Christmas DIY List

It’s that time of year again, my favourite time to get my craft on with hand made Christmas goodness! I’ll be heating up my glue gun, getting sparkles on my face all while playing some sweet carols in the background.

Here is a sampling of some of the projects I’m planning on making. I’ve already picked up a few supplies at Michaels as they had crazy sales last week, (this week there is a 50% off coupon on one item) and I’ll be using what I have at home to get my festive DIY on! Who’s excited?

Click on the photos to link to the tutorials.

1. Paper Wreath – Last year I used some old sheet music to create a few pinwheels for our tree. This year I’ll be using the same lovely paper to craft this wreath for our door although I think I’ll find something different for the center.

2. Scrabble Ornaments – I love using scrabble pieces to create! When I saw this idea, I knew it would be on my list of DIY.

3. Gift Tags -  My mom has this owl punch from stampin’ up that can be used to make these two adorable Christmas creatures. I think I’ll use them as gift tags for my presents this year.

4. Hershey Kiss Mouse – “Not a creature was stirring” I thought these would be cute to pass out to co-workers to spread  a little tiny holiday cheer.

5. Glittery Ornaments – These bad boys have the glitter INSIDE of them, so maybe I won’t be getting a face full of sparkles. I can’t wait to make some of these pretties for our tree!

6. Holiday Subway Art – Now this one I’m really excited about. It’s actually just a file you download and print out on a 16 x 20 piece of paper. How cool is that? I’ll just need to get a frame and, BOOM, instant holiday art!

Well that’s all for now. These projects should keep me busy for a while. I also have some handmade Christmas presents that I need to make for just about 3 weeks from now. So I need to get on it!

Happy Crafting!

Mini Birthday Bunting

For my mother’s birthday I made this little mini cake bunting out of some thrifted vintage fabric. I cut out a double sided triangle and hot glued it together over the lacy ribbon. Cute, simple and reusable!

And one of the Tay man because he wanted to.

Weekend Project {Fabric Floral Necklace}

I completed one of  my “To Do” projects today. This pretty fabric floral necklace was as easy as the directions indicated. You can find it here @ Little Miss Momma

I used some of the thrifted fabric from a church sale a while back to make my flowers and added one piece of vintage lace in the middle.

Picked up this lovely bunch of delphiniums at the St. Lawrence market this morning. So beautiful!

July Projects

I never did complete my May project list.
I was able to check off pillow making and embroidery hoop hanging!

1) I still want to paint the inside of my white antique cabinet a fun colour that will pop

2) I want to finish a scrapbook that I started of out Trip to La and DisneyLand 3 years ago!! (my good friend Danielle!)

3) I want to make some jewellery again. Just to freshen up my accessories for summer! Here are some neato idea’s I want to try using fabric and different mediums.

Little Miss Momma has a tutorial on how to make this cutie.

4) Sew a cute bag like this out of a vintage pillowcase!
A Martha how to

5) Just try a fun box like this for my nieces birthday in August.
Martha  Stewart as well.

Weekend Project Complete

This embroidery hoop project was on my list to do before the end of May.
It was fun pulling out fabric and finding other fun ways to customize the hoops and make them each unique yet all coordinate together.

I hot glued each piece of fabric to the inside of the hoop.

Amy Butler fabric::Vintage lace on blue::Hand stitched embroidery bird::

I made this organza flower with pearls a while back, it matched perfectly.

One project down, three to go.

What did you do this weekend?

We had a lovely time with family celebrating and remembering the death and life of Jesus and the grace we have been granted through His sacrifice.

I picked up some pretty flowers I had to share as well.

I just can’t resist my favorite flower {Ranunculus}

An Obtainable List of Things to Do

I’ve been very inspired by many craft projects lately, and really want to get at some of them. Here is a short list for the next 6 weeks which will leave me at the end of May to have them complete.

 
1) Paint or wallpaper the back of my white hutch in a fun, bright colour!

2) Make two ruffled pillows for my bedroom and another pillow out of this thrifted fabric.

 
3) Make grass filled egg shells with Tayson for Easter

4) Hang the 7 hoops I’ve collected in our entrance hallway with fun fabric This is from my old apartment and I just never hung them again.

I can do it right?

::What I’ll need that I don’t already have at home::

To Purchase -wall paper if I’m going with that option - white fabric for the pillows - grass seed Canadian Tire

Free - paint from my parents if they have extra from their new room? (mom?) - sewing machine from sister - soil from my dad (got to love family)

Sources::

1) Decor8  2) Kelly and Olive 3) Fly Through Our Window 4) Purl Bee

DIY Spring Cupcake Garland

I was browsing through the dollar store one evening and saw these small doilies and floral cupcake liners. I remembered seeing a few different versions of this adorable garland and wanted to give it a try. I think I’ll give it to my niece for her bedroom the next time I see her as it’s a pretty girly project.

It took no time to whip together by hole punching multiple doilies and liners at once and then stringing them on the twine.

Wall Collage Update

Back in November I finally added a few fun and sentimental pieces to our bedroom wall. I knew that I wanted to add more to the collage and, after collecting other frames I went to work.

I followed the same plan from the initial collage (See that post here) to lay out the new frames.

I left the paper ‘frames’ up for a day to see how the layout felt.

Small   Medium Large I knew right away I liked the stacked look of this. Oh dear! Some of the paper bunting pieces fell!

The top piece is a thrift store find that I originally bought the frame for, but the floral arrangement eventually won me over.  I gave this framed map of the world to my Hubby for Christmas. Frame is Ikea and the map inside is from an old school geography book I thrifted.

Now for the other side. I didn’t like the first option above, so I played around a bit more with the paper.

Side by side of the same size? And room for something else under?


Stacked? I initially didn’t want there to be three stacked rows, but in the end I felt this is what looked best.

Here she be! I’m going to print one of our wedding photo’s for the empty frame (thrifted from a junk store at the side of the road) and probably switch out the one above it for a single shot of Tayson. He gave it to me on the day of the wedding with a picture of the three of us in it. My mom stamped “love” and tied a cute ribbon on it.

Perfect project for a snowy day!

Cupboard Organization

I’m always trying to find ways to be better organized, because if I’m honest, I’m not an organized person at all. But my baking cupboard is becoming a jumbled mess of chocolate chips bags, brown sugar packages, powder boxes and the like. The BFF is a big fan of saving glass spaghetti mason jars and they have been piling up under our sink! *Lightbulb*

Organize my baking supplies in the glass jars!

Step 1: De-stink-a-fy the jars of their garlic/tomato/herb smell

The BFF knew that stuffing newspaper inside for a few days would
eliminate most of the smell. Me, I was sceptical, but for the most part, it worked.

Step 2: Unstick labels
But I wanted to totally be sure that the odour was gone. So I also
soaked them in a sink full of baking soda afterward. This was dual
purpose as I needed to get their sticky labels off anyway.

Step 3: Scrap and Peel
Enter this funky little tool. It’s about the size of a crayon. It’s plastic and has a scrapy edge that can easily remove a lot of stuff. Like badly burnt rice on the bottom of your pot. I received it free at the Home Show I went to.

Step 4: Cut labels
A while back I purchased this chalkboard adhesive paper from Dollarama. Perfect for labeling my new baking supply jars. I simply found a round lid from a container to trace.



Step 5: Peel, Stick and Label.
Total cost was $1.00 for the chalkboard paper!