GreenChicken31

My niece is turning 3 in a few days and I had to make her something that I knew she would love.  She loves to pretend that she is Fiona and that she is married to Shrek.  Shrek even paints her green!  Anyways, she has lots of princess dresses, but has no Fiona ears so I knew I had to make her some!  I added the flower so that they were girlified...they couldn't just be Shrek ears!

I love to scrapbook and I like to have my pages in the plastic sleeves, but 3D objects don't work very well in them.  Well, I was determined to come up with a solution so that I could put my baby girl's hat and id bracelet in her scrapbook. First, I cut out a square where I wanted her hat to go out of some cardboard/fiberboard stuff. I also trimmed the top side and the right side a bit.  I would say it was about 5 mm.  I did this so when I slide this "thicker" sheet into the sleeve it has room.  The thicker you make it, the more you have to trim off the sides. Then on a second piece of board I cut out strips of card stock (out of a hideous hot pink I hate and never use) and glued them on. I ended up using 3 sheets of card stock. I cut out 12 strips and glued them together for the thickness I wanted. I added 3 squares to make it more sturdy and actually added one more in the lower right after I took the picture. You could lay down 12 sheets and jus...

This was a really easy and quick decoration once I made up my mind on what I was going to do.  At first I was just going to make solid hearts, then I was going to do mostly light pink but with one dark pink, and then I decided to put on some of the candy conversation heart saying on every other one, and then I just put them on all of them. What you need: some felt, a heart shape cookie cutter, scissors, ribbon, sewing floss, and a pen. First use your heart shape cookie cutter and trace a bunch of hearts onto the felt and then cut them out. You need to cut out two hearts for every heart you want.  Then stitch some cute conversation heart sayings onto the top hearts.  I did: Q T Pie, My Baby, Hugs, Be Mine, XOXO, Sweet, Kiss Me, Dream, and Love.  I tried to stick to shorter ones because I didn't have much room on my hearts. Then sew the bottom hearts onto the ribbon.   Then sew the top hearts with the sayings on them so the ribbon is sandw...

Now that the Christmas decorations are down, it is time to make some Valentine's Day decorations to put up! I have seen some in the store, but it is much more fun to make your own.  So here is how I made my sweet heart wreath. First you need a hoop (the one I used had about a 7 in diameter), 7 big wooden hearts, 8 small wooden hearts, paint, glitter, ribbon, and some hot glue. I took all my hearts and painted them a solid color and then went back over them and made some patterns or outlined them. I thought they were looking a little boring so I went back and put some glitter on random ones. Then I went around and hot glued the big ones and tried to make them as evenly spaced as possible. Then I hot glued the smaller ones on top of the bigger hearts, tied some ribbon, and then hung on my door!

I just found out that one of my very good friends is going to have a little boy, so I have started putting together a little package to send to her and I wanted something a little fun in it. A few months back I was talking with some older ladies at my church and one of them mentioned how she always buys anybody who is having a boy some  pee pee teepees. Well, I thought they sound like they were a hoot and put it on my list of things to make someday.  Well now I have a reason to make some little pee shields and you can make them too!  First you need some fabric and an old cd to help make your circles. Then go and make a bunch of circles. You will need two circles per shield. Make the inside circle fabric an absorbent one!  Next cut out a 1/4 piece in each of the circles so you have a Pac-Man...nom nom nom Then sew around the outside.  You can sew one side of the triangle part before turning inside out. I trie...

There is nothing I like more then a handmade gift.  I just love the ornaments that my husband's grandma makes for us (and other family members too) when there was something special that happened that year.  This is the one we received this year. I thought I would snap some quick photos of the ornaments of years past before I take down the tree. Aren't they just the cutest! Well I also have to add a box my husband's grandmas is making for our baby girls keepsakes.  It almost is done, so hopefully next time we fly back we can bring it back with us. I edited out our little girl's name for this blog, but it is painted in the center part. It has little red pandas all over it, because my husband's grandma knows how much I just LOVE red pandas. hehehehe the red panda is sleeping on the sides

I finally got all my princess and the pea play sets finished just in time for Christmas.  Here is what one looks like all finished.  The pillows would be a great project for a little one to sew, but I would leave the princess to somebody a little little older to try to make, even though she isn't too difficult to make.