Happy New Year

Can You believe that it's 2017? Time sure does fly when you are having fun. Did some crafting this year, tried out some new album styles like this project life styled Disney album

Started making string art & fell in love with it. 

Now that the Holidays are over I am planning on lots of new things for the New year and this here ol' blog of mine.

My plan is to be more active here and share more of what I am making, hopefully sharing new videos and keeping you up to date with new craft shows I'm participating in 

If you have been with me for awhile - thank you for sticking with me. If you are new here, thanks for stopping by and hope you will stay tuned with whats ahead.

Wishing you a wonderful new year and noting but new fun and crafty adventures.

xo

Tina

DIY Christmas Ornaments

Every year I try and come up with some fun new ideas for handmade by ME Christmas ornaments and this year not only did I make my 2015 Snowman ornie is but I came up with some more simple ornies and one I found on Pinterest.

Here is my 2015 snowman ornament - cute right?

These are relatively easy to make and make great gift toppers.

Here's the first:

I found a huge bag of shower curtain rings at he thrift store and thought they made cute wreath shapes best part was they came with mini gold hanger loops - so for these all I did was wrap pretty silky yarn around them and then added some sweet felt flowers I made. Now they could go on a gift along with a tag and then kept to add to their tree - great gift idea! 

This next one I found on Pinterest and this is my version:

Once again I found a bunch of grapevine wreaths at a boutique and bought them to make "something"  with - so I found this cute image and did something's differently...used some lace and then hand wrote on the banner and fell totally in love with this cute ornament. 

I'm all about the nativity and Baby Jesus this year as I was with Frida anyway I also made these larger ornaments or gifts as they could be a bit big to add to the tree but awesome none the less!!!

Corks are so easy to find - if you like wine that is!!! Wink wink - in case you are wondering I used some stiff wire to thread the corks and bells onto then twisted into a circle and added a burlap bow and hemp hanger and ta-da done and oh so sweet!!!

I am partial to all things handmade so I think anyone that receives a handmade ornament would be so delighted and you'd be their new best friend!!!! Lucky you....

Happy crafting...

In case you are in need of a you the ornaments found here head on over to my etsy shop and pick them up onecraftymess is my store name.

xo

sweet Snowman

Here is another sweet Holiday D-I-Y couch buddy or gift.

I made these at my last show and they sold like crazy and really quite simple to make.

I thought I would share with you how to put one or bunches of these together.

its the smaller one

 

 

Here are the supplies you will need not forgetting the glue gun and the sewing machine

You'll need to some white chenille or any other white thick fabric, a little bit of orange felt, lots of black felt  and some vintage trim for the hat.

 

 

 

I sewed an orange triangle together  on the machine and sewed an oblong circle out of the vintage chenille and left an opening for the stuffing

 

 

I used black circles cut from the black felt for the eyes and the mouth.

I made a hat using the black felt too and just cut out a square  wide enough to cover the top of the snowman's head and a rectangle to act as part of the hat...and just glued it in place

 

the finishing touch is the vintage holly & berrys that I added to the hat to give it that vintage feel.

 

 

What do you think? Cute right and super simple....

 

I am linking this up to the following weekly parties:

 

market yourself Mondays

craft-o-maniac

made with love Monday

creative corner hop

make it pretty Monday

made by you Monday

masterpiece Monday

handmade Tuesdays

show me what you got

too cute Tuesday

 

Here's wishing you a wonderfully crafty week

 

xo