Tea Cozy for Hot Tea

I attended a Tea party with my Aunt Junie, last year.  The hostess of our table had a tea pot I'd never seen before, it was an Insulated Metal covered Teapot with cork stopper, love it!!   Of course I had to have one! With the insulator it keeps your tea hotter longer, that's awesome.   I priced them online, brand new they were $100....

A month later I found this one at a garage sale, $5.  Yes it has cracks in the porcelain, but it does not leak. Even with the insulator on the pot, I would like my tea even hotter.  

Looking in my Mother's cupboards, I came across one of her tea cozy's, it almost fit my pot perfectly except it need to be longer at the top.

I traced it for the pattern, and made my own.

Here's the steps:

Cut 2 fabric for sides and cut 1 for bottom.
Cut 2 lining and cut 1 for bottom.

Sew Velcro on both sides of top of each side piece of lining

Sew 1/4" seam up each side around the top, leaving bottom open.

Cut 2 foam for sides and cut 1 for bottom.
Cut 2 batting for sides and cut 1 for bottom.
Cut 2 heat bond for sides and cut 1 for bottom.

Iron heat bond to batting, iron batting to foam.

Sew across the top 2" down, then in the middle, and on both sides.  See next photo.

Sew both sides.

Pin bottom of sides, right sides together, 2" on one side, 1" on the other side.

For bottom piece
Iron all layers together,
Sew 1/4" around, then zig zag edge.

Pin sides to bottom, Sew 1/4" around, then zig zag edges. 






Insert tea pot!!

Let the tea sipping begin!!

Thank you for joining me,

Happy Sewing!

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Santa Craft Stick Ormament

I'm having so much fun designing and making these stick ornaments. I'm trying to keep them simple, but with details.  

We will be spending Christmas in Cabo, this year.  With that in mind, we will not be having a traditional Christmas Tree, because with that comes all the trimmings, the expense, then what to do with all you have acquired........ Well at least we'll have 3 ornaments.








Santa Craft Stick Ornament

Supplies you need:

 Craft Stick (shown is a pre-colored stick)

Paint - red, black, facial, light pink, white, gold

Foam - red, white, black

Twist tie - striped for wire (glasses)

Brown paper from bag

Ribbon - 1 white pom pom

Glue, scissors, paint brush, toothpick


Instructions

1 If stick is not pre-colored red, Paint stick red, dry

2 Cut shoes, shoe band, beard, hat, hatband, arms, mittens.

3 Paint face, with facial color, dry paint again, dry.
4 Paint on face, pink cheeks, spot of red for lips, two black dots for eyes (with toothpick), white eyebrows above the eyes, paint black strip for belt, dry. Measure how far down the beard would be, and paint two gold dots for buttons, and with toothpick paint gold buckle on black belt, dry.

5 Strip paper off twist tie to expose wire inside. Using small stick (I used end of paint brush), leave small length of wire and wrap once, leave very small amount of wire and wrap around stick, again, making small pair of glasses.  Using a toothpick, glue wire where it doubles in the wrap to ensure strength.  Set aside.

6 Glue hatband on hat, fold over and glue, then glue pom pom to tip of hat.

7  Glue on hat, beard, make sure the mouth hole goes over the red spot on face, glue on shoes. Using a scissors, scrap a line down the middle of shoes to make it look like two shoes.  Paint black line for legs.

8 Adjust glasses on face, glue on sides of stick, dry, then secure on back of stick by gluing  both wire ends to stick.

9 Crumple brown paper to make a bag, tie with ribbon at top of bag.  Glue mittens to arms, then glue arms onto stick.

10 Glue paper bag to back of stick, pull right arm around to the back of stick to hold top of bag, and left arm around to hold bag in the front of stick. Glue arms in place.

11 Cut and tie small ribbon, glue to back of stick.

FYI:  I went to trouble to make a pdf file, if anyone would like one for the craft collection, please email me at cgammeter@yahoo.com and I will be happy to email.

Thanks for Stopping by,

Happy Crafting!

