Felted wool cup cozy

One morning I was sitting at my desk looking HERE(scroll down to the post on NOV 2nd to see the photo, I am having trouble getting the link to work properly) to see what the very talented Vicki Chrisman made. She made this cute little coffee mug cozy and little packag to put cider or hot cocoa packets in, and I wanted to make one. Now I don't have anything that she used (fancy pants products) and I am way too impatient to order them and wait ;). So I emailed and Vicki suggested using felted wool from the fabric store. I looked into that but at $19 a yard, it was not in my budget. So I went home a bit disappointed and turned to the internet. I found that you can make your own felted wool and that is exactly what I did!! I got my instructions to felt from HERE (i used a sweater from goodwill that was 80% lambs wool and cost $5, the more wool in the item the better it will turn out) Then I got my template from HERE.
Then it was just a matter of putting everything together.

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I love how it turned out!! I got my coffee mug from crate and barrel outlet. Its a ceramic mug with a rubber lid and was only $6.97. I love my new mug, and so do a lot of the moms on the playground at school :)

Trying out this movile app thing...

Not sure how this is going to work...but here it goes. I have just started getting back into the crafting world, and I would like to start blogging again. So hopefully I will be able to do simple posts, with pictures from my phone

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Bridal shower goodies

The bridal shower and wedding are long over, but with my days so busy now I am just getting around to posting the things that we made for them. My mom came up with the idea to do a Chicago themed shower since my sister and Bobby had many great memories in our great city. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a stamp with the picture of Navy Pier on it...or even a Ferris wheel. I do, and it is dang near impossible. So my mom and I came up with the idea to print the skyline on paper and make it into a box. I found the original idea here

My sister really likes Carmel popcorn, so my mom made some to put inside the boxes. These really made a cute favor and looked cute on the tables

For the center pieces I came up with the idea to stamp on candles. I saw how to do it from a page on splitcoast stampers a couple of years ago...forgive me I don't have the link anymore. They looked so pretty in the room.

They are so easy to make. You stamp on tissue paper, place the image on the candle and cover it with wax paper. You use your heat gun to melt the tissue into the candle and POOF you have a pretty decorated candle.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Look back tomorrow, I will have pictures of the nugget boxes that I made for a 50th birthday party

Fabric and the Slice??

So my sister is getting married in October, and all of the typical bridal festivities have begun. We have the bridal shower coming up, and then of course the bachelorette party. I offered to make my sister the "BRIDE" shirt....you know the one that you wear to make sure that everyone in the joint knows that you're getting married and to buy you a drink. I went to Michaels looking for those pretty iron on bling letters(you know the ones that cost like 2.99 for one letter) and guess what??

They don't have them anymore....well atleast I couldn't find them
So I wandered around until I found one of Making Memories new Slice products..fusible web.
I just had to try it. At 5.00(on sale 40% off) it was worth trying. So I got it, now the next thing is what kind of fabric do I get? I went to JoAnn's and found fabric quarters and they were PERFECT...not too thick! I followed the directions when I got home and cut out all of the letters to make 5 shirts.

Yes I said 5. I was only going to make 1 for my sister, but with this being so cheap I was able to make the whole bridal party one. I used black shirts and a pink fabric. After I ironed on the letters I used silver puffy paint to outline the letters so they "pop" a little more. This was so easy to do that I am going to make Nicholas a onsie for his 4 month picture(pic to follow).

Check back Sunday, I want to show you the center pieces that my mom and I made for the Bridal shower. Thanks for reading!

A few Layouts

Ok these are a few of my recent favorites from the last time that I have scrapbooked.(sorry that the all boy is on its side. For some reason blogger keeps on flipping it and I am tired of trying to fix it) It has been so long since I have sat down with my paper cutter and tape, and boy do I miss it. I can't wait for school to start so that I can scrap during the baby's nap time. Things have been super busy this summer. Alex is taking swim lessons and has come so far this year. He can go underwater without holding his nose, and he can do the doggie paddle(this is big because my child wouldn't even get in the water without floats on his arms, so I could forget about him going under water willingly lol) Nicholas has started to eat rice cereal(he is 10 weeks) and he is sleeping through the night(most of the time). I can't believe that summer is almost over. Till next time

Where have I been?

Holy cow, it sure has been a long time since I have posted anything. I have a ton of LO's that need to be posted but the day that I tried to upload them blogger was giving me a hard time. So I gave up...lol. I have finished scrapping 2009 photos like I wanted to, and I can now start on scrapping 2010. I now have way more to scrap about too. As some of you may know Rob and I were expecting. Well....he is here....

Nicholas Lawrence was born on May 15, 2010 at 10:21 pm. He weighed in at 7lbs 15.3oz and was 20 inches long.
Everyone is doing great!




I am going to try and upload some of the layouts that I did soon. Hopefully I will be able to make time to start scrapping 2010 photos.

Christmas Morning 2009

The last of the 6 layouts that I did on the 25th. I I am hoping to get more scrapping done this weekend(3-27) so check back soon for more.