Ideas For Gifts
Come join me on Tuesday night at MADE and we’ll sew a little pouch together. Use your little pouch to hold your breath mints, spare change or bee pollen.
Who: Cyndi Coon of Lab5 / Lovely Lula & Sarah Spencer of 26 Letters
What: Bring you and your sewing machine to make a “Carry Anything” pouch. Sewing refresher and materials supplied, $25
When: Tuesday, September 14 from 6pm to 9pm
Where: MADE art boutique
Why: To have some fun, get crafty, and meet new folks!
These are a group of fun felt and wood character boxes that I made. To start this projects head to your local craft store and pick up a circular wooden box with a lid. Back at your studio paint the box with acrylic craft paints in the design of the character you want to make. Next you’ll want sheets of craft felt in a color that goes with your character. Create a half round pillow form out of the felt and stuff it with batting. Now you’ll use more craft felt to cut eyes, nose, mouth, ears or any other features for your creatures. Glue these on to the top of the stuff felt pillow using tacky glue. Create wings or tails or whatever other elements are needed out of pipe cleaners and glue these down to the lid of your painted box. Finally glue the felt half pillow on top of the lid of your box. Now you have a keepsake box! As an alternative to the keepsake box glue the lid down to the bottom with E-6o00 glue, cut a slit into the side of the wood box and a circle hole in the bottom of the box. Place a cork in the bottom hole and now you have a bank! Fabulous! The following are some of the character boxes I made. Happy Crafting xoxo Lovely Lula
Do you have a post Labor Day BBQ mess to clean up? Don’t throw those soda cans out. Cut them up and make thank you notes for your guests. Read all about it at my post over at Phoenix New Times Jackalope Ranch: A Thrifty Thank You
Here are some additional designs I created using a can of Vixen brand energy drink and Washi tape.
Shopping around in a thrift store recently I found this great little frame and knew it had potential for a redo! I used the Provo Craft Cindy Loo Cartridge to cute up this little picture frame. I used purple, grey and teal vinyl to cut different images on the Cricut. I used left over vinyl pieces to cut the grass and bird house hanger, by hand. I also cut apart the doily into pieces to create something truly my own! I like to mess with the designs a bit to put my own spin on them! You can make this project with any of the cartridges and any color combination of vinyl. For your best bet choose a glass or plastic frame – the vinyl will stick best to those surfaces. Click here for the Vinyl Picture Frame How To. Have fun with it and happy crafting! xoxo
As the tee-shirt yarn obsession continues, I have found another use for its fabulousness. I bought my smallest daughter a cool wooden orange fox pull toy at a thrift store but the pull was missing. I could have just tied a string to it and called it good but I decided to take three different colors of tee-shirt yarn, tie them together at the top, braid all three strands and then tie to the pull toy. So cute I just love it! If she could talk I think she would tell you she loves it too.
To purchase one of my T-shirt Yarn Kits click HERE