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Elf Craft Stick Ornament

I love Christmas time... the lights, the trees, the decorations, the music.....the food...I can not wait to see how they celebrate Christmas in Cabo.  We stay in downtown Cabo; we do not have a vehicle so we walk everywhere.  I discovered a craft store about ten blocks away, they have the cheapest crafts supplies I ever seen.  For all the supplies I bought, the foam (8 sheets), the paint's (7 small jars), the paint brushes (2), the ribbon (3 yards), the Christmas decorative pieces (2), the pack pom poms, a pack of jingle bells, the sharpie marker, the glue;  I spent under $10 usd.  I manage to find everything I needed to make my craft stick ornaments...except felt, as it turns out the color foam works better for me.

Trying to take picture of my Elf hanging from a tree is a trick, downtown Cabo is mostly dust and concrete, with very tall palm trees. I found a little park three blocks down, two blocks up, with trees.  Yes, the people watching me take pictures of this little guy think I am crazy....  My Elf is little more detailed then my Christmas Bear Craft Stick Ornament, but he is fun to make.

Elf Craft Stick Ornament

What you need:

Craft stick (if pre-colored green, no need to repaint)

Paint - green, flesh color, red and white, black

Foam - green red, brown, flesh color

Decorative object: ie, small package, garland, small golden balls 

in center of flower 

Ribbon

Glue, Scissors, Paint brush, toothpick 

1 Paint stick green,

2 Draw line on bottom center.  Cut and glue on shoes, draw line down center of shoes.

3 Paint face and neck.

4 Cut out ears, hat, hat band, collar, hair, arms and mittens.  Glue hat band to hat. Glue mittens to arms.

5 Glue on ears, paint red checks and red neck line. Paint white checks.

6 Cut small gold balls off decorative objects glue onto tips shoes and tip of hat.

7 With toothpick, dot eyes and draw smile.

8 Glue on collar.

9 Glue hair, hat, and arms onto stick.

10 Small package came off of decorative object. Glue package below collar.

11 Pull arms around small package and glue.

12 Cut and tie small ribbon, glue to back of stick.

I've made three so far.... I was thinking an entire tree with just Elves would be so adorable....just not sure we will be able to have a Christmas Tree here in Cabo..... this year.

FYI:  I went to trouble to make a pdf file, if anyone would like one for the craft collection, please email me at cgammeter@yahoo.com and I will be happy to email.

Other Variations of Elf

Happy Crafting

And Happy Holidays!

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Christmas Bear Craft Stick Ornament

I love spending Christmas with my daughter and the grandchildren. Every year before my trip I would spend endless hours searching websites and blogs for fun Christmas crafts to share with the kids.  After doing crafts with the kids and they are in bed, My Daughter and I get busy with some craft of our own.

Time for Cocktails and Crafts!  Our favorite late evening crafting is making these craft stick ornaments.

Credits:

The Snowman and the North Pole sign from Squidoo

The Penguin from Better Homes and Gardens, The Reindeer from Craft Ideas.

The Christmas Bear is Mine.

To add to the collection, I been working on the 

Christmas Bear Craft Stick Ornament 

He's so easy to make:

Here's what you need:

Craft Stick

Brown paint

Brown foam, red foam, white foam

Black paint or marker

Pom Pom

Red ribbon

Scissors, glue, toothpick, paint brush.

         

1  Paint stick brown

2  Cut diamond shape for face, glue on stick about an inch down.

3  With black paint, dot eyes and draw nose

4  Cut shapes for hat, ears, and arms

5  Glue ears, wait for it to dry.

6  Glue hat band, fold hat down and glue, then glue to top of stick. Glue Pom Pom to tip of hat.

Tie red ribbon around neck.

7  Glue arms, wait to dry,glue garland on stick, fold arms to center and glue.  Glue ribbon to back of stick to hang.

 

He really is so darn cute.  People here in Cabo think I'm nuts running around looking for trees to hang him from for a photo. 

FYI:  I went to trouble to make a pdf file, if anyone would like one for the craft collection, please email me at cgammeter@yahoo.com and I will be happy to email.

Happy Crafting!

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