Hearts and a Pillow

I've been crafting! I know it's a miracle. I think it helps to have my own space now where all my stuff can be. No more dragging out the sewing machine, cutting mat and all that other stuff. Now, I can just leave it on my table. Here's a pillow I did. I want to use turquoise in my house. 

                                     

I made the slip cover and flowers.  You can't see the fabric to good, but it's like a fake leather with a pattern on it (paisley like) from Hobby Lobby. Ikea has cheap pillow forms too. And you can see my little shadow there. Dexter is always under my feet.
My next things is my Valentine's Day wreath.  It has argyle hearts on it.

It was cheap and easy. Just a little time consuming with the yarn wrapping. I made myself just get it finished. :)

Stenciled Door Mat

I needed (wanted) a new door mat, but our entry way is carpeted so it needed to be really thin for when you open the door.  I found this outdoor mat on sale at Target. I made a stencil from some poster board and just got craft paint to paint it with from Hobby Lobby.  I used some cheap foam brushes to paint it with.  Total cost was about $9.  You can use interior paint. I think it would be more durable, but I didn't want to spend the money.

Happy birthday!

I can't believe that Maddy is a teenager.  What the?!  Anyway, for her birthday I made her this funky fish purse since she is a funky and fabulous girl.

Some Sunshine

These pots were just some old plastic pots I had. They were pretty faded from the sun and just did not look good anymore.  I got some spray paint for plastic at Lowes for $4 and here you go. This was 2 coats of paint.   I love seeing the bright color everyday.

Window Herb Garden

This is my kitchen herb garden. I grew the plants from seeds (accept for the rosemary that is dying...but I'm trying here dang it!) There are chives, but they aren't big enough to pot yet.  It's a tension curtain rod I got at Target and I found the little buckets in the dollar spot at Target just a few days ago.  I saw this idea on Pinterest.  See, all this time on there is paying off. :)

Some Stuff

I lost my camera and didn't find it until recently so here is some of what I've been doing...

A birthday calendar for Kathy - This was a lot easier than I thought that it would be.

A knitted manatee for dad for Christmas.

 Some bow ties... The top one was for Doug and the other two were for his dad for Christmas

 Doug and Emyli modeling the smitten that I knitted.  This was probably my favorite project lately.

A little Danish flag garland for a friend of ours who served his mission in Denmark.
I know you guys have been doing SOMETHING... post it!

I sewed......

I have had the hardest time finding modest skirts for Addie. So I decided to sew her some :) You all are wearing off on me :) Who knows I might even start knitting ;) Here are some pics:

Go Packers!!!

So these were supposed to be for Danny's birthday, but I was lame and didn't finish them on time, even though I started them in November.  Anyway, they are a special request from him to match his Packers coat. Thanks Doug, for being my model.

And here is Doug trying to be Napoleon Dynamite.

Doug's Seat Cover

You guys are lame for not posting anything on the blog for two months.  I've worked on projects, but haven't finished any....so here is my first finished project since the bunny hat.  Doug's old seat cover looked just as bad as his seat does, so we decided to make a new one.  With the old one as a pattern, I made this fabulous one and  I made a few improvements.  

It fits tighter now and there is a notch for the key part so he can lift the seat up to fill up with gas.  Go me!  The fabric that we got is like a table cloth so it's water resistant.  The only bad thing is that it's a little slippery so Doug slides around a little.

Get crafting ladies!

Bunny Hat

I have a friend who just had a baby so I made her this little hat. It knitted up super quick and I think it turned out really cute with the ribbons.  The blog is getting lonely so get going on making your stuff ladies!

Stuff I made for Christmas

Here are the things I couldn't show because they were Christmas presents.

I got the patterns to crochet these off of Ravelry. There is a small Totoro and and Ponyo and a big Totoro.


This pattern I also got from Ravelry and Maddy loves it!


I made this skirt from a pattern that Molly sent to me. All from leftover fabrics and fabrics from Goodwill.


This hat I just made up and it didn't turn out perfectly but not bad for something I made up. It's the triforce from Zelda.

Sewing Maniac!

I've been doing a lot of sewing for Christmas presents lately.  Here are a couple of bags that I've done.  They are the same on the outside, but the linings and straps are different.

And here are some pajama pants that I made for Emyli.  Kathy took her to the fabric store and let her pick out some fat quarters.  I couldn't figure out what else to do with them, so I just put all the pieces together to make pjs.  Here is the front:

And here is the back:

They're pretty ugly, but Emyli loves them.  I've still got three more pairs of pajama pants to sew for Christmas presents for friends and I'm also working on some knitting for Christmas gifts as well.  I'll post pictures of those as soon as I'm done!

Santa Hat Pics

Here are some shots of the girls that I took tonight. They are pretty cute, if I do say so myself :)

More Quilling

Here's some more quilling I did. The one inside the ball was a little difficult. It got easier on the second one. And I just had to have some sparkly gold ones. :) That's Santa holding his toy bag if you couldn't tell. lol This is a really cheap craft to do. I only use a quilling tool (Hobby Lobby), card stock, glue, and a paper trimmer to cut the strips.

Halloween Bags

I'm a little late. lol I couldn't find any trick or treat bags I liked this year so I let the boys make their own.

Quilling

So, I started doing some quilling. Quilling is a paper craft where you curl paper strips and shape them. I'm making some Christmas ornaments. Mostly snowflakes, but I've been trying other shapes too. I'm trying to do some gold glittered one's, but I hate when the glitter falls off so I might have to skip those because I haven't figured out how to keep the glitter from falling off yet. I've tried different gold paper, but there to thick and don't curl well. The top right red one is the first one I did, the poinsettia flower has 3 layers that you can't see well in the picture and the last one is 3D and took a couple hours to make. :)

Winter Mitts

I usually only knit things for other people for gifts, so poor Doug often gets left out when it comes to knitted gifts :(  He asked me to knit him a pair of mittens a while ago, and I just got them finished  for the winter and for his birthday!  Hooray!  Needless to say, he's pretty dang excited about them.

I Knitted My First Sock!!!

So, I thought I would never knit a sock but I wanted to knit these little socks for ornaments for my christmas tree. This was the first one I knitted and it will probably just be thrown away because it has some pretty ugly gaps between rows. Each person in my fam will get one with their first initial on it (immediate family OK, I'm not that fast!)We have a great tradition of getting a new ornament every year and this will save us money because I can use scraps of yarn.



Here is my clock collection so far. I got three new ones this year for my birthday. The red one is from Andy, the knitted one from Molly, and although she doesn't really know it the tire one is from Judy which I got at a swap meet with the money she sent me.