A Little Lady

So I have some fun news.

After about 5 months of dripping whatever I happen to be eating on my belly, patiently waiting for my ankles to officially turn into cankles, and growing out of every piece of clothing that I own, I finally found out that

It’s a GIRL!!!

22 weeks along and I have officially switched in to little girl craft mode. I’ve decided that when we sell our house (please be soon!!) I will be doing her room in gray, yellow, and pops of pink. So to celebrate the news of my little boys’ new “sister-baby”, I made a little 11x14 print for her room and thought I would share it with you! Please download for personal use only!!

Click on print or click here to download!

Calling All Crochet-ers!

Do you crochet, or think that you would like to? Have you ever heard of Polka Dot Posh? If not you have got to check it out! Cassi is amazing and her patterns are so adorable! She is currently trying to simplify her life which means for a limited time, like the next 30 days, she will be offering her patterns free to the public!

Would you like some eye candy?

I thought so…

There is a little donate button at the top of her blog, so if you feel the need to offer a little love for her generosity, that would be completely awesome too.

Go check it out here, you won’t be sorry!

Sammy

It’s So Fluffy, I’m Gonna DIE!!

I’ve been sitting around fighting these winter blues, creative itch driving me nuts, trying to decide what to do with my time. I thought about mod podging my TV stand, but I promised the hubs that I wouldn’t decoupage any more furniture until we sell our house (so here’s hoping for a quick sell), and I think he’ll be looking at some new LCD TV stands to go with his new TV. So instead I ordered

feathers-

lots of them too. And they are so cool! Purples, teals, browns, stripes. Oh man, I’m obsessed! I will be purchasing more very soon. Like, probably as soon as I’m done writing this. I did buy them with an intention in mind, and it’s this…

fFeather Earringse

Yes please!! And can I tell you that I am so in love with how they turned out! They have a little fun sexy thing going on and they make me feel dressed up and effortless, which is perfect for me and my life right now. Two little rascals, the less work I have to put into me, the better.

So here is a quick little tute if you want to make some yourself.

Supplies Needed:

2 dozen feathers, thread, leather cording, kidney wire earrings, 4 jump rings, 2 thin chains- one 4” the other 4 1/2”, with charms on the ends

To start off take a dozen of your feathers and bunch them together, making sure that the tops are even.

Take the thread and double it so it’s stronger, then tie a tight knot around the tops of the feather bunch.

Grab a length of the leather cording and thread on 2 of the jump rings.

Now take one of the jump rings and make a loop pointing down and hold it onto the end of the feather bunch.

And make another large loop with the other end of the cording, about 1 1/2 to 2 ft, making sure to leave the 2nd jump ring in that loop, but don’t cut the cording!

Then take one end of the large loop (not the end connected to the spool) and start tightly wrapping the cording from about and inch down the bunch, up to the top of the earring.

When you get to the top of the bunch take the cut end of the cord and the end still attached to the spool and pull them as tight as you can and cut off the excess. I took some hot glue and put some on the top and bottom and then smeared it down to keep all of the cording in place.

I didn’t get a picture of this step, but all you need to do is attach the 2 chains to the bottom jump ring and then slide the entire thing onto the kidney wire earring. These seriously took me about 25 minutes and I am seriously so in love! I was so excited to wear them that my special occasion ended up being at my mom’s for dinner after conference. But that’s what I love about these. I can wear them anytime. They’re just

so fun!

So, are you going to give them a try?

I hope you do!

Sammy

Ooh La La

Today I got a fun little package in the mail…

FEATHERS!!!

I have a way fun project coming up, so check back soon!

Sammy

Hello!

Hello everyone! Sorry this is not a crafting post, I just felt like I wanted to give a little shout out to all of our peeps out there since we have all but disappeared lately. And, unfortunately, there has not really been much crafting going on here at all! Bummer, I know. So what have I been up to? This.

Yes that is my couch. I'd like to say that it usually looks better than that, but in all honesty, it is usually much worse. I mean, only one to managed to make it's way into the picture! I lived there for about 5 days, starting last Wednesday. That is the day that the kidney infection officially set in. Have you ever had one? They suck sooooo bad! I went into the doc on Thursday and was put on antibiotics, and pain meds. They helped a lot with the pain and all the other junk that goes along with a kidney infection (UTI, blood in the urine, yadda yadda yadda) but they didn't help with the puking that decided to set in. I puked up every single thing that I was able to get down, which wasn't much. 2 pieces of toast on Thursday, 4 saltines and a cup of milk on Friday, and 4 more saltines on Saturday. By the time Saturday night came around I found myself at the urgent care on IV's. I was back in on Sunday morning for more and finally by Monday morning I was feeling better! Wahoo! Well for a minute. Urgent care wanted me back on Monday morning and thought it would be better to be safe then sorry and decided to give me a shot of the antibiotics they had been giving me through the IV's. So then I ended up here.

