Fun with Felt

My son loves doing crafts...I wonder where he gets it from. Today we made felt monsters. He loves mixing and matching them and creating new faces...

My favorite is the one with the tie, moustache, and the top hat :)

Headbands Anyone?

I made these simple little flowers awhile ago with girls headbands in mind and I finally attached them to the headbands last night.

These ones with the buttons are my favorite...

While I was at it I made this flower last night...


I ended up really liking it so I made a few more. I think they will make great additions to the Accessories section in my Etsy shop

A Small Miracle

For once complaining paid off. I was messing with my sewing machine today and decided to take some pieces apart ...keep in mind I really have no clue what I'm doing. I put it back together and low and behold I can zig-zag stitch. I have no idea what I did but I must have done something right! I know most people will think I'm crazy for even blogging about this but I am so excited!
I had my stamps out so I decided to mess around with some stationary...


Another bad picture I know...it really does look a whole lot better in person. It's just so easy to snap a picture with my phone and email it to myself!
I stamped the background and then stamped the phrases on pieces of scrap paper and then sewed them on...simple and adorable...well at least I think so.

Anyways, I really like making stationary so I think I'm going to add stationary sets to my Etsy shop...you know...the shop I keep talking about but haven't actually made anything for yet :) Soon very soon...

Dearest Sewing Machine,

Dearest Sewing Machine,

First, you can't zig-zag stitch correctly and NOW a clean straight line seems to be impossible. I would throw you out the window if I thought it would do any good because this is unacceptable...



Shape up or ship out,
Sarah

More Succulents

And they are all mine :)

A Little Update

Ok, I admit it, I have been a terrible blogger lately. I haven't had much to share. My husband is coming home in THIRTEEN DAYS so I have been doing projects around the house that I have been putting off. However, I do have some teachers gifts to share. I was Room Mom this year and when it came to the end of the year class gift I had NO CLUE what to do for his teachers. I wanted to do something cute and personal from the kids but rounding up 25 three and four year olds to do something for each teacher was too daunting a task for me. SO I settled on making them tote bags and Target gift cards :)
They were so excited about them, which made me very happy! They said I need to start my own business...I told them I was working on it :)




And they LOVED their cards...maybe it was just the gift card :) No, but seriously one of his teachers said she has kept every card I've made for her which is very nice.

Here is the card I made for the school's office staff

And these are Jackson's gifts to his teachers...I know it's a bad picture. He painted their pots lime because he was in the lime group and then we planted daisys. One of his teachers favorite color is yellow and the others is purple...can you tell we ran with that?


Ok, that's it for now. Hopefully I will have more to blog about soon. I have everything I need to get a good start on my Etsy shop...now I just need to find the time :)

So Excited!

How awesome are these?

Time to get busy...