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Nov 13, 2012

Magazine Bowl

Last Christmas I made homemade gifts for everyone in my family. For my Mother I made a recycled magazine coiled bowl and of course filled it with chocolates. My Aunt June emptied it to look it over and fell in love with it. I just made this for her.

I had first seen this project at Saved by Love Creations, but I could not find the post to share her projects and tutorial.

This is how I did it.

What you need for this project

Magazines

Paper Cutter

Hot glue gun

Modge podge

Sponge applicator

Clear coat spray

1. Tear out sheets from magazine

2. Cut into 2" strips

3. Fold strips (This is a job) Fold in half the open fold one side into the center and fold that one more time, repeat on the other side of the strip.

4. Begin with a tight coil

5. Hot glue each folded strip as you coil

6. Modge podge as you go to keep it from moving.

7. After ending the coil, I modge podge the inside, let it dry, then the outside, and repeat several times. Then spray a clear coat on the inside let it dry and then the outside.

8. Fill with candy!!!

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Oct 31, 2012

Jar Art

Have you seen these "Jar Art" kits put out by Ball? They are the easiest craft to make. They come with everything you need to design these lovely jars (instructions included), then fill them with awesome gifts or in my case, fake flowers. The kits normally sold for $6.39 at Ace Hardware, and right now they are on sale for $1.

Here's the different theme's:
Baby
Garden
Family
Cheer
Life's Journey
Birthday
Explorer
Fishing

Holiday, of course, then I got a few more of the Christmas Jar Art for gifts.
This jar art I made for my Sister who just had knee surgery. As a "hope you feel better soon" gift, I did the Victorian Roses Jar Art.

What you need to make this jar art- Cost

Jar Art Kit $1.00

a Canning Jar with ring and lid $1.50

scissors

4 bunches dollar store flowers $4.00

moss $1.00

a chunk of styrofoam $1.00

Total cost for gift $8.50

1 - wrap the jar with decorative card stock and use the included adhesive circles to secure it in place

2 - put the adhesive circles on all 4 corners of the frame and place in the middle of the wrap on the jar

3 - put an adhesive circle on the bottom of the paper flower and press into the center the frame

4 - secure the card stock strip on the jar ring

5- tie the ribbon around the top of the jar.

So easy, and so pretty!! She loved it!

Happy Crafting!!

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May 24, 2012

A gift for baby

I wanted to make this Old-fashioned bonnet for my niece, who is about to have her first baby. Since her generation does not like to be surprised at the birthing, we all know it’s a baby girl. Her name is Madison Rose….awe.

When considering the fabric I would use, it dawned on me that I had this night gown. I wore it once for about 5 minutes. My boyfriend commented that it made me look like an old granny. It’s been sitting in a drawer for ever since. With the ruffle, the trim and the lacy embellishments on bodice, I figured it would be perfect for the bonnet.

I basically followed the instructions for the Old-fashioned bonnet, except (of course I changed it). Here’s what I did different. In her photo you can tell that baby is not a newborn. So I re-sized it, and followed her instructions up to this step.
Step 4: Form the unstitched end of a tie into a Z (fold it in thirds) and pin it to the large rectangle about 1.25″ back from the decorative trim along the 16″ side. Repeat with the other tie on the other side.

What I did was to fold up the rectangle (measuring all across to be sure that the ruffle was even from top to bottom), and stitch only the sides.

Pinning the ties inside.

I turned it outside in and pressed it with an iron. Then pin the opening and the raw end of the ruffle and top stitch both sides and stitched the opening. Sew close to the edge.

Per her instructions fold up the bottom, creating a casing for the back ribbon, pin and stitch close to the edge.

I centered and sewed the pretty laced ribbon on the front seam across the ruffle. On the back seam I sewed the trim.

I know, I was a purty baby!

Now after it was finished I had no way to gauge whether it would fit a new born or not. So I researched the average size of a newborn baby's head, enlarged a doll head pattern, printed off my baby picture, to make it more realistic, (hehe), I laughed the whole time, come on, that's funny. And this is how it looked, when I was taking the pictures for this post, my boyfriend come around the corner and caught a look of the baby face, and jumped, he didn't expect it.....I'm still laughing.

I made this for baby Madison. A romper with a matching bonnet 3M. For the bonnet I partially used Simplicity A2104 pattern and of course I changed it. I got the romper pattern from you can make this.com it's called THE CHELSEA ROMPER SIZES 3M-5T. What's cool about this pattern, it's downloaded so you can print it as you use it; and with it going all the way up to a 5T, I can make it for my Ella Bear, too.

Happy Sewing!

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May 6, 2012

A Gift for Mother

We have a Garden Tea Room here in Calabash, NC. Across the way they have a little shop where they sell tea accessories. I love walking through this little shop. The last time I was in there I saw this TIN TEA CUP, I didn't really know what I was going to do with it until I saw this tea cup pincushion at mmmcrafts.
I did mine a little bit differently. Here's the tutorial.

The tea cup has a lid; nice if you take your pincushion from room to room, or in Mother's case, she just has one in every room.

I want the pinning surface to be stronger then just stuffing. I bought a package of 2 circular Styrofoam pieces at the dollar store, for $1.
Place the cup slightly over the edge and traced it. With an exacto knife cut around the traced circle. Then cut a smaller one to glue to the bottom of the first circle.

Cut a circle from the fabric I was using for the pincushion.
Approx 7" around.

Put a little stuffing and the styrofoam pieces on the fabric.

Sew all the way around the outside of the fabric and pull the string tight.

Stitch around several times to get it as tight as possible.

Use hot glue to secure the pincushion to the bottom of the tin cup.

Happy Mother's Day!

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Apr 7, 2012

A Match Set

My daughter Deby loved my "Hanging Towel" and asked me to make her one to match her kitchen. I bought the towel (set of 3) at a Home Goods store. I really didn't notice when I bought them, but the towels are huge. I cut it and used the leftovers to make a matching potholder.

I pleated this towel so it would lay right. Besides it being a little shorter, I made it exactly like the first one. For the potholder I used this tutorial found at Sew WE Quilt and since Deby loves owls, I knew it would a perfect for a match set.

I made the shapes needed for the pattern on MS Publisher.

Cut the shapes out of different fabrics and used heat bond paper on the backs of each. I ironed them on, then stitched around all the pieces.

After finishing both, I could not wait to give them to her.

She loves them and hung them up right away.

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Apr 5, 2012

Easter Gifts

I lost track of my days, probably from being on the computer so much, that I had to scramble to get the Easter gifts sewn and shipped. I was in such a hurry that there are pictures, no tutorials. But I still want to share the photos.

For my Harmy Bear, I saw the weekender tote, by Leah Williams, and based my little purse off that picture. So Harmony's purse is a "Grammy Bear Original".
For my El Bear, I made the "Blossom Handbag", I printed the pattern at 40%, it's so cute. Here's where to find it.
Free Amy Bulter Pattern.
Now, for my Boo Bear, I made this cool bow tie. Naturally it would only look good with a white dress shirt, I picked that up for him, too. Here's the Free Bow Tie Pattern.

The fabric Twirl by Me & My Sister for Moda - Blue and Green 1/2 yard bundle - 7 half yards I purchased from Stitches and Giggles. Love the fabric.
I started Sunday night, and shipped out on Tuesday morning. The package will arrive on Thursday. So YAH, I got that done......