Why you might ask? Because they give you that antibiotic shot in your butt. SOOOO painful!!!! I can just imagine the coversation the doctor had who invented giving shots in the butt.

DOC: Hey nurse, I'm bored so I have this great idea.

NURSE: Alright doc, what is it.

DOC:  It's like this, when you go give that guy his antibiotic shot, you should do it in his butt!

NURSE: Ok doc, but why?

DOC: Because that way, we can laugh every time he has to sit funny, and have a good laugh when we get to watch him walk out like a goon!

NURSE: Good one, doc, good one.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they had that conversation. So because of that funny doctor, I have reparked myself in my living room, only this time I'm on the recliner, sitting on a heating pad, doing a whole lot of nothing at all. Good times. So here's to feeling better, and possibly starting a brotherhood of all of those who have had a shot in the butt, because until you've had one, it is impossible to understand.

Family Home Evening Chart

Hello everyone! Well here is my first post of the year.  Didn't Sammy do such a great job on her Prairie Princess skirt and accessories? And those Conversation Hearts are so adorable.

Here is my first crafty thing really that I've made this year! A magnetic Family Home Evening chart.  I've been searching the internet high and low for the past few weeks for some ideas, but finally decided to just come up with my own!

I had some other pictures I wanted to share, but unfortunately my memory card in my camera decided to call it quits and I lost all of those pictures--so all I have is the final product:

It was very simple and quick to make, and the best part--it totaled less than $10, including some supplies I had on hand!  Here is what I did:

Supplies--

1 small magnetic board (I got an 8.5x11 from WalMart for under $3)
Cardstock
ModgePodge
Printer
Cute magnets (These square magnets were also from Wal-Mart, for around $5 I believe)

I made the actual design in Photoshop.  If you would like to download and print for yourself, click on the picture below to view full size and save to your computer!

After I printed the design onto thick cardstock,  I trimmed the sides so that it would fit inside the frame.  Then I used a layer of ModgePodge to adhere it to the magnetic board.  I didn't use ModgePodge on the front of the design, just the back--I have found that it will make the ink run if you try to use it on paper you printed on your personal printer.  Another option I just thought of for this, you could totally send the design as an 8x10 to your photo print shop--that way you can use ModgePodge on the front for a little more durability.  For the last part,  I printed out all of our names on the same thick cardstock.  After trimming the name strips, I was done!

Let me know if you use this design or if you have a cute Family Home Evening chart that you have designed! We would love to feature it if you do--send a picture of it to paisleyandmeblog (at) hotmail (dot) com. 


Thanks for stopping by!


-Ruth


(Design credits:  Tag shape from Pixels and Ice Cream, fonts from Kevin and Amanda)

Conversation Heart Frames

This was a fun little project that I whipped up last night. It's not actually what I was planning on doing (I'll get that one up later) but this idea popped into my head and I just had to get them done! Welcome to the

Conversation Heart Frames

{for V-Day}

So to start out, cut a heart pattern out of some card stock (easy-peasy)

Next take 3 different fabrics and cut squares large enough to fit your heart. Apply some Heat-n-Bond to the wrong side of all pieces.

Now flip those babies over and trace your heart pattern onto the back

and cut the suckers out.

Next I cut off a long strip of a canvas drop cloth and ironed the hearts onto it in a row, leaving enough space in between each heart that I can cut them apart and fit them into an 8x8 frame.

Then cut in between each one and sew the hearts down. I did a zig-zag stitch at less than a 1 length and at a 5 width and went all the way around each one.

Then I took my 8x8 frames, taped the canvases down around the cardboard on the inside and placed them inside.

When that was done, I cut out the words SWAK, LOVE, and KISS ME out of vinyl and applied them to the glass on the outside of the frame and that is it!

Super easy, and a really cute, fun, Valentines decoration that you can vary to fit any scheme you want!

Snipping Tool

Here's a quick little cool tutorial that my brother showed me the other day. When we do giveaways and pick a commenter, we like to show the comment in the winner post, as do most blogs. Now a lot of people may have already known this, but for me, anytime I wanted to do that I would have to press the PrtSc (Print Screen) button, paste it into paint or some other editing program, crop out the part of the page that I want to use, save it as a picture, then upload it onto the post. It gets the job done but is kind of a pain in the butt. Well if you have Windows Vista or newer there is a cool program called Snipping Tool that is found in the accessories when you go to all programs (same place as the calculator and paint). Now if you ever want to snip out a comment or anything else for that matter, all you have to do is have the page pulled up that you want to copy from

Then pull up the snipping tool, it will look like this

I usually just leave it as rectangle because that's usually what I need then just click and drag a rectangle around the part that you want to copy and hit the save (disk)  button on the top.

Then all you have to do is upload your newly saved pic and your done! So easy, just thought I'd share :)