced. She did great with all of her friends looking on.


After shopping and ice cream we headed home to open presents.








Rebecca got so many nice gifts and money. She can't wait to go spend it!

We then decorated cupcakes. I had found these cute Reynolds star forms that I poured the cake mix into. The girls had their own icing and sprinkles to make their own masterpiece.


Rebecca loves crafts, so this birthday would not be complete without making something. I found these cute Ring kits and got one for each girl.


I think everyone was asleep by 12:30 this morning.

The three sisters!!

I made breakfast early and all the girls were picked up by 9:30 this morning. Whew!! One Birthday down and three more to go this year!!

Fun Fabric

Isn't this fabric cute? I am working on a project for Rebecca's 10th birthday party this Friday. I will show you the finished project soon!!!