Heart On Your Sleeve

Valentine's Day is just a few days away now!  I thought I'd give you a sweet little tutorial on adding elbow patches to your sweater.  I made these before work the other day.  If you know me at all that's amazing in itself.  I love to sleep in until the last minute and rush to get ready for work.  This quick project only took 10 min!

Step 1:  Cut out hearts from felt.  I get the felt in the craft aisle of hobby lobby.  You can get it anywhere and it usually costs around $0.30.

Step 2:  (Do this carefully)  I put my sweater on and pinned the hearts to where my elbows actually hit.  This can be kinda tricky, maybe have a friend help you with this part.

Step 3:  Pick out some adorably pink (or any color) embroidery floss and sew simple little stitches all around and repeat for other arm.

Step 4:  Revel in the satisfaction of a job well done!

Step 5:  Only walk backwards and approach friends and co-workers elbow first.

Step 6:  Receive compliments graciously.

Baby Monsters

This summer my sister's and I hosted a baby shower for our sister-in-law Erika. Instead of playing games we had a party craft. SURPRISE! We made monsters.

Here is how it happened...

I went to the thrift store and bought a few different men's dress shirts and cut out a bunch of different monster shapes.

At the party I laid out the shapes along with some pre-cut felt monster facial features, buttons, and embroidery floss. We let our friends and family let their creative juices flow.

I then sewed up their back halves, stuffed them and they came to life.



I made these two. We named them and on the back of their name tags we wrote descriptions of that monster's character. Halston Oliver Buchanan is on the left and he loves to read. Frieda Maria is on the right and she loves to go to all types of museums, art being her favorite.

Go Here to look at some more pictures of the adorable shower.

I started a new job last week and have been working a little more than I'm used to... but that's good. Work is really good.

I've had my fair share of play too, don't worry.

Here is what I've been up to.

I made this scarf for a swap and mailed it off yesterday.... bye bye tree green beauty. It was going to a Canadian so I thought it was still applicable.

I also sent this flowering tree pillow along with the swap package yesterday.

This is the big item I sent to Canada... it is a market bag. It's huge! You could fit all of the days groceries in there and leave plenty of room for some fresh flowers to go on you dining room table. The fabric is from urban outfitters! I love it.

I made this headband in about 2 minutes, probably less. I made it after working 2 days at my new job and realizing I had to step up my trendiness factor...so i started to go the hipster route. My boyfriend thinks I'm ridiculous but I thought it was cute. What do boys now about headbands anyway?