Trick or Treat

Here's one of my favorite door decorations I made....

Halloween

Got this idea off of Pinterest.  My 7 year old helped me make it.  We had fun doing it together! 

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I cut out some "candy corn" with my jigsaw.  Thought they were a cute addition to my little witches.  The witch above I cut from wood and painted, but the witch below I made from cornsilks. 

Some new jewelry I made....

My best friend Carla and I got together this summer for a girl's weekend. No kids. No hubbies. Just time to talk and craft, drink coffee leisurely (what's that?), sleep in. It was SO much fun. We decided it was going to have to be a yearly retreat for us! Here are some of my jewelry pieces I made that weekend.

Hard to tell from this picture, but these beads are maroon. I refer to them as my Aggie earrings and bracelet! (Now I need to make an Aggie necklace to go with them!)

Fabric Flowers

Fabric Flower Pins

These are flower pins I made using my big shot machine and die cut. They are so cute attached to a purse or tote bag. I've made some with fall fabrics, halloween fabrics. The possiblities are endless. And they are actually pretty easy to make! Here I used four different pieces of denim for the blue jean one, and four different shades of yellow for the sunflower.

More Fabric Flowers...

These are a birthday present for a friend of my youngest son. I attached a barrette clip and a pin on the back, so they can be versatile in how they are worn. The barrette clip can be used in your hair, but also to attach it to a headband.

Rag Rug

This is a rag rug I've been working on and off for a while now. Everybody that sees it always asks the same question, "How long did it take to make?" It's hard to say, because I would just work on it here and there, mainly when I was bored while watching tv. But if I had to estimate, I'd say it took maybe a total of 10 hours. Again, spread out over a year, just a little here and there.

The material I used was scrap pieces of material, saved from various projects over the years. And I'm talking years....curtains from childhood, bandanas from pets over the years, onesies my kids wore as babies, shirts they wore as toddlers, material I used to make a changing table cover when I thought I was pregnant with a girl (and it turned out to be a boy!), material from a skirt my mom made me when I went on the one and only date my husband and I had before we got married...etc. Stuff like that. So needless to say, it is a rug made with love and memories!

I bought the actual rug from Wal-Mart for around $4 dollars.

I cut the material strips 10.5 inches in length, but made them various sizes in width. I used a rotary cutter on a self-healing cutting matte. Makes cutting SO much easier. And you can do several layers at the same time. Then I just used a crochet needle and pulled the material through the rug strands. I did not knot them, because my mom thought the knots all through it would be uncomfortable on the feet. (The only thing about that, is when it comes time to clean it, I don't know if it'll all fall out or not. I'm thinking I'll just spray it down with Lysol and it toss into the dryer to fluff for a few minutes.)

Jewelry Holder

So with all my new jewelry I've been making, I needed a new holder for my necklaces and bracelets. I hate it when I'm trying to pick out a necklace and they're always tangled up. Now I should have plenty of room.

I took a picture frame I bought at a garage sale for $2, turned the canvas around and sponged painted the back of the canvas with 3 colors of brown. Then I painted all the knobs, screwed them in, and there you have it. No more tangled necklaces!

Jewelry Making

My newest endeavor...

I'm trying my hand at making jewelry. I'm still new at it, but I thought these turned out pretty cute. My best friend Carla and I are going to have a girl's weekend this summer and we'll be learning together to make a few more that are a bit more complicated.