Easter rings

I wanted to make something for my beehives for Easter but it's fast sunday so it cant be food. I saw a similar kid of ring on a blog. This is my version. First of all you can make probably 50 of these for just a couple dollars.

Supplies: small strips of tool
Elastic
small circle of cardboard ( I used a toilet paper roll because it's thinner card board)
a small piece of felt
a glue gun
Take the tool and twist it up and wrap it around itself, while hot gluing it along the way. Tuck the end around to the back and glue it. Then glue the flower to your circle of cardboard. Make a ring out of the elastic by sewing it in the size you want. Hot glue that to the card board. Then hot glue on the small piece of felt, which will keep it secure and it will feel better on your hand. Note that these are not water proof! haha.

more st.patricks day

I made these for my Visiting teaching sisters and for our friends who came over for dinner. I wen at midnight and dropped them off on there porches ( which felt really creepy by the way). One of the gals told me on Sunday that she had told her kids ( ages 6 and 4) that a leprechaun was gonna come so they made a leprechaun trap. The next morning she had the house all messed up with green water through out the house and the kids couldnt believe that he came. then when they left the house this was sitting there an they got really excited! haha it worked beautifully. I went up to the six year old and said, "hey I heard a leprechaun came to your house" and he got all excited and said, " OH YA! let me tell you about at... " and he went on for a long time telling me how they almost got him and on and on he went. He our favorite kid in the ward.

Happy St. Patty's day

So we decided to have a last minute St. Patrick's day dinner party so When I got off work early today I realized that I really need to decorate to get in the spirit. Otherwise we would just be eating corn beef and Irish soda bread. So, I got together some quick decorations that didn't cost one penny!

(We are Lucky picture)
I found this old frame matting and just threw some cute paper behind it and cut out the lucky letters freehand and wrote "We are". Super fast and super easy decoration!




I found these cute tags on www.Howdoesshe.com. you can download them for free and I just made napkin rings out of them. And I used the leftover green napkins from my Superbowl party. Score!

To keep it green I just tied little green ribbons on the water cups.



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I love these buckets that Target sells for a dollar. I have too many of them. Well, on St. Patrick's day you need a Pot of Gold. So I used this and spray painted it black and filled it with gld ribbon and cut out a couple four leaf clovers. It works perfectly as a center piece for our teeny tiny table.

Pillows with flowers make me happy

My mom made us a great lap quilt for Christmas and gave me the left over fabric so I made these cute little pillows to go with the blanket.


The little flowers are the best (if I do say so myself!). I took a long strip of fabric and floded it in half and twisted it, and wrapped it around my finger to form a flower. I sewed through the flower to keep all the layers together then hand stitched it onto the pillow where they are safe and sound. I love this fabric too!

Sorry the lighting is so bad in these pictures.

First project on my new sewing machine

I have the ugliest pot holders ever. I have had more than one friend ask, "Why do you have roosters?" I agree. Thats fine for someone else but not me ( they were a gift okay!). Well, Mom and Grandma bought me a brad new sewing machine. It has been a long time since I have sewn anything. I decided I wanted to make new pot holders because they would be easy. Well, it took me two hours! Im sure the rest of my family could have busted it out faster but Im just getting my feet wet again. So, here they are...






I was at the fabric store and found this great tomato fabric and decided to make salsa pot holders because my husband is the king of making salsa! So, if it's not obvious there is an onion, pepper, and garlic. Your right grandma I did need the applique stitch.


I was wandering around the store trying to figure out what to put in the middle that wouldnt melt ad the lady at the counter said to put old jeans in the middle. It worked perfect. I cut up a pair of old jeans and used 2 layers of that in the middle. I love them.

Happy Valentine's Day craft

I wanted something to hang on my door but because I have very limited storage space I needed something I could throw away after February. So I came up with this...


I cut out a heart from cute paper and put on of my favorite quotes on it and laminated it put a little ribbon at the top and hung it up... Total time for the project : 5 minutes

Super Superbowl party

I started out with a football field table cloth. I just got a green plastic table cloth from the dollar store and used medical tape to make the stripes. Make sure you put the right amount of lines... they will count.


All of the paper print outs I got on the site Paper and Cake. I have a link under my blog list. Its really cool because they have all the stuff you need to make an awesome themed party and you can print it off your computer. So the napkin rings below I printed off of that.

And the TOUCHDOWN banner
I got this great football bowl at Target for a dollar. It tied things together nice. The oreos on the end had football pictures on them. I was excited to find those.
This was my favorite thing. We had diet root beer vs. regular root beer. I used the carrying cases they come in and cover the sides with paper printed the helmets from pictures online. Then I put the drink tags on them but put the teams symbols on them instead of leaving them plain. I also love the referee napkins.

This was another idea that came with my party package on the Paper and Cake download. they are burger holders. Well I made protein burgers because everyone was on a low carb diet.
I have been trying out different cupckes and frosting decorating things so I used my piping tip that makes "grass" and then make cake pops ( *see Bakerella.com) into little foot balls

Now for me the Superbowl is all about the commercials, since I could care less about the game so I made a commercial Bingo game. Good Times!