Napkins

For a gift idea I thought about napkins.  I love a nice table with cloth napkins.  I was on the hunt for napkin set's.  I finally found a set of 12 at Home Goods for $14.99.  I was making them for my aunt who always has a nice table scape and I knew she would appreciate them. So to add a little pizazz and personal touch I decided to do a fleur de lis to go with my Aunt's French country kitchen. All you need is fabric paint, paint brush, and stencil.

i hart flags

Maybe it was all those years of doing the backstroke in the pool, counting the flags for my flip turns!  But I am currently loving flags.  Fist it was the nursery.  I was so scared to put anything heavy that may fall on the little lass's while sleeping in their crib.  Call me crazy, but I kept thinking what would happen if an earthquake hit New England.  So I decided to do this one afternoon.  It was just a pack of craft paper and ribbon I already had on hand.

Then I was inspired by one of my daughter's friend's room.  Her Grandmother is a talented dress maker and sewed her a beautiful flag banner with her name on it.    The downside to this is I don't sew.  I decided to make one for some of the new babies I know that are coming into this world.  First was Bodie's no sew flag.

Things I needed. 
Stencils
Fabric
Felt
X-Acto knife
Scissors
Ribbon
Iron
Stitch Witchery
Craft cutting board

make one flag and trace all the others so they are the same size

Trace the letters backwards and on the opposite side of the fabric

Cut out letters with scissors, use X-Acto knife to help for any difficult parts, for example the inside of the letter O.  Then use Stitch Witchery to iron the felt flag to the ribbon and the letters to the felt.  I had to glue gun the zig zag ribbon border because it was too thin for Stitch Witchery.

Happy New Year 2011

busted hand prints

This weekend while celebrating the holiday's and buckling down for the blizzard of 2010 I decided to craft with no preparation.  In the midst of cabin fever I goggled how to make homemade plaster and took a chance.  I had everything it required (or so I thought) 2 cups of salt, 4 cups of flour and 2 1/2 cups of water.  Well I used Kosher salt because it was all I had.  Little did I know that Kosher salt does not dissolve in water!  Finding this out half way through my project I decided to experiment anyway!

Fine-Tunning the Nursery

I did the nursery 3 years ago, thinking I was creative with this family tree idea.  Now everywhere I look there is a tree painted in a nursery.  But fine by me because we like that fact that our kiddo's get so excited to wake up from nap time and point to family members on the wall.  The color of the frame bugged me so I went ahead and spray painted the black frames white.  I feel it is much calmer this way, and there was nothing else black in the room.
Before

Tis the Season

I wanted to put some holiday cheer in our bedroom.  Since my mother is French Canadian I thought this would be appropriate.  This was relatively cheap and easy,  just a bit time consuming (like most crafts).  It was cheap because it cost me nothing I had everything in my closet. I used doilies, stencil, X-Acto knife, and my trusty craft cutting board.  Voila!! her is the finished project!!

Thanksgiving Recap

My Aunt and Uncle hosted Thanksgiving this year.  My Aunt does such a nice job with everything from the food to the little details.  Here are some of the highlights!