Happy Birthday To Meeee....

Ok - it was MY birthday and I ended up making my own Birthday cake because if I leave it up to my husband he will go get an ice cream cake and I dont like those. The cake sank in the middle and in spite of my awful cake decorating skills the cake itself was delicious. I also ordered some really cute Japanese print fabric from TheHeyDayShop on Etsy. The fabric arrived on my birthday - Yippee! I had a coupon code for free shipping. You can find the code HERE at One Crafty Mumma - just scroll down. The code is good for the month of April. I found the shipping to be fast and the fabric too cute for words. One interesting thing: Its Japanese fabric but the post mark was from China - lol. I have no idea what I am going to make with the fabric - I guess for now I will just find my happiness in the ownership ha ha. I also signed myself up for a crochet class and husband got me a Motorola Cliq phone - so it was a good birthday.

A Small Needle Felting Project

I made this little Tissure holder today, mainly because I wanted to try my hand at needle felting. This is the first time I have ever needle felted and I think it came out pretty good even though I can see some spots where the wool is not completely felted in. I think with practice I will get much better at this - I'm definitely hooked on it!
I found the instructions for the tissue holder HERE. The background is cream wool and I used some roving and some felted wool for the needlefelting. I'm planning on making more to give as presents

Scrapbooking

Went to Archiver's a few weeks ago, got a lot done but they are not the most creative pages. I guess I just wanted to get them done. I put them in 3 separate posts because Blogger would not let me upload that many photos at once, so scroll down if you want to see them all. I think the tornado one needs something just not sure what.

And More Pages...

Pages, pages, pages

Fabric Pinwheels

My big bare teal wall in my guest room finally has something on it! I found a free pattern/instructions HERE and made them today. The hardest part of making them was deciding what fabric combo to use. Instead of glueing down the corners to the center I punched a hole in the corners that would be glued down and I punched a hole in the center of the pinwheel and then I put a brad through all the layers of the corners that get turned in to the center and then but that same brad through the hole in the center of the pinwheel. Once I find some cool buttons I will hot glue them over the brad in the center. To attach the pinwheels to the wall, I took clear push pins and put them under each folded sections of the pinwheel and stuck it to the wall. Clear as mud? The largest pinwheel is 18 inches, the next size down is 12 inches the two bottom ones are 9 inches and the smallest is 6 inches.

I also made the throw pillows on the bed - but not today, I'm fast but not THAT fast! lol

I Spy With My Little Eye...

A tutorial! I found a tutorial to make I Spy bags at "Craftiness is Not Optional" . I have made two so far and they are very easy to make. I would suggest looking at places like Oriental Trading Company for the little goodies to put in the bags. I used left over toys from around the house and a few things I found at Hobby Lobby and Big Lots.

My machine had a hard time sewing the vinyl and the fleece until I figured out that when sewing with the vinyl facing up was making it stick to the sewing foot. So i sewed the 2nd one with the vinyl down and the fleece facing up and it sewed like a dream. Click HERE to go to her blog.