Valentine treats

This year I wanted to be an over-achiever and make a bunch of different candies for my valentines. They all turned out really well, and most of them were super easy to make. Most of them I found on Pinterest. I made peanut butter cups from the Hershey's cookbook, Strawberry fudge, peppermint patties, 3 Musketeer bars, and mint cookie truffle balls.

BeAttitudes

I finally finished it! It only took forever and a day, but it's finished! I think that the major reason that it took me so long to finish this was because I wasn't sure what to do with it when it was finished. It's got so much applique that it is not an ideal blanket to have lying around and possibly getting washed, and worn. But at the same time I didn't have any place to display it. But now we're moving, which means a million blank slate walls. Right now I think that the plan is to put it in the dining room. For the most part, I did an awesome job on this quilt. Since I was feeling this way, there needed to be a few humility areas. As I was finishing the quilting on the borders, there were several places that just did not work out quite right, and the fabric was quite pucker-y. Plus well, I'm not a professional quilter, so there are a few places that the quilting is a little awkward. But all in all, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Child's crown tutorial

Today is a twofur! Since I had my felt out to finish up the Valentine's wreath this morning, I thought I'd go ahead and finish the crowns for the pigs and then I can pack up the felt and fleece. I don't think I'll do any more projects with them before I move. So I made these little crowns for the pigs, and then I had this stiff interfacing and yellow fleece staring back at me, and I thought, what the heck! I'll go ahead and make the boys some crowns. And I'm going to try to do a tutorial. Let me know if it makes any sense. (Oh, and can you see the corner of one of the place mats sticking up there in the back of the picture?)

So first I cut a zig zag pattern out of the heavy interfacing. (Mine is really stiff, it will stand on its own easily.) I did mine free hand, but it would probably be more even and uniform if you drew it out first.

Then I cut a piece of yellow fleece that would cover the crown. This is folded over, you need a front and back, so make sure that you have 2 pieces of fleece to one crown.

After that, I just set it all there together, and carefully cut about an eighth of an inch or so outside of the crown. I was planning on having my seam show, so I didn't need a large seam allowance. If you wanted to turn yours inside out so that there is no seam showing, then you'll need more. But that's just an extra step.

I wanted the crowns to be adjustable, so I sewed a strip of velcro onto either ends of the crown. Make sure that you have it on one end of side A, and the other end of side B!

After that, I sewed along the top and sides of the crown, about an eighth of an inch away from the edge.

Then I stuffed the interfacing into the cover. You have to work it a little bit to make sure that everything is flat.

After that, you sew the bottom edge together, same as you did the top, and then you're done! Easy peasy lemon squeezy as my son would say.

Happy Valentine's Day!

OK, so first off, please don't be jealous that I have such amazing helpers at my house. It's how I'm able to finish so many things and have them all look fabulous! Hurley can measure and cut like you would not believe! (And he does it all while on the phone!) But now onto Valentine's Day. I may make a few more decorations, because I am putting off working on some other projects. (But I got the binding sewn on one place mat last night! Only 7 more to go!)
But I made this wreath to celebrate Valentine's Day this year. So far this is the extent of my decorations. But I have seen lots of cute things on Pinterest, and I'll maybe see about making some more. I don't know. I don't have a good space to decorate in my house. But I am starting to think ahead to the new house and decorating that.

Hence these guys:

This one will be for Olivia's room. So cute, and the fabric flowers- same as in her quilt. And I have to say, this was my first experience with Mod Podge.

And then I tried out these melted crayon art ones. Did you all know that I'm into Modern Art? Piet Mondrian is one of my favorites. So this is kind of right up my alley. This will hang in the boys room.

Once we move you can expect to see a lot of the transformations of the rooms in the new house. I can't wait!!! :) I'm so excited to have a space of my own, something that I don't have to worry about wasting time decorating nicely because we'll just move in a few years.