Project Show Off

Okay, I have a few projects that I have done in the past months that I haven't posted about yet. And instead of give you a boring step by step post on each of them (which really would be quite boring), I figured, why not throw pictures of the finished products (and a short commentary) all together in one big Project Show Off post?

Let's Go!

These little guys are very simply (I may have posted about them before) all I did was dump out the flour into another container and framed part of the packages!

They keep our Street Art company and are located right beside the baking supply cupboard.

Currently blue is a little accent color in our bedroom, where this frame resides. It includes our birthdays, the date we started dating and our wedding date.

These doo-hickies, if you haven't guessed, are our initials. I cut the letters out of some cardboard boxes and hot glued pretty yarn all the way around them. They also hang in our bedroom.

I may or may not have purposefully cropped my face out of this picture....but I want you to focus on my awesome new necklace, concocted out of one of Jesse's old shirts. 

And this little guy was slightly a beast to finish. It use to be all black, and was just a cheap end table I bought from Target years ago, probably only $10. It's not made out of real wood, just pressboard, but I decided to try to sand it down. {Pain} Then I bought some colors I liked and painters tape. Slapped a few dozen (okay, maybe not quite that much) coats of the base color on. Then tried to make a chevron pattern. Two hours later, I had the table top taped off, but still not quite right and painted in the second color. I went to bed and dreamed of all the glorious chevron projects I've seen in the blogosphere and couldn't wait to see my final product. 

I took the tape off the next morning and to my dimay, the lines weren't even close to being crisp. You may not be able to tell in the pictures, but come on over for an afternoon treat, and I'll show you. The 'smudgy' edges have grown on me and it may even look like I did it on purpose, so the table (that I probably paid more for in supplies to redo, than what it originally cost) will stay as is, and I will enjoy it.

So, that's what I've done with my life recently in the last many months. What do you think? What have you been up to?

Weekend Rosette Projects

After spending Friday night making a plan of attack on the fabric flowers I made this week, I woke up Saturday morning ready to hit up some craft shops. Oddly enough I ended up getting all of my supplies from Hobby Lobby (with the exception of headbands).

When I got home, the first item I wanted to make was necklace. I didn't think to buy fabric glue, so thought I'd try using Gorilla Glue that we already had. Well, I'm too impatient for that. And it's much more difficult to clean up than hot glue. So, the hot glue gun to the rescue! And my first rosette project was complete.

I'm proud to say that it held up quite well while bowling last night! :)

Next I moved onto making a single flower hair clip:

Then a stretchy headband with three flowers:
Here is a picture of how I have them all attached. This doesn't seem to be the best way of going about attaching the flowers, but I was so anxious to make all of these that I couldn't brainstorm anymore about it! But I think it's a great first effort. If anyone has any suggestions for me, please let me know! I may glue and try to sew them on as well, but think that could get difficult for my lack of skills. Before I do any more projects, I will be buying some sort of fabric glue or liquid stitch.

Then today, I decided to go for the pillow cover using a no sew method from Kara's Korner. Again, I used hot glue but will find a better solution next time. Since this is just a throw pillow that will be on our pillow, I think the hot glue will hold up just fine.
I can't decide if I should add more flowers to it or not. After all, I do still have many of them left! It use to be the same geometric shape as the comforter just in a smaller version. I simply put the cover over the top of it. A slight tinge of brown shows through the linen, which I knew would happen when I bought the material but was okay with that since it will continue to work. Here is the pillow in it's new home.

The ugly gold pillow on the left is one of my next projects, then maybe new shams for the two gold pillows behind them as well.

I cannot wait until I have more fabric to make more flowers and then figure out what else to do with them!

All of my 'loot' from this weekend!

Rosette Necklaces, Brooches, Headbands, Hair clips!!

Did I mention I'm obsessed with making these little fabric flowers?! Well, I finally found figured out something to do with them all. I literally had over 200 laying around with nothing to do with them!!

Why not start making accessories?! So that's what I did. But I'm not going to wear all these! So, drum roll please....................I created an Etsy page. Well, why not? So, all I can do now is hope that those trolling Etsy find my little creations, like them, and buy them! Only time will tell.

Here are a few of my recent favorites.

I figured out a good way to attach them. Some glue and lots of hand stitching. These puppies aren't coming apart!

Any thoughts?!

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