More Flowers!

The ladies from my church held a craft sale this Saturday, so I made a few flower hair clips and went along. The sale went off really well, I think! Of the 27 flowers I took, I sold 18 and gave away 3. I wasn't expecting it to go that well! And besides selling the clips, I got to sit and chat with some of the ladies from church and get to know them much better. Amazing what you learn about people, given seven hours of conversation!

I didn't get pictures of the sale, but here are the flowers I had left over.

It's been a while

Again! I'm not very good at regular posting. But I might be better now...

Anyway here is something I've been up to:


I hemmed a friend's bridesmaid dress and wanted to do something with the pretty pink scraps I cut off, so I made flowers! Once I made them, I glued/sewed them onto barrettes & clippies so they can be clipped onto hairstyles/button holes/purse loopies. I think making these is pretty much the funnest craft because first you get to sit around and melt little fabric circles and then you get to sew them into flowers!

I used several different online tutorials for inspiration...
Here's one I found after I started making them. I think this girl's are pretty! Her idea of clipping the edges was clever...I'll try that next time.

I saw this one floating around at some point, but of course couldn't find it while I was actually making mine so I didn't use it...but they're pretty, too!

And I saw this one, but was too lazy to cut all the different shapes, so I just used a variety of circle sizes instead.

The basic principle behind all of the tutorials is the same...you cut out some flowery shapes. Then you melt the edges of your fabric so that a) it won't fray and b) it crinkles up in a flower-like way. Sew all your flowery shapes together into one flower (I used a little scrap of fabric to back mine, and sewed all the petals to that). Finally, stick (i.e. glue or sew) a barrette/clippy to the back of your flower. Tada! Yep, it's fun.

I am back from my travels. I was gone for over a month! In the mean time, a little potato plant I'd been trying to grow died.


Not only that, but the entire pint of water that it was in evaporated! Boise is a dry city.
Since we're (mostly) in town for the rest of the summer, we bought a tomato plant last Saturday. His name is Bob. I LOVE the way tomato plants smell. :)


And, on the craftier side of things, I found a lovely bunch of fabrics at garage sales last week! Here is the whole stack, a total of 12 1/2 yrds for 5.65.



I'm especially fond of the prints...the yellow roses,

the tropical birds,

and the strange abstract floral that's on top of the pile. I'm thinking they would make cute skirts or sundresses (and boy are sundresses nice in this weather!). And the solids can go into my "muslin" pile. :)

I'm developing a fabric stash...how happy!

Until next time,
Courtney

My old-ish project

Well, this has been done for a while now but I thought better late than never! :-)

First I got a frame on clearance (and then an extra 15% off with my employee discount!) at work. It was on clearance because someone had tried to glue stuff to it and then ripped the stuff off leaving weird cardboardy residue

So I got some paint (67 cents! - employee discount) and some paint brushes ($1.99 for a set of four. - employee discount)
Then I spent all of about 15 minutes putting several coats of paint on the back and inside edge of the fame. (yay for living someplace where the weather causes paint to dry in seconds.)

Then I used a coupon and printed out some pictures that I've taken of the plants around here at costco for less than $4. Using a combination of stick tack, double sided tape, and some extra paper, I arranged the photos inside the frame on the wall!

I'm still alive!

I promise. :-D I'm just working a lot these last few months. Which is good for my bills! Not so much for my creative side. But we all must make sacrifices in the name of staying alive, and as much out of debt as possible.
Anyways, I *do* have a project I finished a while ago just haven't gotten around to taking pictures of it (my bad). So hopefully that will be up soon! And I know Courtney's disappearing into oblivion for a while so I'll try to step up my game here.

Oops.

I just figured out that I wrote someone a thank you note for something they didn't give me. Lol...good thing my friends have a good sense of humor! :-D I'll bet they were puzzled.

Excellent news! Noble got a job. :) Hopefully she will still have a little spare time for awesome projects, but for right now, she's making money!! Woohoo!

I'm not. :-D

I did make socks (and broke my personal record by making the whole pair in 3 days!).

And the muslims we buy our eggs from gave us this cute little banty egg. The man said, "Belief or not, is chicken egg!"

Another project underway: unraveling this sweater and making it into this sweater

More artsy pictures of yarn and rapidly raveling sweater: