Flower Pins

Like I said, my hot glue gun and I are becoming the best of friends lately... I only burnt my finger once during this project! Yay me. I have absolutely fallen in love with these cute little flower pins that I saw at Jones Design Company. Lucky for me, and you, they posted this tutorial a while ago about how they actually make them. Happiest day ever!!! I really loved the ones they did out of felt, they were really full and rich looking. I, however, didn't have any felt on hand. And I definitely didn't want to go to the store just for felt in two feet of snow and negative degree weather. So I pulled out some regular fabric scraps from my stash that I've acquired from my mom and my grandma.

I cut out 7 flower shapes, similar to the ones in the tutorial I followed, and then folded them in half twice, and put the glue on the end. Then I glued these pieces to a circle that I already cut out of the same fabric for the base of the flower.

This is the bottom of my completed flower, and the circle that I glued they other petal pieces to.

Cute little floofy things, aren't they?

This polka dot one is my favorite so far. I'm excited to find some felt one of these defrosted days to see how those ones turn out, because I'm loving these. My little miss g loves them too, on her skirt.

And here's a random comment,  I happened to come across some quick decorating tips that I actually liked: Click here to see what I found. Merry Christmas in 9 days!

Snow Day

Wow. Can I just say that it's looking ALOT like Christmas here in the Twin Cities? Todays snow has been so fun to watch pile up. Thankfully it's on a Saturday so people don't have to go out in it! Not that they could if they wanted to. The airport is shut down, and the mail didn't come today. Even the snowplows were ordered to stay off the roads in part of the state. This is how it looked today at about noon, and it has continued to snow and blow all afternoon. Sixteen inches, and counting!

Well, what better thing to do on a cold snowed-in day, than to get out some delectable ingredients and concoct a masterpiece!

We decided to use up some of the leftover cranberries from thanksgiving.... did you know that cranberries looked like that on the inside? They are so pretty! We also got out the big ol' bag of apples and put them to some good use.

I know it might be kind of hard to tell what this is... considering it's not in the right shape... but it's a pie. An apple-cranberry home-made-crust kind of a pie. And the 'S'? Well, that stands for snow, of course!

Baby Gift Bow

I put little Miss G down for a nap on Saturday, and then realized that I left all the gift wrapping supplies in her closet. I had a baby shower to go to while she was napping, and I forgot to wrap the gift before hand! Oy. I was frantically trying to figure out what to do without having to go to go out the store to spend money on even more gift wrapping supplies. I really didn't want to show up with a naked gift, either...  somehow I remembered this blog post that I came across the other day. I had only scanned the basic idea of how to make a bow out of old magazine paper, luckily, so I thought I would give it a very quick try. I was already running late to get to the shower... as usual. I decided to be true to the party theme so I used some pages from my baby magazine I just got in the mail last week. It turned out alright considering I didn't measure anything and I was in a complete rush! I wanted to post about this because I'm pretty sure this is how I'll be decorating all of my gifts from here on out. Just in time for the Holidays. These are the cheapest fancy bows ever! And the sky is the limit when you have a box of unused scrap booking paper, eh?