Cutest Idea Ever: Child's Play Kitchen

I saw a friend post a link on facebook and I fell in love.

Look at what this lady made for her daughter to play with!

Is this not the cutest play set you have ever seen? It is so detailed and personalized. I LOVE IT!

This cute play kitchen was made by a diy-er mom with an old entertainment system. 

I love all of the little details with the tile and kitchen accessories.

Really so very very cute! I feel that I need a daughter now, and ASAP! =)

Go here to her blog and to see how she made this!

This same facebook friend is making her daughter one of these, I can't wait to see it!

New Halloween Treats!

I just posted some new halloween designs!! They are buy 2 get 1 free!!
Thanks for all the inspiration!!

Enjoy!

Fave Things - Fresh Farm Sign

This week I'm sharing this cool "how to" on this farm sign!
It comes from Connie at Sensible-Redesign and I just love it! I love it because she tells you exactly how she did it!! So I can use her tricky graphite paper trick some day.. I've got that one in my crafty idea bank now.

Check it out if you need a new project!

Costume Time

We are going to Disney's Not so Scary Halloween Party this year..

My husband suggested we dress up as a family...

Toy Story Style.

So naturally I couldn't just go BUY Toy Story costumes! (Even though I would guess it is cheaper than making your own when you are ridiculously detailed like I am). So the hunt began...

 I spent half of last week hunting for shirts, hats, fabric and glues of all kinds. Then I spent the rest of the week working on various parts of each costume. My Jessie shirt is the only thing complete at the weekend's end. But I think I will have everything done in time.

I started with a Goodwill $4.95 shirt with 3/4 short sleeves.
(this is going to be in Florida! I'm not wearing long sleeves!)

I had to find a yellow Woodie shirt for Brian, then I could match a yellow fabric for my shirt. Using tracing paper, I drew/traced the shape I wanted, cut it out, fixed things, then used Under Wonder to iron the yellow fabric onto the shirt. This was actually the most difficult part of the whole thing. Ironing onto stretchy material is difficult. You have stretch EVERYTHING so it is perfectly flat before ironing.

Next I drew my Jessie swirls on tracing paper, and then hand traced that onto the yellow fabric. I used Tacky glue and glued down the red rope, but I sewed it down later. I figure I'll be holding Bradley, this stuff needs to stay put!

Many pins were used to hold the rope in place while it dried. I am not a talented sewer, and could have NEVER just sewed these swirls on!

Ta da!

We are slowly approaching:

I tackled the sleeve cuffs next.

Mine are going to be at my elbow though. Which I think is a way cute spin on the costume, but you can decide.

I used tracing paper to make an arm band, then cut it out of the yellow fabric. I ironed the yellow fabric to some really thick Pellon stuff. I don't know what it is.

Then I tried various swirl designs. Big ones and little ones.

Ya gotta go with the little ones, even though they are more work. They look so much closer to the original charater. I didn't want to redraw everything, twice, so I traced it on! Brilliant!!

 Again with the pins.

 A little sewing  and some felt pieces and I have my super cute, Jessie arm cuffs!

Now I need red yarn hair!

Don't worry, I'm working on that too...

Pendant Ideas

Hey everyone!

We are fast approaching my favorite season Autumn, and better yet, the holiday season! I was thinking of some ideas that we could have for special pendants for this seasonal time, but then I got to wondering what YOU wanted. So often Stephanie and I make pendants that WE like, but what do YOU like?

We would like to know what kind of ideas you have, what you would like to see on a little scrabble pendant. It could be holiday related, anagrams, specific colors, words, whatever! What are your ideas?

Here are some images that make me excited for the coming seasons, maybe Stephanie can design something with the feel of these!

Or maybe some of these!

 

Again, these are just some ideas that come to mind when I "google" "Christmas swirls".

Ok Stephanie, here are some ideas, READY GO!

As for everyone else, tell us your ideas! We would like to make some new designs, and what better to make than something that YOU want! Happy coming seasons!

(YEAH! Autumn is almost here!)

Ok, one more idea. GO STEPH, GO!