Challenge Day 10 Hand Sewn Owl Needle Book

Today I had a hard time with the Internet

bu finally got it to work :) to be able to post

 

Here is my finished Owl Needle Book

In case you are wondering the front is the Embroidered Owl

 

 

For this book I made the pages with felt

pink, blue and green

just like me Embroidered Owl

 

And I saw some pockets for the embroidery floss

with a blanket stitch 

 

And on another page

I did a pocket for my scissors

 

And as you can see just a plain running stitch

for the middle of the book

holding the felt pages in :)

 

I sewed (I hope that's right) everything by hand

even the brown owl fabric to my embroidered owl :)

 

Thank you so much for taking a look :)

 

 



Embroidered Owl

Weekends are really hard for me to go online

but here I escaped for a minute to share

my finished my Embroidered Owl

 

 

Hope you like it :)

 



Challenge Day 8 DIY Ribbon Organizer

I've been organizing my Scrapbooking/Craft area

for quite a while on and off, just whenever I have a little time

 

So this is my creative moment of the day.

 

This picture right here shows you where I've been planning to put

all my ribbons,

never mind the mess I have there, I'll work on it little by little

right now I just wanted this ribbons up there :D

 

 

This is an old but very firm repurposed entertainment center

which I am using for all my scraps, crafts, knitting, painting, etc.

 

The edge was very rough looking

that's why I painted right there

 

Now for the creative part :)

I bought a dowell to put my ribbons on

but I didn't have a way to hold the dowell

and my husband had this very handy super big paper clips

and Wala!

 

 

There is my ribbon holder :)

 

Now that I think about it, I should go paint the dowell too lol

Not the prettiest but very thrifty and very handy too :)

 

thanks for visiting :)

 

 

 

Challenge Day 7 mini pies

O.k. These did not come out like I thought they would

My daughter was feeling crafty

so we decided to make some mini pies

from an American Girl book that she has

 

 

we were supposed to use bottle caps, but we only had one

(the one in the middle)

and for the rest we used waterbottle caps :/

we used felt to make it look like the pie crust

and beads to make the inside of the pie

 

We worked with what we had here at home

so Yeah! is not the best, but pretty good for a 8 y. old :)

I think :)

 

She says the green one is key lime pie

the blue is blueberry pie

and the red one is cherry pie,

they are the perfect size for polly pocket dolls,

just in case a mom out there wonders

and Ah! we used white glue to hold it all together

so they don't come apart and make a big mess :)

 

Thanks for visiting :)



Challenge Day 6 Applique and Digital signature

For my challenge today I have this super cute owl purse

that my teenage daughter made for me :)

She drew the owl herself

cut the pieces and glued to the purse

which she designed the pattern for also :)

 

 

So my work here was to saw by hand

around the edges of the owl

just in case whenever I have to wash the purse

my cute little owl doesn't come out :)

 

Isn't this adorable :)

 

And I also made my signature gift box

by following a PSP lesson through a yahoo group :)

 

Thanks for visiting :)

Challenge Day 5 Making T-shirt Yarn

I've been wanting to make T-shirt Yarn since

I saw this tutorial a while ago

I have it on my Pinterest here

 

But I took some pictures anyways of the step by step procedure

 

First you take a t-shirt

this is a child's one that is stained

(hard to see in the picture)

 

 Then you fold it half

with the opening away from you

 

 

Then I measured an inch

an marked with a pen

 

An start cutting the t-shirt

leaving about 1/2  on the top without cutting

(that's what gives you the continuity of the yarn)

 

I tried cutting all the way to where the sleeves are

and it just doesn't work well

so seems like you can only use the body part of the t-shirt

 





 

Once is all cut

take the bottom of the -shirt

(where you started cutting)

and cut a slit at an angle

 

Then open the t-shirt up

and cut following the strand

(where I am pointing with the scissors)

to make a continuous yarn

 

Once all cut

stretch the strand

to make it curl

 

Now all you have to do is roll it into a ball :)

 

I have to tell you

I am so happy that I took this challenge

I feel that I accomplished something in my day

that brings happiness to my being :)

 

Thanks for visiting

and for all the support I am getting

AND... your awesome comments

it keeps me going :)

 

 

Challenge Day 4 Making My Own Thread Bobbins

I while ago I saw a post about making thread bobbins out of a milk jug

 

For these ones, I used an old bobbin that I had

and made it longer to be able to fit the whole thread

 

 

I used a sharpie to outline them

that's why they look so sloppy like that

 

But I am not done, I am going to cut them better and clean them up

 

I got 20 bobbins out of 1 milk jug :)

For sure I am not going to see empty milk jugs the same way ever again lol

 

That's my Creativity at work for today so far :)