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Monday, January 20, 2014

Nothing but LOVE-pennants

Day 20-I have a heart full of love tonight. I am feeling completely loved by my husband and kids - I mean I know I am everyday but I have moments where I can SEE it. DO you get what I am saying? Where things they do make me feel whole---oh my goodness SAPP city!!!

My love is over flowing and I am making and creating LOVEly things everyday...I made some more cute pennant banners...

Felt pennants - aren't they the sweetest thing ever? And lets not mention how easy they are. They are great to decorate small spaces like a cork board or perhaps add to some sticks and top a cake with it.

Ohhh the possibilities are endless.

I made some more and will share them in the next few days.

I am linking this up to the parties above.

Happy Crafting - Have a great week.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Feliz Dia De Los Muertos

We had a wonderful Halloween - Hope you all did as well. We had some fun playing dress up last night - especially with the make up part... we had a

witch

with lots of make-up and a funky old broom - this costume was from the thrift store...love those kind!

we had

FREDDIE KRUGER

used some sticky waxy scar stuff for his face. Believe or not, we had the pants and sweater top and just bought the glove & hat from the party store...

My oldest daughter wanted something original but still cool so again to the thrift store we headed and my daughter was able to piece up

ROSIE THE RIVETER

found the shirt and some DOC MARTENS at the T.S. she had the tank, the shorts & red bandanna

mom helped her with the hair - which I think she totally rocked!!

All in all not a bad night with some fun & cheap costumes.

One holiday down and now the "SEASON" begins...HOLIDAYS

ok anyway I also wanted to wish you a splendid weekend and share a fun DIA DE LOS MUERTOS skeleton I made - I learned it in a class this past October.

Using fimo clay to create & sculpt the head

and hand sewn body and then the pain stakenly drawn then painted in BONES

...I am in LOVE with the doll - subtle but to the point

and the finishing touch was some fun fabric to make a collar for the skeleton.

I am in LOVE with the doll - subtle but to the point and all handmade!

I will be linking my skeleton to the parties in my tab up top.

Here's wishing your dearly departed LOVED ones a wonderful day of rest & celebration

in honor of Dia De Los Muertos

Love you Mom & Paul and miss you everyday!!!

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Shabby chic APRON

I absolutely love to sew - but don't get me wrong I am a true amateur seamstress. I can sew straight lines and some curved ones too but I most definitely couldn't figure out a pattern to save my life. I so envy true seamstresses - people who can make their own clothes or those of their kids - PROPS to you all...with all that said - I do have a small collection of fabrics that I use for different projects and have had some sweet pink, turquoise and floral fabrics that I have been saving for just the right project, and boy did I find one...

I decided to make myself or my sweet LULU a new apron...and all made using left over fabric scraps. Here's the how to...

Cut yourself a apron shaped piece of fabric - I used some muslin

*just make sure that when you hold it up it stretches over the front of your waist not AROUND just to cover the front of your waist.

Next cut up your scrap fabric and use the sewing machine to make ruffles. - I didn't want to waste my time sewing up ruffles then pulling on the thread to cinch them up so I just scooted the fabric under the foot as I sewed - so they are by NO means perfect ruffles put again this adds to the SCRAPPINESS of the apron...

(didn't take a photo of the next step)

slowly lay out the ruffles onto your apron cut out and line them up and pin them to the front - play with pattern and colors to make sure they lay nicely. Also I suggest starting at the bottom and working your way up to the waist in case you make some measuring errors its easier to cover them TRUTH is I actually didn't sew a perfectly straight stitch at the top sort of in the middle so I need to make something to cover it up --

applaud === enter----- the ROLLED FABRIC ROSETTE

I thought it still needed something so I added petals and made a really simple for plain floral embellishment

and as you can see in the photograph - it is off center - because that is exactly where I sewed crooked...see there is always something that can be done to HIDE an OOPS!

And there you have it ladies & gents a fun and flirty apron handmade using scraps of fabrics - and in case you were wondering who LOLA is - she is my dress mannequin - I just love playing dress up with her...