Fast Easy Silent Tissue Holder - Craft a Day #1

Ever been somewhere like Church, or the library and need a tissue, but the rattling of the plastic is just WAY to disrupting? I know I have! My National Craft Month project for day one is a great solution: The Silent Tissue Holder!

1.  Cut two pieces of fabric (one for the outside and one for the inside) at 7 1/2" by 6"

2. Cut one out of a thin batting or something similar at the same measurements for the lining.

3.  Cut two strips of ribbon or lace at 6"

I used an old fleece sweatshirt of my sons for the lining.

 4.  Pin the ribbon/lace on both 6" sides *NOTE* :  I pinned it backward the first time and

forgot to take a pic. after I fixed it!  SO.....pin the lace facing IN, not OUT!

5.  attatch ribbon/lace about 1/4 inch from edge with at straight stitch.

(again, the pic is backward!)

7.  Place the batting on the wrong side of the lining fabric.

8.  then lay the two on top of the other fabric..good sides facing each other.

(again...it's BACKWARD!)

9. Stitch together down 6'sides ONLY.

10.  Turn right side out.

11.  fold the lace ends over toward the middle (like a piece of tri-fold paper)

They should overlap so there is no gap on the finished product.

12  Stitch down the sides.

13.  Clip corners

14.  Turn right-side-out and fill with tissues...and VOILA....a SILENT tissue holder!



March is National Craft month!

How awesome is it that it is both National Craft AND Crochet month?  I have another post up with an idea for National Crochet Month, but on this one:  Celebrating National Craft Month!

To Celebrate National Craft month, I will be featuring a different blogger with an interesting craft (and a couple of my own) every day!  Sounds like a hefty goal, but I'm up for it, and there are SO many awesome bloggers out there....I'm travelling all over blogville this month, so if you have a craft/blog you think I should be featuring, post here with what it is, why, and the link and I will consider it!  I'm WAY excited to be visiting y'all in blogville!  Let's have some fun crafters!

March Madness and a Dishcloth Exchange!



March is both National Craft Month, AND National CROCHET month!  SO awesome!  So, let's celebrate!  Later I'm going to post a neat little craft Idea I'm working on, BUT, right now I'm working on a crochet Idea.....

Anyone up for a crocheted dishcloth exchange?  I absolutely LOVE crochet Dishcloths, they are so versitile and it seems there is always a new pattern for them somewhere. I would LOVE to do an exchange.  Post and let me know if your interested, If there are even 3 peeps interested, we can do it and have a BLAST!  If there's enough interest, I'll post some quick guidelines and we'll get started!



Guess who published my tutorials???????!!!!!!

I checked my gmail today, and guess what?   Allfreesewing.com published not one, not two, but THREE of my tutorials!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!  I haven't even been able to blog much lately, due to business and a naughty sewing machine!  I'm SO excited, and SO blessed!  If you haven't been to http://www.allfreesewing.com/ yet, you should definately take the time to visit them, they feature all kinds of patterns from tons of different sites and bloggers! Here are the links to my tutroials; Check 'em out!

Jean Bag/purse

Baby-Bib

Upcycled-Apron

Monday Excursion!

I'm SO excited!! WOO HOO!!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!!! YEEEHAW!!!! OH....maybe I should tell you why? hehe

Here goes:

I'm going to HOBBY LOBBY tomorrow! AND....better than that...>BIG LOTS!!!! Do you have ANY idea the things you can get a Big lots for crafting? And...its WAY affordable!

You can get small skeins of funky yarn for a buck each. There are racks and racks of awesome scrapbooking supplies for cheap. Most items are between 1 and 5 dollars, including super cute scrapbooks! There are tons of jewelry making supplies for around 1 to 5 dollars each as well!  There are cute dishtowels for cheap if you like upcycling.  Adorable socks for upcycling.....TONS o FUN at Big lots!

 A lot of the fun of tomorrow is also that I am taking my two oldest daughters, my friend, and her daughter as well. It is destined to be a girl's DAY OF FUN! I promise to come back with a bunch of new crafty ideas to post!

Friday Blog hop!

It's Friday and I feel like HOPPING! I've got a lilly pad for hoppin at my site today! I'm also hopping here:
You can hop around on that blog hop....and you can hop around on mine too! Hop on in, the water's fine! Just stop at as many lilly pads as you can! It's simple, follow me and ad your link here! Then, feel free to hop around to the other links added below!

