Lace Letter M

I bought this letter at Michael's a while back on clearance. I liked it but I felt like it needed some sprucing up. I immediately thought lace! I love lace, who doesn't? To be honest though, I was nervous oddly. I didn't know how it would turn out but I love it! It gives a new feeling to the letter M!

Start with a letter:

                                                      Find some old lace hanging around:

 Tie knots:

Scatter colors:

And you have a cute lace letter to hang on your wall or in my case on my little picture table.

I think I am gong to add a fabric flower as well!

Enjoy :]

Feel Quiet Book

I have made a few quiet books in the past and wanted to do a feel book like the ones you see in the store. Well I was thinking of doing it with a circle of the 'fur' but it didn't fly so well so I did the whole cut out. (It will make sense with pics!)

Its not perfect but its why I love it! I took images online and just printed and cut them out. Super easy! Google bear vinyl or something and print one you want! For the material, I scored at a rummage sale that had lots of different fabrics. I love a good sale! :) But be creative, stuffed animals work great and random fabric from hats, wallets ect!

I took 2 piece of the felt and sewed the edges. I hot glued the cut outs because I did not want to sew them all. I made 3 books and my hand thanked me!!!
Once I was finished with the book, I sewed all of the pages together!
Simple simple simple! It didn't take much time and I know my little guy will love it when he gets a bit older!

Enjoy <3

The Lioin is not finished. Its why it has taken me so long to post this! I still am not finished but you get the idea :)

 I love these feathers!!!

I hope this has inspired someone! My next quiet book will be for church! I have done one page to date and its been on the back burn so hopefully I finish it by the end of the year ;)

Pearl Candles

Christmas Gift number 3
So my sister and I for my wedding made these and I keep thinking of them. They are super easy to make and such a great gift or decoration!

What you need:
candles
pearl pins

If you don't want to get pearl pins, I am sure you can take pins and glue on some little pearls to the ends. And I am sure it's cheaper that way too!

Enjoy!!

Fabric Picture Frame

Homemade Christmas gift #2

So I had this wonderful idea to make a fabric frame. It was such a random thought but I love when I have visions. I dont have many hehe

I Love love LOVE how it turned out!

The best part??? Total of the project: Maybe 75 cents!

So I bought a wood picture frame at a garage sale for $.50

I took really Really wrinkled fabric  I found at a rummage sale( a bag as much as you can stuff for $2,(SCORE!) 

I cut it the size of the frame but gave it an extra inch or two.No need to be precise!

I then made a square for the middle. Again, no worry to be perfect.

I cute the 4 corners so I could fold them over the frame and to fit nicely.

This is what it looked like.

And then glued the outside of the frame and cutting the extra fabric left over so it wouldn't 

hang over.

Took some coordinating fabric and made some fabric roses and finished it off with 

some pearl beads and a cute button.

I made it creased a little because I liked the look of it! I also made another frame and made it even more creased or draped looking.
I put this in the frame but a family photo or anything would be cute.

By the way, I have been slacking on the blog as of late But I promise I have been bippity boppity boo to a lot of things!! Hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful and relaxing as mine!

Homemade Key Chain Tutorial

The season of giving: Gift number 1!

This old $.50 Thrift Store find

Became this!!!

So I have a new love for taking something from the thrift store and transforming it into something pretty!

This idea came to me as I am in a mommy's group and we are doing a Christmas gift exchange. I was trying to think of something to make for her and this came to mind! She is from Canada and loves the color red hence the Canadian maple lead and red ribbon.

 My intention for making this was to be a key chain but once it was finished I thought, it totally works for an ornament or hanging on your little mirror in your car!

This is what you need:

I used an old glasses case you could use anything really! 

An image 

Some pins to pin image on the case

Scissors 

Fabric glue or a glue gun

Needle and thread(preferably thicker)

Here is what I did:

I took the Canada flag and cut it out and it was a little long so I took the glasses case inside out and trimmed the seams and unfolded it and the image fit on it!

I pinned the image on the case.

And ended up with 2 little leafs 

I took my fabric glue and glued them together, I didn't want to use my glue gun but maybe wish I had but I was thinking of my needle going through it and wasn't sure how hard it would be!

Here it is glued together

I took my dollar store hole puncher and punched a hole where I wanted it

(I was amazed it punched through it)

I took some thicker thread and went around the leaf. I also went around the loop hole to prevent it from breaking.

Viola! Super simple but such a great gift! I can not wait to send this baby out. I seriously want to keep it for myself but the feeling of giving something especially something made by Muah  is much more satisfaction :)

Ribbon frame

So this is a super late project. My son was born 7 months ago and I finally did something with it! Oh well, its not like he knows anyways..

So I bought these wooden animals at Walmart on clearance before he was born and prior to that I bought the frame on clearance at Kmart. (Clearance is awesome!)

Well I wanted to use both of these in his room and this is what I did:

I took the matte from the picture frame and started adding ribbon. I tied them in a know and went on to the next tie. 

And this is what the end result was! I was thinking if I really wanted to be creative to do brown ribbon on the sides for tree's maybe and green on the bottom for the grass and blue on top for sky but I still like how it turned out!

Here is a closer look

Tada! I couldn't fit the glass in but I love it!! You can put a family picture or anything really! 

Hope you enjoyed!

Gobble Gobble Turkey

I have a wonderful aunt who is seriously amazing! Well she was so nice to give me some beads that she wasn't going to use. Cha Ching!!!!  I was trying to do a Thanksgiving craft and it came to me to use beads to make the turkey! So fun to do with the kids.

What you need:
heavy fabric
glue gun
some ribbon for cuteness
beads

This project is versatile. You wanna use big chunky beads go for it! You want to use a poster board, do it!
I'll tell you some tricks that I found as I was doing it to help you out to ; )

I first took my fabric and laid out my plan with colors and such. I ended up mixing the beads to give it a different effect.

I penciled my turkey and got to work with the gun spreading the beads over and pushing down a bit for the beads to stick to the glue better. I found if I didn't do that the beads fell off easier.

This is the middle of the action.^

Silly me forgot to do the head of the turkey! Good thing it was easy to take off and redo :)

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And this is what you end up with! It was a little messy but such a fun and easy project! It took me 30 min.

Thankful #1 I am thankful for my family, My husband is amazing and works hard and bubba is the shine in my day!

What are you thankful for????

Braid Bracelet

I have a tutorial and an easy one too! Let's not forget that it is so cute!

Materials:

3 strips of fabric about 3inches wide (I used cotton)

glue gun

Lets get started!!

Take your 2 strips of fabric and tie a knot to one end. 

Now this was the fun part for me, braid the strips and it should look like this! 

Side note: I used my mouth to braid :)

Then once you have the right length for your wrist, I braided it a bit through the other end to kind of tie it together if that makes sense. 

Cut your ends off and take your glue gun and glue to ends down as best as you can. Mine was still a little puffy but no sweat!

And admire your easy, and cheap bracelet

Add a fabric rose if you would like or make 2 and wear them together! There is so many possibilities! 

Hope you enjoy my first ever post and tutorial. Many more to come!!!