I’ve been dying to try to make this, but I can’t find a foam heart shape anywhere!! Despite Valentine’s Day quickly approaching. So I decided to make my wreath project with a Valentine theme.
I was going to use paper for all the hearts but worried about it standing up to the cold and damp if i chose to hang it on the front door. So I used pieces of felt.
I used a multicoloured yarn to wrap around the foam wreath, there’s no way I’d be that uniform in my colours!
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Tagged felt, hearts, style school, valentine wreath, yarn wreath
Finished this today, so it’s good to know that even though I’m in my jammies I’ve done something productive. I couldn’t find the assigned ‘6 clip boards of the same size’ but I thought I’d start with an idea/need I had. So here’s my ‘To do’ board, which I hope helps me to accomplish some things and get them to dones.
I stuck the buttons on with glue dots. I like the idea of making them into little bullets, and I thought that having 5 would be manageable and not too overwhelming for goals
The neat thing about being a teacher is you have neat things like stickers or blackboard markers already! So I can use them on my cute new little clip board. However, a down side to being a teacher is after you take a year off on maternity leave you have no idea where most of your teaching stuff is.
Here’s my sewing machine, nothing fancy but it was a Mother’s day gift and I like it.
My mom gave me a sewing machine table and I was super hyped about it. I bought some sand paper and primer and was still debating what colour to paint it. I was going to recover the seat with a fun fabric . . .
BUT then I opened it up and saw these little hingie thingies dangling from those circles.
THEN I was confused. There’s no little holes on the back of my machine to fit those. I was starting to see this might not work. Here it is propped up on a bunch of books, which isn’t ideal for sewing.
I thought it would go like this, swing down and hideaway inside the table. So I think I’m going to have to build some sort of shelf to place it on and sit it in the table nicely. BUT the only problem with that is, when I’m finished sewing I’ll have to take the machine out of the hole, close the flap and store my machine on top of the table. Not the end of the world, it would prevent me from just tossing things onto it when it’s all closed up.
Guess I’ll have to do some thinking on this, *sigh*.
This is another really neat idea from Craft Hope. Their Etsy store has all sorts of donated handmade items for sale. Right now it’s raising funds for Doctors without Borders. They seem to be getting tons of donations from the crafty world. I checked it out last night and already this morning there’s a whole other page of listings. I need to get to my sewing machine and create something for this!
The other day I thought I was pretty smart when I got out a roll of transportation stickers I had kicking around and made Wesley a little paper with a road, train tracks, an airport, water and a train station (that looks a lot like a dog house I know). He had a blast sticking on all the stickers and making a cool picture. He asked to do it again a few days later.
Today after setting up my lovely table from IKEA I brought the box upstairs to flatten out and draw some roads on. We made roads to Grandma and Grandpa’s, our house, Nana’s, some of our friends houses, the preschool, the indoor play place we hang out at and “Daddy’s friends’ house”. I tried to get some specifics about who those friends were but that was the only answer I kept getting. So while Daddy indeed have friends, apparently Wesley isn’t too concerned with their names.
That's 'Mommy's van' and 'Daddy's car' in the dirveway.
Of course after I had drawn all those places and added some trees, bushes and flowers Wesley requested an airport. Into city planning mode! I found some space behind the preschool for it. Hope Grandma and Grandpa don’t mind. When they got their 17 acres out in the country they probably didn’t think an airport was going in across the street.
After a recent power outage our printer wouldn’t turn back on so I finally broke down and went out Friday night and got us a new one. Which meant I could finally print all the images I’ve been saving to put in my Style School binder!! Usually when I bounce around the net while browsing my favourite blogs I save pictures of neat ideas here and there to inspire me. I’ve been bad and I don’t know where most of them have come from, so I suppose as a sort of new start for 2010, I’m going to save the files with a name that lets me know where I saw the image. So here’s some of my favourite things I’ve collected over the last few months.
I have one of these already, but after seeing this I think I need more!
I love the idea of this shelf, and how the toys are all underneath out of the way. In our house, the shelves would need to be empty for another 2 years or so!
I love this little bench and the arrangement on the wall. See the makeover and rest of this little nook here at the purple pea.
Great looking storage for all your craft supplies! From somewhere on apartmenttherapy, I’m pretty sure.
Love this idea! Find the tutorial here.
In the spirit of needing to organize my seemingly ever expanding craft space, and wanting a cool bike, I must have these!
Yellow cabinet from IKEA. For *my* good looking fabric storage
I saw someone buying this in Walmart. The picture doesn’t do it justice, it’s a really looking neat bike.
I need an eclectic collection of plates to hang on one of our walls.
This one just makes me smile, from weheartit.com. What all our scales should say.
While in England I picked up a decoratable binder for my Style Binder assignment for Style School. While watching part 1 and 2 of the BBC remake of Day of the Triffids I decided to work on the cover. Inspired by my location at the time I designed it using a London Underground theme.
There’s a bit of a shine to the binder so it was tricky to get a shot without a glare, but you get the idea. My only available tools were the Lightening McQueen coloured pencils my son had from Christmas. So all things considered, I think I did very well.
By the way, if you’ve never been to London and would like to scramble your brain for a few minutes take a look at the map for the underground. If you live in New York City, never mind the link, you have your own brain scrambler.
Seems our house is still an explosion of luggage and laundry. So in lieu of an actual useful crafty post allow me to I bring you, ‘The things I bought while away on vacation”!
A lovely sewing box from John Lewis. I loved the craft section there and wanted to get more but the first day we went we had the kids and then when we went back it was to a different location and it was also insanely busy with the post Christmas shopping. So I grabbed a sewing box and ran. I would have gotten the slightly bigger one but I was worried about having to pack it.
And of course, any trip for me wouldn’t be complete without the purchase of a bag or some sort. So on our last trip into London I found this little cutie! It was meant to be since the price tag matched exactly with how much money I had left in my wallet. Clearly it was asking to be taken home with me.
I hope to get creating again on the weekend for sure. I’m off to scrapbook on Saturday and Style School starts Sunday so it should help kick start me for 2010!
We got in from England on Friday night at about 9:30 and were ready for bed! With England 5 hours ahead we were a tad tired. Then of course my wonderful little baby boy woke up at 4:30 Saturday morning. He was ready to go, it was 9:30 for him. The rest of us weren’t so ready. Wesley spent about 10 minutes awake before he had a meltdown and I marched him back up to bed. But being up early wasn’t so bad I started to explode our luggage and dig out all the gift and souvenirs we bought, and the Christmas tree needed to come down!
So, while Christmas is over I had ornaments on my mind while I took down the tree and unpacked some I had bought on the trip.
Now while I didn’t make these, they would be pretty easy to whip up some that are similar. They’re by Maileg. It’s been our thing when we travel to get Christmas decorations/ornaments so I picked these 2 up sort of for the boys. Most of the decorations on our tree are painted by me. I used to buy some every year and sit and paint them. I figured I’d have a tree full in a while. Travelling and collecting them is just as much fun.
This one is just cute! It has 2009 on it and says Rudolph on the other side.
I haven’t had much time to be crafty with the trip and returning to work today, which is going to be tough after over a year off! I fully intend to keep crafting in 2010, and posting, and creating, and being me.
Thanks to Sew Mama Sew for the link! Hope my soft cloth coutning book inspires someone to make something fun.
In other news, I’m currently in Lazoronte, in the Canary Islands. This keyboard is weird, and whenever Windows asks me something it’s in Spanish so I hope I’m clicking the correct things! I’ve had to pay to get internet access and can’t upload photos right now so I only have stories for you. Today I puzzled the maid who tried to throw out all my collected Capri Sonne (they’re in German!! teehee!!) packages and I had to tell her no. Couldn’t she see they were all nicely flattened and washed!? Waiting to be crafted into something magnificent!!!?!? Between travelling, overcoming jet lag (mine and my childrens’) the only crafting I’ve managed to do it to sew their names on the stockings their Grandparents gave them. I did hit the craft section of 2 different John Lewis stores, too fun!
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