Upcycling Jeans with my daughter

I have passed my love of upcycling jeans to my oldest daughter, Raegan (she is 14 now, but was 13 when we made these). I thought I would post a couple skirts that we did together.....

This skirt was a lot of fun to make.  I had cut the pant legs off another pair of pants that I just wanted the waistband from and saved them because of how pretty the white embroidery was.  I was unsure of what to do with it as yet.  Then, Raegan decided she wanted a skirt, so she took some blue jeans, chopped off the bottoms(she likes t-length skirts) and started looking for fabric to put in it.

I then stepped in and told her I had something that would work...the bottoms of the other pair!

So, We attatched them...and VOILA...an adorable skirt! People usually ask what store it came from! (One question, Raegan...what's it like to be so skinny?)

On this skirt, Raegan did most of the work herself.  I helped by finding her the cute camo fabric with blue embroidered butterflies in my stash as well as the butterfly sew-on patch. 

She did the leg chopping, seam ripping, fabric cutting, and most of the sewing.  Her sewing machine was getting ready to bite the dust, so, I did help her with the top part and the hems.  (this skirt is a little tight  now, so she's going to give it away to someone else)

I will be posting a basic tutorial on these soon......as well as some fun variations!

It's FRIDAY Hop time!

Check out the lilly pads I'm "hoppin" on this week...c'mon and join me!

My FIRST Award! ....AND YOURS!

I was awarded the "Versatile Blogger" award by Creative Southern Home!  Seeing how I NEVER win ANYTHING....I'm WAY excited! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

The really cool news is....this award has COOTIES!  It's catchy!  Here's why:

Here are the "rules" of this award:

1. You have to thank the person who awarded you & link them back in your post and let them know you "accept" the award
2. Tell everyone 7 random facts about yourself
3. Pass the award to 15 new found bloggers
4. Contact each blogger and let them know you have passed this award onto them

7 Random facts from my "never normal" life!

1.  I LOVE Brie!
2.  I played the drums in school from 5th through 12th grade.
3.  I am ADDICTED to Danny Kaye and have passed my addiction on to my      children! Tapockit tapockit tapockit!
4.  I hate spiders and snakes....but especially spiders! EEEWWWW!
5.  I LOVE yard/garage sales, resale shops, and farmers' markets!
6.  I believe sarcasm is an artform.
7.  I have, without a doubt, the HOTTEST husband in the UNIVERSE!

So, without further adieu, here are the winners I have chosen to receive the "VERSITILE BLOGGER" award!

  1.  Call Me Laura Jane
  2.  Life with the Lebedas
  3.  My Decoupaged Life
  4.  Raising Knights
  5.  Retail Therapy lounge
  6.  SAHMing it on the Plains
  7.  The Carolina Peddler
  8.  The Adventures of Goober Grape and Monkey Man
  9.  The Clark Family
10.  The Iowa Housewife
11.  The Sewing Dork
12.  Three Boys 
13.  With Faith Family and Friends
14.  Yonder
15.  Blonde at Heart

Congrats to all the winners!  Take a minute to "click out" these sites....they are really great, all in their own ways!

2 Cute Easy headband redos!

As promised, Here is how I made adorable headbands with some leftover ribbon and some rescued lace from a friend's old pillowcases!

Materials:

Headband(dollar store is a GREAT place to look!)
Lace and ribbon scraps
Glue gun
scissors

#1
Directions:  (this is just what I DID....use your imagination and switch it up however you want!)

First I took this rescued pillowcase lace and cut two shell shapes side by

side from the edges.

I picked out two small rosettes (from my Leftover Lace tutorial)

Next I folded the lace shells over each other and arranged

them with the rossettes in a way that I liked and just

Glued em on.....VOILA...HEADBAND!

#2.

Directions:

I took  some more of that rescued lace out......

then I  cut a length just enough longer than the headband to wrap under the sides of the headband



I hot glued the headband from one side to the other making sure to

glue the undersides well.

*An option here would be to lace some ribbon of a

 contrasting color through. 

Or to glue some over top.  BUT, .....

I did neither!  This way, it will match more things.

Raegan(my oldest) modeled for me!

She loved this one!.......

But Buck loved it more!