Love is in the Air!

Sparkle Valentine Candles!

 Print desired design. Tape to candle. Trace with pencil hard enough to make a bit of an indent. Take of paper design and make sure the design transfered.

Finish up by tracing the design with puff paint. Then sprinkle with glitter. Let dry and then light!

If anyone needs a good scent for Valentine's Day, Mad Love by Pier 1 is amazing being sold in pink rose tins now!

Inspiration in small packages

I bought these stickers because I love snails. However, while I was looking at them I realized they woud be perfect for a baby blanket motif for my friend Jenna!

I bought a baby blanket already edged. Then used felt to applique my patterns onto the blanket.

I drew the patterns just by looking at the stickers.

Hot glued the felt on (if I had more time would have completely stitched or used wonder under)

I used blanket stitch for the majority of the stitching but some chain stitch here and there. I think this is my favorite baby blanket I have made yet!

Coming soon: Valentine crafts and you guessed it another baby blanket! I also bought a crochet hook, I have tried before, but never got the hang of it. I have old yarn that I may try to make a blanket out of! We shall see! Oh the possibilities and the endless projects piling up!

Happy Late Christmas!

Wreath inspired by Family Circle (I think? It's been a while).

• Made completely of felt, and pushed in with straight pins!
• Supplies: felt, scissors, straight pints, styrofoam wreath, glue gun.
• Hot glue green felt to the entire styrofoam wreath. Cut out lots of flowers, pin them on. ta da! 

Minty Mallows

• Made these delicious treats for all my co-workers!
• Supplies: different varieties of chocolate chips,sprinkles, marshmallows,coffee stirrers cut in half, wax paper.
• Stick the stirrers in to all the mallows, dip in chocolate, then in sprinkles, then wax paper to dry.
• I packaged them in cute little bags, with a packet of hot coco and instructions to use the mallow to stir your coco! YUM!

I made hundreds!  

My boyfriend and I put up our fake tree (normally my parents have the real one). The fake tree was ugly, needed a skirt. Bought the white skirt for $2.00 second hand.  

I used a die cut machine to punch out snowflakes and trees. Well, I die cut one and used it as a pattern for the rest! I then hand cut little circles and sewed on matching sequins and beads!

It's tradition in my family to have a christmas village. I have nice houses at my parents, but down here in Carlsbad I don't! So I bought cheap houses at the dollar store. They came with lights! I also bought the trees!

I had batting laying around so I pulled it apart to make snow. To make the houses look a bit more fancy I used Elmer's glue on the top of the roofs and in the windows and sprinkled glitter. Gives the houses a snowy touch!

A backup of crafty goodness

Well hello there fellow bloggers! I promised to post more, but that was about 3+ months ago now. Sad. I find myself becoming completely engrossed in my work. I do have a chance to get creative with my students, however it leaves me little time to get crafty after hours. My school's catch phrase is "No Excuses!", thus I should really make time to craft. Afterall, it does make me a happier person!

Although I have limited time, I did craft! Here are some fabulous Halloween costumes.

Zachary the black Voo Doo Doll

 Me! These costumes were inspired by my trip to New Oreleans last year. As well as Tim Burton's Pin Cushion Queen and Voo Doo Girl! Love it!

How to make a voo doo Costume:

• old t-shirt, puffy paint, flower wire, old necklace that you are willing to take apart, sharpies, gue gun, felt, wire cutters and batting.
• Draw a heart on the felt cut out
• Take apart necklace, color beads with sharpies (it worked! I had white beads), hot glue beads to end of flower wire (strongest you can find), cut wires at different lengths. Cut little holes in the felt heart and then glue the wires into the hearts backside. Make sure to bend ends of wire or glob glue to keep from poking through! OUCH!
• Place batting all over the backside of the pin filled heart and then glue all around and place on shirt!
• Draw on fake stitches with puffy paint. Glitter if needed Let dry.
• REVIEW: I loved these costumes, fun to make and everyone said we should have entered a contest. I kept them, maybe next year? Beware of people poking them though! Fun times all around!

We held our first ever pumpkin carving party. Isn't this Spider I made the cutest?

Long time no blog!

Well hello there folks! Promise I have been doing crafts. I swear actually. They just haven't been much fun because they involve my new job! Loving the job, it keeps me much busier than I would like, but I think after my first school year things will calm down a bit. Right now I am just trying to get into the routine of things.

Some new things:

• I recently came into new glitter! I can never get enough glitter!! It's everywhere right now.
• A self-made Halloween costume-working on it this week.
• Cross-stitch that reminds me of my childhood and all the holidays  
• Hopefully more work with my sewing machine. Remember those cute fabrics I posted a long time ago, they are still sitting in my craft buckets. Sad.

Also, my friend Adrian has this awesome give-away of hair products by Kevin Murphy. Go sign up for her blog and leave a comment. It's a super cute blog-she posts hair/fashion etc.

Alright, promise to post before Halloween with pictures, then more regularly as the holidays approach.

Oh, Brother!

Okay, this is a big crafting event for me. Drum roll please....I got my first sewing machine!  

It's a Brother XL 2600i, a great sewing machine for beginners like me. It's weird saying beginner because I have been "sewing" for a long time, just not with a machine. I am so used to do everything by hand with embroidery that I am amazed at how fast the sewing machine is. The one part I am finding difficult is that I do not know the machine all that well yet. It takes practice! So, once I get the hang of my shiny new toy I will be making this:

Butterick Pattern 5474-I will be using the kitchen fabric from my previous post to make the pink apron shown above! Once I get one apron down I plan on making more for gifts...or for myself they are all so darn cute! I also want to make a cloth cover for my sewing machine, so that is yet another project to look out for!

Big Hart's

No, I did not spell "Hart" wrong. Hart's Fabric is a great place to go if you are tired of the same old fabric at JoAnn's, Hancock Fabrics etc. Hart's carries fabric by different artistsand they have a big selection. Yes, it is a bit more expensive, but in my opinion it's worth it!

It may not look like much from the outside, but check it out....

Row after row of fabric. (Photo's via Google Images)

Is this fabric not the cutest? I had to buy some! (Photo: Me)

I am not sure what I am going to make yet, but it will be fun trying to figure out my next project! (Photo: Me)

So stay tuned into the bait to see what I come up with!