Sad Day

I was cleaning my bathroom today and moved the red/black beads (see here) from the top of the toilet so I could wipe it all down. I turned around to get out the cleaner and **CRASH** my beads fell and all three glasses shattered!! I just stared in disbelief for several minutes not knowing where to begin with the cleanup! I finally pulled myself together and gathered all the beads into a bag to use again someday and then I proceeded to clean up the glass shattered across my bathroom floor.

I loved this project. It brought a lot of color, style, and personality to our bathroom. It was a good focus point and just made me happy! And now it's gone :(

In a moment of grief-stricken absentmindedness I threw away the black wire holder that held my cups. Now I can't even remake it! So if any of you have some ideas of what I could do with the beads to put back on top of my toilet let me know.


Farewell beautiful. I'm going to miss you.

New Blog to check out

I was searching for ideas on baby gifts and I stumbled across this blog. I've only looked through it briefly but it looks like it's got some great stuff! Check it out

http://projectsforyournest.blogspot.com/

Baby Block

C. and I found out that we're having a little baby GIRL :) We are so excited! I wanted to make something for my little girl but don't have a lot of big pieces of fabric in my scraps. I was going through all the baby projects on makeit-loveit.com (awesome site! See her original project here) and I found this project. Perfect for my small scrap pile!

Materials:
~ 6 squares of fabric
~ batting

The first thing to do was cut my 6 squares of fabric. I cut mine 4" x 4" but obviously you can do any size you want.

Next, take two squares and sew along one edge right sides together. Do this until you have 4 squares sewn together, all right sides facing inward.


Ok, now take a square and snip away 1/4" block from each corner. This block will become either your top or bottom and the block you snip away will help it lay nicely with the others.


(This part took me awhile to figure out!) What you want to do is pin your top/bottom piece so that you will have a 1/4" seam all the way around. The raw edge of your top/bottom piece and the raw edge of the side piece should be sticking out. Their right sides will both be facing inward and will be facing each other for that 1/4" that will become your seam. I hope that makes sense!

Now turn it inside out, stuff it with batting and hand-sew the last few inches up. I was ready to do this but didn't have any batting! I was at Ross buying maternity jeans and decided to look for some batting I could use. Here is what I found...

Isn't this gross?!? This is a dog-chew toy. I felt so ridiculous buying it, the picture doesn't do it justice!

I quickly pulled out my seam ripper and went to work tearing this thing apart. I got the batting that I needed and transferred it to my block. (I only used about half of it too! I now have batting for another project down the road. All of this only cost me $3.00)

Here's the finished product!

Now baby girl has a brand new block to play with, throw around and chew on :) I just have to wait until she gets here!

Total Cost:
~ fabric: $0.00
~ batting: $3.00

Baby Block: Total Cost ~ $3.00

Christmas Plaque

I had this mirror left over from when I tried to use that Porcelain Marker for my bathroom quote project (here). You may remember that the marker dried up so fast I couldn't even finish the quote! I ended up using something different and so I had this mirror just sitting on my desk. I decided to use it for Christmas :)

Materials:
~ Mirror
~ Christmas picture
~ Mod Podge

I went through a church magazine and found a Christmas picture that I really liked. I cut it to size and mod podged it onto the mirror.



You could still see the mirror along the top of the picture so I decided to add a little quote. I've given up on using Porcelain markers so I just used a black sharpie and it worked perfectly! (Also MUCH cheaper!!) Since the picture was of Christ I decided to write "O Come Let Us Adore Him"


Here it is!

(The pictures aren't the greatest sorry)

Christmas Plaque:
~ Mirror: $0.00
~ Christmas Picture: $0.00
~ Mod Podge: $0.00

Christmas Plaque: Total Cost ~ $0.00

Christmas Trinkets

There's got to be a better title for this project, but I don't know what to call them, so for now they're trinkets :) Anyone who has a better name please leave it in the comments! I know it needs work :)

So, I wanted to do something festive for Christmas but didn't have money to spend and didn't really know to do. I decided to just go in to my craft supplies and start looking around. These are my favorite kind of projects because I just see what I have, put something together, and end up with a craft at the end! I get so excited when I'm able to create something out of all that stuff. To other people my craft corner (I don't have a craft room, just a craft corner) may look like junk, but to me it's a whole bunch of projects waiting to come together!

Materials:
~ Cranberries
~ Gold fabric
~ Candle holders

I started by looking at two projects I made last year (here). (They now sit side-by-side on my dinner table).


I love the cranberry look and while I was admiring my previous work ;) I decided that the green bottle had a few too many cranberries poking out of it. I decided to take off a branch. It looks much better now, and I was on my way to my new project! I cut up the cranberries and found some small scraps of gold material from one of my pillow projects (here). Now I just needed somewhere to put the two together.

I remembered that when I bought the candle holders for my bathroom (here) they came with little glass cups to place the candles in. I didn't end up using the glass cups with the holders so they were sitting in my craft box. I pulled two of them out, cleaned them off, and put the cranberries and fabric inside! What do you think?



When I started cutting the cranberries off the branch the outer paint layer came off, showing the styrofoam ball underneath. I had to cover that up! So I used a Crayola marker :)

Bird's Eye View :)

This "Oh Holy Night" was given to us by my mother-in-law. Don't you love it! Now I have my little nativity set with three cute things: my "Oh Holy Night" block, my Willow Tree angel, and my Christmas trinkets :)

Christmas trinkets:
~ Cranberries: $0.00
~ Gold fabric: $0.00
~ Candle holders: $0.00

Christmas trinkets: Total Cost ~ $0.00

1 + 1 = 3

I promise I have a very good reason for not posting any new projects in such a long time! C. and I are expecting our first little baby :) We are SO excited and can't wait to add a child to our family. You may be thinking, "Cool, but how does that relate to your blog?" Well, I haven't been feeling the greatest and when I get home from work I'm too exhausted to work on anything. The weekends are now used for naps and relaxing so I'll have enough energy for the coming week. However, I'm 13 weeks now and hoping that my 2nd trimester will mean I have more energy and less sickness! So I'm excited to start working on more projects and have some fun baby projects that I'll be doing! Please don't give up on me and keep checking my blog. I'll be posting soon!