Found: one fuzzy mushroom stool from the 70′s
Add some red and white polka dots…
Now it’s a party stool!
Archive for the ‘crafty’ Category
found: mushroom stool
Thursday, July 29th, 2010mosshroom
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Sometimes I have a strange sense of priority. I get an idea in my head and although I have a million other things to do I MUST do this one thing first. In this case it was the ‘incredibly important’ task of making a mushroom out of moss.
let’s make a fun tutu…
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Tulle, ribbon and pompoms, a little girl’s dream.
Make a tutu from your favorite color tulle.
Hand sew on some pom poms, maybe add a ribbon…
Wear with a onesie and
top off the whole outfit with some crazy tights…
Yay!
GiGi’s dress shop
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Oh the joy of a grandma that sews! I find myself with so many great ideas and not enough time to do them. My free time comes in 20 minute slots every three hours or so in between our singing, dancing, playing, eating, reading, sometimes crying mostly smiling day. Enter crafty grandma. I send her a pattern, some fabric and trims and like magic she sends us back the dresses! Love these funky birds with lime green ric rac trim.
Making Stockings!
Monday, December 21st, 2009
New handmade stockings are in order this year. I made Clementine’s first because it was the most fun. Felt, hot glue, assorted sparkly trims, a great idea and an old pair of holiday fur-trimmed knee socks helped me to make this pepperminty sweet stocking for my little lady.
So cute! One down. Three to go.
weezie the elf
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009This year’s Weezie ornament…
santa weez and friends
Monday, December 7th, 2009
santa weez
Every year I make an ornament transforming our beloved furry friend, Weezie, into a holiday favorite. The first year I got a little carried away with how many I made and santa weez covered our tree. It was quite a sight! Oh what a photo, felt, chenille stems and some glitter can do! It makes us laugh every time.
weezie the red nosed reindeer
frosty the snow weez
What will she be this year? Check back tomorrow to find out!
hoot hoot in the cute owl suit
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
I thought it would only be appropriate if Clementine was an owl for her first Halloween. A magical colorful owl! That’s the best part of making your own costume, you can make it anyway you want! I needed this to be as easy and simple as possible which meant NO SEWING! With my trusty hot glue gun and some colored felt, I sketched out my idea and got to work.
I folded a yard of brown felt in half and marked the shape of my owl body by using one of Clementine’s pajamas as a guide for shoulder width and overall length. I cut it out, which gave me the front and back piece. I attached them together by using hot glue on the sides of the body close to the edge, starting about five inches down from the shoulder, leaving enough room for her arms, and stopping about eight inches up from the bottom point, leaving room for her wiggly feet and making it a bit easier for diaper changes.
I made a triangle pattern and used it as my guide to cut out different colored “feathers”, which I placed on the front of the body in my desired pattern and then hot glued them down.
I love how the felt can hold it’s shape. It made the feathers look a little ruffled.
I attached two pieces of velcro (one on each side) to the inside of the body on the shoulder line leaving more than enough room for her neck.
Finally, I cut out two wings in bright pink and attached them to the body.
For the owl head, I happened to come come across a brown knit hat that had two ‘ears’…perfect! I just had to glue on eyes and a beak.
a surprise slaPP haPPie bebe snuggle!
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Clementine received a surprise in the mail yesterday, a birdy bebe snuggle made by our talented and quirky craftmaster friend, mLe!
We love it! Thank you!
Visit the slaPP haPPie etsy site to see more of mLe’s creations that are available for puchase…
like the squirrelly macTarmac pillow (which I think I want to order…we seem to have a thing for squirrels right now!)
or the fleurfegnugen apron…
or perhaps the birdy mcSlowdive tote!
Check out her flickr photos to see all of the amazing things she has made. I love the great combinations of cool, colorful patterned fabric she uses.
weezie’s collar kerchiefs
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
weezie modeling the birthday kerchief
What is a collar kerchief? Well, instead of a bandana tied around your pet’s neck, this slides right onto the collar and stays put!
Weezie never looked very happy when I put a halloween costume on her. I always found it quite funny when she was transformed into a bumblebee, an owl, or yoda, but she just didn’t seem to see the humor in it. This was a way she could show a little festive halloween flair without being made fun of by other dogs at the dog park.
Plus, no other dog would mess with you if you were wearing skulls…even if they are sparkly!
When we lived on the east coast my crafty partner in crime, my mother, and I made a bunch of these and set up a table at a small flea market. We made sparkly skulls and pumpkins for halloween, some even trimmed with tulle. (Secretly I always want to wear a tutu so anything with tulle is me living out that dream!) We found a cute doggy birthday print and trimmed it with pom poms. So adorable! We even made little scary cat kerchiefs for feline friends.
It was a chilly October day. I guess that’s what made me think of it. We sold hot cider, too. The smell of apples and cinnamon in the crisp fall air, kids painting pumpkins, people rummaging through tables of stuff, it was a fun time!
weezie smiling in her pumpkin kerchief trimmed in tulle