4th of July Cuteness - Flowers Part 3

$3.47 Walmart tank + 5 cent vintage yard-sale hankies + 74 cent fabric backing = the girls $4.71 adorable Independence Day shirts. LOVE!!

As simple as it gets.

Stay tuned for the cuteness. Who loves matching their girls..... THIS MAMA!!!

Happy 4th of July Weekend Everyone!!

Junk Part 1 - Flowers Part 2

The first thing I did with my Pile-O-Junk was work with the little polka-dot piece.



I bought it for 10 cents from a woman who said it was a head piece for her daughters dance recital forty years ago. I love when you can reuse things that have a story.



What did I do with it? I did the obvious, glued a pin on it and used it to embellish a cheap t-shirt.





EASY and CHEAP little joy!

Making this flower would have been a very easy thing but I would have never been able to buy the materials for 10 cents. However, I was able to make another one with a piece of felt and yellow blanket binding (that I have no clue why I own) just for fun.



I cut out the size that I wanted my flower to be.



I started on the outer edge to the felt circle and stitched the blanket binding around the edge and every so ofter pleated the binding so that it would lay flat on the felt.



I continued to stitch and pleat spiraling into the center of the circle.



Once I got to the center the flower was to thick for my needle so I just glued the last little bit down. Most of the time this would be when I would stick on a little finishing piece like a button or a bead, but this time I decided not to.



Finally I completed this by gluing another circle of fabric on the back to strengthen it up and hide my awful stitch work.




And Finished!!



I must really have a thing for black and white polka-dots this week.

Sifting Through The Junk

It has been a little while since I have posted. I am trying to find a healthy balance between crafting, blogging, parenting, cooking, cleaning, ect. Truthfully I have been doing much more crafting than I have blogging, so I have some catch up to do.

Two weeks ago (wow I really am behind) my bro, his girl and I went to a flee market in town. Being southwest Colorado it wasn't a true flee market, but the idea was there. Being surrounded by so much junk, it was hard to sift through and find the good junk that could turn into something great! Here are my finds. I spent $12.20 for all of it and I have plans for every bit of this junk that I will of course share.



Stay tuned!

Fabric Flowers part 1 and Annabelle's hat

Having two daughters, fabric flowers is something that I have done a lot with. To be able to take a scrap piece of fabric or ribbon and make a hair clip or head band or cover a stained shirt has been so much fun for all of us. So I thought I would share.

I was asked to make a hat for the prettiest little girl with the most beautiful eyes. Annabelle's hat was just a simple brown knit hat like the one I showed you before and was finished off with a simple folded flower.



To make the flower is very simple, you most likely can figure it out just by looking at it, but I will do a step by step because that is what craft bloggers do..and I love them for that.

1) Cut out 4 circles out of your scrap fabric.



2) Fold each circle two times.







3) Stitch or hot glue (I stitch) each folded piece into a quarter of a round piece of felt all the way around.





4) Once the first four pieces are stitched on, cut out four smaller circles.



5) Fold each of the smaller circles two times the same way you did with the larger circles

6) Stitch (or glue) each of the smaller pieces between each of the already stitched on larger pieces all the way around your flower.





7) Finish by stitching on a button or something pretty in the center of your flower.



TA DA!!

My Love for Hats

Maybe this should be titled "My Love for Knitting", because this is more about knitting than hats.

My dear friend sent Madal the cutest little red coat, that she has been wearing all winter. She gets so many compliments and it is the perfect weight for staying warm and strapping her into the car seat. Our only problem is finding a hat to match. Red is more a color for the boy world and I wasn't having any luck finding a red hat that didn't have a character from the Cars movie on it (I will save my character issues rant for another day). Enter in why I LOVE KNITTING!!!.......



Red chunky yarn is under $5 and finding this pattern, our problem is solved and the cuteness continues.



When you can knit, you don't have to search for things that work, you can just make things that work. My only problem now is, I can't stop making these hats. Hats for everyone!! I need to look into a new knitting project. Stay tuned

Things we do crafty

I am so excited to enter the blog world. I have stalked the blog world for about 2 years now and have been inspired by so many amazing people out there. I never realized how many brilliant and talented people there are in are all around us until I began searching blogs. Unfortunately I am not one of those brilliant people. Some of my ideas are my own, but most of my crafty stuff is from inspiration from others and I promise to always give credit where credit is due.

Here are some crafts I have done in the past that were inspired by others:

I got this headband idea that I use all the time here




My braided rag rug that I adore was from this tutorial



Our #1 toy of the summer I found here