DIY Baby Shower Collage, Round 2

You may remember the Mod Podge collage I made for my friend Jillian's baby shower last year.  Well this past weekend was her sister Christina's baby shower,  so I made another collage.  I used the same method as before but just changed up the design a bit since she is having a girl.

Read how I made it here.  Oh and if you like the paper I used for the grass, you can make your own at Japonizer.  Japonizer is a...

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DIY Fabric Covered Bracelet Tutorial

Recently for my friend Dawn's birthday, I made her some fabric covered bracelets.  They were so easy to make and are really pretty. Supplies Needed: Pretty fabric Aleene's Fabric Fusion Glue Pen (or any type of fabric glue) bracelets clothespin I started by taping my fabric to the bracelet just in case I wanted to change the fabric later.  Next I wrapped the fabric pretty tightly around the bracelet and secured it with a little fabric glue.

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DIY Baby Onesies/Freezer Paper Stencil Tutorial

On Sunday I attended a baby shower for my friend Sarah Staggers.  Since I had so much fun making the onesie for my friend Christy's baby shower, I decided to give it a go again.

This was the first time I have every stenciled on anything and I am hooked.  The worst part is cutting out the stencil, but once your stencil is cut out, the rest is quite easy. Supplies Needed: Freezer Paper (Not wax...

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Baby Shower DIY Onesie Station

This past weekend, my friend Nikki co-hosted a baby shower that I attended.  One of the activities, was a DIY Onesie station.  The station had fabric markers, embroidery thread, needles, iron-ons and fun buttons.  I love this idea so much and it was really fun.  Here is the onesie I made for my friend Christy's baby.   Here are some of the other onesies the shower guests made for Christy.  I love the punk rock...

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DIY Mother’s Day Gift

 

This year I made my mom this little decorative tray for her bedside table or bathroom.  The tray I choose to use was already painted gold.  I used paint markers and acrylic paint to paint the flowers and initials.  Once everything was dry I covered it in varnish.  It took a couple of days to finish because some of the paint markers were oil based and took longer to dry.  But overall it was pretty easy to make and my mom loved it.

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Cotton District Arts Festival 2011

This past Saturday, Nikki Ballard and I had a booth at the Cotton District Arts Festival.  This was our first year to have a booth and we had a blast.  It was a pretty day, everyone was nice and complimentary and we sold more than we did at the Prairie Arts Festival.  Overall it went really well and I am very proud of us.  Our booth was really cute but unfortunately all of the photos I took were horrible.  I am so thankful that Ben snapped a few here and there.

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Nikki & I were in The Reflector!

Yesterday The Reflector (Mississippi State's student newspaper) did a story about Nikki and I having a booth at the Cotton District Arts Festival this year.  How exciting is that?  Read it

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Cotton District Arts Festival 2011

Friday I found out that my application for this year's Cotton District Arts Festival in Starkville, Mississippi was accepted! Nikki Ballard and I will being sharing a booth.  Stop by and see us on April 23rd, 2011. The Cotton District Arts Festival is one of my favorite things about Starkville and this year will be our first time to be vendors! I always have such a great time at the CDAF and I am sure this year will not be an exception.  Check out our stuff on Etsy...

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Before & After: Mail Organizer

I bought this charming little mail organizer at the Salvation Army with the hope of painting it and making it wonderful.  After the first coat of paint, I realized that there was nothing charming about this dumb mail sorter.  I underestimated its cheapness really.  Also I hate sanding, so I skipped that step which was my first mistake. The paint of course did not stick. Skip ahead 6 months.   I decided to dig my failure of a mail organizer out of my closet and try again.  This...

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Handmade Valentine’s Day Cards

Happy Valentine's Day!  I have been having so much fun making Valentine's Day cards for my friends and family. Here are a few of the Valentine's Day Cards I made this year: After scanning the vintage early readers for cute images, I used my sewing machine to sew the images onto cardstock that I had previously folded and scored using my bone folder. Next I glued patterned paper to the inside of the Valentine using rubber cement to cover the exposed string and make the Valentine look more neat and clean. For this Valentine, I printed off  a Niagara Falls WPA poster image...

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