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!

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

Spring Garland Inspiration

After making my cupcake garland, I was inspired to look for other cute ways to decorate for spring using garlands::

Source: If you have a Cricut or Sizzix this is a great option

Source: Doilies are super cheap and very pretty

Source: Love the idea of adding a white string of lights between, but is this safe?

Source: PAINT CHIPS! Who would have thought? Not me, but I love it.

Source: I have some of these foam eggs from Dollarama kicking around somewhere.
I like the thought of using them, but not all linked together. Maybe with something in between them…hmm, but what? Any thoughts?
*Loose pieces of lace bunched together
*Wooden spools
*Faux leaves

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.

DIY Christmas Bunting

I’ve always wanted to try a fabric bunting and since Christmas is crafty, I thought now was the perfect time. And it will also be the last. Don’t get me wrong, I love the final product, but it was A LOT of work! Maybe it’s because I am not a sewer.  The amount of cutting involved nearly left my right hand crippled! I generally followed this tutorial.

After cutting out 32 triangles, ouch! I got the chance to use the burlap.

Warning: Burlap is messy to work with, once you cut it, the shedding begins.

The final product! I couldn’t use my zigzag stitch on the machine. For some reason it just wouldn’t work, so I went with the straight stitch.

I have another 15 triangles to make a second bunting. My mom let me use her stash of fabric to give this project a whirl, so “Hi Mom, Thanks! Here’s part of your Christmas present!” I think it will look better in her country home as it has more of that rustic feel.

Are you working on any DIY Christmas gifts? What is your crafty niche?

Wall Art Collage

I’ve been dying to get something up on our bedroom wall as it had this unsettled feeling, like we weren’t totally moved in or waiting to move out. There is something about having pictures hung that make a room feel more complete, more personal. And that is what I was going for with this wall collage. Two pieces have more of a significant meaning to me and the husband and I hope to add pieces to it as I hunt and collect more frames.
I was really unsure how to go about putting it together so I found this great post here that helped me out. This was an example that I used.



I traced each frame on a piece of craft paper so I could find the best configuration for the space on the wall.


Option 1


Option 2


Option 3

We went with option three. I know that I want to add more frames and the other two options didn’t seem to leave a nice space for any later additions. And I just like this configuration the best.



Pretty Art Wall.
 


I purchased these white square Ribba frames from Ikea a few years ago.
A great cheap way find nice 'art' is to look in a card store.
I picked up some pretty square cards for about $5.00 each and popped
them into the frames.

For this one specific frame I changed the matting around it with patterned
scrapbook paper. The card inside is what I gave my son-to-be-husband
on our wedding day. I like how there are hidden words locked inside!

 

This lovely "birds on a wire" original painting was given to me on our engagement.

BFF had a former summer student of his paint it just for me.
I love it and its special meaning.

This is a cool vintage radio that BFF salvaged from the roadside.

It actually has a really cool sound.
I picked up this pretty glass antique lamp from V.V for $8.00 a while back.
All it needed was a new shade.

Framed Fun {project}

I've had this old frame for about 2 years now, just collecting dust in a corner. I picked it up at a thrift store for 2$. Then during my first visit to The Paper Place I had picked up this beautiful Japanese patterned paper. I knew I wanted to do something with it, but I wasn't sure what that was until I got home and saw the gold flecks in both the frame and the paper! Perfect!

I like the little etched detail

Pretty Paper

The finished project. Now, what should I do with it?

Eventually I want to make a wall collage of pretty framed things...I just need a wall!

Happy weekend! I'm off to that auction tomorrow (with my camera in tow).

I'll let you know how it pans out.

Cute kids artwork!